Pope Leo celebrated Mass in Rome for the opening of the “chapter” of his Augustinian order. The Church is splendid.
The liturgy is the Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit, and thus the red vestments.
This could easily be a parish Mass if this way of celebrating the Modern Mass were mandated.
Since this is a daily Mass, there is only the Epistle, Responsorial Psalm and Gospel. I wish that would be the case for Sunday Masses too as we throw way too much Scripture at the people at Sunday Mass.
There is no offertory procession, so needless, useless.
The Universal Prayer is done as a litany and eliminates verbosity and demands that God do this, that and the other as well as making the Universal Prayers a kind of homily. The short petitions are followed by a brief “Kyrie Eleison” and that’s it, brief, effective and prayerful.
The choir sings the designated Introit for the Mass of the Holy Spirit quite beautifully. The Latin Chants are beautiful and all very well celebrated!
Here is the abridged version of this Mass:
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Given the small sanctuary, I think they should have used the ambo halfway down the aisle.
I wonder if Leo ever finds all the solemn sung masses tiresome. I like solemnity and music as much as anyone else, but there’s something to be said for a simple said mass sometimes.
I would think that his private Masses in his personal chapel are simple, spoken Masses. He has an odd way of chanting more solemn masses. Today he chanted the Sign of the Cross and the Lord be with you but not the collect or anything else. Makes no sense to me.
The sanctuary would be spacious except for that dang free standing altar. If the original altar was still the main altar, the faithful could see the altar and the entire person of the pope at that altar although ad orientem. The lower altar is swallowed up by being too low and seemingly less important than what is behind it.
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