tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87638707193243763962024-03-14T10:34:48.306+00:00The Liturgical PimpernelAd honorem sacræ liturgiæ!The Liturgical Pimpernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937184037752964023noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763870719324376396.post-87161266063847622472013-08-18T22:55:00.001+01:002013-08-18T22:55:29.320+01:00Really very dumb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Liturgical Pimpernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937184037752964023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763870719324376396.post-2659277258780428802013-04-12T10:40:00.000+01:002013-04-12T10:40:15.332+01:00Careless and clueless<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Liturgical Pimpernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937184037752964023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763870719324376396.post-82507247325545476312011-10-24T15:35:00.000+01:002011-10-24T15:35:36.704+01:00They don't like the Benedictine Arrangement one bit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oTH9ebyg9qU/SPLx9hvZyII/AAAAAAAAAxI/VKps3Jzx-FM/s400/pxii12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oTH9ebyg9qU/SPLx9hvZyII/AAAAAAAAAxI/VKps3Jzx-FM/s320/pxii12.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Over at Pray Tell someone called Fritz has been discussing the question of orientation at Mass and has suggested that the Benedictine arrangement may be idolatry:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In 1954, Desclée and the Gregorian Institute of America published a wonderful book called the “Liber Brevior.” This book is essentially the exact same as the “Liber Usualis” (used by priests, monks, sisters and seminarians) except that it had been shortened from around two thousand pages to eight hundred. You could say it is “the layman’s Liber.” The “Liber Brevior” is perfect for all small choirs that are forming today because it contains almost all the Gregorian Chant they will ever need without the addition of the Divine Office. Also, there are two sets of Graduals, Alleluias, and Tracts–the full-length Gregorian propers & simpler Psalm tone versions (of the same music).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span>The Liturgical Pimpernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937184037752964023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763870719324376396.post-77487567240619494122011-09-22T22:45:00.000+01:002011-09-22T22:45:08.177+01:00The Brits do it better, so they say<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Some readers have emailed to say that the British editions of the new missal are much better than anything on </span><a href="http://liturgicalpimpernel.blogspot.com/2011/09/coming-soon-got-yours-yet.html"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">these</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> shores. Check them out. Apparently they're good for England, Wales, Scotland and Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As well as a smart peoples verson:</span><br />
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</div>The Liturgical Pimpernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937184037752964023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763870719324376396.post-86612967198715808402011-09-19T11:58:00.001+01:002011-09-19T12:02:58.667+01:00Seeing red<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Congratulatio</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ns to His Excellency Bishop Peter Libasci the new Bishop of Manchester up there in New Hampshire.</span><br />
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</div>The Liturgical Pimpernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937184037752964023noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763870719324376396.post-65712006562557436302011-09-14T19:56:00.000+01:002011-09-14T19:56:49.445+01:00Time to pray, not to poll.<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today's meeting in Rome is generating a lot of amazing responses already. The Pimpernel urges people to pray for the unity of the Church and for Bishop Fellay and his advisors. Nothing is impossible for God.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Pimpernel has drawn his sword in the face of a lot of liturgical humbug from <a href="http://liturgicalpimpernel.blogspot.com/2011/01/active-participation-at-midnight-mass.html"><span style="color: yellow;">active participation in Christmas midnight Mass</span></a> to <a href="http://liturgicalpimpernel.blogspot.com/2011/08/uhappy-feast-for-some.html"><span style="color: yellow;">Patricius</span></a> the prince of liturgical humbug. There are those who won't countenance the use of a fiddleback and perpetuate their own <a href="http://liturgicalpimpernel.blogspot.com/2010/12/spot-affectation.html"><span style="color: yellow;">affectations</span></a> or who <a href="http://liturgicalpimpernel.blogspot.com/2011/08/servers-wear-surplices-not-albs.html"><span style="color: yellow;">presume to adopt monastic customs</span></a> in secular churches. Others <a href="http://liturgicalpimpernel.blogspot.com/2011/07/singing-mass-on-sideboard.html"><span style="color: yellow;">concelebrate casually</span></a> when nobody is looking while others <a href="http://liturgicalpimpernel.blogspot.com/2011/07/hey-somone-left-clay-jug-on-altar.html"><span style="color: yellow;">do it badly when everybody is looking</span></a><span style="color: yellow;">.</span> </span></div><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Pimpernel has also been able to salute those who have no time for this sort of thing. They <a href="http://liturgicalpimpernel.blogspot.com/2011/01/something-very-wrong-or-very-right.html"><span style="color: yellow;">get it right</span></a> all the time and don't think about how they can improve the liturgy, but about how the liturgy can improve them. They understand that the liturgy is <a href="http://liturgicalpimpernel.blogspot.com/2011/03/its-too-great-too-important.html"><span style="color: yellow;">too important and too great</span></a> to be improved by individuals. They know that when the humbug of private taste takes root it spreads like a poisonous weed.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To arms all who would do honor to the sacred liturgy! Liturgical humbug is our enemy wherever it is found. Honor him who asks what the Church says is to be done, not he who decides how we will do it here or there!</span><br />
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The Liturgical Pimpernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937184037752964023noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763870719324376396.post-74011620823935619042011-08-31T08:53:00.000+01:002011-08-31T08:53:42.441+01:00More from a 77 year-old Archbishop<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Archbishop Conti of Glasgow, Scotland, is at it </span><a href="http://liturgicalpimpernel.blogspot.com/2011/06/letters-from-77-year-old-archbishop.html"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">again</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: yellow;">.</span> It really is time this man's resignation was accepted.</span><br />
