Odd, a dream about MBH...
Anyway, via NLM: Fr Aidan Nichols OP on the Future of the Church in England
Showing posts with label Aidan Nichols OP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aidan Nichols OP. Show all posts
Monday, June 11, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Journey to the East
Begun on April 15, 2012.
Irina Kolbneva (source)
I decided not to attend the last liturgies of Our Lady of Fatima at their old location, which turned out to be the Easter services. I plan on attending a Sunday liturgy relatively soon at the new location, maybe next Sunday. I am close to switching over to the Byzantine-rite; would it be possible to register as a member of a parish without transferring rites? At this point in time, I get more out of participating at a Byzantine-rite liturgy than at a Roman-rite liturgy, regardless of whether it is OF in Latin or EF. (Do I need to comment about the Uhmerican OF?)
In contrast to the push for Latinizations in the Eastern rites that happened in previous centuries, I may be accused of having the attitude that the Roman Rite should be "orientalized." But would "degothicized" be more accurate? I need to re-read what Fr. Jungmann says about the fusion of the Gothic rite with the Roman rite. I do favor the greater use of mosaics, a return to a style of painting that existed before the impulse towards realism in the late medieval/Renaissance, bringing back the baldachin (with or without an additional veil), the rood screen or some Western version of the iconostasis. You may already know that I like Ensemble Organum. While I would not claim that its interpretation of Roman chant is the only valid one, I do think that there should be a place for it within the Roman-rite worship, if there is a place for chant in Latin at all.
In seeking this sort of "purification," am I guilty of the archeologism condemned by Pius XII in Mediator Dei? What about advocating a convergence with the Eastern liturgical traditions as a preparation to a restoration of ecclesial communion? After all, both the West and Rome were part of the Mediterranean world and shared many similarities in liturgical culture during the first millenium of Christianity? I am not denying the organic development of prayers, texts, and feasts. But what about liturgical gestures, sacred art, "minor" liturgical actions like processions? I've mentioned before the example of the sign of the cross - would it be so wrong for Romans to once again do it the way everyone used to do it, crossing from right to left rather than left to right? Or was the change to left to right also "organic"? Many have criticized the novelty of having the laity raise their hands in prayer during the Our Father, in imitation of the priest. The orans position is also from the Mediterranean world; could we not re-adopt it once the distinction between the ordained priesthood and the priesthood of the faithful was clarified for the poorly catechized? Or do we need to keep the Gothic prayer gesture (symbolizing the submission of a vassal) that was adopted in the fusion of the Roman and Gothic rites because it, too, is now part of our liturgical patrimony?
How many Roman-rite Catholics fell away because they were direct casualties of liturgical reform? How many associated this with perceived changes in doctrine? Is there a risk that many would fall away because of these changes? Or should we encourage Roman-rite Catholics to rediscover their classical heritage (especially as a counter to our Uhmerican attitudes and practices of worship)? Might it not help deepen liturgical piety, in combination with the restoration of a sung liturgy and a better hieratic vernacular?
Can an American rite be created from scratch? To what can we turn for material? The Sarum rite? Modern Catholic Anglican rites, with their love of neo-Gothic? The Uhmerican NO? There is little doubt that the Roman rite has to be the basis of a new rite, given the liturgicla and cultural heritage of American Catholics. Given how much we have lost and abandoned, would not a "return to the sources" in thise case involve a new look at the entirety of the Church's liturgical history and not just the 20th century (or what passed for normal before Vatican 2)?
Fr. Aidan Nichols has written something on the thought and work of Fr. Adrian Fortescue: The Life, Work and Travels of Adrian Fortescue. (Apparently Michael Davies' The Wisdom of Adrian Fortescue is out of print.) Fr. Nichols also has another book on liturgy: Lost in Wonder.
Related:
NLM: On the Origins of the Iconostasis - parts 3 and 4
Irina Kolbneva (source)
I decided not to attend the last liturgies of Our Lady of Fatima at their old location, which turned out to be the Easter services. I plan on attending a Sunday liturgy relatively soon at the new location, maybe next Sunday. I am close to switching over to the Byzantine-rite; would it be possible to register as a member of a parish without transferring rites? At this point in time, I get more out of participating at a Byzantine-rite liturgy than at a Roman-rite liturgy, regardless of whether it is OF in Latin or EF. (Do I need to comment about the Uhmerican OF?)
