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Cavete et Vigilate – Editorial ...... 3 Spring Meeting in Yorkshire – Wakefield 21st April ...... 4 AGM 2006 at Wimbledon – Report ...... 5 Chairman’s Report 2005/06 – by Bernard Marriott ...... 7 Mozart at St Peter’s – Coronation ends Festival ...... 10 CIEL 2006 Colloquium at Oxford – by Christopher Francis ...... 11 Re-opening of St Anne’s Cathedral – by Mike Withers ...... 13 Richard Milward 1924-2006 RIP – Obituary by Ian Wells ...... 14 will be “For Many” – Official Decision ...... 15 at Chantry Chapel – by Mike Withers ...... 16 Not All are Happy – Bishop Trautman in The Tablet ...... 17 Authentic Christian Language – by Mark Coleridge ...... 17 The Richness of Benedictine Liturgy – by Dom Juan Flores Arcas ...... 19 Children’s Voices in Staffordshire – Chant and Polyphony ...... 20 Dissonant Voices – Lehmann, Noel, Cameron-Mowat ...... 21 Tridentine Institute in Bordeaux – The Good Shepherd ...... 24 Petitions in Favour of Old Rite – in France, Italy, Poland, UK ...... 25 The Problem with Traditionalists – by Denis Crouan ...... 26 BOOK REVIEWS & the Liturgy – by David Berger ...... 27 Autobiography of an Elizabethan – by Fr John Gerard ...... 29 Stations of the Cross – by Fr Cormac Rigby ...... 30 Monastery of San Benedetto – Refounded with Full Latin Liturgy ...... 30 Music as a Way to Speak of God – by Jordi-Agusti Piqué Collado ...... 31 Mawby Requiem at St Etheldreda’s – Conducted by the Composer ...... 32 Bad Music in the Church – by James MacMillan ...... 33 Church Singing Workshop at Wonersh – with Jeremy de Satgé ...... 37 Pictures from AGM 2006 ...... 38 Financial Report 2005-2006 ...... 39 ASSOCIATION FOR LATIN LITURGY

www.Latin-Liturgy.org1 ASSOCIATION FOR LATIN LITURGY Founded in 1969 to encourage and extend the use of Latin in the liturgy of the under the patronage of the Bishops’ Conference of & Wales

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2 CAVETE ET VIGILATE Editorial he Church has been waiting for the traditional ‘papal exhortation’ Tsince the conclusion of the Synod of Bishops that marked the end of the Year of the in October 2005. Then last month the Holy th Father said publicly that it was on the way and now, on the 13 March, the document Sacramentum Caritatis has been released. To analyse it as thoroughly as we would wish and as any significant papal pronouncement properly requires, we shall allow a short period of discernment between now and our issue. The more significant prospect for many, persistently rumoured to be imminent, is the elusive motu proprio that might allow wider freedom to celebrate Mass in the Old Rite. Questions remain as to how far this might go and how it would be applied in the dioceses. It is however something that for many reasons we could not fail to welcome and it would bring untold rejoicing among those who have worked and prayed for it for so long. The other great landmark will be the eventual appearance of the new translations of the Mass and . These are certain to appear, probably in 2008, although muttering behind the scenes continues and could delay matters. Although both these developments will be widely celebrated, it is important that we remain alert to the possible threats that each might present to our cause. It may, for example, be suggested that with the Old Rite more widely available, there could be less need for the New Rite to be celebrated in Latin. Nothing could be further from the truth! It has been clearly demonstrated in our English Oratories and elsewhere, that both rites in full Latin can happily co-exist in the same churches, typically both on the same day, celebrated by the same open-minded priests. This can only lead to an enrichment of our liturgical life. Similarly it might be conjectured that with a more accurate and elegant English translation available, the Mass would become more tolerable and reduce any urge to flee to Latin to escape the old banality. Again, that would be a profound misunderstanding. Even the most sublime English will contribute nothing to the Catholic’s sense of unity with his fellows in past centuries and across the nations, or to his sense of awe before the Sacred Mystery. Although for too long it has been the Church’s best kept , the Novus Ordo , properly celebrated in Latin, has an absolutely vital place as the Church’s definitive rite of Mass, worthy of respect by all the baptised. Therefore let us stand by to rejoice as appropriate, but let us remain ever vigilant.

3 SPRING MEETING IN WAKEFIELD—21st April

Solemn Mass will be celebrated at 12.00 noon at St Austin’s Church, Wentworth Terrace. Vespers will be sung in the Anglican Cathedral of All Saints. The full programme for the day is: 12.00 Solemn Sung 13.30 Buffet Lunch (licensed bar) 14.30 “Religion in Ruins” by Yorkshire Catholic historian, Dr James Hagerty 15.30 Tea 17.00 Sung Vespers for the III Sunday of Easter Members who wish to sing with the Schola are asked to attend a rehearsal at 11.00am. As they will be in sight of the congregation during Vespers, it is suggested that if possible gentlemen wear suits and ties and ladies white blouses with dark skirts or trousers. uilt by the Jesuits to designs by parish have enjoyed excellent relations B Joseph Ireland a year before for many years. The response of the Catholic emancipation, St Austin’s is Dean and Chapter to the Association’s one of the oldest Catholic churches in request to sing Vespers in the cathedral the Diocese of Leeds. The church was was enthusiastic and welcoming, and we extended in 1852 and again in 1878 (by eagerly look forward to the occasion. Joseph Hansom, the Yorkshireman who invented the hansom cab and the architect of the Greek temple which is Birmingham’s Town Hall). Wakefield’s Anglican parish church was rebuilt in the early-fourteenth century, extended in the fifteenth, when its 247-ft spire (the tallest in Yorkshire) was added, extensively restored (under George Gilbert Scott) in the nineteenth century, and became a cathedral when the Diocese of Wakefield was formed in 1888. Further extensions were added during the following fifteen years to the designs of Frank Pearson, son of the architect of Truro cathedral. 1979 saw the building’s first Catholic Mass since the Reformation and in 1990, during reordering work at St Austin’s, Mass was regularly celebrated in the cathedral. The Anglican cathedral and the Catholic 4 Wakefield is well served by rail, with minutes’ walk of St Austin’s and at The trains at least hourly from London, Ridings shopping mall close to the Birmingham and Newcastle (and half- cathedral. Maps and detailed directions hourly from Manchester), and is easily are available from Mike Withers accessible from the M1, M62 and A1. St ([email protected], 01977 Austin’s is fifteen minutes’ stroll from 618463). the railway station; the cathedral is ten M1 northbound – J 39 minutes from St Austin’s and five M1 southbound – J 41 minutes from the station. Maps and A1(M) northbound – J 38 directions for walkers are available from A1(M) southbound – J 41 Mike Withers. M62 east/westbound – J 30 Drivers should note that parking close to For those seeking directions via the St Austin’s is limited (and is impossible internet, the postcode of St Austin’s is outside the cathedral), but there are WF1 3QN; the cathedral’s postcode is multi-storey car parks within five WF1 1HG. If you wish to have lunch at St Austin’s, please fill in and return the enclosed slip, with your cheque, by 7th April at the latest.

