Hallowed Ground has some splendid pictures of Paul VI canonising of one of my favourite modern saints, St Charles Lwanga. Here the Pope venerates his relics and receives communion at the throne from the chalice through a fistula.Hallowed Ground has some incredible pictures of covered penitential canons, the burying of a Carthusian, the canonisation of Pius X by Pius XII, there is a picture of the illuminations for the event. No wonder the cost of the canonisation of St John Fisher and St Thomas More almost crippled the diocese of Southwark, to which this parish belonged, in 1935.
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It was fun while it lasted, but when people try to do it today they look like actors in amateur theatricals rummaging about for the best costumes in the green room before performing in front of an audience that's not quite sure what is going on.
Please refrain from use of "anonymous".
A good reminder! The church were I was baptized in Africa had a side chapel which was dedicated to him and his companions.
He isn't mentioned much but really should be when considers the nature of his witness and execution in the late 1880's.
For anyone who wants to know a bit more about the pictures I have published an extract from from Archdale A. King’s Liturgy of the Roman Church (Bruce: Milwaukee, 1957): SOLEMN PAPAL MASS, (Appendix I.) on my blog.
Gives an explanation of the Papal communion which is rather different, as well as a ceremony I would love to see... the offertory and tasting to make sure the bread and wine were not poisoned.
Happy reading!
Anonymous,
It wasn't so much that it "lasted", but that it "developed" organically, and then with an imperious penstroke it was swept away.
The Vicar of Christ is as subject to the Tradition of the Church as anyone else, otherwise he risks becoming a lawless tyrant and the Church an Anarchy, uncertain of the Truths it is supposed to pass on.
For many Orthodox we Latin Catholics have a scant regard for The Tradition, the Filioque is an obvious example, but so too is the abandonment of our Traditional Liturgy.
In the forthcoming Exhortation I hope the Holy Father will begin some attempt at giving the Pauline Rites some root, in scholarship, yes, but also religious anthropology, but above all in The Tradition.
The most heartening thing Pope Benedict said at the beginning of his Pontificate for me was, that Holy Father was not there to pass on his own ideas but the Tradition of the Church. It is through this Tradition that we will find a real way forward to a true Ecumenism, without it the divided Church is a scandal and is hampered in its Divinely given mission.
Anonymous,
I will not tolerate gratuitous insults.
I do expect Christian charity to be more important than childish point scoring.
You sound as if you have some very real problems.I am very sorry but this is not the place to vent them.
I have only seen Paul VI in pictures (I have looked), and have only seen him wearing the fanon 2 or 3 times. I have alerted Father at Dappled Things about a my blog awhile ago, so hopefully....
It was fun while it lasted, but when people try to do it today they look like actors in amateur theatricals rummaging about for the best costumes in the green room before performing in front of an audience that's not quite sure what is going on.
There is some justice in what anonymous says, but I think that the remedy to the problem is to keep at it. Practice and increasing familiarity will bring a greater feeling of naturalness and ease to the ministers and diminish any befuddlement in the audience. Anyway, is there anything wrong with bringing out our finest for Holy Week?
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