Rome Pilgrimage for Christ the King: No Mass in St. Peter's this year
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The final program of the "Summorum Pontificum" Peregrinatio ad Petri Sedem
(Rome) was made public today.What is noteworthy is that, unlike last year,
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4 days ago
You're right: this would be marked improvement...
ReplyDeleteBen Trovato, thanks for your comment. I have been away otherwise I'd have explained sooner that this posting was occasioned by my encounter with a musical setting of the new translation which embodied an inappropriate relationship between text and music. It is this characteristic - of the musician having failed to appreciate the meaning of the text which I consider the key failing in much of the liturgical music provided over the last forty years. A solemn text such as "We proclaim your death..." is poorly served by marriage to a jolly jingle such as might normally accompany an advert for toothpaste or breakfast cereal.
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