AGM 2006 at WIMBLEDON Report of 100 feet. It is proportionately high n Saturday, 21 st October, the and wide with good stone columns and Association’s Annual General O there are north and south aisles. Statues Meeting was held in the of eight Jesuit saints look down from spacious surroundings of the great Jesuit above. The sanctuary somehow presents Church of the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon a less happy picture. We know that a and the adjacent Wimbledon College. well-loved baldacchino was removed in The day was organised by Ian Wells, spite of a campaign to preserve it, but who had valuable local knowledge as an the subsequent re-ordering seems far old boy of the College, and was one of from ideal. This is perhaps the penalty several Old Wimbledonians happy to be for having on hand two ‘trendy’ there again. architects, one lay and one clerical! The church itself is large and handsome, The redeeming feature is the retention of of late Decorated Gothic , and dates a central tabernacle. It seems far away from 1887. It presents an impressive from the people at the back of what is appearance even without the tower that now an extraordinarily deep sanctuary, the architect had intended. The west but the sight lines are such that it can be front welcomes visitors with its tall twin seen above the heads of the sacred turrets and a large traceried window. The ministers whose seats in turn are raised entrance beneath is through a fine above and behind the forward . Gothic arch. The nave remains unspoilt Also, oddly located further back than the and entirely satisfactory with rows of altar is a carved wooden at what good benches extending along its length might once have been the front corner of 5 the sanctuary which has now been Oxford Oratory and Fr Guy Nicholls, extended forward to provide an Parish Priest of the Birmingham expensively tiled promontory. Near the Oratory. The Sacred Heart led front of this stands the altar, specially the congregation in Mass IX Cum designed and apparently received with jubilo and sang the motets Ave Maria à a fanfare, and said to stand above 4 and Jesu Dulcis Memoria by important relics, but of unduly modest Victoria. Organist David Gammie dimensions for so large a church. The played Widor’s Toccata on the modesty was emphasised (apparently as impressively-appointed 1912 Walker is customary) by just two puny candles organ. standing asymmetrically on the side of There followed a buffet lunch, which the altar table. Simplicity perhaps, but was a most enjoyable affair, thanks to scarcely noble! Ahead of this there is a the sterling efforts of the local caterers. little more tiled landscaping with There was sadness on hearing that the vestiges of J F Bentley’s old altar rails expected speaker, Richard Milward, the at the corners. Like their counterparts at noted teacher and historian, was Farm Street, the Jesuits of Wimbledon unfortunately too ill to attend. He had vest their servers in scarlet cassocks, however made his comprehensive notes which would be ideal for a liturgical available to Ian Wells who had known schola but always seem slightly him well and who stood in admirably startling on a team looking like mini for his old teacher, delivering a most cardinals serving in the sanctuary. entertaining and informative talk. He Solemn Sung Mass of Our Lady was gave an account of the achievements of celebrated at 12 noon in the presence of Edith Arendrup, the Courtauld heiress, a good congregation, fully in Latin who was responsible for the church’s except for the . The celebrant construction on the site. As her and preacher was Fr Kevin Donovan monument in the church proclaims: “It SJ, a regular celebrant of the Sacred was through her Christian vision that Heart’s Latin Mass on Sundays, this parish of the Sacred Heart came assisted by Anton Webb of the into being; it was through her

6 generosity the church was built.” She CHAIRMAN’S went to live in Wimbledon in 1877 and REPORT 2005/06 in due course discerned a need for a Catholic church in the area. She by Bernard Marriott determined that it would be built in a prominent position on the slopes of Edge Hill and took the bold decision to commission a young architect Frederick Walters to design it, which was well justified in the outcome. The nave was opened on the feast of the Sacred Heart, 1887 and the rest of the building was finally completed by 1901. The Business Meeting followed, including the annual reports from Bernard Marriott as Chairman and Jeremy de Satgé as Treasurer. The Chairman’s Report follows TWELVE MONTHS AGO WE MET ON A immediately after this article and the BEAUTIFUL DAY AT L EIGH -ON -SEA and Financial Statements are reproduced at enjoyed superb liturgy, a lovely lunch the end of the Newsletter. Members’ and a fascinating talk, all courtesy of questions this year focussed especially the parish priest, Fr Kevin Hale, his on the decision of the Bishops’ parishioners, and Brentwood’s diocesan Conference, which had shocked many, archivist, Fr Stewart Foster. This year to transfer the celebration of the former we have come to the alma mater of our Holy Days of Obligation, , Council member, Ian Wells, and thanks Ascension and Corpus Christi to are due to him for organising the day, Sundays. The Chairman undertook to to the parish priest, Fr Gerald Mitchell, let the Bishops’ Conference know of SJ, for accommodating us here, and to members’ concerns. Fr Donovan, SJ for celebrating the After a break for tea, all went across the Mass. grounds to the College Chapel which, following a quick reordering, provided Without doubt, the biggest advance this an attractive setting for the celebration year has been the approval by the of Vespers of the XXIX Sunday of the English-speaking bishops’ conferences Year and Benediction of the Blessed of ICEL’s draft translation of the Sacrament. Fr Guy Nicholls Cong Orat of the Mass. This has yet to officiated and a schola of ALL be approved by the Vatican, but all the members, who had rehearsed early in signs are that it will proceed reasonably the day, sang the psalmody in smoothly. It is highly unlikely that this alternation. translation will come into use before the rest of the has been More pictures—page 38 translated by ICEL and the translations 7 approved. The consensus seems to be sum of money. I believe that much or all that this will take around two years. of the expense will be recouped through sales, but there can be no guarantee of But, in the midst of this, the new this, and it would be imprudent to rely International Commission for the on it. Preparation of an English Language Lectionary (ICPEL) is doing what its The first edition of our missal put a name suggests, basing its work on the considerable strain on the Association’s Catholic edition of the New Revised finances, even though it was a much Standard Version of the bible. Some more modest production than what will commentators have suggested that this be necessary now to make the right work should not take long, although impact. We managed by selling copies in others, knowing that the ‘inclusive’ advance to members (i.e. members lent language of the NRSV will need us money to pay the printer’s bill on the modifying to conform to Liturgiam promise – fulfilled of course – of Authenticam, are less sanguine. receiving the missal in due course). I was Treasurer at the time and, with So, for the first time in over a decade, Martin Lynch, then Chairman, we we have a feel for when we may be in a arranged an overdraft facility with the position to re-publish our bilingual bank of, from memory, £1000 (in current missal, or co-operate with another money values this is around £3000), but publisher in this venture. To that end, sales proved sufficient to save us having we have obtained a copy, on disc, of the to become overdrawn. The situation now Ordinary of the Mass in Latin, from the is that £3000 would not go far with any Bishops’ Conference, and are printer’s bills, so we are in an altogether assembling from another source the potentially more expensive position than Latin texts of the Propers for Sundays. we were nearly 25 years ago. Once the ICEL translations are approved, the texts will, no doubt, be We have been building our reserves made available to publishers on disc so, steadily over the past few years and now after that, comes the comparatively have £11,000 in the bank. You will see simple (that is by the standards of the from the agenda for this meeting that first edition of our missal in 1982) Council proposes that subscriptions be business of pasting them all in the right increased. I am setting the scene here for place for the production of the new a discussion that can take place later. edition. Before these momentous decisions by Of one thing we may be sure: if we wish the English-speaking bishops, three to see a new bilingual missal available as members of Council visited our soon as the new ICEL translations are episcopal adviser, Bishop . authorised for use, and if we would like He was joined by Fr Allen Morris, this missal to be of the best possible Secretary to the Bishops’ Conference’s quality, including catechetical notes, Department for Christian Life and rubrics in red, suitable illustrations and Worship. We gave Bishop Hopes a chants, then this will cost a considerable selection of our publications and

8 discussed ways in which the Association It is now exactly a year since the bishops might assist in improving the manner in of the world met in Rome for the synod which the Liturgy is celebrated. We to mark the conclusion of the Year of the spoke about our proposals for a new Eucharist. We know that they put a bilingual missal, and it is evident that the series of propositions to the Pope and Bishops’ Conference will wish to one of them, Proposition 36, is of exercise a good deal more control over especial interest to us. This referred to publications for the laity than they did in celebrations of Mass at international the 1970s. gatherings (which, it noted, are becoming ever more frequent), saying Other topics discussed included the that such Masses should be celebrated in promotion of Latin in seminaries and the Latin, apart from the readings, sermon use of A New Approach, the need for and prayer of the faithful, and that parishes to employ competent musicians should be used. It goes who are conversant with the Church’s on to say that priests should be able to musical riches, and Martin Baker’s celebrate Mass in Latin and appreciate speech in Rome. Martin Baker addressed the chant, and that “the possibility of a study day organised by the educating the faithful in this way not be Congregation for Divine Worship, overlooked.” It is regrettable that this stressing the importance of the schola, proposition was the one carried by the and the need for the education of the smallest margin, but carried it was, and faithful so that they may participate by we continue to wait expectantly for an listening as well as by the other more Apostolic Exhortation from the Pope in obvious means. We also asked that response to the propositions. information about our publications be circulated to the clergy. The meeting There has been considerable was cordial and constructive, and I take correspondence in the Catholic press this opportunity of thanking Bishop about migrants to this country, Hopes and Fr Morris for having seen us. principally Poles, and how to cater for their spiritual and liturgical needs. This Our Spring Meeting took place in has given me the opportunity to press for Derbyshire, our first visit to that county the use of the Church’s universal since being in Derby in 2003. As is now language at Mass to minimise the often the case, we moved from one place tendency for migrants to opt entirely out to another, starting at the Grade I listed of normal parish life and disappear building of All Saints, Hassop, having completely into communities of their lunch and a talk by Ian Wells on Robert own. Hugh Benson’s Come Rack! Come Members of Council have not been idle, Rope! in Tideswell, and finishing with organising two meetings a year, Vespers and Benediction in the martyrs’ producing three Newsletters, and chapel at Padley. The arrangements were looking after the printing, storage and made by Ian Wells to whom I extend despatch of publications. Ruth Bleakley most sincere thanks. addressed the Newman Society in

