That ‘pageantry’ is called “worship”. Sorry if it bores you… fortunately it’s not about you.
That’s not what a pontifical High Mass is. A Pontifical High Mass is a Tridentine Mass celebrated by a bishop.
If you have EWTN, it’ll be broadcast again at midnight Eastern. Not sure what your chances are other than that, though I think there’s been discussion of releasing a DVD.
Now, that’s not entirely fair. Personally, if I was to be given the option of a High Mass in a massive cathedral or a missa cantata in a neighborhood parish with a small church building, I’d choose the missa cantata. The Mass was absolutely beautiful, don’t get me wrong, but there’s something to be said for the “regular” (since Mass itself can’t really be “regular”) Mass in your home church said by the beloved parish priest. Just as more simplicity is not always good, more pageantry is not always good either.
That is the protocol when a K of C honor guard is present for a procession. Always has been. Nothing wrong with that. I am a 4th degree Knight myself.
The entrance, particularly. Also a moment where the bishop and another priest were laughing while at the altar.
Another poster has already corrected you on that point.
You’re going to seriously come on here and say that during the entire history of the EF Mass, no bishop every laughed with a priest while at the altar? Sure, it isn’t supposed to happen, but priests are still human. I’d bet you 10,000 dollars that not a month went by in any year of your choosing without that happening somewhere. And how does that somehow damage whether or not it was a beautiful Mass? That’s literally picking nits. Maybe next you’ll criticize the gait of the celebrant when he walked in the procession.
He did not intentionally do that. Click on the quote button for post 17 and then hit the preview button. You’ll find that the way block quotes work, the system picked up on remnants of the forum code left in post 17.
Point taken… I want to be honest with Marie but not unfair to her.
I DID enjoy that part.
That I could get used to without any problem.Im sorry you chose to act so uncharitably to my honesty. Fortunately, the Lord is merciful to both of us.
Of course you can have disrespect and irreverence at a TLM, whoever said the opposite. The point is the structure of the NO leads to such if not strictly protected against. It is also the difference between communal meal and Divine Sacrifice.
What’s the need for that? If you want to get into ignorance let’s chat about the history of the NO and where Bugnini ended up.Ignorance
I cant speak for others, but I was just answering the OP’s original question of thread which was…
Noted. Not entertaining enough for you.
As said before, that’s not fair. It is perfectly reasonable to prefer one form or style of Mass to another. Why do we even have a thread to discuss this particular Mass if the only acceptable response is extravagant praise? Even in 1948, not every Mass was a pontifical high Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (well, technically no Masses were at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, because it was not yet finished). A Missa Cantata or a Low Mass in a crowded chapel or a narrow neighborhood church is no less holy than a pontifical High Mass, and it is perfectly reasonable to prefer the lesser degree of pageantry. Just as less pageantry is not always good, neither is more pageantry. There’s no need for such a condescending tone.