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Hi, friends,
I wrote this with great effort today, please consider it. Pretty neat.
In Her Immaculate Heart,
Scott
Link here, summary below, and picture to illustrate attached
facebook.com/notes/scott-pauline/music-revealing-the-catholic-sacraments/10153510161402144
https://scontent.fsjc1-2.fna.fbcdn....=1d7441f137569fa9265ea779b394f53d&oe=57266D2A
*Summary
Music is the universal language of the liturgy, and the liturgy contains, mystically, the whole faith and its mysteries. Therefore, music, in its nature, should as well, since it is the ultimate language of the liturgy.
Western Music is not arbitrary but is derived from rigorously applying a particular elements of the law of harmonics, which is itself natural. Any key has seven total notes, and, at various points, five additional notes of imperfection that are not in the key partition the seven.
The sacramental life journey of the married deacon, someone who will eventually receive all seven sacraments, and from birth to death with the roman rite order of the seven sacraments in between is like a scale of descending joy. It is joyful because renewal by God in grace, through the very sacraments, is joyful and brings happiness, but it is descending, since PHYSICALLY, the deacon is going down toward illness and death.
Five sacraments require a priest or bishop [Confession, Confirmation, Eucharist, Holy Orders, Anointing], and two do not [Baptism and Marriage].
When we lay the sacramental journey out as the common sense resolving, descending scale of joy, using the key of C on the piano for ease of visualizing, the scale perfectly ordinates the five imperfect notes, or blacks: every white key following a black is a Sacrament that requires a priest, implying one must “traverse an imperfect medium [note, black key]” to get to the next sacraments, noting that a priest is in fact an imperfect mediator of grace, being a sinner. The other two sacraments, or notes, do not have black key before it, indicating no priest necessary.*
I wrote this with great effort today, please consider it. Pretty neat.
In Her Immaculate Heart,
Scott
Link here, summary below, and picture to illustrate attached
facebook.com/notes/scott-pauline/music-revealing-the-catholic-sacraments/10153510161402144
https://scontent.fsjc1-2.fna.fbcdn....=1d7441f137569fa9265ea779b394f53d&oe=57266D2A
*Summary
Music is the universal language of the liturgy, and the liturgy contains, mystically, the whole faith and its mysteries. Therefore, music, in its nature, should as well, since it is the ultimate language of the liturgy.
Western Music is not arbitrary but is derived from rigorously applying a particular elements of the law of harmonics, which is itself natural. Any key has seven total notes, and, at various points, five additional notes of imperfection that are not in the key partition the seven.
The sacramental life journey of the married deacon, someone who will eventually receive all seven sacraments, and from birth to death with the roman rite order of the seven sacraments in between is like a scale of descending joy. It is joyful because renewal by God in grace, through the very sacraments, is joyful and brings happiness, but it is descending, since PHYSICALLY, the deacon is going down toward illness and death.
Five sacraments require a priest or bishop [Confession, Confirmation, Eucharist, Holy Orders, Anointing], and two do not [Baptism and Marriage].
When we lay the sacramental journey out as the common sense resolving, descending scale of joy, using the key of C on the piano for ease of visualizing, the scale perfectly ordinates the five imperfect notes, or blacks: every white key following a black is a Sacrament that requires a priest, implying one must “traverse an imperfect medium [note, black key]” to get to the next sacraments, noting that a priest is in fact an imperfect mediator of grace, being a sinner. The other two sacraments, or notes, do not have black key before it, indicating no priest necessary.*
Guess they’ll be getting lots of extra prayers then, and that’s a very good thing!