Ambrosian Rites, Anglican Use - oh my!

American Papist ^ | May 15, 2006

[Convert from ECUSA]

Thanks, this is very interesting!

[Cheverus]

You know I mentioned to a Priest that when he did that it looked like the Mass had turned into a Nazi rally.....he was not happy.

Maybe it was because I asked him what happened to the last two lines of all the hymns!

[livius]

That's a weird practice (the raised arm blessing/salute) that they don't do in my diocese, thank goodness. But I have seen it and it does look absolutely awful.

Of course, I'm not sure where the practice of laypeople "giving a blessing" came from in the first place. I have seen the EEMs put their hands on people's head and "give them a blessing," which I think is odd, to say the least.

[NYer]

So that would have been in the 60's. I've never in my life heard that, is she making stuff up?

Yup! Tertullian notes:

"In all our travels and movements", says Tertullian (De cor. Mil., iii), "in all our coming in and going out, in putting of our shoes, at the bath, at the table, in lighting our candles, in lying down, in sitting down, whatever employment occupieth us, we mark our foreheads with the sign of the cross".

(this dates back to the 3rd century)

[livius]

Beautiful picture.

Sometime I will try to find something to post about the "Visigothic" or "Mozarabic" Rite that is still in use in Toledo and a couple of other places in Spain. It was used generally until the formal establishment of the Frankish/Roman Rite (sort of the Charlemagne version of the Roman Rite) as the normative rite starting in the 8th century. It is in many ways more similar to Byzantine rite practice.