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Very interesting Romanitas website. I’ve always thought that backwards thurible-swinging looked like an accident waiting to happen. Walking or crawling three or paces backwards is do-able; more is dangerous. (Does anyone recall the 1950s when it was demanded that altar boys should descend the altar steps backwards at certain moments of the Mass? Later rescinded.)
I’m guessing here: the flower girl ceremony sounds colourful and bizarre enough to have been an ancient Roman festival custom. (Here I mean ‘ancient Roman’ as in Crassus, Augustus Caesar, maybe even earlier.)
I greatly appreciate the processions article. Not too many years ago, I was a thurifer in a Holy Thursday procession. I had a fellow thurifer with me, and we were told to link our non-incensing arms together so that while one of us walked forward, the other (walking backward, incensing the Blessed Sacrament) would be steered in the right direction! Thankfully, the procession proceeded without incident. I’m glad to know that this backward-walking is not the recommended norm!
I was one of those backwards-walking censer-swinging altar boys in Holy Thursday processions some decades ago. A pilar of the parish, a highly respected real estate and insurance broker, always made really better-than-Sid-Cesar faces at me in an effort to break me up. Little did he realize that even then I was too nearsighted to appreciate his efforts fully. What a great, if irreverent, guy!
On the topic of flower girls, a lutheran vicar friend told me what happend at a wedding a couple of years ago. The custom here is to have children walking in before the bridal couple just carrying small bouquets of flowers, not throwing any petals on the carpet. On this occasion there were going to be flower girls (they must have bribed the cleaninglady:-)) on the way out.
So, first two lovely little girls sprinkling petals like mad, then the bride and groom and last my elderly vicar friend. Then suddenly one of the girls got her hands mixed up and threw away the basket, backwards! My friend saw when it flew over the bride and groom and he made a nice catch with one hand! On all the pictures from outside the church you can see an old vicar holding a white basket decorated with pink bows.
Tongue somewhat in cheek:
It appears to me that the problem of flower girls can be simply solved by forming a special lay confraternity (well, technically, consorority?) of which said flower girls are to be members, and having them walk (well) in front of the liturgical space doing their thing. The real problem seems to me to find a name for this consorority that excludes any hippy references….
PS: of course, a consororirty specifically devoted to the Blessed Sacrament – “they would process behind this banner as a group (but ahead of the crossbearer who marks the boundary of the liturgical group). “
At the State Opening of the British Parliament the Lord Chancellor, in full robes, presents the speech to the monarch and then walks backwards down the steps of the throne. Only Lord Haisham, on two crutches following a riding accident, was given permission to turn his back!
I have had a splendid time reading the adventures of the flivver-riding fathers.
My father in law (may he rest in peace) had an old Ford Model A (with a rumble seat!) and hand-cranking it was always a new adventure every time. Gosh we loved that old car!