Thank you for this beautiful work. I really appreciate it when Theology, as represented by the Mass/Divine Liturgy is bonded to such expressive Art and the Mysticism of Incarnate reality. These essays will go a long way toward galvanizing the remnant for what certainly lies ahead.
Though true Science remained hidden, I bet you could have added the Ad Orientem relation to the sun with its life giving rays, photons which mysteriously behave as both particles and waves (dual nature?) and witness in the created order how the Father is in His essence, pure unapproachable Light and the Son as the Lamb, the only Light in the City of God.
Mystic
Artistic
Scientific
Theologic
Mast- a standard raised heavenward for sails, banners and communications.
Dr. K, I weep as I write this after reading and absorbing every word of your post. It overwhelms me to know how much I lost when the abomination of V-II destroyed everything in which I was raised, that being the magnificence and perfection of the Tridentine Rite of the Mass. But not just for me but for my children who have never witnessed the Glory and Majesty I saw in each mass I attended and in each mass in which I served as an altar boy, sometimes every day of the week. I pray God may somehow awaken in my children the depth of truth that lies hidden in plain sight within the TLM. And I pray they forgive me for failing to recognize what I allowed to be violently stolen from me and them by every abomination of VII and all its evil acts.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus. Amen.
Dr. K, if one wanted to replace Nothing Superfluous on the shelf, would this book or A Forest of Symbols be more similar? I particularly appreciated how NS walked through the Mass, explaining the meaning of each part in order. Thank you!
Sadly, there really is nothing quite like Nothing Superfluous. I wish its author had been someone else!
I think the Olier and A Forest of Symbols are very similar in their spiritual orientation and approach. The latter is more compact, the former more effusive.
Thank you for this beautiful work. I really appreciate it when Theology, as represented by the Mass/Divine Liturgy is bonded to such expressive Art and the Mysticism of Incarnate reality. These essays will go a long way toward galvanizing the remnant for what certainly lies ahead.
Though true Science remained hidden, I bet you could have added the Ad Orientem relation to the sun with its life giving rays, photons which mysteriously behave as both particles and waves (dual nature?) and witness in the created order how the Father is in His essence, pure unapproachable Light and the Son as the Lamb, the only Light in the City of God.
Mystic
Artistic
Scientific
Theologic
Mast- a standard raised heavenward for sails, banners and communications.
Incredible. Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful--and so sad, that I probably read more Olier in this post than in three years in a Sulpician seminary!!!
The Sulpicians, like most religious orders, have completely betrayed their founder. In fact, he would utterly disown them today.
Thank you Dr K for sharing another glimpse into the inexhaustible beauty of the Holy Mass.
https://catholiccounsel.substack.com/p/pope-leos-latin-mass-loving-emissary
Dr. K, I weep as I write this after reading and absorbing every word of your post. It overwhelms me to know how much I lost when the abomination of V-II destroyed everything in which I was raised, that being the magnificence and perfection of the Tridentine Rite of the Mass. But not just for me but for my children who have never witnessed the Glory and Majesty I saw in each mass I attended and in each mass in which I served as an altar boy, sometimes every day of the week. I pray God may somehow awaken in my children the depth of truth that lies hidden in plain sight within the TLM. And I pray they forgive me for failing to recognize what I allowed to be violently stolen from me and them by every abomination of VII and all its evil acts.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus. Amen.
Dr. K, if one wanted to replace Nothing Superfluous on the shelf, would this book or A Forest of Symbols be more similar? I particularly appreciated how NS walked through the Mass, explaining the meaning of each part in order. Thank you!
Sadly, there really is nothing quite like Nothing Superfluous. I wish its author had been someone else!
I think the Olier and A Forest of Symbols are very similar in their spiritual orientation and approach. The latter is more compact, the former more effusive.
Thank you, Dr. K!