tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post8328044388806285042..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: Moving around at MassFr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-8338474665784572942009-08-18T07:19:01.177-05:002009-08-18T07:19:01.177-05:00Check out the chapter on The Mass in Thomas Howard...Check out the chapter on The Mass in Thomas Howard's On Being Catholic - sublime.Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00403184829256955768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-53405631262545185242009-08-17T23:34:31.006-05:002009-08-17T23:34:31.006-05:00oh, okay...and here I thought it was just to make ...oh, okay...and here I thought it was just to make sure you didn't fall asleep in the homily.<br /><br />;-)MightyMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02563721884001643857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-2923530356791545872009-08-17T10:41:01.038-05:002009-08-17T10:41:01.038-05:00Hmm...I was with you until "Mass with no word...Hmm...I was with you until "Mass with no words only gestures and movement" as that <i>could</i> describe some of the EF Masses I've been to...and those were the ones that most profoundly moved me to cooperate with Grace.<br /><br />I'll need to ruminate on this, but I think there is a need for far more silence and far less movement than is common in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite (even when it is properly celebrated).<br /><br />But that is largely off-topic to your post.Flambeauxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-43820234386808891982009-08-16T17:49:28.408-05:002009-08-16T17:49:28.408-05:00FWIW, when I got to the end and read your closing ...FWIW, when I got to the end and read your closing question, <br /><i>Imagine for a moment a Mass where there is no gesture. No movement. Everyone remains absolutely still and the Mass is read out loud. Or. . .imagine a Mass with no words, only gesture and movement. What would we think upon exiting the Church after Masses like these?</i><br /><br />my impulse was to say that the silent Mass would have been more ... umm.. Mass-like. Thus proving that we pray with our bodies, I guess. Or at least I do.<br /><br /><br />But without the words of the Word or an audible Consecration, it wouldn't have been Mass.Elaine Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00790391306437765335noreply@blogger.com