{"id":22230,"date":"2022-07-18T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/?p=22230"},"modified":"2023-10-13T23:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T04:23:19","slug":"tunes-from-the-bcct-on-liturgy-and-the-eucharist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2022\/07\/tunes-from-the-bcct-on-liturgy-and-the-eucharist\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunes From the BCCT on Liturgy and the Eucharist"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>There are a lot of members of the Broad Chorus of Catholic Thinkers posting articles, videos and podcasts online. So much in fact that one really doesn\u2019t have the time, energy or computer bandwidth to read all the good things being written up and slapped on a web page. And so I decided to bring examples of a 132 of them together in one post. It consists of bits of Orthodox Catholic thoughts from the Catholic Rigorous Vortex and the Liberal Hippie Catholics and everyone else in-between.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2022\/06\/wrn-18-cool-tunes-from-the-broad-chorus-of-catholic-thinkers\/?fbclid=IwAR1RS3AU7RgyCZc1X04Q2sQH6-RjWUP60fCKMnUX5niFjqlFlNuW_QdIZrA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">WRN # 18 Cool Tunes From the Broad Chorus of Catholic Thinkers<\/a><br>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2022\/07\/easy-access-to-tunes-and-tweets-from-the-bcct\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Easy Access to Tunes and Tweets from the BCCT<\/a><\/span><\/strong> JULY 29, 2022<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The diversity of thought within Catholic teaching, like variety within the strictures of sonnets, is one of its most beautiful features. It is nevertheless important to listen, as much as we can, to <strong>a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">broad chorus of Catholic thinkers<\/span><\/strong>. I have found great consolation in the fact that someone holier and smarter than myself has likely asked my questions already; my job is to find them and to listen, and then to make as many people as possible read block quotations about it.<br>\n<a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onepeterfive.com\/author\/skabel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sharon Kabel<\/a> , <a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onepeterfive.com\/osb-vs-ufo-stanley-jaki-and-the-theology-of-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">OSB vs. UFO: Stanley Jaki and the Theology of Aliens (<u>June 16, 2021<\/u>)- OnePeterFive<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But of course with so many samples of things to look at in one semi-long post, several nifty, pithy and unique writings and more can get lost in the shuffle. So I decided to take what I gathered and break it up into smaller posts based on themes instead of particular individual Catholic websites. I even added a few other things not found in the larger collage of writings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In this issue I present to you tunes from the BCCT on\u2026<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and the Eucharist<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13812 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2021\/07\/pope-Francis-at-Mass-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and the Eucharist: Adoration<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dd7YbWyPcQo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and the Eucharist: Adoration Flash Mob<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZ5aYoSr3Hg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: 12 Things About\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>Here are twelve things I like about the Latin Mass. I\u2019m not making this up. I really do like these twelve things in the same way I really do like the twelve things I like about the Novus Ordo. In fact, I have half a mind to write a \u201cTwelve Things I Like\u201d column about a whole slew of churchy things: \u201cTwelve Things I Like About the Charismatic Movement\u201d or \u201cTwelve Things I Like About Evangelicals\u201d or \u201cTwelve Things I Like About Life Teen\u201d or \u201cTwelve Things I Like About the New Ecclesial Movements.\u201d or \u201cTwelve Things I Like About Baroque Churches\u201d\u2026although I admit some of these lists would be more difficult to compile than others.<br>\n<i>Fr. Dwight Longenecker, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/dwightlongenecker.com\/twelve-things-i-like-about-the-latin-mass\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twelve Things I Like About the Latin Mass<\/a> (January 11th, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Like many, I\u2019m critical of the abuses of the new Mass\u2013the dreadful architecture, banal art, saccharine and heterodox music, poor preaching etc etc that too often has gone along with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, but my point has always been that these are abuses and when you take the Ordinary Form of the Mass\u2013simply what\u2019s in the book\u2013just the words and rubrics\u2013there\u2019s not much wrong with it. Can there be some improvements? Sure, but\u00a0 I\u2019ve asked traditionalists if they can tell me what is so terribly wrong with it\u2013just the words in the book\u2013not all the other abuses and things they don\u2019t like that are associated with Vatican II.