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It’s not the readings from Scripture that get changed by the lectors that I run into. It’s the priest changing other words in the order of Mass, like changing words during the Eucharistic Prayer.
Hmm. Can you show me where that is, in the document? I’m not seeing it at 6.2.the Orans posture, which the faithful are actually prohibited from adopting
This presumes that it’s a liturgical abuse to begin with.Is it a sin to engage in a liturgical abuse such as hand-holdng during he Our Father? Or is it OK to go along with the liturgical abuses?
So, when the rubrics tell the celebrant to fold his hands, the laity are forbidden to do so? Or when the priest is to stand, the laity may not? I think you’re mischaracterizing the document here – straining the gnat, and swallowing the camel.The link I supplied is a Vatican-issued document stating that the faithful are not to adopt postures or say prayers which are specific to the priest.
No… it’s your interpretation of what is stated in a document.It’s not really my opinion. It’s stated in an official Church document.
They’re not in Mass. By definition, it’s not a “homily”.then the layperson gives the homily.
LOL!Anything that is done that I don’t like or personally approve of is liturgical abuse.![]()
The rubrics don’t require a homily to be preached “from the sanctuary”.On the part about the homily being said only in the sanctuary some priests like to walk out of the sanctuary and closer to the pews.
So holding hands during the Our Father is not a Liturgical Abuse.This presumes that it’s a liturgical abuse to begin with.
I wasn’t claiming they do nor am I claiming you are claiming that I claimed that. I was responding to this from the article: “Incidentally, he may not leave the sanctuary during the homily (GIRM 97).” Since the article is old that has probably been amended, or at least I recall reading that at least in the US it no longer holds.The rubrics don’t require a homily to be preached “from the sanctuary”.
For EC and EO, it is often noted that “traditional” means “at the time of my grandfather’s Chrysmation” . . .Yes, there are objective rules to what is and is not a “liturgical abuse”. However, on this forum, the word “abuse” is thrown around so much, it has come to be exactly what I said sometimes.
The article appears to misrepresent (or at least, misunderstand) the text in Notitiae, which asks a different question than the author attempts to present to us. The issue isn’t whether hand-holding at the Lord’s Prayer is illicit and an addition to the rubrics – it’s whether hand-holding at the Lord’s Prayer instead of expressing peace to each other at the invitation of the deacon is licit. Notitiae points out that the answer to that question is “no”, not whether mere hand-holding is illicit:This is oddly widespread in the United States but it’s an illicit addition to the liturgy. The official publication of the Sacred Congregation for the Sacrament sand Divine Worship, Notitiae (11 [1975] 226), states the practice “must be repudiated . . . it is a liturgical gesture introduced spontaneously but on a personal initiative; it is not in the rubrics.”
Num admitti possit usus hic illic vigens quo Missam participantes, loco sibi invicem pacem significandi ad invitationem diaconi, manum amplectuntur dum canitur oratio dominica?
R. Manus amplecti per longum tempus per se est potius signum communionis quam pacis. Ceteroquin est gestus liturgicus spontanee sed privato inceptu inductus: non invenitur in rubricis. Nec intelligitur qua ratione supprimatur gestus pacis ad invitationem « offerte vobis pacem » qui tantam habet significationem, gratiam et indolem christianum, ut inducatur aliud signum minoris significationis in aliud momentum Missae. Qua de re si agitur de substitutione haec est simpliciter improbanda.
I wasn’t claiming they do nor am I claiming you are claiming that I claimed that.
From the GIRM:Since the article is old that has probably been amended, or at least I recall reading that at least in the US it no longer holds.
- The priest, standing at the chair or at the ambo itself or, when appropriate, in another suitable place, gives the homily.
It’s interpretatively there, by your own personal interpretation of the text. I’ve provided two counter-examples that demonstrate that this interpretation, when held strictly in the way that you suggest, are self-contradictory.It’s literally in article 6 paragraph 2. I’m not sure how you’re not seeing it.
You attempted to use a long Vatican document to lend your opinion an air of authority. The words “Orans” or “posture” don’t even appear anywhere in the article. All it says is that the “deacons and non-ordained members of the faithful” can’t join the priest in executing priestly functions during Eucharistic celebrations. We are not allowed dress up like priests and gather round the sanctuary and “quasi preside” over the Mass. We can’t speak out loud Eucharistic prayers with the priest. That’s what it says.I told you exactly where in the document to find what I’m referencing. I’m not sure what’s misleading about it. It says it in black and white.
Hostile? This is an intellectual discussion. And you got called out on what you wrote - mainly by Gorgias and Tis Bearself, but I joined in too when I felt that your responses were weak. Attacking the idea isn’t the same as an ad hominem attack Mister. There is no hostile here.I also don’t know why you’re being so hostile.
That is true to some extent. However, consider the sentence:The article appears to misrepresent (or at least, misunderstand) the text in Notitiae, which asks a different question than the author attempts to present to us. The issue isn’t whether hand-holding at the Lord’s Prayer is illicit and an addition to the rubrics – it’s whether hand-holding at the Lord’s Prayer instead of expressing peace to each other at the invitation of the deacon is licit. Notitiae points out that the answer to that question is “no”, not whether mere hand-holding is illicit:
In England it is at the end of the bidding prayers and has been for centuries in every Mass due to England being Mary’s dowry. Speak to the Pope about it.I’ve been to a few parishes where the Hail Mary prayer is added in to the mass after the petitions. That prayer is foreign to the order of the mass and seems to me to be as much of more of an abuse than some of the things listed.
It’s not supposed to be…In England it is at the end of the bidding prayers and has been for centuries in every Mass due to England being Mary’s dowry. Speak to the Pope about it.
… Why the Holy Father would bend to an illicit practice rather than correct it confounds me. …
Re: Communion in the Hand:
The “Summary of Decrees” on confirmation of the decisions of conferences of bishops in Notitiae lists the granting of this faculty to the following English-speaking conferences (as found in AAS and Notitiae):
South Africa, 3 February 1970
Canada, 12 February 1970
Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 2 October 1971
Zambia, 11 March 1974
New Zealand, 24 April 1974
Australia, 26 September 1975
England and Wales, 6 March 1976
Papua and New Guinea, 28 April 1976
Ireland, 4 September 1976
Pakistan, 29 October 1976
United States, 17 June 1977
Scotland, 7 July 1977
Malaysia and Singapore, 3 October 1977