9 August 2010

Commendation

A very good comment ... if you are interested in the history and process of Liturgy ... in what Joshua has written about the Trinity Preface. Do read it if you haven't already. Come to think of it, this blog owes quite a lot to Joshua's comments. They're usually better than the posts.

5 comments:

Joshua said...

I am covered in confusion and quite speechless at this unimagined praise - do pray for me a sinner that it not go to my head, but rather that I get a heart that is right.

Many thanks, Fr H., for your most erudite blog. I am at best a dabbler in matters beyond me... but glad to supply anything of even minor interest.

Walter said...

Yes, Joshua, that was a thought-provoking post. I'm sure you'll still get that well-halo'd head of yours through the door !

I always wondered why those litniks took out the Trinity Preface for Sundays. It was the same reason they removed any remembrance of our tradition for saying the Gloria Patri after all Psalms: they had no Faith in the Trinity. (I'm in a bad mood today; it's too humid.)

Haha; Keep the Faith !

Figulus said...

Walter, please explain.

Last time I checked, we still chant the Gloria Patri after each psalm and canticle in Bugnini's Liturgia Horarum.

Walter said...

I'm sorry Figulus, I was only thinking of their Mass.

Joshua said...

Yes, at Mass, the Gloria Patri is no more heard except if you're at the EF or a rare OF with Gregorian Propers...

It was shockingly antitrinitarian to dump the long ending of the Secret and of the Postcommunion. (The wise Carthusians retained the long ending for the latter.)