I miss the "special" Masses

[Tired]

Like many, I avoid many liturgical abuses in my parish by going to the earliest possible Sunday Mass. This Mass tends to be far more reverent and solemn than the other Masses celebrated at my parish.

I’m bothered that I cannot attend some of the “special” Masses – like the Easter Vigil Mass because they are always so choke-full of abuses.

Has anyone else faced this dilemma and what have you done about it? Thank you.

 

[LRThunder]

Why would later masses in a day tend to have more liturgical abuses?

 

[Tired]

LRThunder:

Why would later masses in a day tend to have more liturgical abuses?

Because the 07:00 Mass is most commonly frequented by older parishioners who seem to prefer a more solemn Mass in a definately quieter environment. This seems to lead to Masses that are more reverent and far less abusive. It’s also quite early for the “liturgy society police” to enforce their abuses.

 

[Wolseley]

Progressive liberals don’t like to get up early.

Has to do with all of that stuff about discipline, and self-control, and dneying the flesh, that they try so hard to get rid of, yanno.

 

[LRThunder]

Tired:

Because the 07:00 Mass is most commonly frequented by older parishioners who seem to prefer a more solemn Mass in a definately quieter environment. This seems to lead to Masses that are more reverent and far less abusive. It’s also quite early for the “liturgy society police” to enforce their abuses.

Thanks.

 

[Elzee]

Early daily Masses are great too. Our daily Mass is extremely orthodox and reverent. Not sure why brain connections are lost on Sunday sometimes, and especially during Lent…:whacky:

 

[cecilia97]

Tired:

Because the 07:00 Mass is most commonly frequented by older parishioners who seem to prefer a more solemn Mass in a definately quieter environment. This seems to lead to Masses that are more reverent and far less abusive. It’s also quite early for the “liturgy society police” to enforce their abuses.

And, I’m sad to say because I used to be a church musician, many liturgical abuses seem to start with the choir/music minster (IMHO) and a lot of 7 or 8am Masses don’t have any choir present because it’s so early.

c

 

[jbuck919]

cecilia97:

And, I’m sad to say because I used to be a church musician, many liturgical abuses seem to start with the choir/music minster (IMHO) and a lot of 7 or 8am Masses don’t have any choir present because it’s so early.

c

I am in a similar situation and that was also my thought. Got to a Mass that doesn’t have any music, and nowadays that is almost always going to be only the very early one.

Speaking of the Easter Vigil, which I do not fail to keep in spite of all possibilites of coming out a nervous wreck, in 1975 I happened to be on a pilgirmage to Rome for Holy Week, and attended that particular service at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls because they are a Benedictine establishment that I assumed would have a fine schola of monks singing plainchant (as a matter of fact they did). As you know, that service calls for the organ to play for the Gloria after having been silent since a certain point on Holy Thursday. Presumably, the idea here is that the Gloria should be especially festive. So imagine my shock when, after all this glorious plainchant in the responsories between the readings, I heard a (typically Italian) inadequate organ intone a sing-songy vernacular Gloria and the local choir of little old ladies croak their way through it. How is that a “festive” moment?

 

[cecilia97]

jbuck919:

So imagine my shock when, after all this glorious plainchant in the responsories between the readings, I heard a (typically Italian) inadequate organ intone a sing-songy vernacular Gloria and the local choir of little old ladies croak their way through it. How is that a “festive” moment?

Haaa…when good intentions go bad!! Go on with your bad selfs, ladies.

 

[chicago]

I have found that the Triduum is a particular time of experiementation and craziness for the Liturgy in many places. I have found this frustrating, as it then becomes difficult for me to attend certain Liturgies which I might like to go to. Typically, I either find a parish where things aren’t so bad (and may even be good) or else I just suck it up and deal with it. Though, admittedly, one year when a musician insisted upon playing his little sound track beneath the readings (complete with a dripping, leaky sky when the waters above the earth and the waters on the earth were getting seperated), I just couldn’t take it anymore. So when the lector mentioned water again, I satirically yelled out, “DRIP!”