On Saturday, Una Voce Scotland held their Annual General Meeting in our Hall. The meeting was preceded by a High Mass in the Extraordinary Form celebrated by Monsignor Hugh N. Boyle. The meeting included a talk entitled Summorum Pontificum – One Year On given by Dr Alcuin Reid, the co-editor of the journal-in-preparation Usus Antiquior which will appear in print for the first time at the beginning of 2010.
Here are some details from Thomas’s photos:
The Schola in action
Incensation at the Offertory (-this has the hazy quality of a painting by some well-known French artist)
Attentive-looking Servers
This rather dark photo was taken by me in the Sacristy after Mass
Thank you for posting this; it was a wonderful day!
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Fabulous post & blog!
by the way, would you mind if I reposted this on the FSSP Vocations Scotland blog?
Thanks, Jackie.
Mark, certainly (i.e. certainly I wouldn’t mind).
thank you! The deed has been done!
What is all this nonsense about returning to facing the altar and “saying mass” ?
What ever happened to Vatican II ?
I am afraid all of this just contibutes to the demise of the catholic population in churches. How does this attitude involve the people of God in a shared experience and a “breaking of bread”.
It is very sad to see this idea raising it’s head again.
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What a sad day indeed! Not only turning one’s backs on the ‘people of God’ but also on Second Vatican Council.
I am sure this turn around would not have been supported by the late Bernard Harring,CSsr Carrol Stuhmueller C.P., or Barnabas Ahern, C.P, to name but a few of those who participated in VAT II
Oh how silly. Have Jim and Malcolm actually READ the documents of the Second Vatican Council, or do they think that there is a document therein saying that from now on all are to hold hands during the Lord’s Prayer, Gregorian Chant is anathema, and Haugen and Hass have been canonized?
After reading the documents of Vatican II, Jim and Malcolm might like to read something a bit more modern and up to date, like the apostolic letter “Summorum Pontificium” of July 7, 2007.
The priests were not turning their backs on the people of God. They were praying WITH the people of God towards God. They were thereby (incidentally) downplaying their own personalities and giving the people of a God a solen Mass and not the “Father Funny Show” .
Oh, and I happen to have a copy of that 17 month old document now!
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=24633
Apologies to Mr. Haas for misspelling his name. You’d think I would get it right the first time; I’ve been forced to listen and sing his dated work since I was a child. How happy I am that there are pastors and musicians who allow Roman Catholics access to our two thousand year old heritage of liturgical music. Palestrina’s music (16th century) is timeless.
Vatican II produced so many marvellous documents and such rich teaching! It’s too bad that it gets the rap for the bad taste and liturgical abuses that so tragically mar the Novus Ordo. The Novus Ordo has not been tried and found wanting; the Novus Ordo has been so rarely tried at all.