A Treasure To Be Shared

(CNS photo/Vatican Media) Lights, smoke, an elevated platform, guitars, drums, keyboards, and a large crowd facing the performers. A religious service or a rock concert? Candles, incense (... maybe), an elevated platform, guitars, drums, keyboards, and a large congregation facing the clergy. Same question. 'Praise and worship' is a label borrowed from evangelical and charismatic Protestant lexicons. The Catholic understands that God desires to be worshipped and praised in the Divine Liturgy. In the Mass, the Catholic can say, "I was gathered into the offering of the Son to the Father. I participated in the self-offering of God today." God has revealed to us how He wants to be worshipped. Jesus established the model for Catholic worship (St. Matthew 26:17-30). The Latin Rite liturgy has expanded or contracted over the centuries. Universal adjustments were modest until the Bugnini Concilium (1964 - 1969) instituted considerable revisions. A later council of ten faithful...

Divine Worship Missal Errata   H/T Wilkinson/Brand Page 157 : Tract, line 4: Replace the comma after  Manasseh with a period: Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manesseh, > Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manesseh. Page 170 : Gradual, missing verse division: insert line break and V. , as below: He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: and as a bridegroom, coming out of his chamber. V. His going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit even to the end thereof. Page 200: insert same to Spirit in the Collect. Page 245 : Communion incipit: Correct spelling from Intellige  to  Intellege Page 286 : Introit, incipit:  Cum sanctificatus  should be  Dum sanctificatus Page 294 : Introit, line 6: Insert me after bring : and bring me unto thy holy hill    Page 304 : Collect, line 1: Insert a comma after O Lord . O Lord, in whose Passion Page 340 : stanza 5 of O Redemptor : parts of two lines are missing.  The stanza should read, adding t...

NCRegister Image An excerpt from the Unofficial Primer found here at this blog. Click on the title/link below for a full read. An Unofficial Ordinariate Primer Of the liturgical patrimony, Fr. James Bradley has said that "(t)he 'ingredients', we might say, have been weighed and measured into something which is altogether “new”, and yet instantly recognizable as an authentic expression both of the Roman Rite and the Anglican liturgical patrimony.  "With this in mind we might conclude with two simple points. First, the preservation of the Anglican liturgical patrimony within the Catholic Church is definitively achieved in the texts of Divine Worship. To be sure, other means of expressing this may be found within the life of the ordinariates and, as we have said, this discernment is not over—how can it be? However, it is the liturgical books of Divine Worship that must now be considered the principal, and even essential means of transmitting the An...

H/T Peregrinations Divine Worship - Ordinariate Study Missal - available April 23rd. Pre-order option available. Catholic Truth Society:  http://www.ctsbooks.org/divine-worship-study-missal Description from CTS: A new, smaller-sized ritual edition of the Divine Worship Missal, useful for reference and liturgical planning. These texts for the celebration of Mass have been approved and promulgated by the Holy See for use in the Personal Ordinariates established under the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus. This Missal will foster the noble and worthy celebration of the Sacred Liturgy in the Ordinariates worldwide, and provide an essential study text for all who love the Church’s worship. Includes the Order of Mass, Proper of Time and Sanctoral cycle with votive, ritual and Masses for the dead with all the main liturgical texts set to music.