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The Lord’s descent into the underworld
At Matins/the Office of Readings on Holy Saturday the Church gives us this 'ancient homily', I find it incredibly moving, it is abou...
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Will do. The Church in England and Wales certainly needs all the prayers it can get.
Thank you for posting this, Father!
(The commentary is Dutch, though. :D )
(The commentary is in Dutch, not German, Father)
I think the commentary is in Dutch, Father....
Yikes! I think I'd have to insist on a safety belt before I'd climb up there!
One can only hope that the Venerable John Henry's beatification is marked with such pomp and enthusiasm!
What Pius X did to the ancient Psalter arrangement of the Breviary doesn't strike me as particularly ''saintly''...
Sorry, Patricius, what did he do?
Patricius: grumble, grumble. ;-P
Left-footer: actually, Patricius has a point; Pius X took the unrealised ambitions of Benedict XIV and the First Vatican Council, and reshaped the Breviary. In doing so, he modified the distribution of the Psalms significantly, and revised the rubrics to give precedence to the temporal over the sanctoral. It has been argued that his redistribution of the Psalms is a discontinuity, as opposed to organic growth. An example was losing Psalms 148-150 as a daily component of Lauds, a break with age-old tradition.
Whilst I agree that changing, for example, from 12 Pss at Matins to nine always, represents a distinct change with the past, I don't know easy it would have been to say the office before then. Mind you Vatican II gave licence to fix the same thing, and we've seen how the Liturgia Horarum interpreted that!
Pius X's style seems very much the authoritarian, ultramontane school...but then again, there are times when that has its uses!
He was the Pope who, more than any other, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, acted against the heresy of Modernism, which in its various more recent forms, has so infiltrated and wounded, and continues to wound the Church today.
He is a great saint and we should have listened to him.
p.s. agreed, the commentary is in Dutch
Jacobi: hear hear! :D
Guys I think the commentary is Flemish. The commentary talks of pilgrims from Belgium arriving in Rome.
Well, either way, I know it's not German! ;-p Though speaking a smattering of Afrikaans, I was pleased to understand it. It sounds like Dutch to me, though.
I think on balance that Pope St. Pius X's redistribution of the psalter was justified and in accordance with tradition - with exceptions, such as the loss of psalms at Lauds - particularly for the fact the the full psalter was used VERY infrequently throughout the liturgical year. Account had to be made of the growth in the devotion to the saints and the desire for a weekly recitation of the psalter. As we approach the anniversary of the re-distribution of the psalter, I hope it will be commemorated with scholarly studies which show how positive this move was, in general. And yes, the commentary is in Dutch (mooi !) Fr. A.M.
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