De gustibus non disputandum
est
Different traditional liturgical
styles
‘...that our sinful bodies
may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious
blood...’
My first rite re-enacted by
Ref. Thomas Day wrote correctly
that the unpretentious low Anglican church down
the road can have more of a sense of the Catholic
religion than St Novus Roman Catholic Church. At least I’ve always found
it so. Godwardness.
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‘My soul hath longed for thy
salvation : and I have a good hope because of thy
word...’ Mass-and-office Catholicism: every Sunday afternoon in season this is where I am, breviary in hand. |
Romantic Victoriana like what I fell in love with as
a kid
I love the description of High Mass at
Clem’s from
the Ship:
a Roman Catholic service circa 1905 as staged
by Fellini. I think I know everybody in the picture.
The holy, Catholic, apostolic and Roman Church
just like in the movies
Actually this is of a Polish National
Catholic parish but it’s the same idea. What I thought church should look
like when I was about 17.
This is
the Canon (consecration) at a
missa cantata (sung Mass). The local
SSPX church does this every Christmas at midnight
and it’s packed.
Crisp, austere liturgical-movement
dreams
These happen to be Benedictines in France. You actually
don’t need a lot of stuff or show to have the Catholic religion (after all
look at Ref’s Communion service above, the equivalent of the Low Mass
shown to the right); it’s to do with how you use what you’ve got. Of course I
still love the baroque and Victorian stuff but Orthodoxy and the liturgical movement (which
admired the Orthodox) have influenced me in this direction.
«Миромъ
Господу
помолимся...»
«Верую
во единаго
Бога Отца
вседержителя...»
Just like in Western Catholicism there’s a divide in Orthodoxy between the
romantic Victorians like the Russians (with whom I’m at home) and the
‘purists’, often converts, who want only Byzantine
icons and chant (with the deep
ison bass line).
In my life, I’ve loved them all...
