All the more reason to celebrate that momentous event at Ephesus in 431 on that day instead of the Octave of the Nativity, the Circumcision and Naming of our Blessed Lord Jesus as unequivocally attested in Sacred Scripture and upheld by Tradition until provincial Roman hubris abrogated its observance. The Roman Calendar has been wrong and the Gallican and associated English Rites (especially the Sarum and Anglican) correct for too many centuries. It grieves me to be forced to ignore those associated biblical events in the Ordinariate of OLW. I cannot imagine our Blesséd Lady herself wishing so egregiously to upstage her Divine Son to whom she immaculately donated our full human nature.
<< It is a commonplace of pre-Conciliar liturgical scholarship that the title of today’s feast as that of the Circumcision is a later development in the Roman Rite, imported from the Gallican Rite and elsewhere.... This assessment is based on a very superficial reading of the day’s original title and liturgical texts; in reality, the Circumcision was a prominent feature of today’s [January 1st] liturgy from the very beginning. A council held at Tour in France in 567 refers explicitly to the Circumcision as a feast of long-standing: “our fathers established … that on the Calends (of January) the Mass of the Circumcision should be celebrated.” >>
His whole article is fascinating, and shows to what an extent the entire tradition was betrayed by simply renaming January 1st "Mary the Mother of God." The fact that it WASN'T seen as a strictly Marian feast is the reason why Pius XI felt moved to create the October 11th feast, as one that is expressly Marian.
Yes, the mothers unwrapping their sons' hands in the FSSP ordination video brought me to tears. O Lord, give us holy priests! And thank you for posting about today's feast. I was praying Matins this morning (I just started praying the Divine Office according to the old rubrics vs. the reform at Eastertide) and never knew - *never knew* - this existed. The more I enter into our beautiful Tradition, the more Catholic I feel and am and I am *HERE* for it!
You're welcome. It occurred to me many months ago that I'm already following all this news and all these articles each week - might as well share the best with everyone here!
"It would be comical if immortal souls were not being lost to insanity and inanity across the world. Meanwhile, the pope diddles while Rome churns." Poetry, puns, and a dash of bile--well done, Dr. K! And that wedding video almost made me cry.
In Sebastian Morello's article he writes in the 4th paragraph: "Dreher seems to mean that we must rediscover the ancient Neoplatonic participation-emanation ontology of the pre-modern mind..." What in Heaven's name does that mean? I have studied philosophers ancient and modern to some extent but "Neoplatonic participation-emanation ontology"??
Very briefly: the view that all being (ontology) is derived from divine archetypes (emanation) and that beings are what they are by participating in those archetypes, so that they ARE more what they are to the extent that they are closer to the divine.
Oh, if only the “Dialogue Mass” had been killed off. Especially the ones where the congregation sporadically makes some of the responses and not others. Things that in themselves are licit are not always expedient.
I'm with you almost all the way; however, where I attend Mass (an SSPX chapel), the school Mass is a dialogue Mass...because all the students are boys, and they need it drilled into their heads. (And they are pretty good servers, for the record.)
Yes, I've seen it done reasonably well, but only in hothouse environments like schools where the kids are all taking Latin and can learn to do it in lockstep. For a regular parish situation, it would be a nightmare. In fact, sometimes people can't even stay together for the 3 Hail Mary's etc. after Mass!
All the more reason to celebrate that momentous event at Ephesus in 431 on that day instead of the Octave of the Nativity, the Circumcision and Naming of our Blessed Lord Jesus as unequivocally attested in Sacred Scripture and upheld by Tradition until provincial Roman hubris abrogated its observance. The Roman Calendar has been wrong and the Gallican and associated English Rites (especially the Sarum and Anglican) correct for too many centuries. It grieves me to be forced to ignore those associated biblical events in the Ordinariate of OLW. I cannot imagine our Blesséd Lady herself wishing so egregiously to upstage her Divine Son to whom she immaculately donated our full human nature.
Amen!
As Gregory DiPippo writes:
<< It is a commonplace of pre-Conciliar liturgical scholarship that the title of today’s feast as that of the Circumcision is a later development in the Roman Rite, imported from the Gallican Rite and elsewhere.... This assessment is based on a very superficial reading of the day’s original title and liturgical texts; in reality, the Circumcision was a prominent feature of today’s [January 1st] liturgy from the very beginning. A council held at Tour in France in 567 refers explicitly to the Circumcision as a feast of long-standing: “our fathers established … that on the Calends (of January) the Mass of the Circumcision should be celebrated.” >>
His whole article is fascinating, and shows to what an extent the entire tradition was betrayed by simply renaming January 1st "Mary the Mother of God." The fact that it WASN'T seen as a strictly Marian feast is the reason why Pius XI felt moved to create the October 11th feast, as one that is expressly Marian.
Here's the link:
https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2023/01/the-ancient-character-of-feast-of.html
And another article by DiPippo, just as good:
https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2023/01/the-marian-character-of-feast-of.html
Those last 2 videos were tear jerkers. The Mass of the Ages is out of this world - as it should be! Thx for this roundup.
Yes, the mothers unwrapping their sons' hands in the FSSP ordination video brought me to tears. O Lord, give us holy priests! And thank you for posting about today's feast. I was praying Matins this morning (I just started praying the Divine Office according to the old rubrics vs. the reform at Eastertide) and never knew - *never knew* - this existed. The more I enter into our beautiful Tradition, the more Catholic I feel and am and I am *HERE* for it!
Fabulous roundup!
Thank you for doing this work.
You're welcome. It occurred to me many months ago that I'm already following all this news and all these articles each week - might as well share the best with everyone here!
"It would be comical if immortal souls were not being lost to insanity and inanity across the world. Meanwhile, the pope diddles while Rome churns." Poetry, puns, and a dash of bile--well done, Dr. K! And that wedding video almost made me cry.
I love playing with language. You've probably noticed that I'm ardently addicted to alliteration.
In Sebastian Morello's article he writes in the 4th paragraph: "Dreher seems to mean that we must rediscover the ancient Neoplatonic participation-emanation ontology of the pre-modern mind..." What in Heaven's name does that mean? I have studied philosophers ancient and modern to some extent but "Neoplatonic participation-emanation ontology"??
Very briefly: the view that all being (ontology) is derived from divine archetypes (emanation) and that beings are what they are by participating in those archetypes, so that they ARE more what they are to the extent that they are closer to the divine.
Oh, if only the “Dialogue Mass” had been killed off. Especially the ones where the congregation sporadically makes some of the responses and not others. Things that in themselves are licit are not always expedient.
I'm with you almost all the way; however, where I attend Mass (an SSPX chapel), the school Mass is a dialogue Mass...because all the students are boys, and they need it drilled into their heads. (And they are pretty good servers, for the record.)
Yes, I've seen it done reasonably well, but only in hothouse environments like schools where the kids are all taking Latin and can learn to do it in lockstep. For a regular parish situation, it would be a nightmare. In fact, sometimes people can't even stay together for the 3 Hail Mary's etc. after Mass!
I agree. I don't like it, except in the one instance I mentioned, because it has a discernible end in view.