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Mike Rizzio's avatar

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.

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Voco Veritas's avatar

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.

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Bridget's avatar

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!

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Jacqueline Dawson's avatar

Incredible. Thank you for sharing!

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