And, you know, it doesn’t take a genius to anticipate the response, does it? Instead of standing on their rights, everyone was obedient to a perfectly reasonable request of their shepherds, a request that the bishops lacked canonical authority to impose but had undoubted pastoral authority to request. They asked that the chalice be suspended, and that communicants receive in the hand. Does it follow that he lacks pastoral authority to ask that parishes use one setting? A few years ago, during one of the periodic spasms of “OMG, there’s a killer virus on the loose” that grip the country’s imagination, I seem to remember not a few bishops making two very reasonable requests. On the point, let’s suppose that bishops lack canonical authority to impose a single setting. Jordan, if a bishop lacks the authority to impose a single Mass setting on parishes, presumably he also lacks the authority to exclude the Extraordinary Form, in your view. The orans might blur the distinction between celebrant and layperson. Still, I am not sure if the orans position is entirely appropriate for laypersons given that its use has been restricted to priests and bishops for many centuries. Yes, Christians prayed in the orans position well after the Constantinian peace (not in the medieval and Tridentine stylized manner, but with arms extended in the form of a cross). I suspect that some are overstepping their bounds.Īs for the orans - I refrain from ever using this posture simply because for more than a millennium this posture has been associated with priest and bishop celebrants only. Letters like these that make me wonder if bishops have really done their research with regards to mandating any aspect of liturgy. ![]() Also, I strongly doubt that the bishop can prevent the ordinary of the Mass from being sung in Latin according to traditional and approved chants. ![]() I am certain that the Graduale Romanum, for example, may be used at any Mass in place of the responsorial psalm. There are plenty of options already in the Missal, but how “individual” should a parish be allowed to go before they no longer resemble in practice the Church in the next town?Īs I have remarked before, I do not think that a bishop has the authority to impose a single Mass setting on parishes. Before it was introduced by a few no one missed it as it did not exist. I know of one person who no longer attends Mass at Midnight Christmas Mass, the one time he went, because of it. For some the peace offering is more than enough (and even that is an option, not mandated) and the hand holding is just over the top. As for the hand holding it does make many uncomfortable and as one post noted some go out of their way to make you feel as if you have done something wrong if wishing to not partake in it. You are supposed to feel at home in any Church. I think the Bishop is right by asking for a more uniform practice so when people come from other parishes or are travelling when they come to Church the practices are generally the same from place to place and no one feels they are in a completely different setting from what they are used to. In all this liturgical translation BS I find no credible foundation, no basis for offering “an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope” (1 Peter 3:15) If our liturgy is not about this, it is surely pointless. If, as you state in the opening of your letter, many experience the liturgical life of the church and its changes as inconsequential…maybe you are contributing to such a sad disposition. What does the introduction of a new English translation have to do with these issues? Why make, what you admit to be a tense moment, even more so… even absurd. ![]() ![]() Well what is it bishop, what is your standard of liturgical correctness? More importantly, why does it matter?! How can the instruction for the faithful not to hold hands at the Our Father be based upon absolute adherence to the letter of the GIRM, but the use of the choir loft “That choirs and other musicians use choir lofts in churches that are structured as such, while not mandated, is strongly recommended.” The laity are neither mandated nor not mandated in their posture at the Our Father. What kind of shenanigans and tomfoolery are these professional clerics up to?
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