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"Ritual Correctness"

Experts talking up aggiornamiento…in the Orthodox Church? Orthodox priest Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon sheds light on the issue. He concludes:

The last thing we need is a liturgist to tell us how to pray and how to look at the world. Should the Orthodox liturgy be reformed to rid our souls of the aforesaid anachronisms? I don’t think so. It would be more proper, rather, to study the Sermon on the Mount* in order to remain in the State of Grace when dealing with liturgists.

Amen, amen, and amen.

* Read the Sermon on the Mount here: Matthew 5-7 [ I | II | III ]

Posted 02.09.2005
by Aristotle Esguerra
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Would that I had read the suggestion about studying the Sermon on the Mount before the meeting I had with my liturgy committee last week!

I fear I have made enemies.

The question was whether just because our local bishop ALLOWS a musically flimsy and textually degraded set of “psalms” that some people “like” — a parish with the resources, assembly with the skill and musical staff with the will to do otherwise, to do BETTER, has an obligation to use the inferior substitute.


Anon and ashamed
02.10.2005 @ 9:32 am #

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