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1 week ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Michael P. Foley
Notes[1] Josef Jungmann, The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development, vol. 2 (Benzinger Brothers, 1951), 90-92. [2] Nicholas Gihr, for example, writes: “Utterly without foundation is the assertion [“found throughout the Middle Age liturgists], that the prayers in question are called Secretae—eo quod super materiam ex fidelium oblationibus separatum et secretam recitantur” (The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained, 5th ed.
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2 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Michael P. Foley
Lost in Translation #127One of the most surprising treats our family ever received was a German Christmas cookie called lebkuchen. The spiced glazed cookie is made with honey, nuts, citrus peel, marzipan and, most importantly, oblaten, paper thin wafers. According to the story, monks and nuns in medieval Bavaria are credited with making the first lebkuchen as a way of making good use of old, unconsecrated hosts.
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3 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Michael P. Foley
Pfarrkirche Lunz am See: Lunz Parish Church, AustriaThere is a special joy in seeing something that one has only read about for years. I experienced this joy in Lunz am See, Austria, last week. This tiny town in Lower Austria, not far from the crystal-clear lake of Lunzersee, has a quaint parish church that was built around 1502. It is described both as a Marienkirche (a church dedicated to the Mother of God) and as a church dedicated to the Three Kings.
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4 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Michael P. Foley
A Holy Ghost hole in Saints Peter and Paul parish church in Söll, AustriaA curious architectural feature of some churches in France, southern Germany, and Austria is the Holy Ghost Hole, an opening in the ceiling into which different objects were once thrown during the celebration of the Mass. It is speculated that the art surrounding the hole indicates its original function.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Michael P. Foley
Lost in Translation #126After praying the Suscipe Sancta Trinitas, the priest kisses the altar and turns clockwise towards the people, saying Orate fratres while opening and closing his hands. He completes the prayer as he continues his clockwise movement, finishing both at the same time. When he is done, the prayer Suscipiat is said. The Orate fratres is:Oráte, fratres, ut meum ac vestrum sacrificium acceptábile fiat apud Deum Patrem omnipotentem.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Michael P. Foley
Lost in Translation #125 After the lavabo, the priest goes to the middle of the altar, looks up to Heaven, and, bowing, asks the Triune God to receive his entire offering: Súscipe, sancta Trínitas, hanc oblatiónem, quam tibi offérimus ob memoriam passiónis, resurrectiónis, et ascensiónis Jesu Christi, Dómini nostri, et in honórem beátae Maríae semper Vírginis, et beáti Joannis Baptistae, et sanctórum Apostolórum Petri et Pauli, et istórum, et omnium sanctórum: ut illis proficiat ad honórem,...
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Michael P. Foley
Lost in Translation #124 After the incensation, the priest goes to the Epistle side and washes his hands, reciting Psalm 25, 6-12:Lavábo inter innocentes manus meas: et circúmdabo altáre tuum, Dómine. Ut audiam vocem laudis: et enarrem universa mirabilia tua. Dómine, dilexi decórem domus tuae: et locum habitatiónis gloriae tuae. Ne perdas cum impiis, Deus, ánimam meam: et cum viris sánguinum vitam meam. In quorum mánibus iniquitátes sunt: déxtera eórum repléta est munéribus.
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2 months ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Michael P. Foley
I have been enjoying Peter Kwasniewski’s new book Close the Workshop, which argues that the old rite did not need to be fixed and that the new rite cannot be fixed. To support his argument, Kwasniewski begins with an analysis of the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium (SC), arguing that the document was not kidnapped later on but contains within itself timebombs that were then detonated by Archbishop Bugnini and his colleagues.
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2 months ago | 
catholic.com | Michael P. Foley
One solution to this disorientation is a sort of “trad starter kit”— a collection of books for those who would like to learn more about the TLM. I do not believe that there is a definitive, one-size-fits-all list; much depends on the individual, his temperament, and his own background, and one man’s medicine can be another man’s poison. Some souls delight in the polemics of Michael Davies; others are offended by the tone.
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2 months ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Michael P. Foley
What is less obvious is why the prayer also includes Ps 140, 3 and 4, a petition for clean words and thoughts. I consider this inclusion to be another example of the liturgical stutter. Here, at this point of the Mass, it is being prompted by an awareness of heightened numinosity. The priest is about to enter into the Sancta Sanctorum of sacrifice, and he knows it. Accendat in nobis Dóminus ignem sui amóris, et flammam aeternae caritátis. Amen.
