tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post5298974256693463426..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: "Liberal" Priest & the Extraordinary FormFr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-28539954928257300112007-12-19T12:12:00.000-06:002007-12-19T12:12:00.000-06:00Re: the comment "I can't imagine wearing lace..." ...Re: the comment "I can't imagine wearing lace..." Who says you have to? The Tridentine Mass can be said while wearing a Gothic chasuble, etc. with no lace at all. Many though seem to believe that the old Latin Mass MUST be said by a priest who wears a Baroque Roman/fiddleback chasuble, an alb dripping with lace, etc. This is nonsense. Best of luck to you Father, and God bless you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-38630422115486086502007-11-27T19:18:00.000-06:002007-11-27T19:18:00.000-06:00From someone's comment at WDTPRS on this post:I wa...From someone's comment at WDTPRS on this post:<BR/><BR/>I was ordained a priest for 20 years before I said my first TLM… only a Low Mass at first. For all those years, I never sang a note at any NO Mass. With the TLM, I slowly began to see myself as a mere instrument of the Liturgy, not it’s faciliator. So eventually I learned the priest’s chants for the Missa Cantata. I endured the humiliation of public singing which I had avoided for 21 years. Suddenly, I realized nobody cared that I wasn’t a great singer. The rubrics required it, and I did it. Later I learned the intricate Deacon and Subdeacon roles so that we could have a Solemn High Mass. Learning my proper place in the Liturgy was exciting. In learning the intricate choreography of the SHM, I learned that the liturgy did not revolve around me, but that I was merely one part of a swirling action around the altar.<BR/><BR/>I was a mere humble instrument—easily replaced. I know it sounds self-evident that the liturgy does not revolve around the priest ( me). But in the NO, the priest is the center in more ways than one; he often chooses the music, and the options (which Eucharistic Prayer? sometimes chooses the readings, often composes the Petitions of the Faithful or the Tropes!! etc.) It is his personality and humor that apparently attracts people. He may even decide about the decorations in the sanctuary, and the arrangement of furniture. He may delegate these functions. But he is the Creator of the liturgical space, and its “feel.” The Rubrics of the NO encouarge this type of creativity and novelty.<BR/><BR/>However, this is not the case with the TLM. In a Missa Cantata as well as a SHM the priest is subservient, not only to the rubrics, but to the Master of Ceremonies as well. The MC is the boss, not the celebrant… even if the MC is wrong!! haha The MC is a layman in most cases. Indeed, the laity have a very important role in the Extraordinary Form. The priest joins all in being a “servant.” <BR/><BR/>Comment by Dom Anselm — 27 November 2007 @ 11:30 am <BR/><BR/>Pleeeeease will you sing a Mass for us Father Philip?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-54884860897876731872007-11-27T14:54:00.000-06:002007-11-27T14:54:00.000-06:00Ah go for a bit of lace Fr!Ah go for a bit of lace Fr!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com