tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post2046616265872407662..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: COPING WITH CHANGE, IT APPLIES TO EVERYONE AS IT CONCERNS THE LITURGY IN THE 21ST CENTURYFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-23388628150122845082014-02-07T03:34:38.935-05:002014-02-07T03:34:38.935-05:00Whereas I think that eventually the ordinary form ...Whereas I think that eventually the ordinary form will either be <br /><br />#1: scrapped entirely<br /><br />or <br /><br />#2: receive so many reinsertions and rejuvenation from the old form that it will gradual morph back into the old form. <br /><br />Only God knows. I acknowledge these current forms as valid masses though, sure, all things being equal... Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471650005449587155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-42871984190680838892014-02-05T02:38:33.764-05:002014-02-05T02:38:33.764-05:00@Henry
"Unlike many or most traditional Cath...@Henry<br /><br />"Unlike many or most traditional Catholics, I nevertheless believe that the path to the future of our liturgy lies through what we call the OF form. If only we could live to see beyond the malformed generations who have kept it from being what it could be!"<br /><br />Yes, Henry!Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13388899986377479033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-11362807386965531452014-02-04T19:35:43.341-05:002014-02-04T19:35:43.341-05:00"All liturgies of the Church make visible the..."All liturgies of the Church make visible the Church (Militant, Suffering and Triumphant)"<br /><br />Awareness of the whole communion of saints has always been central to the EF, but has largely been lost in the OF, whose ecclesiology has tended to focus on just the assembly present.<br /><br />"Full, conscious and actual participation is required in all forms of the liturgy"<br /><br />As Alcuin Reid said in a recent NLM review, "the overwhelming majority of contemporary celebrations of the Sacred Liturgy (and not only Holy Mass) according to the usus antiquior evince a level of formation and true liturgical participation with which the Fathers of the twentieth-century liturgical movement and indeed of the Second Vatican Council would be utterly delighted. Participatio actuosa is perhaps no more evident than in such celebrations." One surely does not see it in most parish OF liturgies.<br /><br />As for beauty, majesty, and attention to detail in liturgy, the contrast between the forms hardly seems worth mentioning.<br /><br />Unlike many or most traditional Catholics, I nevertheless believe that the path to the future of our liturgy lie through what we call the OF form. If only we could live to see beyond the malformed generations who have kept it from being what it could be!Henrynoreply@blogger.com