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Video of the liturgy from the Three Days of Darkness, or, “Why we needed Summorum Pontificum”
The well-known Los Angeles Religious Education Congress always provides us with lots of things to think about.
A reader alerted me to some youtube videos of the closing Mass… er… liturgy… er…
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I’m watching this at the office right now. Why do I suddenly feel like getting up and dancing… barefoot???
Comment by David L Alexander — 14 March 2008 @ 7:20 amOne can’t help but be reminded of King Solomon, 1 Kings 11:4-5
“4 Cumque jam esset senex, depravatum est cor ejus per mulieres, ut sequeretur deos alienos: nec erat cor ejus perfectum cum Domino Deo suo, sicut cor David patris ejus. 5 Sed colebat Salomon Astarthen deam Sidoniorum, et Moloch idolum Ammonitarum.”
Strange about “stabiliter” – the Vatican’s web-site still says “continenter”...
Comment by Rupert Napier — 14 March 2008 @ 7:32 amWhy do they keep waving a large steaming chamber pot all over the place? It doesn’t seem very sensible.
Comment by Brian Sudlow — 14 March 2008 @ 7:53 amUgh. This videos depress me. I chuckle, but I then weep.
Folks, as I’ve stated before, this is not “why we needed Summorum Pontificum”.
It is “why we needed stronger bishops enforcing liturgical norms” OR
“why we needed a required continuing education program for clergy initiated” OR
“why we need to focus our collective energies on celebrating the Novus Ordo well”.
If supporters of the ‘62 Missal continue to justify its use based on a negative reaction to how the Novus Ordo is celebrated, then it won’t stand. Its coexistence in the Church should be justified by its own positive reasons and not because some awful folks are abusively celebrating the Novus Ordo Mass. Doing so will only make your position in our holy Church stronger and have greater integrity.
God Bless.
Comment by Fr. Michael — 14 March 2008 @ 8:03 amThese are extremely disturbing. I find the anti-spam phrase very appropriate: “Pray for our bishops.”
Comment by Fr. A — 14 March 2008 @ 8:05 amHow His Eminence, Cardinal Mahony, has gotten away with this spectacle for all these years is beyond my comprehension.
Comment by TNCath — 14 March 2008 @ 8:15 amHow that can get away with being called a “Religious Education Congress”, I’ll never know.
Comment by Jeff Pinyan — 14 March 2008 @ 8:22 amBelieve it or not, this is not the worst “performance” that I have seen at the REC. Still, I feel so very sorry for those people in the congregation who have no idea what they are being subjected to.
Comment by Anthony — 14 March 2008 @ 8:35 amI admit, I didn’t watch the videos. But the “Three Days of Darkness” caught my eye. Wasn’t there a mystic who had a vision that Christ would return after “three days of darkness”. I think there was also the condition that we couldn’t go outside or we’d be struck dead, so I my thought was nuclear war or something like that…
But anyway, we’re getting closer ;-D
Comment by Cody — 14 March 2008 @ 8:35 amInspired by another recent post on this blog, I exhort all parents whose children (whether girls or boys) display an early interest in dancing to discourage it by all means. :-)
Comment by Tobias H — 14 March 2008 @ 8:38 amGlass chalices there? Isn’t there a danger of breakage? And I understood chalices had to be made of precious or semi precious metal or is this not so any longer?
Comment by elizabeth mckernan — 14 March 2008 @ 8:49 amFr. Michael: I think it’s “why we needed Summorum Pontificum” because the only way the Novus Ordo can be reformed is if people are shown what has been almost lost.
Comment by Melody — 14 March 2008 @ 8:57 amWhich Eucharistic Prayer was the Cardinal using? Can’t seem to find it in my Sunday Missal…
Comment by Watching and Waiting — 14 March 2008 @ 8:58 amHow that can get away with being called a “Religious Education Congress”
I guess because the congregation is likely made up of Directors of Religious Education and CCD teachers, which—unfortunately—is not hard to believe. Sounded like they came through with a lot of applause too.
Comment by Mary — 14 March 2008 @ 9:32 amFr. Michael,
I think you’re missing the point about ‘why we need Summorum Pontificum.’ I think Fr. Z’s thinking is in line with the Holy Father’s statement in SP about how celebrations of each form will be mutually beneficial. It’s not that we need the extraordinary form as an escape—not at all! We need it to help keep us on track and inspire us to aspire to truly beautiful liturgy.
Comment by Royce — 14 March 2008 @ 9:41 amOk, ladies and gentlemen I have a confession to make and please to beat me up with a wet noodle here but I thought you guys were making it up with the degree of liturgical abuses, however I have saw the hoor and I am truly stunned. I would like to know if you should even go up to receive communion when you feel that everything was all wrong. I am blessed to never have seen such nonsense in the New York Archdioc