9 Oxford on “Why Mass in Latin?”, and JUNE —Pope Benedict spoke following a Mike Withers attended the LLA concert of sacred music in the Sistine Convention in St Louis, Missouri, giving Chapel. a talk “ Plus ça change ”, based on his Full details of all these encouraging address to our own AGM in 2004. activities are recorded faithfully for us in Jeremy de Satgé, with his Music Makers the Newsletter by Edward Barrett whose hat on has produced two new CDs – antennae seem to twitch immediately Exsultet with music for and anything of importance happens, and Easter, and Regina Caeli which has tune into all the details to enable us to music in honour of Our Lady. keep abreast of developments. Whilst all I think it is worth dwelling for a moment of this is encouraging, these are all fairly on some of the many things that have disparate activities, and will need been said about the celebration of Mass connecting into a coherent plan to and the use of Latin and its music over improve our standards of liturgy. To the last 12 months: some extent we have to watch and wait, NOVEMBER —the Congregation for but be ready to move when the Catholic Education under Cardinal moment is ripe. Grocholewski held an international symposium on “The Formation of the MOZART AT ST PETER’S Clergy and Sacred Music”; ends Festival NOVEMBER —Pope Benedict addressed the Latinitas Foundation; he fifth international Pro Musica e T Arte Sacra festival ended on the 19 th DECEMBER —Pope Benedict spoke to the November with a memorable liturgical Sistine Chapel Choir and, on another performance of Mozart's Coronation occasion, to Pueri Cantores ; Mass, K. 317 at a in St. DECEMBER —the CDW organised a study Peter's Basilica, where the music is more day “Sacred Music: A Liturgical and usually Gregorian. The celebrant of the Pastoral Challenge” to mark the 42 nd Pontifical Mass was Cardinal Christoph anniversary of Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna and at which Mgr Miserachs Grau delivered a the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra paper entitled “Gregorian Chant: The played under the direction of Leopold Possibilities and Conditions for a Hager. Revival” and Martin Baker, Director of Later, at the midday Angelus, the Pope Music at spoke greeted all the participants warmly and on “Musical Heritage at Risk”; told them in German: “In religious music FEBRUARY —Pope Benedict addressed and sacred art the beauty and grandeur of students of Classics at a General the faith resound and shine out. Music Audience; and art touch our senses and help to open APRIL —Cardinal Arinze was the our spirit and heart to God and his Word. principal speaker at ‘Hearts and Minds’, I wish you all a good time in Rome. May an event organised by the Liturgy the Lord bless you and guide you on the Commission at Westminster Cathedral; path of virtue.”

10 CIEL 2006 COLLOQUIUM AT OXFORD by Christopher Francis itherto held in France, and Mass on the final day lasted for an hour Hon one occasion in Rome, and three quarters) and immense this was the first CIEL attention to detail. Organ music, colloquium to take place in Engl!and, singing and serving were all and the organisers made an inspired impressive, and perfectly tailored and choice when they chose Merton subjugated to the total liturgical entity. College, Oxford as the venue. The only problem came during Wednesday Vespers, when the smoke Arriving to register at the Colloquium, of the incense being prepared for the one could be forgiven for thinking that Magnificat (an unaccustomed activity there was no such thing as a vocations there in more recent centuries) set off crisis: the front quad was thronged with the fire alarm in the vestry, which priests, a few middle-aged but most houses the college archives. The noise young, some very young. Among both was shattering and continued for the clerical and lay delegates there were several minutes, simultaneously with French, Italian, Australian, American the just-audible singing of the ! and Hungarian contingents, as well as many from the British Isles. Some of But for me the most striking aspect of the papers were given in languages the whole thing, especially for one other than English, but always with who when possible attends evensong (a printed translations provided. beautiful service in itself) in such places, was simply seeing and hearing From the first dinner in hall, one could taking place in a chapel see that Merton’s reputation for that has not been Catholic for 400 excellent food is entirely deserved. years. Though not ‘authentic’ of course, Everything, food, and service not Sarum, it presented a vision of pre- were of the highest standard, the staff reformation England: the sound and unfailingly helpful and courteous. sight and ethos of Catholic worship in ‘Here’, as a very eminent fellow- the chapel of a great mediaeval delegate remarked to me in university, the incense, the chant, the Drydenesque tones, ‘is God’s plenty’. splendidly vested clergy, the many The two full days were very intensive, priests in their birettas, the cantors, scarcely time to draw breath, Lauds copious numbers of servers. I may be were sung every morning before accused of romanticism, but that is how breakfast, an extensive but rapid meal, it came across to me. Compline, very as delegates had to prepare for the first strikingly, was sung solely by session of the day. candlelight, an effect both satisfyingly The Liturgy, celebrated in the College authentic in the mediaeval sense and chapel according to the pre-conciliar conducive to devotion. books, was characterised by complete Mention must be made here of the splendour, unhurriedness (Pontifical generosity and courtesy of the current

11 Chaplain of Merton, the Rev Simon figure portraits of important men in wigs Jones, who not only made every possible from Oxford’s glorious past. The facility available for the conference but acoustic, after some teething troubles also himself attended all the liturgies. with the public address system, was There were three venues for the lectures: adequate for the purpose, and we the firstly, before Compline each evening in audience sat in disciplined ranks at the the College chapel. This was the least writing desks where knowledge is, even satisfactory: Merton College chapel is a today, so frequently and rigorously wonderful building but very large, and it tested. does not have a public address system. On the Friday, a tour of Catholic Oxford This is not a criticism, for you do not was given by Fr Jerome Bertram of the need a microphone for the liturgy in such Oxford Oratory, a genial and learned a building, but you do for an hour’s guide, with particular attention being lecture, especially for one as complex given to the various places which John and important as Professor Eamon Henry Newman had frequented in his Duffy’s ‘Benedict XVI and the Liturgy’, Anglican days. At dinner on the Friday, of which much was unfortunately lost to we had three toasts, to the Queen, to the those sitting further away from the Pope and to the College, whose speaker. foundation day is the Exaltation of the All the distinguished lecturers had Cross! something distinctive to give their audiences, and we breathed in the air of Finally, on the Saturday, we all repaired real scholarship, as distinct from the to the splendour of the Sheldonian, popularised and watered-down material naturally the best acoustic of all, where which frequently passes for it in today’s we heard Dr Sheridan Gilley on ‘The Church. As well as the lectures and Popular Piety’, a mentioned elsewhere in this report, I particularly brilliant talk. At one point, particularly enjoyed and valued the during a reply to a question he said: ‘the outstanding talks, succinct and very well Church surrendered to the world at the delivered, by Dom Alcuin Reid, on wrong moment; if it had been the 1940s ‘Sacrosanctum Concilium and the or 1950s, much less harm would have Organic Development of the Liturgy’, been done…’ Finally, the Rev Laurence and by Fr Michael Lang of the London Hemming of Heythrop College, a Oratory on ‘The Early Development of passionate and eloquent speaker, in his Christian Latin as a Liturgical ‘Theological Perspectives on the Language’. Traditional Liturgy’, summed up brilliantly the tone and ethos of the The daytime lectures were held in the whole conference. East Writing School of the University Examination Schools. One fellow- All these papers will in due course be delegate told me as we went in that he published, as the ‘Proceedings’, as hadn’t been in there since he went in to previous ones have been since the sit his finals, many years previously. The Colloquia started in 1996. There was one room was very large and hung with full- bonus item after the final lunch, a tour of

12 the College library. This is the oldest frenzied and almost universal, Merton academic library in this kingdom in somehow managed to preserve many of continuous use since its foundation. its Catholic books and manuscripts from During the reformation period, when the protestant bonfires. It was a good destruction of Catholic artefacts was place to conclude the whole experience.

