I love listening to Gregorian Chant. I also love listening to Byzantine Chant. In fact my “Rock Music” is Gregorian Chant. Having learned how to read Latin at Age 7 in the 2nd Grade in my Native Land, Brooklyn, NY, in an area within spitting distance of Queens, in the Eastern Part of the Borough of Brooklyn, learning a touch of Greek, such as the “Kyrie”, truly makes for a Catholic Experience.
I listened to the Homily from a Priest of Italian Extraction, a Native of the Eastern Part of Brooklyn called Cypress Hills. He spoke of The Eucharist as Greater than anything Temporal.
The Homily was well spoken. The Music was Sublime.
At the End of Mass, The Corpus Christi Procession began with The Monstrance carrying the Consecrated Host(The Body Of Christ, With Only The Sensible Qualities Remaining) to Three Stations around The Parish Church, a rather large Parish Church at the Corner of Ascan Avenue and Queens Boulevard, in the Neighborhood called Forest Hills.
The Utterly Sublime Hymn, “Pange Domine” was sung on the way to the Old Convent, in Latin. It is most often heard on Holy Thursday on the 1st Night of The Easter Triduum, when the Body of Christ is transferred to a Repository away from the Main Altar. For those who grew up in the Roman/Latin Rite after 1969, this Hymn is a link with The Roman/Latin Rite of Pre Vatican Council II.
It was from The Old Convent to the Rectory when the Post Vatican Council II Church was represented by a Hymn, which was selected as the Official Hymn of The International Eucharistic Congress in 1976 in Philadelphia during The USA Bicentennial. The Late Richard Kreutz authored this Hymn. It is called “Gift Of Finest Wheat” and has a more “Ecumenical” Feel to it, as it is sung in Lutheran, Anglican and Methodist Ecclesial Communities, but does state Eucharistic Catholic Theology, despite having None Of The Awe of “O Sacrament Most Holy.”
I have a Most Dear Friend. She is a Convert from Eastern Orthodoxy. She despises the Modern Music of Post Vatican II. I cannot blame her, especially since I have been going to the Tridentine Latin Mass of The Roman Missal of Pope St. John XXIII. Via the Younger Latin Mass Attendees, I also feel at Home in The Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch Of Constantinople and Doctor of The Church, with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church In Union With The Holy See in The Vatican. In neither the Tridentine Latin Mass of 1962, nor the Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, will you hear any of the Modern Music of the Post Vatican II Church.
What I will say is that “Gift Of Finest Wheat” throws the Tempo off, whenever Gregorian Chant is sung. I know that “Gift Of Finest Wheat”, a Hymn of the Post Vatican II Church Era, is rare in that it isn’t a Song of Sheer Self like a few of the “Bread Songs” which My Most Dear Friend has Utter Contempt for, but “Gift Of Finest Wheat” is not in utter opposition to Catholic Eucharistic Theology.
To use a more Earthly Comparison, it is like trying to make a crème sauce with Skim Milk. Hence, there goes the recipe. Modern should go with Modern, while Classic goes with Classic and Never The Twain Shall Meet.
At the Final Station at the Entrance to the Church, “Beneditio” was offered as it is on Thursdays at 7:30PM, with “Tantum Ergo, Sacramentum”, sung in Latin, with the Prayers offered in English, as they have been since 1st Friday in 1964, when “Tantum Ergo” was 1st offered in Vernacular. The Divine Praises were offered.
Processing to the Main Altar, “Holy God We Praise Thy Name” was sung.
All went well.
A Word Of Caution that Modern and Classical work only in This World and Not The Ecclesial Next World.
Deo Gratias
M
A Roaming Catholic 
“Veritas Voriscum”
20 JunI did subscribe, at least for one month to the Site called ChurchMilitant.com, which originates from the “Warehouse In Detroit”, a Sarcastic way of saying that ChurchMilitant.com, comes from studios in the RC Archdiocese of Detroit from a Homosexually Inclined Suburb called Ferndale, where the Face of The Operation of Church Militant.com, the Mop Haired Mr Voris, rules the roost. It may as well be originating from a Former Warehouse in the Quasi Artistic Williamsburg Section of Brooklyn, NY.
His Report from St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, was a most worthy ” Suck Up” Job. It was as if, in the Musings of Canada’s Resident Curmudgeon on “CBC News The National”, Robert Rex Raphael Murphy, better known as Rex Murphy, had referred to “Starbucks Coffee” as “Suck Up Coffee”, well Mr Gary Michael Voris(Gary From Westchester, You” re Next on SportsRadio 66 & 101.9 FM, WFAN), sounded like a “Suck Up” on the NY Yankees Television Network, called YES(Yankees Entertainment Sucks), mostly owned by FOX, by the way(Da, Da, Dot, Da, Da, Dahhh).
“Bad Advisors”, O Great Garoo from Croton On Hudson? Do consider the days of the Rule of Buenos Aires, Argentina, when the Seminary was almost Bare and an Order of Traditional Nuns were kicked into the street including a couple of Young Postulants, in regards to “Humbleganda” Cardinal Bergoglio.
His Eminence finding ways of keeping “Summorum Pontificum” out of Buenos Aires, with a Hybrid Tridentine and Novus Ordo Mass, which folded in a few months? Oh, Wait! He never offered the Tridentine Latin Mass, as his 1st Mass was a Novus Ordo Mass.
Then, as Pope, the Ordered By Him utter destruction of the Quasi Traditional Franciscan Friars Of The Immaculate, an order with a Waiting List to join, your UTTER SILENCE amazes me in the SENSE OF JUSTICE.
You, Gary Michael Voris, are a PAPOLATRIST. If The Current Occupant of The Chair of Saint Peter was to OUTLAW the Tridentine Latin Mass, you would blame Fr Thomas Rosica The Canadian(Born in Rochester, NY, USA in 1959) for a BAD TRANSLATION of such Declaration. You would immediately find a way to pin this action on one Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, who, no doubt, feels the pain of the previous “New Ones” you have ripped him without Anesthetics.
No doubt, you blame all of this on Michael J. Matt, Christopher A. Ferrara(Who Like You Was born in an Archdiocese Ruled by Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman, which is the RC Archdiocese of New York, which in your case is Westchester County), John Vennari, The Late Fr. Nicholas Nightingale Gruner, and Louis Verrecchio. They are NOT PAPOLATRISTS like Yourself.
Is Marc and his network of “O. D’s” still making you their “Marionette” when the Message needs to be Webcast to The World? Thursday’s “Dog & Pony” Performance was nauseating to the Umpteenth Degree.It’s like passing wind after someone had consumed the beverage called Cerveza and eaten juevos in more than moderate amounts, while on a packed IND Queens Blvd Subway Train speeding into Manhattan. For those of you who don’t read Spanish, Cerveza is Beer, while Juevos are Eggs.
You once stated that you worked for FOX News. That report of yours was anything but “Fair & Balanced”.
And Papolatry violates The 1st Commandment.
Kyrie Elaison
M
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