To: ELS
It was beautiful. I got there at 12:30, and I left at 5 when the Mass concluded. I wasn't able to stay for the first blessings. My favorite part, I think was the litany of the saints, in Latin, in chant, while the priests (to be) were prostrate. I hope that part gets uploaded to YouTube. I also found it interesting how the power to transform bread and wine was conferred separately from the power to forgive sins.
-A8
60 posted on
06/15/2007 9:19:19 PM PDT by
adiaireton8
("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
To: adiaireton8
I also found it interesting how the power to transform bread and wine was conferred separately from the power to forgive sins.Two different prayers during the ordination?
61 posted on
06/15/2007 9:23:19 PM PDT by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: adiaireton8
My favorite part, I think was the litany of the saints, in Latin, in chant, while the priests (to be) were prostrate. I LOVE the Litany of the Saints. About a year or two ago, I participated in an act of reparation in NYC (there is a thread about it on FR somewhere) where the crowd chanted the Litany of the Saints in Latin, with the priest leading it, and hearing the chant echo through the canyons of the skyscrapers in NYC was quite moving.
Was it all chanted by the clergy/schola/choir or did the congregation take part in it?
70 posted on
06/16/2007 7:05:55 PM PDT by
ELS
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