RE-OPENING OF ST ANNE’S CATHEDRAL by Mike Withers

THIRTEEN MONTHS AFTER THE CELEBRATION OF ITS CENTENARY , St Anne’s Cathedral, Leeds was closed for restoration and refurbishment of the interior. Fifteen months and £2m later, in November 2006, it was re-opened with great and splendid ceremony. Among the guests were the Apostolic The motet was Viadana’s Nuncio, Archbishop Faustino Sainz Exsultate justi . The , Muñoz, Archbishop Patrick Kelly of Acclamation and Pater noster were sung Liverpool, thirty bishops, about 75 in English; the was from diocesan priests, leaders of other Missa Sancti Nicolai (Haydn) and Christian denominations in West Mawby’s Ave verum was the Yorkshire, the Lord Lieutenant and the motet. After the recessional High Sheriff of West Yorkshire, the hymn, All creatures of our God and Lord Mayor of Leeds and the mayors of King , sung with great enthusiasm by the the five other metropolitan districts packed congregation, the Director of which fall within the boundaries of the Music, Benjamin Saunders, treated us to Diocese. The entrance procession was a rousing organ voluntary – Theodore led by the Verger of Holy Trinity Dubois’ Toccata . Church, where the Cathedral community The removal of a century’s grime, re- had spent its ‘exile’. gilding of the reredos, introduction of a Mass began with the blessing and stone floor, upgraded lighting and sprinkling of water, during which the new light-oak pews have transformed the choir sang Victoria’s . interior of the cathedral. What was Gloria, Psalm, Acclamation and gloomy and somewhat depressing is now were sung in English; the Creed was bright and welcoming. The forward III . The Dedication of the new extension of the sanctuary, repositioning altar commenced with the of the of the Bishop’s throne (see pictures, Saints (sung in English). During the page 18) and the relocation of the choir depositing of relics (the skulls) of two to behind the throne make it obvious, Yorkshire martyrs, Blessed Peter Snow however, that there is little likelihood of and Blessed Ralph Grimston, the choir Mass being celebrated in the sang Byrd’s Justorum animæ . At the main body of the cathedral, at least until Preparation of the Gifts the Nuncio a future re-ordering. presented Bishop Roche with a and – a gift from His Holiness.

13 RICHARD MILWARD 1924-2006 RIP Obituary by Ian Wells

t the AGM in Wimbledon I that over used expression, a charismatic expressed my bitter teacher who loved History and knew A how to make it enjoyable for his youthful disappointment that I was charges, whether through the scandals unable to introduce my former History teacher Richard Milward, and bloodthirsty dealings of the Tudors (all described in pleasing detail – it was whom I had invited to address the alleged he once wrote on an essay “very meeting; sadly he had suffered a good, but you didn’t say enough about serious fall, which led to other the massacres”), or the complications of complications from which he was not the first and second world wars and their destined to recover. Cold War aftermath. He enlivened this But, professional that he was, he with a constant encouragement to find compiled a talk on the foundress of the out more for oneself, whether by Sacred Heart church which I was able to watching the BBC series on the Great deliver at the meeting. How typical of War (most conveniently broadcast at just him that his account of Edith Arendrup the right time) or with his personal should conclude with a consideration of reminiscences of the second war, her as a woman of prayer. Richard’s own including a bizarre tale of Wimbledon devoutness was never in doubt as I learnt residents gathering outside the Sacred when I first made his acquaintance (as Heart church to watch the bombardment my form master and History teacher) in of the London docks, of which they had September 1963; the degree of a grandstand view! recollection and reverence he Richard and I remained in contact after demonstrated and expected in classroom the AGM (his “fee”, characteristically, prayers and our weekly Mass was an went at his insistence to Jesuit Missions) example to us all. Anyone who has and I had the opportunity to express to contact with the Jesuits will know of him personally what I have described in their devotion to Our Lady. Richard’s general terms here. While I was at went further, from his role as Sodality Wimbledon College there was a prefect at school to his lifelong production of A Man for All Seasons involvement with that group in the which he and I both saw. Early on, when Sacred Heart parish, and it is most More is trying to persuade the egregious appropriate that he should have died on Richard Rich to become a teacher the the vigil of the feast of the Immaculate young man asks “And if I was who Conception. would know it?” only to get the reply: Yet, like St Philip Neri (canonised of “You, your pupils, your friends, God.” course on the same day as St Ignatius And then the lovely line: “Not a bad Loyola), Richard demonstrated Christian public, that.” joy. How else could he have made the impact on so many generations of Perhaps a perfect epitaph for schoolboys that he did? He was, to use Richard. Requiescat in pace!

14 PRO MULTIS WILL BE “FOR MANY” Official Decision

CARDINAL F RANCIS A RINZE , Prefect connection with the words of the prophet of the Congregation for Divine Isaiah (53, 11-12). It would have been Worship, at the direction of Pope entirely possible in the Gospel texts to Benedict, has written to the world's have said “for all” (for example, cf. Luke episcopal conferences, informing 12,41); but the formula given in the institution narrative is “for many”, and them of the decision that the phrase the words have been faithfully translated pro multis should be rendered as "for thus in most modern biblical versions. many" in all new translations of the Eucharistic Prayer. The Roman Rite in Latin has always said pro multis and never pro omnibus in the The bishops are directed to prepare for consecration of the chalice. In line with the introduction of a new translation of the instruction Liturgiam Authenticam , the phrase, where needed, in the next one effort should be made to be more faithful or two years. It is intended to reflect to the Latin texts in the typical editions. more accurately the normative Latin phrase pro multis and does not signify The anaphoras of the various Oriental any change in Catholic teaching that Rites, whether in Greek, Syriac, Christ died for all. Since Vatican II Armenian, the Slavic languages, etc., allowed the use of vernacular contain the verbal equivalent of the Latin translations, many of them have used pro multis in their respective languages. “all” instead of “many” for the Latin “For many” is a faithful translation of multis . The French version said pour la pro multis , whereas “for all” is rather an multitude , but the German version was explanation of the sort that belongs fur Alle , Spanish was por todos los properly to catechesis. hombres , Italian was per tutti , and Portuguese was por todos homens – all The expression “for many”, while various ways of say-ing “for all” or “for remaining open to the inclusion of each all people”. human person, is reflective also of the fact that this salvation is not brought In his letter Cardinal Arinze made it about in some mechanistic way, without clear that it had been the Holy Father's one’s willing participation; rather, the personal decision to require the more believer is invited to accept in faith the literal translation of the Latin. He set out gift that is being offered and to receive a summary of the factors the Pope had the supernatural life that is given to those taken took into account in reaching his who participate in this mystery, living it decision: out in their lives so as to be numbered The Synoptic Gospels (Mt 26,28; Mk among the “many” to whom the text 14,24) make specific reference to refers. “many” for whom the Lord is offering The Cardinal stressed that the use of “for the Sacrifice, and this wording has been all” has not affected the validity of emphasized by some biblical scholars in Masses in which that formula was used.

15 REQUIEM AT CHANTRY CHAPEL by Mike Withers

The first Requiem Mass since 1558 at Wakefield’s Chantry Chapel was celebrated by Bishop Arthur Roche in September for all the faithful departed who had worshipped there during the preceding 650 years. The Chapel, built in 1356, internally only 41 feet long and 17 feet wide, is attached to the medieval bridge spanning the Calder. Following the accession of Elizabeth I, the chapel was sold and, during the next three centuries was used for a variety of secular purposes. In 1842 the then Vicar of Wakefield secured its transfer to the Church of England. Soon afterwards a substantial programme of restoration was undertaken in an attempt to repair centuries of neglect; this included the replacement of the west front using Caen stone which wore so badly that the architect responsible, George Gilbert Scott looked back on his decision “with the utmost shame and chagrin”. A complete restoration in 1939 saw the west front entirely replaced. Fortunately, no-one has yet seen fit substantially to “restore” the interior. (Readers who attended the Association’s Spring 2003 meeting will remember Benediction in Derby’s Bridge Chapel.) The Bishop was vested in a black Roman and the Requiem aeternam and the were sung by all. After this promising start, the remainder of the Mass was in English save for the Agnus Dei ( Missa de angelis ).