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody\u2019s given me a good answer yet.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fr. Dwight Longenecker,<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/dwightlongenecker.com\/twelve-things-i-like-about-the-novus-ordo-mass\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twelve Things I Like About the Novus Ordo Mass<\/a> (January 1st, 2019)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Bee Gone<\/h2>\n<p>The Cathedral of Saltillo, also dedicated to St. James the Greater, became news on Pentecost Sunday this year.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t because it\u2019s one of the architectural jewels of the Mexican state of Coahulia and recognized as one of the tallest cathedrals in the country, but because of a curious incident in which the protagonists were bees.<\/p>\n<p>According to local newspaper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zocalo.com.mx\/ataca-enjambre-de-abejas-a-feligreses-de-catedral-de-saltillo-suspenden-misas\/?fbclid=IwAR2gMZ-cM31thy9Avdn4dfrjTQQbEW9hBMPVYybuwlpLBH8q9cMPbzzLjDo#l42np6nlqc6uieg3ype\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Z\u00f3calo<\/em><\/a>, on the morning of Sunday, June 5\u2014the Solemnity of Pentecost\u2014a swarm of European bees attacked the people who were attending morning Mass at the cathedral of Saltillo, the capital of Coahuila in northern Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, this episode with the bees in Mexico took place on a date which, in addition to being Pentecost this year, was celebrated internationally as World Environment Day.<br>\nPablo Cesio <a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2022\/06\/26\/bee-attack-forces-cathedral-to-close-and-suspend-masses-in-mexico\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bee attack forces cathedral to close and suspend Masses in Mexico\u00a0<\/a>(06\/26\/22) <a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2022\/06\/26\/bee-attack-forces-cathedral-to-close-and-suspend-masses-in-mexico\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">(aleteia.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Children at Mass<\/h2>\n<p>I miss the days when I could go to Mass and just immerse myself in the sacred instead of doing battle with a small nemesis with nearly infinite stamina. But I also know that the Mass doesn\u2019t require my participation\u00a0<i>at all<\/i>\u00a0to be efficacious. That my presence alone is sufficient, and nothing I do adds one iota to the ministerial action of the priest. That by living my state in life as a husband and father and teaching my children that Mass is a place where the faithful come together to pray in mutual respect and Christian love for one another and their crucified Lord, I am doing what God wants. That sometimes, the best way to teach the little ones that Mass is important is by showing them it\u2019s too special for them to be allowed to disturb with bad behavior,\u00a0<em>because God comes first<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Skojec, <a href=\"https:\/\/onepeterfive.com\/a-letter-to-the-hipster-husband-with-the-annoying-kids-at-mass\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Letter to the \u201cHipster Husband\u201d With the Annoying Kids at Mass <\/a>(January 8, 2016)<a href=\"https:\/\/onepeterfive.com\/a-letter-to-the-hipster-husband-with-the-annoying-kids-at-mass\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> OnePeterFive<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Clapping At Mass<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly \u2013 it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.<br>\n<strong>-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger<\/strong>\u00a0(before he was\u00a0\u00a0Pope Benedict XVI) The Spirit of the Liturgy<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Church Building<\/h2>\n<p>Recently I was giving a tour of St. Peter\u2019s Cathedral Basilica in London Ontario to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/pillaracademy.ca\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Our Lady of the Pillar Academy<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Catholic Private Elementary School. Its one of my favorite things to do as a priest \u2013 to welcome children into the Church and point out where Jesus is, how to pray, and what the liturgy is all about.<\/p>\n<p>I began by speaking of the Church in 3 ways:\u00a0<strong>the world of darkness (<\/strong>the narthex);\u00a0<strong>the redeemed world (<\/strong>the nave); and the\u00a0<strong>world to come (<\/strong>the sanctuary). When speaking about the world of darkness, I pointed out that the Baptism ritual often begins at the back of the Church. There we find the holy water fonts, where we remind ourselves of our baptism. I stressed that its in the darkness that Christ comes to greet us, to save us. When I say these things, I tend to have personal experiences in the back of my mind.