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A SMALL THOUGHT ABOUT THE TRIDENTINE MASS<\/strong>: The Weekly Standard<\/em> has this review <\/a>of a new book on Auden and Christianity. While I\u2019ve just started reading a huge whopping hunka-hunka burnin\u2019 Auden, I doubt I\u2019ll read the biography, just because biographies by their nature are kind of absurd. I mean, people think fanfiction <\/em>is derivative! Still, I was struck by this passage in the review:<\/p>\n

\u2026The structure and aesthetics of high Anglican worship were so agreeable to him, not for snobbish or campy-gay reasons, but precisely because they best embodied the pattern of impersonal dramatic repetition that he so desperately needed, the patterning that made it possible for the act of worship to be, for him, an act of personal re-integration.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly in rites,\u201d he would say, \u201ccan we renounce our oddities \/ and be truly entired.\u201d Only by yielding the chaos of his inner disorder to the controlling order and harmony of liturgical space and time could he be made whole. The idea that worship should be an act of spontaneous personal outward expressiveness, directed toward God and toward one\u2019s fellow congregants, could not have been further from his heart. On the contrary, he liked to insist, \u201corthodoxy is reticence,\u201d the form of reverence that is too reverent and tasteful to speak its name, at least not very loudly or often.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, the last sentence there doesn\u2019t strike me as necessarily the right cashing-out of \u201corthodoxy is reticence.\u201d But the rest of this made a lot of sense to me. And it stands as a good counterpoint to a conversation I had over the weekend. Cacciaguida <\/a>and I were talking about various rites, and he described how many people don\u2019t realize that in the Tridentine Mass, the people really don\u2019t say hardly anything. Their responses are given to the altar servers. (\u2026If I\u2019m misremembering this conversation, I hope he corrects me. I\u2019ve been to a Tridentine Mass only once or twice.)<\/p>\n

And although I wasn\u2019t intent enough on my opinion to state it, I did think that staying silent would likely make me even more prone to woolgathering and accedia than I am already. Having to say <\/em>the responses is very convicting for me, reminding me of all the places where I\u2019ve lacked faith. I don\u2019t want to commit what you could call \u201cspiritual perjury\u201d; and so when I have to actually speak a promise or statement of faith or prayer, it makes me at least somewhat more likely to live in accordance with that prayer.<\/p>\n

But the Auden-review passage really resonates with me, and points up an aspect of the Tridentine rite that I might have missed on my own.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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