Posted on 09/19/2006 8:13:27 PM PDT by Pyro7480
You are correct. The first part is mistaken, but the very last part, "where one can better focus and concentrate in order to pray the Mass," is a good point.
I thought that too at first, but I think (he/she) just didn't word what he wanted to say properly. Given the other statements the blogger made, such as "the mass is the mass". I think what he meant to say was, that although a mass in a gym is still the mass, by having mass in a beautiful church one can better "focus and concentrate".
For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, My Name is great among the Gentiles and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to My Name a clean oblation. For My Name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts (Malachias 1:11 Douay-Rheims). By this clean and perpetual oblation, Christ offers infinite adoration (latria), praise, & appeasement to the Father and secondly, it obtains the application to our souls and the souls in Purgatory of that which He merited for us on Calvary. The sacrifice offered on the altar, says the Council of Trent, is the same which was offered on Calvary, since it is the same Priest and the same Victim. Through our reverent & recollected participation at Mass, we encounter Our Lord, truly and substantially present under the appearance of bread & wine. This interview will be followed next Sunday by Part II on the Priesthood of Jesus Christ, Who is the Mediator between God and man.
Thanks murphE! I haven't listened the last one you linked to on the Cristeros, but I hope to listen to them both soon!
BTW, BBC Radio broadcast the Choral Evensong from the London Oratory last week. The plainchant was simply heartachingly beautiful. I'm so used to hearing that style and elegance in Anglican churches...but to know that this was Cardinal Newman's church and that the tradition of excellence continues, it was so uplifting.
I think that by "can only benefit spiritually" they meant that it's enhanced by having it in a church, but the mass itself is perfect within itself. I had to read it a couple of times to get it.
Oh wow, thank you! I've heard one of these broadcasts from the London Oratory on the BBC before, and it was amazing! I have one of the London Oratory choir's CD's, which I bought when I was there. It's of different chants and polyphany to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ping to post #28. Listen in before noon EDT!
1967. The priest is Chaplain (Maj.) Charles Watters, who won the Medal of Honor for rescuing wounded under fire, at the cost of his own life.
Irish soldiers in the 69th Massachusetts regiment, attending Mass on the battlefield during the Civil War.
I like the camo chasuble, though.
He looks a little less out of place than Father O'Reilly in his biretta and rochet, doesn't he?
Thanks for the link. Listening to it now. Anglican Chant is nice -- it's awesome in fact, but good old Gregorian Plainchant has a charm all its own.
I've got this theory about singing chant. The singer must be absoutely rythymic, yet absolutely relaxed at the same time.
OOooo -- do you know where I can find early catholic photography like that? I love that stuff.
I love how they've made that tent into a church and steeple.
I started singing in ECUSA choirs at age 6, I can sing Anglican chant in my sleep. My Gregorian cantoring has a slight Anglican flavor (mostly in the accent, although I also sing with a VERY straight tone) but a good delivery is identical.
The way our choirmaster describes it is to "sing as though you are speaking" -- the words themselves create the rhythm, and it must be a natural rhythm, without any overemphasis on the stressed syllables (which is the first common mistake in both Gregorian and Anglican chanting). Breathing is the next absolute essential, so the line can be carried through in a single breath, but in what you correctly describe as a relaxed manner.
If it were easy, we could all do it!
I still like the Anglican part-chant.
No idea . . . I just googled "battlefield mass" and up it came!
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