In contrast to the push for Latinizations in the Eastern rites that happened in previous centuries, I may be accused of having the attitude that the Roman Rite should be "orientalized." But would "degothicized" be more accurate? I need to re-read what Fr. Jungmann says about the fusion of the Gothic rite with the Roman rite. I do favor the greater use of mosaics, a return to a style of painting that existed before the impulse towards realism in the late medieval/Renaissance, bringing back the baldachin (with or without an additional veil), the rood screen or some Western version of the iconostasis. You may already know that I like Ensemble Organum. While I would not claim that its interpretation of Roman chant is the only valid one, I do think that there should be a place for it within the Roman-rite worship, if there is a place for chant in Latin at all.
In seeking this sort of "purification," am I guilty of the archeologism condemned by Pius XII in Mediator Dei? What about advocating a convergence with the Eastern liturgical traditions as a preparation to a restoration of ecclesial communion? After all, both the West and Rome were part of the Mediterranean world and shared many similarities in liturgical culture during the first millenium of Christianity? I am not denying the organic development of prayers, texts, and feasts. But what about liturgical gestures, sacred art, "minor" liturgical actions like processions? I've mentioned before the example of the sign of the cross - would it be so wrong for Romans to once again do it the way everyone used to do it, crossing from right to left rather than left to right? Or was the change to left to right also "organic"? Many have criticized the novelty of having the laity raise their hands in prayer during the Our Father, in imitation of the priest. The orans position is also from the Mediterranean world; could we not re-adopt it once the distinction between the ordained priesthood and the priesthood of the faithful was clarified for the poorly catechized? Or do we need to keep the Gothic prayer gesture (symbolizing the submission of a vassal) that was adopted in the fusion of the Roman and Gothic rites because it, too, is now part of our liturgical patrimony?
How many Roman-rite Catholics fell away because they were direct casualties of liturgical reform? How many associated this with perceived changes in doctrine? Is there a risk that many would fall away because of these changes? Or should we encourage Roman-rite Catholics to rediscover their classical heritage (especially as a counter to our Uhmerican attitudes and practices of worship)? Might it not help deepen liturgical piety, in combination with the restoration of a sung liturgy and a better hieratic vernacular?
Can an American rite be created from scratch? To what can we turn for material? The Sarum rite? Modern Catholic Anglican rites, with their love of neo-Gothic? The Uhmerican NO? There is little doubt that the Roman rite has to be the basis of a new rite, given the liturgicla and cultural heritage of American Catholics. Given how much we have lost and abandoned, would not a "return to the sources" in thise case involve a new look at the entirety of the Church's liturgical history and not just the 20th century (or what passed for normal before Vatican 2)?
Fr. Aidan Nichols has written something on the thought and work of Fr. Adrian Fortescue: The Life, Work and Travels of Adrian Fortescue. (Apparently Michael Davies' The Wisdom of Adrian Fortescue is out of print.) Fr. Nichols also has another book on liturgy: Lost in Wonder.
Related:
NLM: On the Origins of the Iconostasis - parts 3 and 4
Friday, February 17, 2012
Good decision by Liturgical Press
It is publishing Chalice of God: A Systematic Theology in Outline by Aidan Nichols, OP.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Items of Interest 17 November 2011
Catholic:
Zenit: On Psalm 110, to Christ the King
NLM: Pope: Pray the Divine Office
Book Notice: The Latin Clerk: The Life, Work and Travels of Adrian Fortescue (by Fr. Aidan Nichols)
Rorate Caeli: Quaerere Deum
It links to the trailer for a documentary about the Benedictine monastery at Norcia.
John Zmirak, The Devil Never Wore Diapers
Conservatism:
Wendell Berry on Agriculture and Work
Peter Hitchens, Change is sometimes bad, sometimes good. How do we tell?
F. Roger Devlin, The Impossibility of Higher Education Reform
The New Right & What It Can Offer the Rest of the World by Siryako Akda (posted first at Alt Right)
An excellent discussion in the combox for "Debating Conservatism."