NOT ALL ARE HAPPY undoubtedly the changed attitude Bishop Trautman in The Tablet of Bishop Donald Trautman, Chairman of the Bishops' Committee embers may recall that on on Liturgy, who had been a M 15 June 2006 the bishops of persistent critic of Liturgiam the United States meeting in Los authenticam and the work of the Angeles surprised many, after translators. So surprised was the somewhat acrimonious commentator John Allen of the discussions, by giving their National Catholic Reporter that he approval to ICEL’s revised asked how the change came about translation of the Ordo Missae . and Bishop Trautman replied “I tried Much credit for this was attributed to to steer a middle course. I didn't the intervention of Bishop Arthur want any consternation, and in the Roche of Leeds, Chairman of ICEL end we had a peaceful resolution to who had been invited to address the these important liturgical matters. I meeting. A key element was wanted to take a balanced 16 approach. It's important to AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN remember that this is an amended LANGUAGE text. What we have to do is to highlight the 'full, conscious and by Archbishop Mark active participation' of the faithful in Coleridge the liturgy, and the texts we received ARCHBISHOP M ARK C OlERIDGE of were not always good at this. The Canberra is chairman of the International amended text brings us closer to that hope of the council fathers. I would Commission for the Preparation of an have liked to see more English Language Lectionary (ICPEL) amendments, but I think we did whose brief is to base its work on the well”. controversial New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (NRSV) but at the However, things appear to have changed again very recently, with same time in accordance with the Trautman writing a major article in requirements of the instruction Liturgiam The Tablet of the 3rd February, under authenticam. In an interview with Sister the title “A Pastoral Deficit”. In it he Janet Fearns broadcast on Vatican Radio gives vent once again to his earlier in November of last year, he gave some obsessions, such as his antipathy to indication of his personal views on the ‘sacral’ language: “While no one language issue. should be opposed to the “When the bishops of the Second transcendent dimension in liturgical Vatican Council decided to admit the translation, an exaggerated vernac-ular they were reviving all the attention to the sacred distorts the controversies of the reformation and they balance between transcendence were plunging the Catholic Church back and immanence.” However it is into the stream of what is called obviously the Vatican’s 'historical consciousness'. Time was announcement on pro multis that impinging upon the Church in a new seems to have lit the fuse. “It is the way. Of course the bishops of the clear, certain teaching of the Council didn't imagine that we would go Catholic Church that Christ died for as far as we did, from Latin to English all. So what is behind the change? almost totally. What they had in mind The reason given is that "for many" was to be the use of some vernacular at represents a more accurate some point, but by and large Latin would translation of pro multis .” He asserts remain the language of the liturgy. What that in Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek, they said was that bishops' conferences the relevant words do, or at least could apply for permission to use the can, mean “for all”. In the light of the language of the people in certain parts of Vatican’s recent decision and the Mass.” Cardinal Arinze’s careful explanation, all this is unlikely to “What happened, and I don't think change matters other than to make anyone foresaw it, except perhaps the the final approval of the English Holy Spirit, was that the bishops around Missal a more bitter and possibly the world began to ask for total more protracted struggle. permission, so that what you had was a

17 move from Latin into the vernacular riches that are there until I was plunged languages almost totally. As I say, I into this work.” [We understand however doubt that was in the mind of the Fathers that his special responsibility is only for of the . I also the revision of the Lectionary. Ed] doubt that they understood or could have He goes on to draw comparisons with the understood the full scope of that fateful Koran: “Christianity from the very decision, as it is to pass the barque of beginning has been a translating religion Peter into the stream of time in a new and this is one of the things that way, because you simply just couldn't go distinguish us from Islam. Islam insists from the grand fixity of the Latin into the that to read the Koran you must read it in grand fixities of the vernacular languages Arabic. I am told that the Arabic of the – that's a contradiction. That is one of the Koran is glorious. But that is not so and reasons why we have the translations never has been with Christianity. We going on at the moment. So, in the sense have always been told that we translate that the vernacular is changing all the from the beginning, so we are a time, it is in a constant state of flux, you translating faith. In that sense, what is cannot control the process. The great going on now with the Missal and with high fixities of Latin, creative as they the Lectionary is a process of taking the may have been are not reproduced in any word made flesh and making that word vernacular language. In that sense, the flesh in yet another new way in a new cat is out of the bag and I do not see any moment in time.” alternative to that. It will take us into directions that we didn't foresee and perhaps don't always find comfortable. That is the prime historical fact that you need to bring to bear upon the retranslating the Missal.” He continued: “I have been thrust into the business of liturgical translation in a way that I certainly didn't see when I was made a bishop, a little over four years ago. I must say it has come to me as an Re-opening of St Anne’s Cathedral, Leeds extraordinary gift. It has been an (see p 13) education in the extraordinary riches of the . I now think if you can take people through the Missal step by step and teach them to hear and see what is there, it would be a magnificent initiation to see into the depths of Christian and Catholic life. Although I did my seminary training and functioned for over 30 years as a priest using the Missal, I didn't realise the extraordinary

18 THE RICHNESS OF BENEDICTINE LITURGY by Dom Juan Flores Arcas In an interview with the news agency ZENIT in October, Dom Juan Javier Flores Arcas OSB, President of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Rome, included the following observations.

here is no ‘monastic liturgy’ as different churches. Both as a whole as Tthere is no Benedictine liturgy, well as in innumerable details, the for the liturgy belongs to the Divine Office of the Benedictine Rule Church and is planned, acted and lived has considerable originality. Since their for all Christians, but what does exist is beginning, Benedictine monasteries have a monastic or Benedictine way of had a Divine Office different from that celebrating the sacred liturgy. Monks do of the diocesan clergy and other not distance themselves from the liturgy religious, based on the distribution of the of the Church; rather, they take Psalter made by St. Benedict. The advantage of it and live from it, as the principle of the Rule which has been liturgy belongs to the Church. In strictly maintained over the centuries is accordance with this principle I believe that each week the whole Psalter of 150 that in today's monasteries the liturgy Psalms is recited. Also one must must be one that reflects the spirit and acknowledge that from the beginning letter of the liturgical books renewed monastic piety has been marked to a after the liturgical reform. Monasteries great extent by the piety of the Psalms. were in the vanguard of the Liturgical While Benedictine monasteries should Movement and must continue to be not be museums of Church history or places where the liturgy of today is liturgy, it is legitimate to hope that the celebrated and lived with the same spirit Psalterium per Hebdomadam , which as always. has more than 1,500 years of tradition, might be maintained in Benedictine St. Benedict's Rule, a 6th century monasteries. However, Benedictine document, contains nothing distinctive monasteries adapt to time and place. regarding the Eucharist or the rest of the sacraments. Only with reference to the Reform of the Divine Office in Divine Office, which we now call the Benedictine monasteries is governed by Liturgy of the Hours, does it have the Thesaurus Liturgiae Horarum distinctive features and originality. In the Monasticae , prepared by the Benedictine course of time and until today, there Confederation, which allows for some have been two types of offices in the flexibility in the distribution of the : the monastic office and Psalter. Individual monasteries have the the cathedral or clerical office. The choice to opt for a Divine Office that Benedictine Office is based on principles responds more to the exigencies of time, of the previous monastic tradition; it place and work of each monastery. Some brings together and orders liturgical have opted for maintaining the elements that, at the time, were in use in traditional Benedictine plan; a great

19 majority today follow ‘plan B’ with the monastic apostolate par excellence; distribution of the Psalter in one or two monasteries have evangelized in this weeks. Some have actually opted for way. Also today there is an excellent adopting the Roman Liturgy of the way of spending one's ‘vacations’ by Hours itself. It is the responsibility staying in a monastic guest house and to each Benedictine monastery to participating in the different Hours of the choose one or another plan, but ensuring day, to the rhythm and with the help of that the Divine Office must occupy first the Benedictine monks and nuns. place among the elements of Benedictine Pope Benedict XVI has expressed great life and nothing must be preferred to it. love and appreciation of the Benedictine In the course of the centuries Order and St. Benedict. The fact that he Benedictine monasteries have been chose the name of the father of Western places of spiritual and liturgical radiance; monasticism is very significant, as he more than that, they maintained culture himself explained a few days after his during the Middle Ages and from their election. The liturgy has been part of his schools arose the personalities of the life, as he himself says in his Church of the moment. Let us think of autobiography, already from his the great monasteries, such as Cluny, seminary years. He regularly visited the Saint Gall, etc. In 1909, specifically German Benedictine monastery of around the Belgian monastery of Mont Scheyern in Bavaria and every year, for César, a arose led the feast of the Most Holy Body and by Dom Lambert Beauduin, who from , now living in Rome, he being a priest dedicated to the world went to the convent of the Benedictine became a Benedictine monk in the said nuns of Rosano, near Florence, where he monastery. From this Liturgical participated in the nuns' liturgy and Movement the Church moved to the presided personally at the Corpus Christi liturgical reform stemming from the procession. Second Vatican Council. The

