Up to our own times, it has been the constant concern of supreme pontiffs to ensure that the Church of Christ offers a worthy ritual to the Divine Majesty, ‘to the praise and glory of His name,’ and ‘to the benefit of all His Holy Church.
It is, therefore, permissible to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Mass following the typical edition of the Roman Missal promulgated by Bl. John XXIII in 1962 and never abrogated, as an extraordinary form of the Liturgy of the Church….(Read the Whole Thing) …(Father’s Z comments).
Also an EWTN special on Monday on the Motu Proprio.
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Your photos are absolutley astonishing! Edifying!
Thank you Terry.
I love the pics of the priests in the battlefield. I have another book suggestion for you, it’s called ‘The Priest Goes To War’ and if I remember correctly, it was published by a certain diocese in the US during the war. There are some great pics, too!
Once again, breathtaking! Ken, you have truly created a unique place in the “blogosphere”…not unlike a mini-retreat! I come here daily to rest my weary eyes and what a treat it is! God bless you!
Arch..: Thanks for the tip, yet again.
Kim: Thank you very much, God Bless you too!
Beautiful, Ken. A great way to mark this special day.
Thank you Argent, just to show people how beautiful the TLM is. And how widespread.
Very moving.
“There are within the church a number of rites, i.e., ancient, independent traditions of discipline and worship, differentiated through isolation (see also liturgy). Besides the Roman rite, to which the vast majority belong, there are among Catholics five Eastern rites, used by a number of communities (Eastern Catholics or Uniates; see patriarch). They are: the Byzantine (the rite also of the Orthodox Eastern Church, which is not in communion with Rome), to which belong many groups, including Melchites, Ruthenians, Romanians, and the Italo-Albanians of S Italy; the Antiochene (also the rite of the autonomous Jacobite Church), to which belong the Maronites, the Syrian Catholics, and the Malankarese of Malabar; the Alexandrian, to which belong the Catholic Copts and Ethiopians (see Copts); the Chaldaean (also the rite of the autonomous Nestorian Church), to which belong Chaldaean Catholics and Syro-Malabarese; and the Armenian (also the rite of the autonomous Armenian Church). These rites and communities have their own organizations under the pope and are protected from attempts to “Latinize” them. Best known, perhaps, of the non-Roman Western rites are the Ambrosian, the Dominican, and the Mozarabic.”
O.K., if the foregoing, from the website of Yahoo Education, Encyclopedia: Roman Catholic Chursh, is accurate, let’s have some photos of other “non-Roman Western rites”. Do not the newly-defined “extraordinary” and “ordinary” Roman rites constitute still other categories? Let’s hope that others are not waiting offstage!
This blog concentrates on the Classical Western/Roman Rite. The ordinary-rite pictures are all over the Internet.
Would Jesus really celebrate the breaking of bread while his back was to the apostles?
Or perhaps the thinking was that the priest is not truly the representative of Christ here on earth….
I really wonder.
Lawrence, perhaps you are not aware of how people sat at table at the time of Christ in the Jewish culture. The “Table” (low to the ground) was in a horseshoe shape with the people sitting on the outside (servers used the middle space). The place of honor was the right edge (where Christ “sat”, layed on pillows more like it). They would lean one arm on the table, so it is likely that he did have at least to some of them “his back to them”. Also, in Catholic Churches, the Real Presence in the Tabernacle is there. Also, of Apostolic Tradition to face the East (Rising Sun analogy, also “For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west: so shall the coming of the Son of man be” (Matt 24). The One True Church He founded waits.
As far as the slap against the priesthood, the entire early Church (read the Father’s of the Church Lawrence) shows a Priesthood from the first.
(Klaus Gamber’s book really breaks it down).
Of course Jesus meant no offense to those to whom His back was turned. When possible the personal face to face engagement was in my understanding, something He would want preserved by those who would represent Him down through time.
And no “slap” was intended. Sorry if I was not clear, but again what I meant was that if our priests are to truly represent Christ instituting that first Eucharistic Celebration, then they should face the people.
Sorry if I misinterpreted your intention about the priesthood. I do not think we should put the emphasis on the indidual priest during Mass (his face, personality, etc. ). He should just be Priest doing the Work of God. It’s not our Mass, or the priest’s Mass.