Society of Saint Gregory

Peter wrote:....... the Fraction Rite is described as "The Breaking of Bread" in some editions of the Missal .......

Peter - do you not know where this phrase originates?

"One bread, one Body" is a reference to the following section of the 'Eucharistic Prayer' in the Didache: Hmmmmmm - well I can see why you would suggest this but I think you might be on more firm ground with 1 Cor 10:17. (Which came first, 1 Corinthians or the Didache? Is Paul using the D...

The thornier question is the use of the word wine , which has much less in the way of scriptural or liturgical precedent. We've been here before a few times, I think. These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with w...

.......... this is dance as an art-form ........... hmmmmm - OK - but I don't want to focus on an art form, let alone be side-tracked into idolatry by being so absorbed in the dance that it becomes, in itself, the object of worship. How might dance as an art form become dance as ritual prayer that ...

alan29 wrote:Isn't it sometimes referred to as choreography?

Some might call it mummery.

Southern Comfort wrote:Thérèse of Lisieux is actually in three sections.

So is John Bosco - a hand and part of an arm in the reliquary on tour here.
Another part is contained in a statue doing a world tour.
Most of him rests in Turin.

abso-bleeping-lutely. ooooooo - a tmesis. To me, the dance appears to be, as it were, an unnecessary, para-liturgical tmesis, pushed in to separate Word and Eucharist and I cannot fathom its purpose. In my opinion, it would have been better as a part of the "prayer service" rather than th...

also - comments at:

http://www.lovingit.co.uk/2013/01/liturgical-dancing-in-liverpool-metropolitan-cathedral.html

Bishop Williams and the Salesians are being criticised for dancing in Liverpool.......... but there doesn't appear to be rotational movement in the reliquary.

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/01/liturgical-dance-not-dead-yet.html

Ash Wednesday to the following Saturday is always counted as week 4 (because of Lent 1 being week 1), regardless of the week being observed on the three days preceding Ash Wednesday. Anyone got a scan of Brother Choleric's reaction to the supposed simplicity of use of the Divine Office? (Let me see...

Southern Comfort wrote:, etc, etc, before getting on to the Liturgy of the Eucharist....................

And after that, wasn't there a diminished Lauds? ( I have a copy of this rite somewhere - will look it up.)

If there's going to be some sort of family remembrance before the final commendation, I pray that: 1. Whoever is going to deliver it does not attempt to preach. 2. Whoever is going to deliver it allows no elephants in the room. If the deceased was someone who in common parlance was of illegitimate b...

My recollection is that for quite along period from 1969 the hearing of confessions during Mass was actually prohibited. Unfortunately John Paul II reinstated it by recommending the practice in a letter whose name temporarily escapes me (I am on the road). Misericordia Dei - section 2 of the "...

When we engage fully with the Rite we are offered for the Ordination of Priests we are offered only Old Testament models of priesthood and precious little which speaks to the role of the priest today. I think you'll have to expand on that one a little Phil so I (we) can grasp what you're saying - n...

However when we engage with the Rite of Dedication of a Church we find a liturgy which focusses on the place of Eucharist, the altar, and neglects the ambo altogether. 50 years on our liturgy has yet to catch up with significant changes in thinking. ............... Hmmmmm. I can see, as it were, wh...