OWS:
Ralph Nader, Repression expands resistance
Joel Salatin:
10 Minutes with Joel Salatin
He was featured on Robert Scott Bell's Raw Milk Freedom Riders, which has been archived.
Inside Polyface Farm, Mecca of Sustainable Agriculture
But the enterprise is not wholly sustainable, because of the chickens: How big is a chicken's footprint?
Diet and Health:
Weston A. Price “Wise Traditions 2011″
CrossFit NYC, Kindle Edition, Obesity and Bipolar, Dr Mercola, and Wise Traditions 2011
Music:
Anonymous 4: The healing joy of singing 13th-century girl-group music
The ensemble will be at the Community School for Music and Arts in Mountain View this Saturday for an informance at 11:00 A.M. (Stanford Lively Arts)
New Early Music Series from Edition Peters
Zenit: On Psalm 110, to Christ the King
NLM: Pope: Pray the Divine Office
Book Notice: The Latin Clerk: The Life, Work and Travels of Adrian Fortescue (by Fr. Aidan Nichols)
Rorate Caeli: Quaerere Deum
It links to the trailer for a documentary about the Benedictine monastery at Norcia.
John Zmirak, The Devil Never Wore Diapers
Conservatism:
Wendell Berry on Agriculture and Work
Peter Hitchens, Change is sometimes bad, sometimes good. How do we tell?
F. Roger Devlin, The Impossibility of Higher Education Reform
The New Right & What It Can Offer the Rest of the World by Siryako Akda (posted first at Alt Right)
An excellent discussion in the combox for "Debating Conservatism."
OWS:
Ralph Nader, Repression expands resistance
Joel Salatin:
10 Minutes with Joel Salatin
He was featured on Robert Scott Bell's Raw Milk Freedom Riders, which has been archived.
Inside Polyface Farm, Mecca of Sustainable Agriculture
But the enterprise is not wholly sustainable, because of the chickens: How big is a chicken's footprint?
Diet and Health:
Weston A. Price “Wise Traditions 2011″
CrossFit NYC, Kindle Edition, Obesity and Bipolar, Dr Mercola, and Wise Traditions 2011
Music:
Anonymous 4: The healing joy of singing 13th-century girl-group music
The ensemble will be at the Community School for Music and Arts in Mountain View this Saturday for an informance at 11:00 A.M. (Stanford Lively Arts)
New Early Music Series from Edition Peters
Friday, July 01, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
The Spearhead: Book Review: Criticizing the Critics by Aidan Nichols (Family Publications)
Criticising the Critics
Catholic Apologias for Today
by Aidan Nichols O.P.
The website for Family Publications appears to be defunct. The book itself is not available as something in-print on Amazon, but there is one used copy available. (There's also ABE Books.) Check out also The Realm: An Unfashionable Essay on the Conversion of England. A review of The Realm. There is a phone number listed here if you wish to call and see if the company can be contacted that way.
Reviews of the book from last year by Fr. Z and Godzdogz.
Criticising the Critics
Catholic Apologias for Today
by Aidan Nichols O.P.
The website for Family Publications appears to be defunct. The book itself is not available as something in-print on Amazon, but there is one used copy available. (There's also ABE Books.) Check out also The Realm: An Unfashionable Essay on the Conversion of England. A review of The Realm. There is a phone number listed here if you wish to call and see if the company can be contacted that way.
Reviews of the book from last year by Fr. Z and Godzdogz.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Fr. Aidan Nichol's Homily for the ‘Primiz’ of Father Andrew Burnham
Fr Aidan Nichols OP: Homily
The Homily preached by Fr Aidan Nichols, O.P., at Fr Andrew Burnham’s mass in Oxford on Sunday, 16 January.
The Homily preached by Fr Aidan Nichols, O.P., at Fr Andrew Burnham’s mass in Oxford on Sunday, 16 January.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Talk by Fr. Aidan Nichols, O.P.
Faith Matters - Lent 2010 - Fr Aidan Nichols
(More videos from Catholic Westminster.)
(via Lawrence Lew [flickr])
Faith Matters - Lent 2010 - Fr Aidan Nichols from Catholic Westminster on Vimeo.
(More videos from Catholic Westminster.)
(via Lawrence Lew [flickr])
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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