Yes, it’s OK to use the organ (or instruments) as accompaniment. But I understood it to mean organ (or instruments) to play organ or instrumental pieces.
Heaven forbid that Christians should be people of joy, especially at Mass. One would think that smiling at Mass is a heresy.
We’re rejoicing because our Church, in the first preface to the Eucharist Prayer of Lent says this: “Each year You give us this joyful season”.
Traditionally, no. See the GIRM extract posted above for the very limited exceptions. In a Benedictine monastery, only on Laetare Sunday, as well as solemnities and feasts. Same goes for Advent, Gaudete Sunday (3d Sunday in Advent), feasts, and solemnities.Of course instruments can be used in Lent.
Yes, I know wht the GIRM says and my answer reflected the literally letter of the rule, which I did not make, but only reported as well. From the GIRM
usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal/girm-chapter-5.cfm
Yes, that’s what’s meant “in support of the singing”, basically to provide a note to sustain the pitch and time, and probably in most places that’s necessary. But it wouldn’t be OK to play, say an organ piece at the Offertory. At the abbey, they use the Organ to play a prelude, an Offertory piece (after the offertory antiphon), and a postlude. At Lent, the organ is silent except on Laetare Sunday and at feasts and solemnities. The monks always sing the Propers and Ordinary a cappella. But then it’s their day job so they’re quite good at it
A Purple Altar cloth? Really? How incredibly odd.
??? What’s odd about a purple altar cloth? Or a green one, or a red one for that matter. We have altar cloths in each of the liturgical season colours. They are usually topped by a narrower white one.
So does our parish. But I wasn’t quite sure if Kevin812 was trying to be sarcastic or not.
I am not sure what to say, if you didn’t like something that happen at your parish in a Mass then you need to speak to your priest, worship director, music leader about your feelings but I bet that more people that were there were ministered than not. There is nothing anyone on CAF can do for you if you don’t like the direction of music. It sounds like nothing was wrong at all but your own preconceived notions of what should or should not happen in a lenten Mass. Even while this is a season of repentence, reflection, introspection etc, that does not mean we have to walk around with frowns and pouty faces as a sign that this is lent. Jesus did say that if we fast, we to wash our faces and not put on some kind of show.
Ironic. Since as we all know from the GIRM that the Alar Cloth is White (and only White and never any other shade but White.) Anything other is a Liturgical Abuse.
We don’t know the circumstances exactly. What if something was spilled on the altar cloth and the purple was the only one available, so the white was removed just leaving the purple underneath. It is too easy to jump on the “that’s liturgical abuse bandwagon” when we really don’t have the whole story and what was going on based on one person description.
That just says that the top most cloth must be white, the one underneath and showing can be purple, red or green - or gold, for that matter. On our altar right now the colour that is visible from the pews is purple but the top of the altar is covered by a white cloth.
thank-you. Too easy to judge something based on one description and without addition information and surrounding circumstances.
The white one is the altar cloth (a.k.a. fair linen). It cannot be any other color and has specific requirements for proper size, placement, etc.
But to the average person in the pew, a large piece of fabric, be it white or coloured, which covers the altar and falls 6-10 inches below the top on all four sides is an ‘altar cloth’.
exactly, that is why we can’t come to any conclusion based on one person’s description on what was or wasn’t on the altar and even if it was to the level of liturgical abuse and lets all run to the Bishop. None of us are liturgical experts in interpreting GIRM and in even that for something to be liturgical abuse that has to be a deliberate knowledge of what should or shouldn’t be and then a violation of it. Plus there could have been a flat white linen on top of the altar which may not have been able to be seen from the pew. Likewise, if something was spilled on it from the previous Mass and it had to be removed or change, we don’t know that either (this was a 12 noon Mass). If the sacristan had to change linen and didn’t know, we really lack the complete story here, that is why one observation at one Mass is not enough to start calling “liturgy abuse”. Questions about what happen here or in any other Mass need to be taken to the priest or worship director first than come on the internet to ask others what they think.
This is why we must educate our selves. CAF can be one of those tools.
No one in this thread (unless I have missed it somewhere) has suggested informing the Bishop, although that is a right of all Catholics.