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/profile\/61327256-fr-chris-pietraszko\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fr. Chris Pietraszko<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missiodeicatholic.org\/p\/he-found-me-in-darkness\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">He Found Me in Darkness\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>(June 23, 2022)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missiodeicatholic.org\/p\/he-found-me-in-darkness\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> (missiodeicatholic.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Eastern Churches<\/h2>\n<p>I encourage you to find an Eastern Catholic Church near you and enjoy their roots in orthodoxy. This liturgy is always beautiful and submersed in a tradition established by one of the Apostles. I have been fortunate to attend, as well, the Ge\u2019ez liturgy (Eritrean\/Ethiopian Catholic), the Syro-Malabar (Indian Catholic) and the Maronite (Lebanese) here in Charlotte. All these experiences have brought their own enjoyment and understanding of God and His people in the Catholic Church. These ancient traditions have been preserved in the same manner the Roman Church preserves latin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic365.com\/author\/brandon-berryhill\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brandon Berryhill | <\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic365.com\/article\/4574\/eastern-catholic-divine-liturgy.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eastern Catholic Divine Liturgy\u00a0<\/a>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic365.com\/author\/brandon-berryhill\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">06\/22\/2016)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic365.com\/article\/4574\/eastern-catholic-divine-liturgy.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">(catholic365.com)<\/a><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Eucharistic Ecumenical Thoughts<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Three Titans of Christian Thought discuss the Eucharist\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi. Peter Kreeft has imagined a dialogue between three great Christian minds of the last century \u2013 CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and Billy Graham. What would a Southern Baptist evangelist and a devoutly Catholic philologist and author have to say about the Eucharist? Dr. Kreeft joins us.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/avemariaradio.net\/kresta-in-the-afternoon-june-17-2022-hour-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kresta in the Afternoon \u2013 June 17, 2022 \u2013 Hour 2 \u2013 Ave Maria Radio<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Eucharistic Revival<\/h2>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-15zivkp\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-1hwvwag r-18kxxzh r-1b7u577\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n\" data-testid=\"Tweet-User-Avatar\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-18kxxzh r-1wbh5a2 r-13qz1uu\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1adg3ll r-h3s6tt r-bztko3\">\n<div class=\"r-1p0dtai r-1pi2tsx r-1d2f490 r-u8s1d r-ipm5af r-13qz1uu\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1adg3ll r-1pi2tsx r-1wyvozj r-bztko3 r-u8s1d r-1v2oles r-desppf r-13qz1uu\">\n<div class=\"r-1p0dtai r-1pi2tsx r-1d2f490 r-u8s1d r-ipm5af r-13qz1uu\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-sdzlij r-ggadg3 r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-8jfcpp\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-14lw9ot r-sdzlij r-1wyvozj r-1udh08x r-633pao r-u8s1d r-1v2oles r-desppf\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1adg3ll r-1udh08x\">\n<div class=\"r-1p0dtai r-1pi2tsx r-1d2f490 r-u8s1d r-ipm5af r-13qz1uu\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1p0dtai r-1mlwlqe r-1d2f490 r-1udh08x r-u8s1d r-zchlnj r-ipm5af r-417010\" aria-label=\"\"><strong>Abp. Jos\u00e9 H. Gomez@ArchbishopGomez:<\/strong> <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Let us ask our Lord to help us to love the Eucharist with greater intensity and to increase our desire to be in his presence and to live by the bread that he gives us. <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 decorated-link\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EucharisticRevival?