When does your church use incense POLL

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LoyalViews said:
Our priest “targets” me every time. Then he laughs.
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LOL! I can relate. Our pastor and some priests do love to get me and by music dripping with water so that the music notes have now “dripped” down a whole step! I choir group gets it too and I have to hold back laughter from their expressions and wet spots on their clothing.
 
Indeed! When registering for the forum i didnt know i would be locked in to my username.
 
RdrJohn said:
Father Deacon John. In the East, Deacons are referred to as “Father” or “Father Deacon”. Just a small quirk between the East and West.
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Eastern Catholic uses the same title/address.

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Yes, I always love the overwhelming smell of incense when I attend a Byzantine (E Catholic or Orthodox) liturgy (though sad to save I’ve only had this honour a handful of times in my life so far).
The Eastern liturgy is an all or nothing type of thing. Every liturgy has loads of incense. Every liturgy is completely chanted. Its wonderful in its own way. That being said, one thing I truly appreciate about the Roman Rite is the “grades” of solemnity. At our cathedral, the 11 AM Sunday Mass, which is designated as the weekly “high” Mass, is the most solemn with lots of incense, lots of chant, and lots of Latin. The other Sunday Masses may have some incense, some chant, and some Latin, while a weekday Mass may have none of the above. It does give you a sense of certain celebrations being “special”. At my local parish, incense and Latin are absent on most Sundays, but more likely on special feasts.
 
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Yes, I always love the overwhelming smell of incense when I attend a Byzantine (E Catholic or Orthodox) liturgy (though sad to save I’ve only had this honour a handful of times in my life so far).
The Eastern liturgy is an all or nothing type of thing. Every liturgy has loads of incense. Every liturgy is completely chanted. Its wonderful in its own way. That being said, one thing I truly appreciate about the Roman Rite is the “grades” of solemnity. At our cathedral, the 11 AM Sunday Mass, which is designated as the weekly “high” Mass, is the most solemn with lots of incense, lots of chant, and lots of Latin. The other Sunday Masses may have some incense, some chant, and some Latin, while a weekday Mass may have none of the above. It does give you a sense of certain celebrations being “special”. At my local parish, incense and Latin are absent on most Sundays, but more likely on special feasts.
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I do have to admit, I miss the option of attending a 20 minute daily mass before work each morning or a noon mass on my lunch break in my Catholic days.
 
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twf said:
The Eastern liturgy is an all or nothing type of thing. Every liturgy has loads of incense.
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Whether EO or EC, “Byzantine liturgy isn’t done until it’s overdone!”

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hawk
 
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That’s what I remember of the Orthodox liturgies I’ve been too anyway… 😉

Chant in the Roman Rite (whether Latin Gregorian or vernacular plainchant) is relatively slow and drawn out… the rapid pace that Byzantine priests /deacons chant, without missing a beat, truly blows me away. I was at a Greek Orthodox baptism last year and the priest was chanting in English, but so rapidly that my Protestant wife honestly thought he was speaking a foreign language.
 
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dochawk said:
RdrJohn:
Why do something only three times when you can do it nine (or twelve, or forty)? 🙂
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And why simply call Judas a traitor, when you can do it three times over the course of four words 🙂

hawk
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As a priest I know once explained, in the Latin Rite, you take the most challenging, complex subject matter and try to break it down to the simplest, most basic parts in order to understand fully. In the Byzantine Rite, we use as many words as possible to describe even the simplest of subjects.
 
About every other Sunday Mass we have incense…not sure if there’s a pattern or if it depends on the celebrant priest.

(I tried burning incense at home…it didn’t work, and I got black smoke. Maybe that’s a bad sign…)
 
Its either the charcoal was too hot (which never happened to me) and it burnt the incense or something else that I don’t kniw
 
I go exclusively to the Traditional Latin Mass and we always use incense unless we do a Low Mass which we haven’t done in ages.
 
Every Sunday at the principle Mass at 10:30 am here at the Cathedral.

The introit is chanted, then a Psalm is sung by the choir as the procession comes with thurible a-swingin, clouds of incense rise around the altar as the Psalm is finished and the introit antiphon is repeated.

A very tradition minded Ordinary Form Roman Rite Cathedral.

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Our parish uses it every Sunday. It is a high-quality incense and not a great deal of it; we have a rather small church. The quality and amount results in the lovely appearance and symbolism of incense without being very “smokey”. I heartily recommend it.
 
At my daughters church, the priest uses incense at every Sunday mass.
 
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