{"id":2365,"date":"2006-10-14T09:31:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T09:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/the-mass-the-appearance-on-ear\/"},"modified":"2006-10-14T09:31:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T09:31:44","slug":"the-mass-the-appearance-on-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/the-mass-the-appearance-on-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mass: The Appearance on Earth of the Eternal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/thineownofthineown_jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thineownofthineown_jpg.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/thineownofthineown_jpg-thumb.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\"style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrom <em>The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann<\/em> (+1983):<br \/>\n&#8220;Wednesday, October 3, 1979<br \/>\nThe Pope of Rome is in New York.  We watched him on television in Yankee Stadium.  A mixed impression.  On one hand, an unquestionably good man, and full of light.  Wonderful smile.  Very genuine\u2014a man of God.  But, on the other hand, there are some &#8216;buts&#8217;!<br \/>\nFirst of all, <strong>the Mass itself.  The first impression is how liturgically impoverished the Catholic Church has become<\/strong>.  In 1965, I watched the service performed by Pope Paul VI in the same Yankee Stadium.  Despite everything, it was the presence, the appearance on earth of the eternal, the &#8216;super earthly.&#8217;  Whereas yesterday, <strong>I had the feeling that the main thing was the &#8216;message.&#8217;  This message is, again and again, &#8216;peace and justice,&#8217; &#8216;human family,&#8217; &#8216;social work,&#8217; etc.<\/strong><br \/>\nAn opportunity was given, a fantastic chance to tell millions and millions of people about God, to reveal to them that more than anything else they need God!  But here, on the contrary, <strong>the whole  goal, it seemed, consisted in proving that the Church <em>also<\/em> can speak the jargon of the United Nations<\/strong>.<br \/>\nAll the symbols point the same way: the reading of the Scriptures by some lay people with bright ties, etc.  And a horrible translation: <strong>I never suspected that a translation could be a heresy<\/strong>: Grace\u2014&#8217;abiding love&#8217;!<br \/>\nDoes one have to serve Mass in Yankee Stadium?  But if it&#8217;s possible and needed, <strong>shouldn&#8217;t the Mass be, so to say, &#8216;super earthly,&#8217; separated from the secular world, in order to show <em>in the world<\/em>\u2014the Kingdom of God?<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\nThe emphases are my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann (+1983): &#8220;Wednesday, October 3, 1979 The Pope of Rome is in New York. We watched him on television in Yankee Stadium. A mixed impression. On one hand, an unquestionably good man, and full of light. Wonderful smile. Very genuine\u2014a man of God. But, on the other hand, there <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgical-texts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-C9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}