Posted on 09/22/2004 8:47:46 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Catholic ping! (Warning: graphic-heavy thread about my trip to England)
What a lovely travelogue!
Can't wait to go back myself, maybe next summer. We will not miss Walsingham.
Very well done - I enjoyed the pictures!
I can say that the most beautiful, reverent, awe-inspiring, prayerful masses have been at the Brompton Oratory. I went to a Palm Sunday Tridetine High Mass in the Main Church, and WOW!!!!!!!! The Chant, the Gospel, the procession were incredible. The English could improve on the whole "communion" thing, after the "Agnus Dei" a mad unorganized rush to the altar rail begins.
I think we talked about that before, and came to the conclusion that it was a Solemn Novus Ordo Mass. They usually don't have Solemn High TLM's there.
I believe you are mistaken about this point. In fact the more traditional practice of disorganized approach to the communion rail is much more highly preferable to the row-by-row organized communion queue, the reason being the incentive to commit sacrilegious communions. With the older practice of each person approaching the communion rail individually, the decision was left to each person's conscience. There was no embarrassment at staying behind in the pew. There was no implication of being in a state of mortal sin.
But now when an usher comes to each row and practically demands that each person get up and get in line for communion, one must make a spectacle of oneself in order to avoid committing a sacrilege by receiving communion in an unworthy state. I believe that uncountable millions of sacrileges against the Blessed Sacrament have been committed for this very reason, sacrileges that would have been avoided if the traditional practice had been maintained.
So their maintainence of a practice with such evident spiritual benefits is one more reason to congratulate the Brompton Oratory, rather than a cause for criticism.
I understand the principal of the matter, but everyone went up to receive it seemed, so the chaos appeared greater.
Awesome!
It was very nice to see the congregation at the Oratory for the TLM. It was one of the most diverse I had ever seen - young and old, of all ethnicities.
IHS+
Is that a hybrid of the British Naval Jack and the Calvert coat of arms?
I made the pilgrimage to Walsingham and highly recommend it to all Catholics. Of course there is not much left of the old abbey. Westminster Cathedral Choir also has a great CD of hymns to Our Lady of Walsingham.
I think I saw that CD in one of the religious stores in Little Walsingham. I got a CD of the London Oratory choir, and it's great! I also heard them streamed online off BBC.
Beautiful! Beautiful! And your travelogue was very well done. I'm glad you had a good trip, my friend.
(The red head's wedding?)
I wasn't actually there for her wedding, but I visited them and took them out to dinner.
I didn't see Tantumergo in your ping list, so just in case he isn't...
In that coat of arms you posted, the three quarters looks like the Maryland flag. Is that the Calvert blazon?
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