tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post3220220516701401435..comments2023-09-22T06:56:46.508-05:00Comments on Adoro te Devote: Monastic LifeAdorohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-50087566973946933472010-07-20T19:54:57.075-05:002010-07-20T19:54:57.075-05:00smk ~ Yes, "editorializing" is a word!
...smk ~ Yes, "editorializing" is a word!<br /><br />Father Charles ~ Well, I still have questions...but I do know what I need to do when I am free to do so. (But I am not free...)<br /><br />Katie ~ Actually, you are describing exactly WHY the rubrics of the Mass are so important! Apart from legitimate language differences (the vernacular of diffrent countries), when we are aware of what is going on, we are more fully alive, and when the Mass is treated like a particular priest's or parishes own personal sandbox, you ARE going to be thrown off. <br /><br />I've had that experience. I don't know the EF well enough yet to recognize if a priest does something wrong or messes up the words, but I have been totally absorbed in an OF Mass and was jarred out of my pew in utter and total disorientation when the music director did something weird with the Memorial Acclamation.<br /><br />Stitchword ~ I think I just figured it out today!Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-44977685134391209652010-07-20T19:46:49.542-05:002010-07-20T19:46:49.542-05:00Re the difficulty of maintaining focus during a ve...Re the difficulty of maintaining focus during a vernacular Mass--you've put into words a sense I've been struggling to articulate for a long time.<br /><br />Thank you!Stitchworthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387323354607079249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-54559294778929488682010-07-20T15:07:06.265-05:002010-07-20T15:07:06.265-05:00Although I have yet to attend a Mass in the Extrao...Although I have yet to attend a Mass in the Extraordinary Form, I have found similar experiences in Masses in the vernacular. When I was in Italy, I became so much more aware of the liturgy, because, though I understood enough Italian to keep my place and could generally understand a homily and sometimes pray aloud with the congregation, it took a LOT of focus to do so. Besides, I couldn't sit/kneel/stand based on the cues that we generally react to at a Mass that we're familiar; I had to be thinking "What did we [or the priest] just say and why did we say and what does that mean and what does it mean we should do next?" to be aware of where we were in the Mass. I've even had related experiences at Masses where the priest is a non-native English speaker; there's one at my current parish who is a wonderful priest but nearly impossible to understand, and completely impossible to understand if your mind wanders for even a moment. I HAVE to prevent my mind wandering, and I find Mass with that priest particularly fulfilling as a result. <br /><br />(Which makes me wonder whether it's my own prejudices that make me find Mass rather less fulfilling when I'm forced to pay attention because, say, the priest changes the words of the prayers or an unfamiliar congregation doesn't sit/stand/kneel when I expect them to.)Kathleen O'Harahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06998207528481554149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-75233658568869918582010-07-20T14:38:46.704-05:002010-07-20T14:38:46.704-05:00People always ask, 'How do you really know you...People always ask, 'How do you really know you have a vocation to religious life?' To those of us who have had something like the experience you describe, we ask ourselves how we could not know it.Brother Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-46480644990818760542010-07-20T12:06:06.885-05:002010-07-20T12:06:06.885-05:00Great post! I want to say more, but it would be e...Great post! I want to say more, but it would be editoralizing (is that a word????), and that's not fair to you... but some thoughts are almost burning me!!!!!!!smknoreply@blogger.com