tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post6869974065024256598..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Sacrosanctum Concilium, Auctoritas, and the CanonFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-38951478491269783772010-10-07T23:46:30.842+01:002010-10-07T23:46:30.842+01:00Sorry for my ignorance, but what did the Dr predic...Sorry for my ignorance, but what did the Dr predict?Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-12931508892724421542010-10-07T20:23:48.641+01:002010-10-07T20:23:48.641+01:00Well we all know what Dr. Wickham-Legg predicted a...Well we all know what Dr. Wickham-Legg predicted about the Canon when the Psalter was changed...Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-154601156159658042010-10-07T12:54:49.970+01:002010-10-07T12:54:49.970+01:00Not for the first time (I reckon) may I call to in...Not for the first time (I reckon) may I call to interested readers' attention that devastating critique *The New Eucharistic Prayers* by the late Geoffrey Grimshaw Willis, which appeared in the January 1971 issue of *The Heythrop Journal?*<br /><br />In the course of that article he employed two Latin aphorisms that just about sums up his attitude towards EPs II, III and IV: "In Tiberim William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16634494183165592707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-70255138310504655872010-10-07T05:03:28.846+01:002010-10-07T05:03:28.846+01:00Even if the III and IV are good, I would still arg...Even if the III and IV are good, I would still argue for their removal as they have not organically developed over time into the Roman Rite. They were made fairly recently unlike even the Eastern EPs which developed over time. The Roman Canon should just be the EP for the Roman Rite.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482054873280868946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-31869278738272362202010-10-07T02:42:37.608+01:002010-10-07T02:42:37.608+01:00More to the point: as Fr H. has many times so well...More to the point: as Fr H. has many times so well put it, the Roman Canon, as well as being of the greatest antiquity (older than the Byzantine Anaphorai for starters), it articulates the classical Roman Eucharistic doctrine of the sacrum commercium, the holy exchange of gifts.<br /><br />Compare its sublimity and profundity and curious details (who is the angel referred to? what the principal Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-10964059576836145462010-10-07T01:33:28.387+01:002010-10-07T01:33:28.387+01:00I quite agree. Many of the made-up EPs do not cont...I quite agree. Many of the made-up EPs do not contain a sense of continuity and a sense of majesty present in the Roman Canon. Why would anyone change it and brutalize it? I heard the East highly regulates the EPs that they use. I think a pride of place should be given to the ROman Canon if the other EPs in the Roman Rite could not be replaced or disposed.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482054873280868946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-41075626059773162282010-10-07T01:03:19.451+01:002010-10-07T01:03:19.451+01:00I've never understood the bizarre argument tha...I've never understood the bizarre argument that the liturgists of the day and since then made and still make: that somehow, once the Canon was aloud, it would become intolerably boring to hear it said at each and every Mass, and thus lots of variants for itching ears were needed. <br /><br />Of course, in too many places it is a diet of E.P. II nearly always - which is surely the most boringJoshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.com