Benedictine monasteries were centres of spiritual—and therefore of liturgical— CHILDREN’S VOICES radiance. Let us think of Solesmes IN STAFFORDSHIRE (France), Beuron and Maria Laach Chant and Polyphony (Germany), Montserrat and Silos (), Monte Cassino and Subiaco The Catholic Herald of the 23 rd March (Italy), Maredsous and the already carried a heartening full-page report mentioned Mont César (Belgium), etc. about music at the parish of St All these monasteries have their doors Wulstan’s, in Wolstanton, near open to their most precious treasure, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, their liturgical prayer, so that the prayer where it has been successfully of the community living there is shared demonstrated how a group of with guests and visitors, who are thus surprisingly young children can be introduced to the great prayer of the taught to enjoy Gregorian chant and even Church. This can be considered the classical polyphony. The reporter had

20 encountered exuberant nine and ten year- The children loved it, and were eager to olds skipping out from choir practice learn. As a result, they quickly got the where they had been rehearsing Mass XI hang of notation and Latin, Orbis Factor and Renaissance motets by and now have several heavyweight Victoria. One young lady claimed to like pieces under their belts, for example: singing Ave Maria in her bath. Elgar’s Ave verum and Victoria’s Ave Maria . The more experienced junior But it was not only the youngsters who members moved up to join the main were inspired. The musical life of a very choir, where they might perform a ordinary parish had been transformed by Palestrina Gloria or a Byrd four-part the arrival of a husband-and-wife setting. Their repertoire now numbers musical team, David and April West, over 100 motets and Mass settings. “It is who were sick of hearing people say Pope Benedict’s message – he wants us there was no decent music in the to preserve our musical heritage and we Catholic Church and, instead of are just doing our bit.” grumbling, they decided to do something about it. They amalgamated the existing There is now an exciting project to choir of hymn singers with the young restore and install an abandoned 1922 music group and in the early days organ found in a Welsh church. They sometimes used both the organ and need £66,000 to do it. Encouraged by guitars in the same Mass. To achieve their parish priest, Fr Anthony Dykes, quality in the music, the Wests imposed they have started the St Wulstan’s a ban on the more excruciating products Musical Education Trust to help in that of the post-Vatican II musical endeavour. Members will certainly wish “reformers”. The fashionable happy- them well. clappy songs from the 1970s were consigned to the bin. “We’ve never sung ‘Bind us Together’ nor have we done a DISSONANT VOICES single Israeli Mass” said David. Contrary to popular belief, these pieces did not Our Church being what it is, there have a cachet with the young. “That’s an will always be elements that old style. What you get is the mums and appear to be pulling in different dads saying ‘this is what the young directions. We would not expect all people want’, but they’re speaking as Catholics to support the causes ageing ravers and Beatles fans.” close to our own hearts, such as the When the Wests set up a junior choir to restoration of good liturgy, the run alongside the senior one, they didn’t preservation of our heritage or shy away from the harder stuff but set even fidelity to Rome and the Holy about teaching the children serious, Father. Lent is perhaps not a bad unadulterated Church music. There was time for us to be aware of views to be no talking down to the young ones; from a random selection of the instead, they were to be introduced to better known dissenters. some of the finest music ever written. Continued . . .

21 CARDINAL K ARL L EHMANN COMMENT The German for negative? Several actually, but perhaps verneinend “T HE QUESTION OF WHETHER TO ALLOW is the most apposite in this context! PRIESTS TO CELEBRATE THE T RIDENTINE MASS is threatening the Church and its GERARD N OEL unity”, according to Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German IN AN ARTICLE UNDER THE TITLE “F AITH bishops' conference. Speaking on OF O UR F ATHERS – How Paul VI Vatican Radio, he suggested that the brought Catholics closer to the worship issue of the Tridentine rite is splitting the of the early Christians” in the Catholic th Church. “It depends very much on the Herald of the 24 November, the author motives of those in favour of a return to and one-time editor of that paper the old rite, and there are obviously indulges one of his favourite pastimes: many motives at play here. In my baiting the ‘traditionalists’, which is experience, only very few people are often tempting but a little unkind. really concerned about the aestheticism He perceives something “which totally of the liturgy. Here and there, there is transcends the recurrent and sometimes understandable regret that a beautiful rather petty quarrels over the Tridentine prayer has been abandoned, but although Mass and its replacement. This consists people usually deny it, this is in reality a essentially of a curious form of dogmatic issue. Those who favour a dichotomy which has characterised return to the old Mass more or less Catholic and Christian thought since clearly question the validity of the new time immemorial. In its most extreme Mass.” form, it can be referred to as a mental Speaking about a petition he had conflict between the sacral and the social received, he said that some of the calls in matters of worship. As viewed and for the old rite appeared bogus. On practised by those enamoured of careful analysis, the lists showed that elaborate rit-ual, the outwardly sacral they had often been signed by very becomes the uniquely sacred, while the elderly people and by many children, simply social becomes merely human that two-thirds of the signatures came and based at most on a type of ceremony from outside his diocese, and that people associated with Agape. As far as the often signed several times. He said that a Mass is concerned, the ‘sacralists’, if we thorough analysis was imperative before can so term them, have an exalted idea of further facilitating celebration of the the Mass in its sacrificial sense while Mass in the old rite. It was imperative to rejecting any con-cept of its social get together with its supporters and dimension. For them, the Tridentine discuss the issue. He had found that they Mass embodies the sacrificial aspect of usually soon realised that it was quite Mass in its highest form while. the sufficient if Mass in the old rite was successor to the moves celebrated occasionally. There were, perilously close to a mere meal status. moreover, hardly any priests left who This assessment, however, takes no were able and willing to celebrate the account of the fact that the present form Tridentine Mass, he added. of the Mass is less truly a post-Tridentine 22 than a pre-Tridentine one. When the ANDREW C AMERON -MOWAT SJ earliest Christians gathered for what WRITING IN THE T ABLET of the 24 th much later came to be called the Mass, February, the lecturer in liturgy at they not only assembled as for a meal Heythrop College expresses his fear that but they even referred to it as the Lord's “the Church is being pushed in a Supper or the Breaking of Bread. direction hostile to the vision of the In the ninth and 10th centuries, major Second Vatican Council and which lacks changes of emphasis took over. The a true sense of the Catholic imagination.” chief preoccupation came to be the After praise for St Pius X (not SSPX!), making-present of on the altar the Liturgical Movement and the great during Mass. The moment of Catholic theologians, from which few consecration became newly associated would dissent, he goes further to praise with fascinating mystery and what “the pastoral good sense of the liturgical looked uncomfortably like magic. scholars, many of them long-serving Indeed, in the minds of the average lay priests and religious, whose person, it was the quasi-magic element determination to move the renewal which predominated. Reform was through to fruition would see dramatic constantly planned, but the Protestants change, and, for the vast majority of got in first. Hence the horrified Catholic churchgoers, significant improvement in reaction into retrenchment and their participation in the liturgy”. This authorisation by the fanatically heresy coterie includes among others the ‘usual hunting of the Tridentine suspects’: Crichton, Howell, Yarnold Mass, after which there were few and McManus. He clearly thinks it changes for four centuries. The ultimate wrong to question their achievements. dichotomy remains as between the But which villains does he have it in for appear-ance of magic, accompanied by particularly? It is the poor old Anglo- sumptuously decorated churches, “bells Catholics who join our Church but and smells” and the most elaborate of somehow misinterpret “the actual rituals and, at the other extreme, the liturgical practice existing before the barest of sanctuaries, a direct Council. Inevitably, this leads to a failure communication between worshipper and to appreciate the issues, con-cerns and God, no suggestion of superstitious prac- problems that the great pastoral liturgists tices, no “hocus-pocus” and no myste- of the period faced, considered and tried rious “making present” of a quasi- to deal with in the liturgical reform.” physical Redeemer. Worse: “Some from the Anglo-Catholic COMMENT Some elements of truth wing seem to have a par-ticular taste for here, but we are reminded of the Gothic: gothic , screens ‘liturgists’ of the 1970s who insisted that and an antipathy towards female altar the new rite was older and more servers.” That clinches it, ex opere Christian than the old, relying on operato ! dubious ‘scholarship’ and ‘liturgical But the writer has two further concerns. archaeology’. On translations, he is at one with Bishop

