Michael Tober at Sober Inebriation offers this:
An important liturgical message from Cardinal Ratzinger - now Pope Benedict XVI
"Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. " (Spirit of the Liturgy p. 198)
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If you should encounter applause during Mass in your parish do not panic. Immediately after Mass go out and get a copy of Pope Benedict's book "The Spirit of the Liturgy" by Ignatius Press and give it to your pastor as a gift. Be sure to highlight the above passage on page 198. Yellow highlighter works really, really well.
RSCT to Father Z.
I know a few parishes in my own neck of the woods that could use this book. Thanks for the idea, Michael, and welcome to the CV Definitive Blogroll!
Peace,
BMP
2 comments:
Thanks BMP!
Heck yeah Who wants to get the clap during the liturgy... for heaven's sake!!!!!
People at one of our Masses still applaud at the end - it's a hangover (a real headache!) from the mariachi we are the mass people... I ignore them. In the fall, perhaps we need to give the people a how to behave at Mass book!!!!!
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