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Sunday, January 10, 2010

I Was Finding Some Viewing Of Liturgy Rather Intriguing

I was watching a Methodist Eucharistic Liturgy on You Tube & the Video Link is embedded in the Title so click on the title to watch the video-Thanks. It looked amazingly like certain Roman Catholic Masses in various Catholic Parishes, complete with small altar. The Minister was dressed like a Catholic Priest. The congregation queues up to receive Communion, just like at Mass on Sunday. There was no Tabernacle at the front. Ditto, the same goes with the Anglicans, though in one Anglican Church, people are encouraged to kneel if physically possible, though they are encouraged to receive in one's hand. In the Methodist Liturgy, the Body Of Christ takes the form of a soft loafed bread, which is broken. The Anglicans use the unleavened bread, as do the Catholics, Orthodox and Lutherans. The Anglicans, Lutherans, Catholics and Orthodox use Sacramental Wine, while the Methodists use Mustum(Grape Juice). The Methodists do practice Intinction in their Eucharistic Celebration, where The Body Of Christ is dipped into the Blood of Christ:

I find this interesting that in most Catholic Parishes, that queueing up and receiving in the hand is commonplace though not as common as once observed. In one Parish on East 43rd Street, between Lexington and 3rd Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, many people receive, kneeling at the Altar Rail, as well as lining up to receive. Then again, this Parish has a Traditional Latin Mass at 11:00AM every Sunday & the Tabernacle is Gold Plated At The Centre, where IT BELONGS. In the Ordinary Rite of Mass in that Manhattan Parish, The Kyrie is sung in Greek, The Agnus Dei is sung in Latin & the Communion Antiphon is chanted in Latin, though on some occasions, the Sanctus is chanted in Latin, which in the Ordinary Rite, makes for the realization that a Catholic Mass is taking place. In a growing number of Parishes, the Tabernacle is returning to the Centre, after being put in some side area, The Liturgical Music at St Agnes-East 43rd Street is also excellent with no "Picnic Music";

As the Anglicans, Lutherans and Methodists have no Tabernacles and small altars, as well as a number of Catholic Churches, and in the case of the Catholic Church, when the Ordinary Rite of The Mass is celebrated entirely in the vernacular, with "Picnic Music", it sounds like the various Lutheran & Methodist Services, though The Anglicans do sing stately hymns, but the Liturgies are virtually identical in form;

Just what was Bugnini thinking by changing the feel, texture and Form Of The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass? It caused a lot of The Faithful to become The Faithless and Care-Less, but with the Masses at East 43rd Street, the Young People are returning to The Faith, whether in The Extra-Ordinary Form or The Ordinary Form. The Current Form can be offered with so much reverence. Guitarists and "Liturgical Experts"(to use that term loosely)need not apply;

The Pez Report(Dominus Vobiscum, Et Cum Spiritu Tuo, Oremus)


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