The "Kitchen Sink" Mass?

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Let’s try to name everything that can be licitly incorporated into a solemn celebration of the OF Mass.

From incense and sanctus bells and ablution cups to 6/7 candles at the altar and the flanking of the ambo with acolytes and their candle torches during the reading of the Gospel. From the rite of sprinkling including the use of salt to the use of a separate Book of Gospels in procession and during the proclamation, etc. etc. etc. In other words everything including the kitchen sink!

I’ve studied the liturgical documents and I think I have most of them, but some things where never specifically abrogated and they could still be licitly used as part of the celebration of the OF today. Thanks much! 👍
 
ChurchTorch said:
Let’s try to name everything that can be licitly incorporated into a solemn celebration of the OF Mass.

From incense and sanctus bells and ablution cups to 6/7 candles at the altar and the flanking of the ambo with acolytes and their candle torches during the reading of the Gospel. From the rite of sprinkling including the use of salt to the use of a separate Book of Gospels in procession and during the proclamation, etc. etc. etc. In other words everything including the kitchen sink!

I’ve studied the liturgical documents and I think I have most of them, but some things where never specifically abrogated and they could still be licitly used as part of the celebration of the OF today. Thanks much! 👍
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Candle wax on the Parish carpet.
 
All of the Eucharistic Prayer except the Consecration can be silent. The Consecration should be chanted. Also you can do everything except the homily in Latin if you really wanted to.
 
Use the chants in the OF version of the Roman Gradual (Gregorian Missal): Introit, Gradual (replaces the Responsorial Psalm), Sequence (if there is one), Alleluia, Offertory, Communion. The Ordinary according to a setting in the Gradual. Chant the Creed.
 
Lots of incense. Chant everything except the homily. Communion under both Kinds (since we’re using the Communion rail, this would be by intinction).
 
incense can be used at the entrance, Gospel, offertory (priest, servers, and people also get incensed), and Consecration. Bells at the Gloria.
 
ChurchTorch said:
I’ve studied the liturgical documents and I think I have most of them, but some things where never specifically abrogated and they could still be licitly used as part of the celebration of the OF today. Thanks much! 👍
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If you literally mean “today”, I think you’d do better to wait until next week! 😉
 
EasterJoy said:
If you literally mean “today”, I think you’d do better to wait until next week! 😉
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Seriously how awesome would it be to have Easter Sunday Mass as we have described?:D:D:D Don’t forget the Vidi Aquam at the sprinkling with Holy Water half-way through the Mass.
 
Revs96 said:
Seriously how awesome would it be to have Easter Sunday Mass as we have described?:D:D:D Don’t forget the Vidi Aquam at the sprinkling with Holy Water half-way through the Mass.
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It would be so cool. 👍
 
Revs96 said:
incense can be used at the entrance, Gospel, offertory (priest, servers, and people also get incensed), and Consecration. Bells at the Gloria.
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I’ve heard this on EWTN. We do it during the Easter Vigil of course but is it allowed outside of the Easter Vigil? I guess it would really be nothing more than a musical instrument in that context?
 
GREAT (name removed by moderator)uts! We’ll do them all (Gloria, Sanctus and Agnus Dei in Latin, Kyrie in Greek) at my parish except for wearing the maniple (formally proscribed) and removing the Sign of Peace (counterproductive.) So far I have one adder: I need to arrange for the tower bells to be rung during the Gloria.

How about some more?
 
FWIW, the maniple certainly isn’t formally proscribed, and I don’t think it’s prohibited by negative implication either. See here, for instance.
 
Novelty, entertainment, and individualism are not the purpose of the liturgy. If that’s what you desire on Sunday mornings then you can find it on television or the internet. Churches are supposed to be for worship of God, not man.
 
ChurchTorch said:
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How about some more?
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You haven’t strayed far into the music. I was in Sydney, Australia, on Easter Day, 1978.Solemn OF *coram *Cardinal Archbishop AND with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. They and the choir did Haydn’s Coronation Mass, so God indeed went up with a merry noise. I chanced upon the Cathedral liturgist, an English Benedictine, and when I asked whether this sort of concert mass was now legal again, he said, “If you can have nuns clouting guitars, you can have Haydn!”😃
 
Ockham said:
Novelty, entertainment, and individualism are not the purpose of the liturgy. If that’s what you desire on Sunday mornings then you can find it on television or the internet. Churches are supposed to be for worship of God, not man.
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Yeah, but that’s not the purpose of this thread. What ChurchTorch is doing here, as far as I can see, is saying “Okay, its Easter, and we’re celebrating in the Ordinary Form. Give me everything that we can put together at my parish to emphasize the solemnity of this high holy day. I want ‘the kitchen sink’”. I think that’s a great idea.
 
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