In 1950 my late pastor, Msgr. Schuler, was in Rome on a Fulbright working on the manuscripts of Giovanni Maria Nanino, the successor of Palestrina for the Sistine Chapel. He had great stories about being a priest in Rome in that Holy Year and, specifically, of the Proclamation of the Dogma of the Assumption.
It was a different world. Think about it: the war had ended just 5 years before.
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on Martin Scorsese presents The Saints: my 1st impression: “Thank you Fr Z for the review. Too bad. If the right people tackled this subject , ie. Mel Gibson,…”
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on Let’s have an experiment.: “Boston City Hall, the Hoover FBI HQ. Trump signed an EO to bring back classic architecture in Federal buildings, Biden…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1177: Make America great again!: “I forgot to mention in Pittsburgh Big Boys were called “Eat-n-Park”. I do recall going to Frisch’s in Cincinnati, which…” on Daily Rome Shot 1177: Make America great again!: “I lived in Los Angeles as a little kid. I enjoyed Bob’s Big Boy. My little brother liked them alot…”
on Let’s have an experiment.: “Oh yes. Look at the “typical” NO Mass- the building looks like every other brick, nondescript, prison/school/government building. Contained within…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1177: Make America great again!: “Loved the Big Boy. I worked at Big Boy in College. Great place. extreamly clean, week did major cleaning overhaul…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1177: Make America great again!: “It’s white’s move. Can you find mate in 2? [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so…” on Daily Rome Shot 1176: That’s concelebration, my friends.: “1. Bc8 Kxc8 2. Qa8# 1. Bc8 Ka7 2. Qb7#”
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on Daily Rome Shot 1176: That’s concelebration, my friends.: “Dear waalaw, but 1. Bf2 Ka7 2. Qb7+ yields the obvious 2. … KxQ and it’s a draw due to…” on 16 November – St. Gertrude and the Purgatory Prayer: “Dear JR, with all due credit to “any only hypothetically”… that question is of the kind that makes people from…” on Daily Rome Shot 1176: That’s concelebration, my friends.: “I’ve got one in 3. 1. Qc6 Ka7 2. Bf3 Kb8 3. Qb7++. For the 2, I had the idea…”
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Wonderful! I particularly like the English narrator. And the ostrich feather fans being carried either side of the sede gestatoria. In the good old days when the Pope didn’t feel the need to do performative humility to show us what great, humble man he was.
Having prepared for the Feast by reading some pre-1950 Pius Parsch, and not having visited the New Liturgical Movement website recently, I blithely took a pre-1950 Missal with me today, and heard quite different Propers and Lectiones than I had before me (with the exception of the Alleluia)…
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