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#EucharisticRevival<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msccW5Vmny8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Feeding Others<\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes there is the risk of confining the Eucharist to a vague, distant dimension, perhaps bright and perfumed with incense, but rather distant from the straits of everyday life. In reality, the Lord takes all our needs to heart, beginning with the most basic. And he wants to give an example to his disciples, saying, \u201cYou give them something to eat\u201d (v. 13), to those people whom he had listened to during the day. We can evaluate our Eucharistic adoration when we take care of our neighbour like Jesus does. There is hunger for food around us, but also of companionship; there is hunger for consolation, friendship, good humour; there is hunger for attention, there is hunger to be evangelized. We find this in the Eucharistic Bread \u2013 the attention of Christ to our needs and the invitation to do the same toward those who are beside us. We need to\u00a0<em>eat\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>feed others<\/em>.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/events\/event.dir.html\/content\/vaticanevents\/en\/2022\/6\/19\/angelus.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Angelus \u2013 Activities of the Holy Father Pope Francis | Vatican.va<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Heavenly Liturgy<\/h2>\n<p>The Book of Revelation affords us a glimpse of the heavenly liturgy which the Church triumphant<br>\nconducts in heaven. St. John describes an innumerable multitude before God\u2019s throne adoring Him, a panoply<br>\nof angels and saints arranged in hierarchy, resplendent with the virtues of apostles, prophets, evangelists,<br>\nmartyrs, pontiffs, doctors, confessors, virgins, widows, kings, queens, all arranged to reflect the glory of God.<\/p>\n<p>This heavenly liturgy is ordered, hierarchical and oriented: the choirs of angels and saints are arranged<br>\nbefore the throne of God, focused on Him. John writes: There was a throne set in heaven, and upon the throne<br>\none sitting\u2026 And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is<br>\nand who is to come. And \u2026 in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and \u2026 of the ancients, a<br>\nLamb standing, as it were slain.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stfrancislincoln.org\/pdf\/Sermon_2017_All_Saints_Heavenly_Liturgy.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sermon_2017_All_Saints_Heavenly_Liturgy.pdf (stfrancislincoln.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Liturgical Year Mess<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0jUDVkyeWAQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Liturgy Wars<\/h2>\n<p>It is not welcome to pass judgment on folk, uninterested in Liturgy Wars, whose attitude at Mass is: \u201cI\u2019m here to worship God. Whatever the bishops approve is fine by me. Just give me my lines and my blocking and let me get on with worshipping the Father and adoring Jesus in the Eucharist.\u201dUnfortunately, this judgmentalism sometimes happens. And the irony is that it often winds up being just as destructive of worship for ordinary people as liturgical abuses.<\/p>\n<p>You see, ordinary worshipers want Jesus.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want Liturgical Abusers shouting \u201cHey! Look at Me!\u201d.\u00a0 But they also don\u2019t want angry Liturgical Police constantly pointing to Liturgical Abusers (both real and imaginary) and saying, \u201cHey!\u00a0 Look at Them!\u201d\u00a0 We want to look at Jesus, not to be entertained by Liturgical Abusers.\u00a0 We want to look at Jesus, not feel an icy stare on the back of our heads if we enact gestures or say words that bishops have approved but that self-appointed Liturgical Police have rejected as inaccurate renderings of the rubrics.\u00a0 And we especially don\u2019t want to be told that our contentment with whatever Liturgy the Church proposes to us is some sort of indication of infidelity.\u00a0 Lack of interest in Liturgy Wars is not lack of interest in loving, worshiping and obeying God.<br>\nMark Shea, <a href=\"https:\/\/markpshea.com\/archive_sheavings\/unity-liberty-charity\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Unity, Liberty, Charity \u2013 Stumbling Toward Heaven (markpshea.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Mass Colors<\/h2>\n<p>The British scholar Margaret Baker observed that the curtain in the temple that separated the Holy place from the Holy of Holies was woven in four colors: white, red, purple and blue. The four colors represented the four elements of air, earth, fire and water from which the ancients believed the whole material realm was forged. Red stood for fire. White for earth because the white fabric was linen which was refined from flax which grew in the earth. Purple stood for water because the dye for the purple was taken from the gland of a mollusk which was found in the seabed. Learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tyrian_purple\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. Blue was for air\u2013the color of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>These four colors therefore symbolized the material realm of reality. What is interesting is that the priests\u2019 also wore a vestment woven from the four colors. Once a year the priest, wearing the woven vestment went through the curtain into the Holy of Holies. He would then return through the veil\/curtain to continue his ministry. Barker points out the beautiful symbolism: God would come from his invisible realm (the Holy of Holies) and enter our realm through the veil of the physical realities. This is expressed in that beautiful Eucharistic hymn Alleluia Sing to Jesus where we sing,\u00a0<i>Thou within the veil has entered, robed in flesh our great high priest\u2026thou on earth both priest and victim in the Eucharistic feast.