Fr. Maturi preaches on St. Dominic. Fr. Maturi preaches on St. Dominic during Mass for 19th Sunday of Ordinary TimeMore
Fr. Maturi preaches on St. Dominic.
Fr. Maturi preaches on St. Dominic during Mass for 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Fr. Maturi preaches on St. Dominic during Mass for 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Gosh..... I thought this was a Parish Church, hence my rather relaxed approach to commenting on their Litrugy. However, Fr Maturi says in this video that this is a Pauline Monastery!! Taking into account the ghastly liturgical music and liturgical praxis here, I was shocked to learn that this is a monastic church.
A Monastic Oratory (or Church), whether Benedictine, Basilian, Pauline, Norbertine …More
Gosh..... I thought this was a Parish Church, hence my rather relaxed approach to commenting on their Litrugy. However, Fr Maturi says in this video that this is a Pauline Monastery!! Taking into account the ghastly liturgical music and liturgical praxis here, I was shocked to learn that this is a monastic church.
A Monastic Oratory (or Church), whether Benedictine, Basilian, Pauline, Norbertine or Augustinian, is expected to have a high calibre Liturgy. Therefore, Liturgy that is well thought through according to the norms of the Church of Rome, must be de riguer.
One can not help but think that North America has much to answer for. On the other hand we have this kind of 'down-at-heel' liturgy here in Europe as well (the Vienna Bar-B-Que Mass immediately comes to mind). Nevertheless, running parallel to this are very beautifully offered Liturgies in the Novvs Ordo Missal of Paul VI wherein one can see the continuity between the 1962 Missal and the 1970 Missal. The same can be said of North America. However, this Mass in this video is sadly not one of these.
I rather think this is a result of two things: 1. A paradigmatic shift in the understanding of Priesthood, on an individualist plane, from Man of God to Social Worker; 2. Due to the sheer weight of taking on the work of other professions not proper to Priesthood, e.g. Social Worker, the true work of the Sacramental Priest, viz. the Liturgy and Preaching, is sidelined; the priest becomes either unable to celebrate the liturgy well, or is too lazy to do so.
One hopes and prays, that Our Holy Father's intention to reinstate the centuries old tradition of Solemnity and Beauty in Roman Catholic worship, is heeded by these Pauline fathers. It is however, consoling that the Dominican Father here, Fr Maturi, actually mentions Santiago de Silos and the Gregorian Chant! The congregation most likely would not have heard it far less to have heard any of the chant at Mass.....
A Monastic Oratory (or Church), whether Benedictine, Basilian, Pauline, Norbertine or Augustinian, is expected to have a high calibre Liturgy. Therefore, Liturgy that is well thought through according to the norms of the Church of Rome, must be de riguer.
One can not help but think that North America has much to answer for. On the other hand we have this kind of 'down-at-heel' liturgy here in Europe as well (the Vienna Bar-B-Que Mass immediately comes to mind). Nevertheless, running parallel to this are very beautifully offered Liturgies in the Novvs Ordo Missal of Paul VI wherein one can see the continuity between the 1962 Missal and the 1970 Missal. The same can be said of North America. However, this Mass in this video is sadly not one of these.
I rather think this is a result of two things: 1. A paradigmatic shift in the understanding of Priesthood, on an individualist plane, from Man of God to Social Worker; 2. Due to the sheer weight of taking on the work of other professions not proper to Priesthood, e.g. Social Worker, the true work of the Sacramental Priest, viz. the Liturgy and Preaching, is sidelined; the priest becomes either unable to celebrate the liturgy well, or is too lazy to do so.
One hopes and prays, that Our Holy Father's intention to reinstate the centuries old tradition of Solemnity and Beauty in Roman Catholic worship, is heeded by these Pauline fathers. It is however, consoling that the Dominican Father here, Fr Maturi, actually mentions Santiago de Silos and the Gregorian Chant! The congregation most likely would not have heard it far less to have heard any of the chant at Mass.....