tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797563684211847362.post487079311798509508..comments2022-03-02T10:20:41.455-05:00Comments on Pastor Montanus - Ruminations of a Mountain Priest: Building Pastoral Liturgy through MinistryPastor Montanushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00032796365729658542noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797563684211847362.post-52196575811971409972012-02-19T22:49:43.103-05:002012-02-19T22:49:43.103-05:00I don't disagree with that at all, Dad29. Wha...I don't disagree with that at all, Dad29. What I'm actually saying is that so many Romans completely overlook the inherent beauty of the Roman Rite done well, and immediately flock to practices foreign to our own Rite, thinking that because they seem "archaic" or somehow "more ancient" they must be superior. The Roman Rite not only provides for "smells and bells"...it demands them, if the Rite is to be experienced as it ought to be. But we must refrain from altering our own Rite in favor of those things which are foreign--and in some cases, contrary--to the Roman Rite.Pastor Montanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032796365729658542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797563684211847362.post-60111354240787159792012-02-19T22:40:29.809-05:002012-02-19T22:40:29.809-05:00So often, we gloss over the Roman Rite and become ...<i>So often, we gloss over the Roman Rite and become entranced by the bells and smoke and chants of other rites, and we seek to integrate them (unnecessarily and illicitly) into our own rites as a way of “dressing them up.”</i><br /><br />Seems to me that the Roman Rite specifically provides for 'smells and bells' in several instances. You disagree with that?Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797563684211847362.post-75178939649145517112012-02-17T11:54:01.187-05:002012-02-17T11:54:01.187-05:00I just found your blog...great post...I think I wi...I just found your blog...great post...I think I will repost it... I see you are from Follansbee...I spent a lot of time around there jumping in the river etc...I miss that area and the university. God bless!Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649212855990056161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797563684211847362.post-35034107879524782322012-02-17T10:34:29.053-05:002012-02-17T10:34:29.053-05:00Father, Excellent post. I especially liked the tho...Father, Excellent post. I especially liked the thought on orientation. In my own experience this is one of the greatest areas of misunderstanding and not only among laity but among priests and religious. Priests feel a sense that they are "on stage" and that they need "to perform". I remember reading an article by a priest written after he celebrated the Extraordinary Form for the first time. He entitled it "My Second First Mass" and he spoke about being freed from the sense of having to perform. Your article is truly pastoral and gives much food for thought. Thank you.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04199656611616158016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797563684211847362.post-55598371910909549392012-02-06T20:53:10.896-05:002012-02-06T20:53:10.896-05:00Great post. I've often wondered how mutual en...Great post. I've often wondered how mutual enrichment can occur when there are always two distinct sets of rubrics to be followed. I think you've more or less nailed it, the enrichment isn't in making the NO look like a TLM (that should be a shallow enrichment indeed), the enrichment occurs via the intangibles of worship - the tone, spiritual disposition, the inner orientation of those saying/assisting at the mass. I suppose in an ideal world, catechesis and preaching gives birth to a spiritual renewal which naturally lends itself toward that inner orientation toward the Lord expressed in the concrete so beautifully by traditional liturgy.Iacobushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213635300203297466noreply@blogger.com