Besides, this "liturgist" should clue in these guys in Germany they're being too "Spanish."
Posted on 10/29/2007 9:31:42 AM PDT by NYer
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Wow! Another great post by you today NYer! Thanks!!
We revived some processions in our Cathedral parish a few years ago, and our young associate priest has been doing the Corpus Christi procession every year (and it’s growing).
This year, we got a “liturgist,” who says these processions are “embarrassing” and “too Spanish,” and of course she is backed by our newish modernist pastor (who says they violate separation of Church and State because the police block off the street so we can cross it!). If there’s one thing that modernists in the Catholic Church hate, it’s traditional public displays of faith.
But it’s sad that we have to worry not only about enemies on the outside, who hate any public expression of the Faith, but enemies among the Catholic clergy itself.
Besides, this "liturgist" should clue in these guys in Germany they're being too "Spanish."
Beautiful picture! Whose coats of arms are displayed on the banners?
**events like a Eucharistic procession are valuable experiences because of the potential for such “friendly and inviting conversation” where evangelization is likely to happen.**
We all need to take advantage of such events out in the public.
Sometimes the former Catholics are drawn in just by the presence of the Holy Eucharist. They are answering a call, but they don’t understand why their longing is drawing them into the procession.
Questions like “What brought you to the procession tonight?” or “Why are you here when you could be in your room watching the ball game/studying/________?”
God bless the Catholic students who do evangelize during these events. The words actually come from the Holy Spirit as promised in the Bible. Mine are just suggestions. Everyone will ask their own question. But after asking -— be quiet and listen! LOL!
Then ask another question if it is appropriate. (And continue the process, ending with and invitation to attend the next event — whether it is a Newmann Club meeting or next Sunday’s Mass.
what the heck?
I thought the "liturgists" liked "spanish" stuff ... they sure don't hesitate to drown us in treacly modernists "hymns" with lyrics in pidgen-spanish.
...at the risk of injecting less than reverential material into this excellent thread, I would posit this as well...the procession mentioned at UNebraska is not the only one taking place...the other is the long line of opposing teams scoring points against the Husker’s swiss cheese defense...
I live in a town that was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century and is proud of its Spanish heritage (well, now it is - after the Florida became a state and entered the Union, Andrew Jackson was sent to “de-hispanify” it and one of the things he did was suppress religious processions in places like Tallahassee, etc.).
Liturgists hate Spain. They love “Hispanics,” however, because the latter are generally lower-income, poorly educated folks and it’s very easy for the average upper middle class Anglo liturgist to condescend to them. She can feel she’s doing them a great favor by giving them some garbagy Marty Haugen-clone in pidgin Spanish to sing and then inflicting it on the rest of the congregation too.
Spain, on the other hand, represents orthodoxy and intellect, and that’s something that makes liturgists flee like mice from a Viking kitty.
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Ah, Lincoln! A friendly diocese for orthodox Catholics thanks to its great Bishop, Fabian Bruskewitz!
The arms would be the diocesan ordinary, plus any other Bishops in the procession. At our Eucharistic Conference last month, we had our current Bishop, the Bishop Emeritus, and some Bishop from South Carolina.
Our parish in Norman used to do the Stations of the Cross on the University of Oklahoma campus on Good Friday. Students would carry the cross, and we’d walk all around to do the Stations. It got lots of attention.
Thank you for the explanation. Much appreciated.
LOL, quite true.
I studied heraldry in my wasted youth, and I would have been able to blazon those arms and Google to see which Bishops they belonged to.
If the poster mentioned which Diocese held the event in the picture, we could probably find the information.
My priest asks what the difference between a liturgist and a terrorist is and the answer is...”You can reason with a terrorist.”
I don’t think we have a liturgist.
The number of dangling curtain-tassels on the sides indicates the rank of the Bishop, so the one in the center (from our perspective in the photo) is probably the Archbishop of the region. It looks like the one on our left is at the front, so that’s probably the arms of the local Bishop who’s carrying the Blessed Sacrament. The third one could be an auxiliary of the Archbishop, a retired Bishop, or just a guest.
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