What is Celtic Mass?

[LMP]

Sorry, 'bout that. Ignore this, then. I get off in wild blue yonder now and then, I guess.

 

[Aramis]

The Term Celtic Mass has been used with two major connotations:

1. a Mass according to the Celtic Rite Missals (Abrogated many years)
2. the use of the Celtic Mass music setting, published by OCP, for the Roman Missal.

is sometimes is errantly used to refer to the Anglican Provision Mass.

 

[Brendan]

Any Mass held at the FleetCenter?

 

[scapularkid8]

Ireland is but one of six celtic nations; the others are:

Cymru (Wales)
Alba (Scotland)
Ellan Vannin (Isle of Man)
Kernow (Cornwall)
Breizh (Brittany)

Galicia, in northern Spain also considers itself a Celtic Nation. (However the others don’t include Galicia in their union because Galicia no longer has a Celtic language as one of it’s main forms of communication. It’s Castlilian, not Gallego.)

 

[Pious]

Galicia, in northern Spain also considers itself a Celtic Nation. (However the others don’t include Galicia in their union because Galicia no longer has a Celtic language as one of it’s main forms of communication. It’s Castlilian, not Gallego.)

Yes Galacia is of Celtic origin, including Asturias, Cantabria, Castile and León, Extremadura, and the western Iberian Peninsula.

But the six Celtic nation are the only surviving Celtic countries with a strong survival of the language, although Cumbric *(a Celtic language of Cumbria in North West of England) *is slowly making a come back after being revived.

 

[Jimzz12]

Celtic is Irish. I would guess the music will have an Irish feeling to it and perhaps the priest will have a nice Irish accent. You may use this Mass setting: ocp.org/products/10415

I’d stay away from an OCP related materials. Many people believe they are on their way out the door. Moreover, their music borders on the non-Christian, theological unsoundness, and has a tendency to lead the listener astray without their knowing until it is too late.

 

[Rand_Al_Thor]

In medieval times in Ireland and Scotland, they used to sometimes use bagpipes at Mass as an accompaniment to chant since most churches did not have an organ (in fact, the High Cross of Clonmacnois in Ireland has a carving of a piper on it). I think that would be kind of neat to hear, since the bagpipes are an air instrument like a pipe organ (albeit a much different one).

I would like to go to a Mass celebrated in Gaelic (Irish or Scottish) with the bagpipes accompanying the chant. I highly doubt the “Celtic Mass” you are talking about could be like that, but it would be neat if it was.

In Christ,
Rand

 

[Aramis]

In medieval times in Ireland and Scotland, they used to sometimes use bagpipes at Mass as an accompaniment to chant since most churches did not have an organ (in fact, the High Cross of Clonmacnois in Ireland has a carving of a piper on it). I think that would be kind of neat to hear, since the bagpipes are an air instrument like a pipe organ (albeit a much different one).

Having heard 400 pepole drowned out by 1 piper… (Amazing Grace, no less, which normally raises the roof…)

You need a VERY large congregation and a skilled piper. And a set of “indoor” reeds.