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Ryan at Fils Prodigue writes about his ideal world. It’s a wonderful place.
It’s only when we put things in the perspective of what we think everyone else ought to do that we can finally face up to what we ought to do, and what we fail to do despite our visions. So, each “everyone else” is really a “everyone else, after I do it first.” As Dorothy Day said, “I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”
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Anybody know what's going on here?
I’m not exactly a liturgy nerd, but sometimes, I wish I was. I would my ears were trained to discerne the Ambrosian from the Gregorian chant, and to peer through the chaos of the Sarum Rite and find the order underneath the gaggle of servers. I can name a few of the Church’s liturgies, and know where they’re prevalent, but I don’t know what sort of mass the Syro-Malankara use, and wish I understood the beauty of the Armenian or Maronite missae with loving, scrutinous intensity. But I don’t.
They still interest me greatly, but I’ve barely mined the Paul VI for it’s worth, pleased as I am with its celebration at Sacred Heart Cathedral, beating as it is the heart of my campus. I’m an integral part of that liturgy, an acolyte and altar server, an organizer and show-runner. I know it’s motions and its language and can pray in complement with it, echoing its refrains and amplifying it with my personal concerns, needs, and praises to the Lord, at least when I’m not distracted by the fact that it’s muggy as hell in there and the AC has yet to be replaced. I remind myself that not everywhere has the luxury of air conditioning, but I don’t live in those places.
Anyway. I’ve been contemplating a move to Milan. There’s a job there with Ubisoft I’m interested in pursuing (I need to get my resume in order, and, ideally, in Italian), and, Catholic as I am, I’m pretty interested in what the celebration of the Eucharist will be like. So I dug around, and, near as I can tell, Milan principally uses the Ambrosian rite (can anyone confirm this?). I was fortunate enough to find an entire mass recorded, encoded, and uploaded onto YouTube for our viewing pleasure.
The chanting alone is worth your time.
Extra points to the first person to identify the quote I used as a title and its relevance to the post!