23 Trautman, referred to earlier in this TRIDENTINE INSTITUTE IN Newsletter, and a natural opponent of BORDEAUX Liturgiam authenticam and the good The Good Shepherd scholars of ICEL who deign to confuse us with words like …… deign ? “Perhaps On the 8 th September of last year, the what the translators are after is an Anglo- Pontifical Commission, Ecclesia Dei Catholic tone to the prayers. This might issued a decree approving the lead to a version of the Mass that establishment of a new society of suggests the Book of Prayer. apostolic life and pontifical right with The changes to the texts that the people the title L’Institut du Bon Pasteur in will pro-claim have caused unrest and the city Bordeaux. Approved con-fusion, particularly among our experimentally for five years, it will ecumenical partners, with whom we had have the right to celebrate the Mass a long-standing agreement to pray in and Office and Rites in accordance common. There is also the fallacy of with the liturgical books in force in thinking that an artificially antique 1962. language communicates, and that it com- The decree names Fr Philippe Laguérie municates transcendence or mystery.” as the first superior of the institute. He Finally, we must not fail to consider race enjoys a certain notoriety, having been relations. “How do we respond to the involved in the occupation, that began in call for a deeper understanding of post- 1977, of the church of Saint-Nicolas du colonial liturgy? Do our celebrations Chardonnet in Paris by the Society of St have underlying structures that oppress Pius X, at one time as its supposed parish minorities, particularly people of other priest. In Bordeaux, the institute will races, the powerless, the marginalised? have as its base the church of Saint-Eloi, The best way to respond to the which apparently the group has already multicultural and pluralistic faith context occupied for the last five years. in Britain today will not be to raise the In all this, the Archbishop of Bordeaux drawbridges. ……. we cannot be held and president of the French Bishops’ hostage by those who claim the agenda is Conference, Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, solely about a particular version of the occupies a curious position. He was Roman Rite, which Paul VI abrogated appointed by Pope Benedict to be a over 35 years ago.” member of the Ecclesia Dei commission, so this development surely could not COMMENT We should perhaps feel have happened under his nose without relieved that he omits Latin from things his knowledge, as some have tried to to be deplored as threats to the liturgy of claim. Writing in L'Aquitaine , the Crichton and McManus. We trust that his official publication of his archdiocese on student audience has the wit to question the 5th October, Cardinal Ricard this 1970’s vision of pastoral liturgy. confirmed that the creation of the institute was the wish of Pope Benedict XVI and that it would report directly to Rome on everything regarding its

24 internal life. However, it could only point made in many of the bishops’ begin pastoral activities after signing an individual letters, but not entirely clear in agreement with the archdiocese. meaning, “This could create grave There were in the area more than a few difficulties, especially for those who adherents of the schismatic SSPX, who it have remained loyal to Vatican II.” was hoped would be brought back into communion with the Church through this PETITIONS IN FAVOUR OF initiative. Although some 1,600 OLD RITE Catholics in the Archdiocese of Bor- in France, Italy, Poland, UK deaux signed an open letter to Cardinal th Ricard protesting against the creation of n the 16 December more than the Institut du Bon Pasteur , or Institute O50 French intellectuals, led by of the Good Shepherd, the situation is René Girard of the Académie expected to settle down in much the Française, published a Manifesto in same way as that of the Priestly favour of the Tridentine Mass, in the Confraternity of St Peter and the Institute Saturday edition of Le Figaro . In Italy of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest that on the same day, the daily, Il Foglio , were both established earlier to make the printed a similar document also signed Tridentine Rite available with the by Girard, together with other well approval of Rome. known signatories including Antonio Socci and Franco Zeffirelli. Meanwhile There is however much more the Italian centre right National Alliance consternation among the French Party was gathering signatures in Liguria hierarchy over the long rumoured asking the bishops there to allow at least general liberalisation of the Tridentine one Sunday Mass each week celebrated Rite. The French bishops, of whom there in the Tridentine rite. An interesting are very many, began writing in some reason given was to help integrate new agitation to the religious daily La Croix immigrants into the region’s traditional and to Le Monde to warn against culture. possible chaos. This continued through nd On the 2 January, it was the turn of a October of last year and it was possible group of 30 prominent Polish to gather a huge dossier of potential intellectuals who released a statement of material for translation. Now, however, support for the much anticipated papal it will suffice to listen to Archbishop motu proprio allowing broader use of the Robert Le Gall of Toulouse, the former rite of Mass, with the heading bishops’ conference spokesman on “We are with you, Holy Father”. The liturgy, who gave voice to a critical group included the speaker of Poland’s attitude that seems fairly widespread: “In Parliament, two MEPs, the editor of France, where we’re often at odds with Christianitas and others. each other, the liturgical question th Then on the 6 January, a group of remains very ideological. Thus English-speaking writers and liberalizing the Latin rite risks intellectuals joined similar groups in exacerbating this opposition, even if the Europe by putting together a short intent is to reduce it.” He repeated a document entitled the ‘Epiphany

25 Declaration’ to urge the release of a Church. But the problem with many papal document allowing wider use of of them is that they see these the 1962 Missal. This was organized and questions only from the perspective circulated by administrators of the New of their own memories (but Liturgical Movement web site. remember only the best parts) which Signatories included professors, authors and journalists, from the United States, leads them to imagine that the the , Australia and problems confronting the Church Canada. today fell down from the sky at the By the end of January there had appeared time of the Council. Before Vatican a petition coordinated by Una Voce and II, all was well; after Vatican II signed by a group of 36 prominent everything was bad … thanks to the scholars and writers, most of them Council and the popes of the English residents and including all the Council, of course! well known proponents of the traditionalist cause. Their text included a This way of looking at things tends to nostalgic reference back to the famous show that even if they have not lost their petition of 1971 signed by Graham Catholic faith, they have nevertheless Greene, Ralph Richardson, Yehudi failed to show faith in the ability of the Menuhin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Agatha Church to come through the vicissitudes Christie, Nancy Mitford, Joan Sutherland of history without losing its integrity. and others. At that time Cardinal Heenan They seem to have lost faith in the also intervened with Pope Paul VI and judgment and wisdom of the secured the ‘English Indult’, the Magisterium, which has always been precursor of the first ‘universal indult’ guided by the Holy Spirit. More simply, that did not they have lost faith in Christ’s promise to appear until 1984 and of Ecclesia Dei guide his Church yesterday, today and afflicta that followed in 1988 . tomorrow, until the end of time. And since some traditionalists have lost this faith necessary to call themselves THE PROBLEM WITH Catholic – Credo in unam, sanctam, TRADITIONALISTS catholicam Ecclesiam, they sometimes end up claiming to do God’s will but by Denis Crouan having no respect for the views of the [From an article “Le Problème des Vicar of Christ on Earth, the Successor Tradis” published in the ‘Pro Liturgia’ of Peter. In this respect, some of them Bulletin of January 2007. Translated by resemble the worst of the ‘progressives’ the Editor] who think that to be faithful to the Lord’s command it is not necessary to Nobody doubts that ‘traditionalist’ pay much attention to the instructions Catholics have a genuine concern (outdated or misconceived, they may with questions of liturgy and say) of the one Sovereign Pontiff or the catechesis and with the life of the other.

26 The attitude of some traditionalists another century. towards the popes, and today towards But what is the use of fighting for Benedict XVI, is quite illuminating: communion rails and the anonymity of When Benedict speaks of a “Reform of the confessional, what is the use of the Reform” then he is praised and leading saintly and noble lives and acclaimed. If he spends a moment of striving for decorum in the liturgy, if all silence in a mosque, then he is suspected that – good in itself, which nobody of becoming a conspirator of Islam. For should doubt – does not come with a more than a few traditionalists, faith and readiness to enter wholeheartedly, with hope in our Holy Mother Church seem to courage, faith and acceptance into the have been replaced by fear and suspicion mystery of the real Church, the present that lead only into circles closed in on Church – that of the apostles and today themselves, where a comforting bigotry that of Benedict XVI – outside which is cultivated to ensure that clergy are there can be neither true Catholicism nor preserved as if they come straight out of radiant saintliness?

