tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post5561686216032103510..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: Questions...Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-78232024457227064992010-01-12T01:37:11.722-06:002010-01-12T01:37:11.722-06:00thanks for the form illumination!thanks for the form illumination!MightyMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02563721884001643857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-33593874128742637652010-01-12T01:23:00.447-06:002010-01-12T01:23:00.447-06:00Faith-I can understand the confusion if you were a...Faith-I can understand the confusion if you were attending an EF low mass without bells. It would be easy to miss the consecration if the church were crowded enough to obscure line of sight. But I've found that ad orientem worship rarely has this problem, and that there are aural cue that go along with the visual ones to help keep up with the Mass.<br /><br />Father-I'll note that my growing preference for the EF has little to do with questions of validity. As a mom, I've noticed better attentiveness from my 6 year old since we began attending an EF mass, and the silent canon seems to be one of the big differences. He noticed that something important was going on because the priest wasn't talking to us. Therefore he must be talking to God. Out of the mouths of babes...Lauranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-12975955442337291622010-01-10T10:10:13.594-06:002010-01-10T10:10:13.594-06:00As for the sedia, I think it is a great idea. This...As for the sedia, I think it is a great idea. This pope is a humble person and his being elevated with this chair would not inflate his ego one bit IMHO. If dissenting catholics and the MSM want to attack him for it while ignoring the obvious benefits of the sedia, then let them. The only cure for stupidity is information not compromise. <br /><br />As for the EF vs NO masses, I am a huuuge fan of the EF mass and dislike the way that the NO mass has allowed for horrid abuses to occur (sign of peace, Lay ministers, ad libbing etc) but when done properly, it can be a beautiful mass nonetheless. They are both and always have been valid masses, so I have no problem in attending either one. However, as I wait here in my apartment, ready to go to the 11 am mass here at UD I know tht I will hear and see somethings that will offend me. This simply does not occur in the EF mass. But oh well. Brick by Brik and Father Z says.James Lockehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12775302972135332609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-29126517860736879222010-01-10T09:23:35.128-06:002010-01-10T09:23:35.128-06:00I don't understand the insistence on ad orien...I don't understand the insistence on ad orientum. On occasion, I've been to Masses celebrated ad orientum, and since the Mass was in Latin, I couldn't follow, precisely because I couldn't see what the priest was doing--where he was. I don't think it matters what language, as long as I can see what he's doing. The consecration comes and goes and I missed it, couldn't see it coming, nor consecrating.Faithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13945662015612932618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-87500344378023769302010-01-09T20:33:04.402-06:002010-01-09T20:33:04.402-06:00I can see that the return of the Sedia would mean ...I can see that the return of the Sedia would mean that more people could see the pope but he would also be a target and most of all it would be a public relations disaster. I can see the media and dissenting Catholics salavating all over their keyboards now.Sharonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-45739627629589936132010-01-09T15:04:49.852-06:002010-01-09T15:04:49.852-06:00Ben, I've never presided in Italian or Latin. ...Ben, I've never presided in Italian or Latin. I concelebrate in Italian. We don't celebrate Mass in Latin here at all.<br /><br />I should say that some parts of the O.F. English translation are fine. Several sections were rushed for some reason...the closing prayers are particularly awful.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-90338677214310149932010-01-09T13:07:35.934-06:002010-01-09T13:07:35.934-06:00Now that you're in Rome if you don't care ...Now that you're in Rome if you don't care for the English NO translation, do you ever celebrate it in Italian or Latin?GenXBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15298459502431357489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-52020773359274149552010-01-09T12:29:19.388-06:002010-01-09T12:29:19.388-06:00Hi Father. I'm interested in knowing more abo...Hi Father. I'm interested in knowing more about what you think will be problematic in the upcoming translations of the Liturgy. I think you probably agree that pretty much anything would have been better than what we had. But I haven't really done a detailed study of the new translations, mostly because, apart from the Ordinary parts, I haven't seen much. So I'd be interested in hearing from you about what you've heard/seen and think.<br /><br />Fr. Martin Farrell, opAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com