What Recompense can I give to the Lord?

What Recompense can I give to the Lord?
Ordination to the Diaconate

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

The Liturgy


IMAG0734, originally uploaded by Ron Floyd.

In the venacular, the dail liturgy at the Dominican House in Krakow is one of the most beautiful Reform of the Reform liturgies I have ever been to. The Celebrant chants his prayers, and a schola answers them in Polish but using melodies derived straight from the Latin tradition. The Mass parts are sung in Latin, using a ussual setting. True there is a little flare of Eastern Catholic tradition that slips in here and there, but this is fitting for Polish Catholicism, located at the center of Europe and at the Latin Churches borders with the East. All in all it is a beautiful liturgy.

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