<br>\nFr. Dwight Longenecker, <a href=\"https:\/\/dwightlongenecker.com\/the-meaning-of-the-four-colors-at-mass\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Meaning of the Four Colors at Mass<\/a>(June 14th, 2021)<a href=\"https:\/\/dwightlongenecker.com\/the-meaning-of-the-four-colors-at-mass\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Fr. Dwight Longenecker<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Mass Comparison<\/h2>\n<p>The Tridentine Liturgy can be compared to the distribution of a \u201choly card\u201d: a mass-produced image of a religious scene, likely at least a little dated-looking, probably showing Christ as looking strangely European, and laminated in plastic to avoid any tampering. Identical holy cards are handed out to a bunch of people. The Mass of St. Paul VI can be, by contrast, compared to a painting class, in which each of the students, guided by an instructor, paints a depiction of the same religious scene. There is an important similarity between these two scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, the participants each end up with a sacred image representing the same subject. The similarity ends there, however. With the holy cards, everyone\u2019s card is identical. The cards belong to those who receive them, but only in a very limited sense. The images produced in the art class will have a very different effect. The ultimate result will still be a sort of unity; each canvas depicts the same image according to the guidance provided by the instructor. Each painting, however, will bear the particular stamp or style of the painter, and these images will belong to the students in a much deeper sense.\u00a0 Better still, because they had to paint the scene for themselves, the students will probably be more attached to these images than the recipients of the holy cards will be to theirs.<br>\n<a title=\"Posts by Malcolm Schluenderfritz\" href=\"https:\/\/wherepeteris.com\/author\/malcolm-schluenderfritz\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">MALCOLM SCHLUENDERFRITZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/wherepeteris.com\/prayer-cards-painting-class-and-liturgy-wars\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Prayer Cards, Painting Class, and Liturgy Wars \u2013<\/a>(DECEMBER 9, 2021)<a href=\"https:\/\/wherepeteris.com\/prayer-cards-painting-class-and-liturgy-wars\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0Where Peter Is<\/a> <span class=\"vcard author\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Mysticism and the Liturgy<\/h2>\n<p>One of the tensions in our life that I note especially, having studied liturgical spirituality so much and also having immersed myself in the mystical traditions and practices of both east and west, is the tension between the kataphatic and the apophatic, the way of positive images versus the negative way. Specifically of note is how that plays out is the tension between liturgy\u2013\u2013which is so symbolic and even at times pretty prolix (wordy)\u2013\u2013and contemplative prayer, which leads to silence, beyond name and form.<\/p>\n<p>The early Christian tradition and the spiritual writers of the Middle Ages didn\u2019t know any conflict between \u201cpublic\u201d and \u201cprivat\u201d prayer, or between liturgy and contemplation. This is a modern problem! Thomas Merton wrote as much in\u00a0<em>The Climate of Monastic Prayer<\/em>, that \u201cLiturgy by its very nature tends to prolong itself in individual contemplative prayer, and mental prayer in its turn disposes us for and seeks fulfillment in liturgical worship.\u201d Or there is a great phrase that Fr. Zacchaeus taught me, referring to adoration of or meditation with the reserved Blessed Sacrament; it is \u201cthe action of the Mass held in contemplation.\u201d It\u2019s like breathing in and breathing out.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.contemplation.com\/mysticism-and-the-liturgy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mysticism and the liturgy | New Camaldoli Hermitage (contemplation.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Mystical Remembering<\/h2>\n<p>The Divine Liturgy of the Christian churches is best understood as a mystical remembering, renewal, and participation in the saving work of the Saviour, through which eternity entered time, so that we might be redeemed from death. What eternity worked in history, is endlessly actualised on altars all over the world. It is our privilege to be allowed to share in this.<\/p>\n<p>Words fail us, but the Divine Liturgy is also a return to the Father\u2019s house, to share in the communion of the Son; an Exodus from earthly to heavenly realities, and a climbing of the holy mountain of the Temple.<\/p>\n<p>The Eucharistic summit of our liturgical services replicates on earth the essence of the worship eternally offered in heaven.