Tuesday, June 25, 2013

More Interesting Liturgy

This time from 1963. Cardinals and bishops are rarely a liturgically-oriented bunch, except for the rare Bruskewitz or Burke. This clip is particularly bad. It comes from President John Kennedy's funeral, predictably a low Mass—perhaps to avoid the embarrassment of a long Catholic presentation on the topic of death in a protestant country Kennedy won with his "my faith, not my religion" buncombe. Cardinal Cushing begins the consecration at 4:30. See if you can catch the Simili modo post quam... at 5:10 or even find the Cardinal's nose at 5:22!
 
 

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  1. Is the Canon audible because he was microphoned or was Cushing already taking the liberty to speak aloud the Canon, as this funeral was contemporaneous with the signing of (but yet to be applied practically) Sacrosanctum Concilium?

    In any case, I can't bear to listen to that slurred Latin.

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    1. Canon was not legally said aloud until 1967 actually, when the entire shebang was vernacularized. Cushing was probably mic'ed, but he shouldn't have been this audible. My guess is that his volume was not intention, just his particular "style" of celebrating Mass.

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  3. These things - audible canon, sticking the nose in the chalice etc. - would be considered abuses right?

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    1. I haven't seen anything about prelates' noses in "de defectibus," but I sense they don't belong in chalices. The loud Canon might be due to the microphone or carelessness, but it is also an abuse. The Canon was not permitted to be prayed audibly until 1967.

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