So our Mass goes back, without essential change, to the age when it first developed out of the oldest liturgy of all. It is still redolent of that liturgy, of the days when Cæsar ruled the world and thought he could stamp out the faith of Christ, when our fathers met together before dawn and sang a hymn to Christ as to a God. The final result of our enquiry is that, in spite of unsolved problems, in spite of later changes, there is not in Christendom another rite so venerable as ours. ~Fortescue
Friday, May 7, 2010
Cardinal Caffarra Celebrates Traditional Mass
This Mass was done following the Rubrics for a Missa Cantata
(something the Rubrics do not envision as something possible for Higher Prelates)
* Video of Mass
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2 comments:
Antonio
said...
Couldn't they have done a pontifical low mass or find enough ministers for a pontifical high mass?
I do not know all the details in preparation for this Mass.
However, it is usually the case that everyone thinks that a Solemn Pontifical Mass (either at the Throne or at the Faldstool) is a very complicated thing to do. It is also thought that a Low Mass is not really festive or that it lacks a lot of solemnity. So, people choose something in between: the Sung Mass.
My guess is that that was the case with this Mass as well.
2 comments:
Couldn't they have done a pontifical low mass or find enough ministers for a pontifical high mass?
I do not know all the details in preparation for this Mass.
However, it is usually the case that everyone thinks that a Solemn Pontifical Mass (either at the Throne or at the Faldstool) is a very complicated thing to do. It is also thought that a Low Mass is not really festive or that it lacks a lot of solemnity. So, people choose something in between: the Sung Mass.
My guess is that that was the case with this Mass as well.
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