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicweekly.com.au\/author\/fr-yuhanna-azize\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fr Yuhanna Azize<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicweekly.com.au\/melto-dmoronyo-when-eternity-enters-into-time\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Melto D\u2019Moronyo: When eternity enters into time (<\/a>June 26, 2022) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicweekly.com.au\/melto-dmoronyo-when-eternity-enters-into-time\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">catholicweekly.com.au)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Mercy for Unworthy Reception<\/h2>\n<p>I trust that our loving God will treat with mercy those who objectively commit frequent sacrilegious Communions because they don\u2019t know any better, they have been so poorly catechized.\u00a0 Alas, we have arrived at a point where perhaps a third of church-going Catholics believe the Church\u2019s teaching about the Eucharist and yet the lines for Communion include virtually every person who shows up. Go to confession.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onepeterfive.com\/author\/frzwdtprs-com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fr. John Zuhlsdorf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/onepeterfive.com\/41326-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Worthy Communion <\/a>-(June 18, 2022)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onepeterfive.com\/41326-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0OnePeterFive<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Commentary On Pope Francis Apostolic Letter<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"S6 Episode 35 | Pope Francis Apostolic Letter | DESIDERIO DESIDERAVI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=kzid7-126ca61-pb\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Receiving Communion<\/h2>\n<p>I am not opposed in principle to Communion in the hand; I have both administered and received Communion in this way myself. The idea behind my current practice of having people kneel to receive Communion on the tongue was to send a signal and to underscore the Real Presence with an exclamation point. One important reason is that there is a great danger of superficiality precisely in the kinds of Mass events we hold at St. Peter\u2019s, both in the Basilica and in the Square. I have heard of people who, after receiving Communion, stick the Host in their wallet to take home as a kind of souvenir.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, where people think that everyone is just automatically supposed to receive Communion\u2014everyone else is going up, so I will, too\u2014I wanted to send a clear signal. I wanted it to be clear: something quite special is going on here! He is here, the One before Whom we fall on our knees! Pay attention! This is not just some social ritual in which we can take part if we want to.<br>\n<strong>Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0(Light of the World, 2010)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Sacred Art<\/h2>\n<p>When discussing the merits and qualities of sacred art, a distinction is often made between art that has a didactic function \u2013 primarily for teaching purposes \u2013 and liturgical art which is intended to deepen engagement with God directly during the liturgy itself. Didactic art, it is assumed, engages the person primarily through the intellect, deepening the understanding of salvation history or of a feast. Liturgical art, on the other hand, it is said, engages the heart of the person, and engages both the intellect and will in an ordered and balanced way, so that the whole person is directed to the contemplation of God through worship of Him.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2022\/06\/the-distinctions-between-liturgical-art.html#.Yruz9hXMLIE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">DAVID CLAYTON The Distinctions Between Liturgical Art, Didactic Sacred Art, and Illustration: Is There Really Any Difference?<\/a>( June 28, 2022)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2022\/06\/the-distinctions-between-liturgical-art.html#.Yruz9hXMLIE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New Liturgical Movement<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Sacred Music<\/h2>\n<p>To give an answer to the question, \u201cWhat is sacred music?,\u201d we must answer that it is the great treasury of music, written over the ages by the greatest composers for use in the sung liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, beginning with the Gregorian melodies and continuing on through the polyphonic pieces of the middle ages and the renaissance, up to the orchestral settings of the last three centuries and into our own time; it is simple for the singing congregation and more elaborate as the degree of musicianship increases.