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“The Faithful should follow the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, namely coming to communion in procession and standing to receive Holy Communion,” wrote Archbishop Mario Conti in a letter to all his priests, dated August 25. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Standing in our Western culture is a mark of respect: kneeling at the altar rails (where they continue to exist) is not the practice envisaged by the instructions in the Missal,” he stated. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The archbishop’s letter was issued ahead of the introduction of the new translation of the Roman Missal, which comes into effect throughout the English-speaking world this coming November. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“This is really awful,” one Glasgow priest, who wished to remain anonymous, wrote to CNA. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div>The Liturgical Pimpernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937184037752964023noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763870719324376396.post-77904645982096113622011-08-27T11:27:00.001+01:002011-08-27T17:03:48.194+01:00Pro Ecclesiae unitate<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, has been called to Rome with his two Assistants for a meeting with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on September 14th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It's time to get out those purple vestments and offer votive Masses "pro Ecclesiae unitate" folks. Some of those at the table may not think they can bring about a reconciliation, but God sure can.</span><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Deus, qui errata corrigis, et dispersa congregas, et congregata conservas:</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> quæsumus, super populum christianum tuæ unionis gratiam clementer infunde;</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ut, divisione reiecta, vero pastori Ecclesiæ tuæ se uniens,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">tibi digne valeat famulari.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Per Dominum <span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">nostrum Iesum Christum Filium tuum,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> <span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, </span></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="FR" style="color: #3d85c6; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Deus, per omnia sæcula sæculorum. </span></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"></span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Amen</span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">.</span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There's a bit of a trend among those who prefer ample Roman vestments and all things gothic to put servers in albs. But that is not the tradition and it is contrary to the law of the Church. The alb is a vestment that belongs to the sacred ministers, not to servers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It seems that during that time he never learnt how to wear a pectoral cross when pontificating or that the amice is required when other clothing shows through. There's probably no point asking if he wore the pontifical dalmatic. Perhaps he'll be better at running his diocese.</span> <br />
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The Liturgical Pimpernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937184037752964023noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763870719324376396.post-92194804559963660692011-08-19T14:57:00.007+01:002011-08-20T23:15:07.961+01:00Many things right and one thing terribly wrong<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The <a href="http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2011/08/green-gothic-chasuble-from-st-bede.html"><span style="color: yellow;">NLM</span></a> recently posted on a church down under in Australia that celebrates according to the 1962 Missal. If that's so, these folks deserve a lot of cudos for the many things they get right. But this photo shows that they get (at least) one thing about the traditional rites very wrong. Answers in a comment please.</span><br />
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The Liturgical Pimpernelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06937184037752964023noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763870719324376396.post-51690457373656462012011-08-18T01:00:00.000+01:002011-08-18T01:00:01.893+01:00Book Alert - Pope Benedict XVI and the Liturgy<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0852447558/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&tag=thelitupimp-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=0852447558" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0852447558&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=thelitupimp-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" width="132px" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0852447558/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thelitupimp-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0852447558" id="static_txt_preview" jquery1313614307674="3"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pope Benedict XVI and the Liturgy</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> came out a couple of months ago. The Pimpernel hasn't got a copy yet, but a reader sent a note recommending it. It looks good.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"A</span> prominent and inescapable feature of Pope Benedict XVI's pontificate is the importance which has been given to the sacred liturgy, in its actual celebration, as well as in the pope's Magisterium and theological writings. Not only have we witnessed the reappearance of many elements used in older, but recently-abandoned papal liturgies, but also what amounts to be the virtual liberation of the 'Old Latin Mass'. This has come as a great surprise to many people in the Church, some of whom almost regard it, and the pope's liturgical theology, as a betrayal of recent liturgical reforms. On the other hand, others have viewed these liturgical changes, and the emphasis which Pope Benedict places upon the liturgy in the life of the Church, as positive developments, leading to a more correct understanding of the Second Vatican Council within 'the hermeneutic of continuity' and reform, and the notion of 'organic development'. But, in the midst of conflicting interpretations, how are we to understand these developments and Pope Benedict XVI's re-affirmation of what we now call the usus antiquior? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">In this book Dr Anselm J. Gribbin explores these and other related questions by examining the liturgical theology of Pope Benedict XVI in his magisterial teachings and writings, particularly in the post-synodal exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis, the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, and The Spirit of the Liturgy. Gribbin, in an extensive, and detailed analysis, indicates that the liturgical theology of Pope Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger points the way forward for the Church in the field of liturgy. He also addresses the fundamentally important question of the relationship between the liturgical writings of Pope Benedict XVI as a theologian, and his Magisterium as the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, and that the latter is best understood with recourse to the former."</span><br />
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