I was blessed to celebrate the TLM’s First Sunday in Lent at Sacred Heart Church in Savannah, Georgia, I felt like Pope Leo who also on the First Sunday of Lent celebrated Mass at the Basilica of the Most Sacred Heart in Rome, near the Termini train station.
However, poor old Pope Leo was not as fortunate as I was as I was able to celebrate the TLM with a grand, magnificent schola who chanted the Mass in a most marvelous way to include the Ancient Tract that has been heard and chanted for over 1,000 years!
But poor old Pope Leo had to put up with kitschy Italian folk music with guitar in a magnificent church edifice built not for that musical crap but for Gregorian Chant.
And poor old Pope Leo did not get to hear the long Tract from the Roman Gradual that is even present in the revised, modern Roman Gradual but 99.9% of practicing Catholics who attend the Bugnini Mass have never, ever, heard! What a scandal!
To add insult to injury to our poor old Pope Leo, or salt to the wound, the Pope’s Lenten retreat Master reminded the pope later in the evening, on the very same day, the following:
You can tell that Pope Leo is saddened that he was not able to hear the Tractus at his modern Mass in Rome with guitar and kitschy Italian folk music, if one wants to call it music:
3 comments:
Excellent! The optionitis afflicting the Novus Bogus is the problem!
I also heard the beautiful First Sunday of Lent tract at the monthly TLM at the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Augusta, GA. The chanting was superb. Thanks be to God (with the cooperation of Bishop Parkes and Father Almeter).
Yes, my wife and I witnessed this beautiful chant at St Martin de Porres in Dripping Springs, Tx, two counties over from us, a parish that we visit as often as we can. Fr. Justin Nguyen is an awesome shepherd. I feel for him, because his large, far flung parish has not often had an associate pastor, so he must do all six Masses on the weekend, along with his many other weekday duties.
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