<br>\nMonsignor Richard J. Schuler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/catholicism\/library\/what-is-sacred-music-11188\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">What is Sacred Music? | EWTN<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Sacred Liturgical Music<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ihJAJA4ibEs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the beautiful aspects of the Catholic tradition is the diversity (without adversity) of cultural and liturgical expressions.\u00a0\u00a0Even within the Latin (or Roman) Catholic Church, one finds diversity in liturgical expression down through the years.\u00a0\u00a0For example, the 12th century saw a liturgical revolution within monasteries that manifested itself in varied celebrations.\u00a0\u00a0Cluniac monasteries favored huge choirs singing complex polyphony, many large, ornate candlesticks, incense, and golden vessels while Cistercian monasteries celebrated the liturgy with simple chants, a few modest candles, minimal incense, and wooden or copper vessels.\u00a0\u00a0Similarly today, good and appropriate elements of modern music can and should be incorporated into the liturgy to speak to modern Christians (of course without marginalizing or replacing traditional music.)\u00a0\u00a0The two can peacefully coexist.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, way back in 1947, Venerable Pope Pius XII wrote, \u201cIt cannot be said that modern music and singing should be entirely excluded from Catholic worship. For, if they are not profane nor unbecoming to the sacredness of the place and function, and do not spring from a desire of achieving extraordinary and unusual effects, then our churches must admit them since they can contribute in no small way to the splendor of the sacred ceremonies, can lift the mind to higher things and foster true devotion of soul\u201d (MD 193).<br>\n<strong>Mike Tenney<\/strong> A Defense of Modern Worship Music in Liturgy November 3, 2016 Holy Ruckus<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Senses<\/h2>\n<p>The truth is, a liturgy engaging more of the senses is a liturgy that engages more parishioners. This includes especially disabled parishioners, since many disabilities impair some senses but not others. A deaf person would get less out of a primarily aural liturgy, a blind person less out of a primarily visual one, and so forth. For this reason, a strong argument can be made that the liturgy should be designed to enter as many of the sense gates as possible, so that \u201cthe poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind\u201d may be invited to the feast (Luke 14:13).<br>\n<span class=\"vcard author\"><span class=\"fn\"><a title=\"Posts by Nathan Turowsky\" href=\"https:\/\/wherepeteris.com\/author\/nturowsky\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">NATHAN TUROWSKY<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00b7\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wherepeteris.com\/opening-the-sense-gates-with-the-liturgy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Opening the Sense Gates with the Liturgy\u00a0<\/a> (<span class=\"published\">APRIL 28, 2022)<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wherepeteris.com\/opening-the-sense-gates-with-the-liturgy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u2013 Where Peter Is<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Liturgy and Eucharist: Science of the Eucharist<\/h2>\n<p>One of the most fascinating discoveries in the studies of the Eucharist is the type of tissue. In these miracles, it not only contains blood, but tissue that is part of the heart. Not skin, lung or stomach, but of the heart. Under normal \u2018human\u2019 conditions, these cells degrade after the death of a person, but in each of the Eucharistic miracles, the cells remain \u2018live\u2019 and whole.<br>\nLaura Hensley <a href=\"https:\/\/epicpew.com\/scientific-proof-for-the-eucharist\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scientific Proof for the Eucharist \u2013<\/a>(May 12, 2022)<a href=\"https:\/\/epicpew.com\/scientific-proof-for-the-eucharist\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> EpicPew<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Other Related Posts include<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2022\/06\/using-the-kind-gaze-to-look-past-splinters\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Using The Kind Gaze to Look Past Splinters\u00a0<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2020\/12\/the-rites-of-writeing\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Rites of Write(ing)\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 A List of Catholic Authors and some of their books.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2020\/07\/surfing-the-catholic-web\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing the Catholic Web\u00a0<\/a><br>\n<a class=\" decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2022\/03\/tweeting-to-the-choir-a-collection-of-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweeting to the Choir: A Collection of Tweets<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of members of the Broad Chorus of Catholic Thinkers posting articles, videos and podcasts online. 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