tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post5088877115589704722..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Be Brave, Brothers, Face East!Fr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-84331687281769411312012-08-29T09:34:04.528+01:002012-08-29T09:34:04.528+01:00Fr Ronan,
I quite agree with you it is over the to...Fr Ronan,<br />I quite agree with you it is over the top. If you Diane's picture the absence of the second altar gives the sanctuary a much more "relaxed" appearance.<br />One of the problems in my picture is I think, apart from the floristry, an absence of space around the altar, getting rid of the extra altar will presumably those on the sanctuary to spread out a bit.Fr Ray Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-40657865764260206462012-08-29T06:11:06.624+01:002012-08-29T06:11:06.624+01:00I know this will not be well received on this webs...I know this will not be well received on this website, but what has happened to the noble simplicity of the Roman Rite? This altar looks like something out of an over crowded florist shop. I have offered the EF 'ad orientem' (Low Mass only). I know that the OF has oft times been poorly performed. But there is something about the OF that expresses more clearly the connection of the Mass we are offering with that of the Lord's Last Supper. Hence I try to preside "in persona christi", as reverently as I imagine He did.Fr Ronan Kilgannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11206827426728095951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-51723287862110814332012-08-29T02:46:53.343+01:002012-08-29T02:46:53.343+01:00Dear Father,
Just a little clarification...
Al...Dear Father, <br /><br />Just a little clarification... <br /><br />All Masses have been celebrated ad orientem at Assumption Grotto since I've got there in 2005, with the exception of a few bishops who still used the low altar. <br /><br />The real news was that after years of this, Fr. Perrone finally found a good home for the table altar that was installed in 1978. He now has a portable for that yearly visit of a bishop who may want to use it (he doesn't want to force any priest or bishop to use the high altar). However, some bishops have been using the high altar, as well (Archbishop Vigneron celebrated his first Assumption Day as archbishop in a Latin Novus Ordo at our high altar in 2009). <br /><br />My post features an iPhone pic of how it looks now without the low altar.<br /><br /><a href="http://te-deum.blogspot.com/2012/08/assumption-grottos-sanctuary-low-altar.html" rel="nofollow">http://te-deum.blogspot.com/2012/08/assumption-grottos-sanctuary-low-altar.html</a><br /><br />Diane Korzeniewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06085979986006926002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-2302010794646430962012-08-28T17:17:29.599+01:002012-08-28T17:17:29.599+01:00Not really connected with this post but....Solesme...Not really connected with this post but....Solesmes Gregorian Missal now available with new English translation. Now there's no excuse for not using the Gradual in the OF. Sorry if this is old news. My copy just arrived from France.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07580253432208073322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-20199349640548771522012-08-28T13:23:55.284+01:002012-08-28T13:23:55.284+01:00This was the best we could find for the FIUV Posit...This was the best we could find for the FIUV Position Paper on <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/04/fiuv-position-paper-4-liturgical.html" rel="nofollow">Liturgical Orientation</a>, on the current authoritative recommendations:<br /><br />‘Cases must be considered in which the sanctuary does not allow for the placing of an altar facing the people or in which it would not be possible to maintain the existing altar with its ornamentation intact and at the same time install a forward-facing altar that could be seen as the principal altar. In such cases it is more faithful to the nature of the liturgy to celebrate at the existing altar, back to the people, than to maintain two altars at the same sanctuary. The principle of there being only one altar is theologically more important than the practice of celebrating facing the people.’ Notitiae 29 (1993) 249 (Editorial)Joseph Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-82857525082569810042012-08-28T13:17:39.008+01:002012-08-28T13:17:39.008+01:00I am greatly privileged in my university chaplainc...I am greatly privileged in my university chaplaincy to be able to offer all Masses facing East; in fact it's quite a jolt for me if and when I do supply work in parishes. I think if we really believe in the "meaningfulness" of symbolism, ritual, posture and gesture in the Mass, then the great richness and catechetical value of celebrating ad orientem needs serious consideration. I would encourage priests to take the plunge - how about one Sunday Mass once a month as a start, just to introduce it to people?Fr. Stephen Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11096956495218706858noreply@blogger.com