Here is my list. It is too radical for most people. You give me the oppurtunity to dream of something that never will be? Here it is:
Restoration of the Ancient Rite of Latin Catholic Church.
restoration of the use of the “hypostatic union/trinitarian prayer symbol” with fingers while praying or doing sign of cross
restoration of bowing instead of kneeling and genuflecting (which came from the penitent prisoner customs, I am not a prisoner)
restoration of baptism by immersion as the normal way of baptism, pouring being only for emergencies when immersion would be too difficult.
“The church at one time practiced immersion. This was up to the thirteenth century. The Council of Ravenna, in 1311, changed the form from immersion to pouring.” (Our Faith and the Facts, p. 399).
restoration of Infant chrismation/confirmation within one year after baptism (this was law until 1200 in england), communion after confirmation, not vice versa.
restoration of minor orders (sub deacons and so forth)
restoration of ancient fasting during almost entire lent and advent and every friday and wednesday of the entire year also fast. this includes fasting from meat and dairy products as well as more prayers during this time, the prayer and sacrifice is even more important than food.
restoration of ancient chant, old roman, gallican, mozarabic, corsican, ambrosian and “organum” with ison.so forth, using the marcel peres’ ensemble organum technique, NOT the solesmes technique.
restoration of elaborate vestments
restoration of western iconography with emphasis on painted or written frescoes and mosaic, bas relief carvings, as opposed to free standing statues which celebrates “the beauty of the human body”. Ideally they should be venerated as well, as many were in Rome in the 6th century. However they can also serve only as teaching aids if they must. (in Northern Europe this was usually the case)
restoration of careful sacrament reception, no sacraments received anonymously. Anyone the priest does not know will not be communed unless the priest has spoken with them beforehand.
“restoration of bishops ordained from within monks/archimandrites.” <-this used to be one, but Im no longer certain that can be correct, still it may represent the future if " the married priesthood" has it’s way. I can say though that between 967 to 1067 in england before the Norman invasion, 70% of the bishops were from the ranks of monks.
restoration of semi-apophatic theology, pre-scholasticism. Thomas Aquinas to be seen in a different context. ApoTheosis will rule the west oncemore.
restoration of “high mass” every sunday (full hour and a half liturgy instead of shortcuts), vespers on saturday, no multiple liturgies every day that contribute to destruction of a sense of community and give the liturgy an assembly line “come here just to get it over with because it’s the law” feeling (no more daily liturgy except within monasteries)
restoration of community by having food served after sunday liturgy.
restoration of saints created by the diocese, not by the hierarchies miracle squad, (from bottom up, instead of top down). one doesn’t have to have any miracles to be canonized.
restoration of life long pastorship for priests, not moving them from one parish to another 1000 miles away ever 4 years and breaking the heart of the parishners and breaking up community (and possibly hiding priests problems from those in new parish)
restoration of sourdough leavened bread for the Eucharist which Rome used for the first 800 years. the same sourdough starter was kept going for years. (regulations insisting on the use of unleavened bread at the Eucharist date form the 9th century: not before)
restoration of the anathema for pope Honorius in clerical oaths. Prior to roughly 1150, all priests were required to take a specific oaths that said, among other things, that pope Honorious was a herertic. He, among many others, was officially anathematized in all ordination services. Why was this removed?
restoration of the sign of the cross (the ancient church began on the right shoulder). All the ancient prayers of the church, when mentioning direction, go from right to left. This includes Patrick’s Breastplate prayer, as well as the Bidding of the Bedes. Even Francis of Assisi crossed himself in this fashion.
restoration of the “Bidding of the Bedes,” a particularly beautiful, four part series of invocations found in English liturgy books in the 500s, mirroring very closely the litany of the Byzantine liturgy. Why was it removed?
It’s like you read my mind!
