Those who feel the need for a "simplified" form of the Divine Liturgy on occasion might do well to consider the Divine Liturgy of Saint James.

Incognitus

Father,

Can you point to what section (chapter, page number, etc) where this can be found?

Thanks!

Dave

You mean there are still organists around in the Latin Rite? Most parishes around HERE use guitars or a group of acapella singers. (I thought maybe they were being Byzantinized. LOL!)

Tammy

Yes, we are still around. I work for a priest who is a fine musician himself, and who sets very high standards for church music. Had you been with us at Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, you would have heard a French Baroque prelude, choral selections from "The Messiah," some Gregorian, and a large French organ work, a "Carillon" by Louis Vierne as a postlude. There is one mass per week on Sunday evening for the kum-bah-yah crowd, but since it's a late Sunday mass, it attracts more people from other parishes than from ours. The folk music crowd is there because no organist has ever wanted to play for a 5th mass on Sunday.

Tammy,

Guitar groups are so ... 60-ish. Many Latin parishes sent the hippies packing long ago. I guess they got tired of the Peter, Paul, and Mary tunes. Such crap. It all brings back bad memories of the Latin seminary with their 'creative' (read: destructive) prayer. Interesting though, nobody has gotten relative with rap music.

No, many Latin parishes are still stuck in the 60's.
You have to rent this movie, entitled "A Might Wind". Its a "mocumentary" of the 60's folk movement. One song, "A Kiss at the end of the rainbow" could be any Roman Catholic Communion hymn.

A rap Mass?

Drink the wine, shew the bread, if you don't you gonna be dead.

Father, Son, the Holy Ghost, you know the one I dig the most, Peter Paul, James and John you know what side I be on.

Get down, get funky, with Jesus the honkey.

Having studied the "Ordo Celebrationis" according to the Ruthenian Recension published in Rome in 1944, I can find no reference to a celebration of the Liturgy without a proper entrance (priest simply standing in front of the altar and elevating gospel). I would appreciate a number reference, as each rubrical instruction in this book has a standardized number regardless of which translation one might be using.

Also, the use of the term recites is used not intending the priest to speak the words as opposed to sing them, but to take the prayer as opposed to omitting it.

Thanks for the assistance.

So true, and so funny! I am afraid much of the Latin Church is still stuck firmly in the 60s. In some places you still see the flower children, but now they have gray pony tails, earings, and even tattoos. Gravity has not been kind to those tattoos which are not in the same places now as they were when new. It's kind of sad. The kids make fun of them. I guess today's relevance is tomorrow's hilarity.

The "aging hippies" are a serious problem - I enjoyed the sixties myself, but now there are other things to enjoy. Nothing is more out-of-date than yesterday's avant-garde!

Incognitus