I don’t know if the manner in which the Post Vatican II Mass has improved or not because what it means for the Post Vatican II Mass to be celebrated in an improved manner is like “beauty in the eyes of the beholder.” Not a small number of Modern Mass goers would see the above photos as beautiful and improved!
Thus one has to qualify what a “better” celebration of the Post Vatican II Mass means. So let me do that for you as I mean it:
1. Read the Black and do the red!
2. Lectors are properly dressed and gifted with the ability to read Scripture publicly not only with the talent to read publicly but a knowledge of what they are reading that is faith-based.
3. Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, properly dressed and used only for extraordinary reasons and that they too have a powerful faith in our Lord’s Eucharistic Presence and the reverence due to our Lord in His Most Holy Sacraments.
4. Given that standing to receive Holy Communion is the norm in the Post-Vatican II Mass, that every communicant approaches the reception of Holy Communion in fear and trembling, properly disposed and scrupulously receiving Holy Communion in the most reverent way either by tongue or by hand and that by hand the rubrics are scrupulously followed, no snatching the Host, no one handed receiving and no receiving in the hand if a child is being carried. (This is the most problematic issue with the Post-Vatican II Mass, the disregard for the proper manner to receive Holy Communion in the hand and receiving Holy Communion while in motion and in an unthinking less than prayerful manner!)
5. Absolutely no liturgical dance! 🕺
In addition to this, the sanctuary, should be neat and clean, uncluttered and scrupulously cared for. There should be very nice and clean, ironed altar linens and apart from nicely placed candles and crucifix. Microphones should be discreet in looks and placement.
Quite frankly too, music is a disaster in the Post-Vatican II Mass. The piano makes the church sound like a honky tonk, or a cocktail lounge and sacred words set to modern idioms of music that are either from your favorite movie sounds or Broadway.
The Mass as entertainment needs to come to an end.
Thus, the only way this can happen is by a thorough knowledge of the TLM and its reverence, chants and wonder and awe. That must be recovered in the Post Vatican II Mass which lost all of that almost immediately in the late 1960’s. And the thing is that the Post Vatican II Roman Missal, if followed by the book, does not promote this kind of nonsense.
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Pianos are deleterious to Catholic worship. De musica sacra et sacra liturgia (Instruction on Sacred Music and Sacred Liturgy, 1958).
The thing is our local Catholic primary (300 children) and secondary (1000 pupils) schools don’t have organs so that would mean no music at mass.
The organ may be the preferred instrument for church worship but where that’s not an option, it’s fine to make use of what you have whether that be piano, guitars or the school orchestra.
I also doubt there are many organs or people skilled in playing them in the Amazon or rural Africa / Asia etc.
Psalm 150 specifically instructs to praise God with "loud cymbals" and "resounding cymbals". It describes using loud, clashing cymbals as a form of worship, alongside other instruments like the trumpet, harp, and stringed instruments, and actions like dancing. This emphasizes a joyful, full, and noisy praise for God's might.
Yes let’s colonise the entire universal church by imposing western customs and cultures on their worship.
Father,
Let us become liberals and have fun!
Pictures one and two are inspired by David dancing before the ark of the covenant.
Picture three and four are innovative progressive temple worship. In these pictures, we have fearlessly moved the court of the women and combined it with court/altar of priests.
The final picture is our ecumenical celebration station. The hymn is Kool and the Gang's "[c]elebrate good times come on!"
Photo 3 looks like a nativity play / concert
I’ve decided that you can’t take the puritan out of Americans!
or the cowardice out of Brits. Enjoying surrendering your country to third world savages?
third world savages
Blatant racism!
Straw man and you know it
Nick
"The thing is our local Catholic primary (300 children) and secondary (1000 pupils) schools don’t have organs so that would mean no music at mass."
It wouldn't.
Nick
American Catholics: asking for bare-minimum following of an ecumenical council
Average progcath: Puritans!
Always good for a chuckle, benny.
Nick
Remember, B Ben, we're still a very young nation and somewhat immature...
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