As an aside, does any one know where I can pick up some delicious kicks such as the Pope doth rock?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBut it is the falsest of dichotomies. I speak with a severe lack of knowledge of all the various encyclicals, council decisions, etc. but I do bring to the table the experience of a child who has grown up amidst this conflict. And I know this: Now is the time to mend the wound.<\/strong> Now, following the example of our beloved, peace-making Pope, is the time to lay down our factional weapons and learn what it is to be Catholic. This means all of us<\/em>, from the \u201cLatin-is-the-only-language-acceptable-for-the-Mass!\u201d, \u201cOrgan-or-death!\u201d, \u201cThe Novus Ordo is heretical!\u201d folks, to the \u201cVatican II lets us do what we want with the liturgy!\u201d, \u201cWhatever leads me to Jesus is good for the Mass!\u201d people.<\/p>\nTake my favorite example; Music in the Liturgy. The two \u2018sides\u2019 split up as follows. On the one hand, Gregorian Chant has pride of place, and therefore it \u2013 along with various traditional hymns \u2013 is all that should be allowed in the liturgy. On the other: Any music that glorifies God should be allowed in the Liturgy, so break out the mandolin, we gone have a FOLK MASS!<\/p>\n
But both views ignore the Liturgy. The first points out the Church\u2019s extolment of Gregorian Chant \u2013 rightfully so \u2013 and then makes one projection; it is all that should be used, and avoids one question: Why<\/em> is Gregorian Chant given pride of place?<\/p>\nThe second projects a complete falsehood onto the Liturgy. Rap music can glorify God. As can naked dancing. That doesn\u2019t mean it belongs in the Liturgy. We should never seek to \u2018put things into\u2019 the Mass, for the Mass is a gift. We\u00a0receive\u00a0it. We conform to it, it does not conform to us, nor to our age. Thus it is absolutely wrong to have a \u2018contemporary\u2019 Mass, or to have a \u2018modern music\u2019 Mass. It\u2019d be akin to\u00a0receiving\u00a0a painting from a friend, and drawing on it with a Sharpie all that you\u2019d like to be included in it. Only to an infinite degree, for which you will inevitably be all up and smited upon by a thunderous, frowning Deity.<\/p>\n
The reality does not simply lie between these two opposing views; it is the center that these views ripple from. The reality is that the Mass, being a gift from God, does not deserve some particular genre or style of music, or some age of music. It deserves objectively beautiful music that allows for contemplation<\/em>. Gregorian chant is given pride of place because it has proven itself to fulfill those terms. But that in no way excludes other forms of music fulfilling those terms. Thus secular instruments \u2013 the guitar, piano etc. \u2013 are in no way banned by the Church; they are allowed with a strict warning, that if they are played\u2026<\/p>\n\u201c\u2026they are to be played with such seriousness, and religious devotion that every suggestion of\u00a0raucous\u00a0secular music is avoided, and the devotion of the faithful is fostered\u201d (Sacred Congragation Of Rites 1958)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Speaking truthfully, most use of secular instrumentation in the Liturgy I am aware of fails to live up to this call. But that does not mean it has to. There\u2019s a\u00a0particularly\u00a0gorgeous modern hymn, How Deep the Father\u2019s Love For Us, that I firmly believe can not only meet the requirements of the Church, but also foster a beautiful devotion within the faithful during the Holy Mass. (Obviously a lot depends on how it is played, as is the case with Chant).<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Traditionalist cannot ignore this fact, unless he pick his favorite Church documents and ignores the others. But I\u2019ve lingered too long on the subject of music. Do you see the point? The New Translation gives us a fantastic opportunity to fall madly in love with the Liturgy as it is<\/em>, not as we\u2019d like it.<\/p>\nCome Advent, we will begin saying goodbye! to the response \u201cand also with you,\u201d and will![\"\"](\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_wTNOQMHLClY\/TEtWPZgg9GI\/AAAAAAAAAcU\/Kj663n5r4Ss\/S1600-R\/Padre+Pio+Mass+2.jpg\")
replace it with the accurate translation \u201cand with your spirit.\u201d In this small translation a great truth is found. We are rejecting what some wanted the Liturgy to be, or thought it would be fine for the Liturgy to be, and are humbling ourselves to accept what the Liturgy is. It is a gift from God.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll be posting on the Liturgy for a good bit after this, in anticipation of the New Translation. Use this renewal within the Church as a time of self-examination, of\u00a0scrupulously, honestly, and painfully facing the ways we project ourselves onto the Liturgy. And then put an end to them! Now<\/em> is the time to heal the division within the Church, and move with Her into an age of greater unity. What great work we could do in the world, if we presented to it an unshakeable unity of purpose and mind.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the New Translation of the English Missal nears, I am getting more and more pumped about the Liturgy. It is the greatest thing since sex. (And I do not mean that flippantly; the marital union is but a shadow of the union attained at the wedding feast between Heaven and Earth.) But alas and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy"],"yoast_head":"\n
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