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Thank you Father for the latest +Butterpants installment.
My apologies- this question is unrelated.
Was recently out of town and attended an SSPX Chapel. The Faithful in the pews were silent throughout the entire Low Mass.
In stark contrast to the diocesan Latin Mass Parish I normally attend.
I queried some SSPX folks about this. They retorted that it is improper for those in the pews to audibly respond during a Low Mass, and that my parish priest needs to correct his parishioners.
I don’t see that happening. Imagine Card Roche getting wind of that.
Anyways – what’s proper – what’s not ?
Qg1, B anywhere
Qg4#
1. Q-g1 looks promising, but
. . . . . . .. . B-g3 frustrates mate in 2.
Qg1, b anywhere? Say Senor Quixana
What if B goes to g3 and blocks Q from g4
Q cannot take b because of p on h4
What am I missing?
@monstrance
I will preface this by saying it is not Professional Liturgical Advice. I am neither a liturgist nor a priest.
But I am an “unreconstructed ossified manualist.” The following is an excerpt from Stapper and Baaier’s “Catholic Liturgics”:
“By virtue of a decree of the Congregation of Rites, August 4, 1992, entire groups of the faithful, as a society, the school children, or even of the assembled congregation, may recite the Latin responses at a low Mass together with the minister (loco ministri = una cum ministro; cf. Epheremides Liturgicae, 1933, 181 ff., 545 ff., 1934, 121 ff.) The explicit permission of the local bishop, however, is required, and the collective recitation of the prayers must not be a source of disturbance either to the celebrant or to the rest of the faithful.”
Like many things liturgical, the “Dialogue Mass” is permitted or forbidden at the prudence of the local ordinary, being neither intrinsically proper or improper.