Annual liturgical lunacy
It's that time of year again - the time for bloggers to post photos and YouTube videos of the Religious Education Congress Liturgy in Los Angeles. I was rather amused by the meticulous removal of the zucchetto just before the dialogue before the Preface. It reminded me of a comment by Fr Guy Nichols once to a priest who boasted that he had celebrated Mass wearing only a stole (no alb etc.) "Why the magic stole?" If you are going to use glass pitchers and a wine glass for the Mass, why on earth bother with a zucchetto?
Note also the crazy applause at the "Great Amen" - are the participants cheering the celebrant for having accomplished the liturgical act?
Well, that's enough, I suppose. Here's a bit of video if you want to watch it. Same nonsense as last year, and the year before that ... Thank God for Pope Benedict!
12 comments:
Why isn't the altar on a revolving platform?
So when is Pope Benedict going to DO something about this bozo. The visit of the pope to the US this year went well, overall. But he'd be an even greater hero amongst long suffering southern Californians if he'd pointed to a few cardinals and bishops and said: "okay, you, you, and you (etc) are FIRED, and I'm not kicking you upstairs with a cushy slot in the Vatican and a fancy titular church, either ... as a matter of fact, I'm yanking your faculties for a year, since you don't appreciate them, then after you crawl over broken glass on your bare knees and prostrate yourself and ask for the faculty to say Mass .. I MIGHT, might consider it, if you're bleeding sufficiently enough."
Good points, all.
Worse, the hokey sing-songy inflection makes my ears bleed.
Fr. J.
Every time some zany half-witted liturgical abuse turns up on YOUTUBE it always appear that Cardinal Mahoney is behind it. How much more damage must this man do to the Catholic Liturgy? Surely his time is up, can't he be 'fired' from his position and a Bishop with some true sense of 'The Holy' be put in the vacant position. Pray for his diocese and especially for those Holy Priests and Catholic Lay Faithful who have to endure the antics of this circus 'Ring Master'.
One thing that struck me was that His Eminence genuflected in the most reverential manner after the elevation. Still, what's with the glass chalices and wicker/wooden (?) baskets for the Eucharist?
Good Pope Benedict is right, giving the kind of example that legitimizes in a very concrete way the best ars celebrandi. But what does it mean if he leaves the Cardinal Mahoneys of this world to do as they please?
Should I mention this video in my next confession as a self Inflicted mortification?
Absolutely awful, and it makes me feel ashamed that this happens in the Catholic Church.
They way the Cardinal was reading from the missal aswell, it sounded as if he were reading a story to some children.
Christopher - no... but it might come up under "watching obscene material"!
;-)
The trouble is, Father, it really isn't amusing - the deliberate disobedience of a Cardinal in 2008 is, in my view, a confirmation of the view of Father George Rutler that we are in the most serious crisis in the Church since the Arian heresy in the 3rd Century - lex orandi, lex credendi!
Silly me! I thought this sort of thing was obsolete.
Well ...Mother Angelica was RIGHT when she criticized the Cardinals Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of California... I hope our Holy Father gets a copy of this Mess and calls up Roger and tells him...either clean up this Mess or start packing.
Paul Knight hit the nail on the head when he noted that the Cardinal sounds as though he is speaking to dull children. It is this attitude, so standard among liberals - that they are so much smarter than the rest of us poor fools who cling mindlessly to tradition (and, dare, I say, Scripture) while they are doing so much to help the Church "evolve" - that has done more damage than Communism and Nazism combined.
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