EWTN to Run TV Series About the Glory of the Latin Mass

The Way of Beauty ^ | 4/4/14 | David Clayton

[marshmallow]

EWTN has announced the debut of Extraordinary Faith, a television series showcasing the beauties of Sacred Tradition and the Tridentine Mass.

Episode 1 was filmed at the historic Mission San Juan Capistrano in California, located about one hour south of Los Angeles. Episode 1 includes some background information about the series, as well as an interview with George Sarah, a Hollywood composer who was asked to become president of Una Voce Los Angeles after he organized a number of special high-profile Tridentine Masses in historic churches.

It is George who has alerted me to this. I met him for the first time several years ago on a trip to Los Angeles and have written articles on his music – he is an enigmatic figure who is engaging with the contemporary culture constructively. His style has been described as electronic chamber music. He performs with a traditional string trio, but accompanies them on electronic keyboards and drum machines. It has a haunting quality and a modern feel but, and I think it is more than simply the choice of instruments, it has a sense of traditional form about it as well. I wrote about his music in my blog here.

Joy Lanfranchi of Una Voce Orange County discusses the annual Lenten Pilgrimage from St. Michael’s [Norbertine] Abbey to the Mission, culminating, not surprisingly, with a Latin Mass. DVD copies of this and every episode of Extraordinary Faith will be available for sale from EWTN’s Religious Catalog.

[Claud]

Who in Sam Hill told you liturgy was invented in 1550?

Did you forget that Judaism is a liturgical religion with feast days and a yearly calendar and set prayers and ceremonies in a separate liturgical language? Do you think the Apostles just scrapped all that the day after the Resurrection? Did you forget that every single group that broke away from the Catholic Church from the monophysites all the way to the Moravian Brethren in the 1400s had a liturgy?

Not to mention that our earliest extant liturgy dates from the 300s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_the_eighth_book_of_the_Apostolic_Constitutions

And the Didache and Justin Martyr show this custom goes all the way back to Apostolic times.

[Claud]

Well you were a child then. You probably didn’t have a clue of how finances work either. But I’m betting you rectified that situation as you got older.

You’ve got the whole Internet in front of you now and you can easily find out exactly what those prayers say and what they mean.

[Biggirl]

Is that the one famous for the birds returning mid-March as a reminder that springtime is here?

[Salvation]

**No Christian reads a Latin , nor Greek, nor Aramaic, nor Hebrew noe Chaldean Bible and they would certainly never attend a service in any of those languages.**

Many do, for Catholicism spans the entire globe. Check out this chart.

THE RITES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH -- There are many!

[Mach9]

Won’t address the last comment on being saved—zero sum gain.

However, most (and I’m talking 99%) of the old missal was assuredly scripture—Old and New Testaments. The only, tiny section of the missal that wasn’t “scripture” per se was the unchanging format of the Mass which itself was composed of “scripture.” You cited some (Ad Deum qui laetificat, e.g., but nearly everything else in the Mass is likewise taken from “scripture”).

Actually, the only point I can cede here is that the missal isn’t scripture in the order scripture is recorded.