tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post7206783683350844564..comments2023-10-06T14:01:45.973+01:00Comments on Dougalthink: Lenten Differences.fr dougalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06505160310703978020noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-75906644117883220422011-03-18T07:45:59.255+00:002011-03-18T07:45:59.255+00:00I understand what you are saying about exrending L...I understand what you are saying about exrending Lent with the Gesima Sundays but they were a doorway into Lent. Now if one follows the Calendar of the Ordinary Form you go from Xth Sunday in Ordinary time bang into Lent...it always comes as something of a shock.<br />At the time of the reforms I believe someone commented that the faithful were now parachuted straight into Lent.<br />The short season was a time of spiritual and mental preparation but was not one of penance and fasting, so I suppose sizzling bacon was permitted!<br />I think the greatest loss in the suppression of the Gesima period are the texts of those Sundays, in the breviary and the missal, especially the collects. Such rich fare, most of which is lost to the public liturgy.<br />I totally agre though about the way forward....music and propers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-41587386507762531082011-03-17T15:16:59.927+00:002011-03-17T15:16:59.927+00:00Beige is the ideal word Anon! I'm not sure ab...Beige is the ideal word Anon! I'm not sure about the Gesimas - it made it rather longer in my youth than the 40 days. Or 3 more weeks of the Rector rabbiting on about fasting - which was less than effective after we servers rang the doorbell before one Lent Sung Mass and were answered by some one who cassock bore the unmistakeable signs of bacon and eggs for breakfast between the 8 and the 11! A stronger definition by music and propers, plus a greater emphasis on silence I think is "the way forward".fr dougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505160310703978020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4397534889613700337.post-64428954324124673122011-03-17T09:09:27.188+00:002011-03-17T09:09:27.188+00:00I could not agree with you more and was thinking t...I could not agree with you more and was thinking the very same thing last Sunday when I attended Mass at Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge. The Ordinary Form was celebrated in Latin, no organ and a Byrd four part mass setting, unaccompanied. The gradual and tract to plainsong. Periods of silence. I came away with a clear sense of that we were in Lent and the liturgy reflected this. <br />Sadly OLEM is one of those rare Catholic churches which understands liturgy and the liturgical year.<br />I wonder if the suppresion of the "gesima" Sundays also helped to weaken the idea of Lenten liturgy?<br />The whole of the liturgical year is so beige in so many places...Papist or Piskie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com