tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post7100316760784380381..comments2024-03-18T20:55:55.914-04:00Comments on southern orders: HAVEN'T I BEEN SAYING THIS ALL ALONG ABOUT SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM AND VATICAN II IN GENERAL? HAVEN'T I?Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-60180335668051645312014-11-14T09:40:27.533-05:002014-11-14T09:40:27.533-05:00Yes, Fr AJM, Alcuin Reid is a real liturgical scho...Yes, Fr AJM, Alcuin Reid is a real liturgical scholar, not a 'liturgist' as understood in the USA who is simply a music director who has done a correspondence course in 'liturgical studies' run by the likes of Rita Ferrone.<br /><br />I have been privileged to meet real liturgical scholars, most recently Fr Uwe Michael Lang, Cong. Orat. As you know, I sing and teach Gregorian Chant, and in the last two years my services have been so much in demand that I am having to turn down work.<br /><br />Pope Benedict's liturgical legacy is only now starting to take off. He, of course, knew he was sowing for a future harvest - there are no 'instant fixes'.John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-67077202676588410942014-11-14T06:22:06.985-05:002014-11-14T06:22:06.985-05:00Yes, a good article, Father, but I fear it is wast...Yes, a good article, Father, but I fear it is wasted. Why? For the reasons that I've put forward before:<br /><br />The majority left in the Church are just not interested. Most of them are there just satisfying the Sunday obligation.<br /><br />Those who have now found the EF of the Mass are satisfied with that and few will go back to the OF of the Mass.<br /><br />I go to a parish where the OF of the Mass is celebrated well but the majority couldn't seem to care less.<br /><br />Myself, I don't find the spiritualness in the OF Mass that I find in the Traditional Mass and I prefer the flow of the Traditional Mass as well. I like the quietness of it too. No reform is ever going to be able to give the OF Mass that quietness and serenity and peacefulness because it is all movement in the OF of the mass.<br /><br />I also feel that the OF of the Mass is more geared towards the laity than to God.<br /><br />At the same time anything that can be done to improve the OF of the Mass should be done.<br /><br />JanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com