tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post1655255713642966134..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: Firing Childhood Imagination--The TLM Of Pope Benedict, And The Wizard Of Ozcolkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-54614075864334328082009-11-08T11:03:17.054-07:002009-11-08T11:03:17.054-07:00I don't know that I want to give more fuel to ...I don't know that I want to give more fuel to the tradional camp, but I too have thought that had the Latin been taken out of Traditional Latin Mass, there would be far less resistance.<br /><br />One of the Masses I have never forgotten was the one the diocese had in the Cathedral when I graduated from a Catholic college. It was for all practical purposes a Tridentine Mass in English, including Gregorian chant and fanfare trumpets. It was both unbelievable theatre and awe inspiring celebration.<br /><br />Well, until one moment during the offertory. The organist had some of the accompanying material played through a Moog synthesizer. He hit the wrong button during an interlude and all of a sudden the currently very popular song "Sky Rockets in Flight" blasted over the sound system. Contrary to the title of the song, it sort of regrounded the whole affair.<br /><br />The Holy Spirit does have a sense of humor. However, this little faux pas is not the only reason why I remember this Mass so vividly. It was the English used in a very traditional Tridentine type rite.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-52797219667120916862009-11-08T01:08:38.021-07:002009-11-08T01:08:38.021-07:00All the Catholic church has to do is celebrate the...All the Catholic church has to do is celebrate the tridentine mass in an accurate english and other non-latin languages translations, making them new liturgical languages.<br /><br />I havent put all this effort into adapting 11th century prosa ad sequentia hymns into english for nothing. Do whatever the ROCOR or antiochian orthodox western rite vicariates do and all will be well.Xristoforos McAvoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16761973056388424084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-65560491829271173652009-09-28T13:27:57.394-06:002009-09-28T13:27:57.394-06:00The Wizard of Oz is one of my favorites too Collee...The Wizard of Oz is one of my favorites too Colleen. The entire production was so wonderful and who can forget Dorothy singing "Somewhere, Over the Rainbow." <br /><br />I listened to some of Russian Orthodox Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev's music on youtube. My only comment is that he is stuck and I was bored. I appreciate his try at this theme of St Matthews Passion No 1 which is to depict the Last Supper. There was no melody to speak of, unless you call going through the musical scale of an octave over and over again a melody. It is nice that he is an Archbishop and he has access to an orchestra & choir to pump up the sound. I can imagine him making a deal with Benedict to be on the Vatican Label and selling his music, and including his music in the Mass.<br /><br />I agree, Long Live Dorothy! As far as Sunday and the Latin Mass and where I'll be if they bring it back - there's no place like home, there's no place like home.butterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684946870144030594noreply@blogger.com