The last expression was the punch line with which he ended his letter. Fr Z now has a competition to design a graphic to illustrate that phrase: GRAPHICS: Wake Up And Smell The Incense!. There is a nice subhead, "Usus antiquior: Back to the people." The post is well worth a look. Here is my favourite graphic among those posted so far:
6 comments:
Fr Tim
If Mgr Schaedel is right, now may be the time to set up an "English Mass Society", dedicated to the preservation of the badly celebrated vernacular liturgy. After all, my reading of Summorum Pontificum would seem to suggest that it is not the intention of the Holy Father to abrogate this form of celebration and that, in principle, it will always be permitted.
The founding principles of the EMS could be:
1) Only use ICEL translations promulgated in the 60s and 70s. We want nothing to do with the trendy innovations of John Paul II and Liturgicam Authenticam.
2) Masses must take place at times and locations designed to ensure that the fewest number of people are able to participate.
3)The local Ordinary must ensure that clergy are properly trained to preside at such celebrations i.e. they must (i) wear vestments which look as though they've been designed by the under 11 category in a Blue Peter competition and (ii) must regard the texts in the Roman Missal as the starting point from which they can ritualize the faith experience of the gathered community.
4) Only quasi-heretical lyrics, set to tacky 70s "folk" tunes, are to be permitted, as being especially appropriate to this form of celebration.
Cont p 94.
Now it couldn't happen could it?
Well naturally we smell a lotta incense!
Auricularius - on your point 3 (i), do you mean vestments like these:
http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2007/09/benedict-and-technicolor-mass-coat.html
Why or why does the Pope let people dress him up in this way? Leaving aside the technicolour dream-coat, the powder-blue mitre is awful. What sort of mixed messages does he send out - the MP one month, dressing-up as if he's at a fancy dress party the next.
I was at Mariazell a couple of months ago - it deserves better than this - and so do we and Our Blessed Lady.
Thomas
Aargh... no ... is this a joke!!!
I think, on the whole, that entries from a Blue Peter competition would do better justice to the dignity of the Roman Rite than those vestments.
This is why we need the MP
Auricularius
No, it's no joke. The cope and mitre he wore for Vespers were fine. Perhaps he put his foot down!
Fr. Tim,
On the subject of waking up, we’ve been so distracted by Summorum Pontificum that we've forgotten to commemorate the centenary of the great anti-modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis issued on September 8th, 1907. Whoops!
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