Som vanlig tar vi oss en tur til Jæren midt på sommeren, og i år var vi der fra 15. til 19. juli. Det første bildet under viser meg på toppen av Moi-fjellet, gården der man farfar kom fra (Moi i Bjerkreim kommune, på Høg-Jæren). Les om turen opp til toppen her.
Det andre bildet er fra ei strand mellom Ogna og Brusand, heilt sør på Jæren, der min bror har hytte – det er mange slike strender nordover opp til Stavanger/Randaberg.
Flott musikk og tekst (se tysk og engelsk tekst). Nederlands Bach Society kan man besøke her.
En person som selv ikke pleier å delta i den tradisjonelle latinske messen skriver at begrensingene mht. bruk av denne messen som kom for tre år siden ikke har fungert. Han (Larry Chapp) skriver ‘Traditionis Custodes’ 3 Years On: Pope Francis’ Latin Mass ‘Motu Proprio’ Has Generated Division, Not Unity. Her er starten av artikkelen:
Three years after the promulgation of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, imposing severe restrictions on the celebration of the Mass in Latin, controversy over the use of the old Latin Mass is as strong as ever.
Therefore, if Pope Francis’ text was intended to bring some measure of peace to the liturgy wars by increasing liturgical homogenization around the Mass of Paul VI, it has been a failure. The rise of the popularity of the Mass of St. John XXIII (traditional Latin Mass) was caused, at least in part, by a strong sense of dissatisfaction with the Mass of St. Paul VI (or Novus Ordo) among a broad cross section of regular-Mass-attending Catholics. And the move to suppress the Latin Mass has done nothing to change that entrenched reality, especially in light of the fact that the Vatican did nothing at the same time to reform the new liturgy in order to address in a truly pastoral way the legitimate sense of disaffection that many have.
It is rarely a wise pastoral move to try and suppress via raw authority from above the spontaneous expressions of faith — expressions that are thoroughly orthodox and truly “from below” — since such exercises of raw authority absent a true engagement with those affected usually flounder.
The popularity of the traditional Latin Mass can be tied directly to its emphasis upon reverence, transcendence and supernatural verticality. And these are features that should be present in every Mass but are sorely lacking in many parishes. It is instructive that wherever the Mass of Paul VI is celebrated in deeply traditional and transcendent ways it is almost always successful, which only underscores the legitimacy of the desire of millions of devout Catholics for a Mass that is more profoundly reverent.
Therefore, if the aims of Traditiones Custodes were primarily pastoral and not punitive, it is a failure, since it did not in any way address this deep desire for tradition and reverence from so many Catholics. …