BOOK REVIEWS

THOMAS AQUINAS & THE Catholic Ave Maria University of LITURGY by David Berger Florida. The author is the highly respected German scholar and THE STATURE OF THE A NGELIC author, David Berger, who is known DOCTOR as one of the Church’s greatest teachers, together with the for his devotion to and specialised importance of the Sacred Liturgy as knowledge of St Thomas Aquinas. It its central activity, combine to make is clear that his love of the liturgy this a book of compelling attraction. ranks no less highly. We are also One might have expected a much indebted to the translator substantial hardback volume to do Christopher Grosz who has made this proper homage to these august important work available in English. subjects, but we can rejoice that in To many of us who spend so much time this little book of quite modest reading recent works on the liturgy it dimensions we can read the essence comes as a refreshing exercise to of what we need to know and can imagine ourselves in the middle of the carry it with us on trains or planes or thirteenth century, experiencing liturgy in wholly different circumstances. What in the park. The publishers are the particularly delighted this reviewer was Sapienta Press of the exciting new to learn of the young Aquinas throwing

27 himself so determinedly into the Divine Thomas aside, especially in Office and Mass. It all started at the metaphysical questions, without grave Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino in detriment.” which the liturgy featured so vitally. His His powerful teaching on the liturgy, as love of singing the psalms became on other major questions, is of course deeply implanted and stayed with him gathered together in the Summa . He has throughout his life. Yet it was the valuable things to say about the sacrament of the Eucharist that would theocentric sense of mystery, the always be the centre of his life and that priesthood, the real presence and he saw as the centre of the liturgical . While appropriate cosmos . Having said his own Mass he treatment is given to the essential would when possible go and hear Mass spiritual and theological aspects of the said by his fellows as they celebrated in liturgy, the practicalities such as words turn. He would apparently be much and ceremonies and rubrics are affected emotionally “sometimes seized examined no less thoroughly. He tried to by such strong feelings of devotion that look upon every rule in the rubrics of the he dissolved in tears, because he was Missal as an ‘angel’. “A liturgical act, consumed before the holy mysteries of whose angel I have beheld, will never the sacrament”. again run the danger of appearing as a With his love of the liturgy on the one soulless, formalistic, historical act….” hand, and his outstanding intellect on the It has to be acknowledged that Aquinas other, it was virtually inevitable that his has not always been highly regarded by teaching should leave such an indelible later generations of theologians, let alone stamp on the subject for centuries to by liturgists. His standing among the come. His influence at the Council of theologians of the time suffered, like Trent (1545-1563) was profound, so much else of quality, from the 1960’s much so that his titanic work, the Summa onwards. However he is already Theologiae , lay on the table throughout enjoying a renaissance, towards which and was consulted regularly by the Thomist scholars, among whom David Council Fathers. St Thomas considered Berger stands out as one of the foremost, liturgy’s meaning and authority certain; are contributing. St Thomas’s firm grasp it was fundamentally regulated by the of all that the liturgy is really about is magisterium of the Church in the spirit something all of us could and should of tradition. It was to be accepted as an learn to appreciate. Now happily important source for discovering and available in English, this relatively interpreting the truths of faith. This succinct work will help admirably and understanding was firmly supported by may be studied with profit by all Pius XII in his encyclical engaged in the liturgy today. seven centuries later. A little earlier, St Pius X had invoked Aquinas in David Berger: Thomas Aquinas & The Pascendi, his powerful attack on Liturgy, Sapientia Press, Ave Maria Modernism: “Further let professors University, Naples, Florida. ISBN 0- remember that they cannot set St 9706106-8-8 soft cover 134pp £10.95

28 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN The story unfolds as a gripping ELIZABETHAN adventure and gives a vivid account of the dangerous conditions that existed for by Fr John Gerard Catholic priests and often for the THIS IS AN IMPRESSIVE BOOK with a families they risked so much to serve. remarkable history. Originally, it was One is tempted to draw comparisons written in Latin, in Rome, in 1609 by with Resistance movements during the Fr John Gerard, a Jesuit priest who Second Word War. His detailed had bravely faced all the dangers of description of places, people and events give us remarkable insight into the sort that time and suffered arrest and of life led by priests who went torture in the Tower of London. conscientiously and courageously about Having run the same risks as his their mission at that time. We encounter fellows who ended up as martyrs, he the names of martyrs already well survived because his superiors known to us, including his superior Fr refused to let him return to England Henry Garnet, Fathers Edmund in the tense atmosphere following the Campion, Edward Oldcorne and Robert Gunpowder Plot. We must be Southwell and leading figures in the grateful that he was thus in a position Church such as Cardinal Allen and Fr to write this gripping but patently Robert Persons. accurate account of his experiences. The period described covers England in A highly regarded translation by Fr the “hazardous years between the Philip Caraman was published in 1951 Armada and the Gunpowder Plot”. In and in 1956 he produced a second fact, as a personal autobiography, it edition with valuable additions, such as starts slightly earlier with the author’s the identification of individuals that early years in Bryn, Lancashire, as the Gerard had understandably needed to son of parents who suffered for being conceal. Catholic. His father spent some time in prison for his involvement in the plot to Now, fifty years later, Family rescue Mary Queen of Scots. John Publications Ltd have provided a Gerard moved to Oxford to study at an particularly valuable service by early age, then to Belgium, France and reprinting Fr Caraman’s work in a eventually to Rome where he studied at handsome volume for the benefit of the English College and was duly newer generations. There are copious ordained. He was delighted to be endnotes and appendices that give us admitted into the Society of Jesus in ever more fascinating material to 1588. Then he set off for England. He complete the picture. This edition has an arrived secretly on the Norfolk coast and introduction by Michael Hodgetts, the worked quietly on that side of the authority on recusant history and priests’ country for more than five years. It was hiding places, who gave an informative in 1594 that he was arrested. Three years talk at the book’s launch, that fittingly later after torture in the Tower he took place at the Jesuit house in Mount escaped and went on to work in London Street, Mayfair.

29 and elsewhere. It was the Gunpowder derivation to the inspiration of St Plot of 1605 that necessitated the exile Alphonsus in the 18 th century and the from which he hoped to return. In the moving reflections he composed for each event, he was to die in Rome in 1637, station. having left behind this unique legacy. Fearing the danger of over familiarity John Gerard: The Autobiography of an with the texts inherited from St Elizabethan, Translated from Latin by Alphonsus, Fr Rigby was moved to Philip Caraman, Family Publications, compose his own. He wanted to Oxford. ISBN 1-871217-63-6 hard cover encourage concentration and to ensure 296pp with illustrations £14.95 that his meditations were fresh and inspiring. He acknowledges that STATIONS OF THE CROSS “Alphonsus will always be the authentic by Fr Cormac Rigby author of the mainstream devotion” but THIS EXCELLENT LITTLE BOOK will that “there is plenty of room for other assuredly be widely bought without voices”. In the book that has resulted needing help from us. It has been well after years of development, we find advertised and has received good double pages given to each of the publicity, including a full-page article in fourteen stations with the prayers and the Catholic Herald of the 23 rd February meditations set out attractively on the by its distinguished author. Cormac right hand side. On the left for each Rigby is of course the former station there is a striking illustration, broadcaster who became a Catholic each example taken from a different set priest and contributes a weekly Sunday of stations in notable churches widely Sermon in the Herald. We must however spread across the country. These are let our readers know that it has our truly impressive, often colourful, but enthusiastic recommendation. There is at always catching the spirit of that stage present a wide choice of books on the on Our Lord’s via dolorosa. Beneath market to cater for the Stations of the each of these pictures, we are delighted Cross. Like other exercises of popular to see printed a verse of the Stabat piety it is once again becoming more Mater . commonly practised among Catholics Fr Cormac Rigby: Stations of the Cross, and has had the Church’s official Family Publications, Oxford encouragement since the time of Pope ISBN 1-871217-56-3 soft cover 32pp John Paul II. These books owe their £4.50 (Discount for Parishes)

MONASTERY OF SAN BENEDETTO Refounded with Full Latin Liturgy

We are delighted to learn of the refounding of this Benedictine monastery in Norcia, Italy, the birthplace of St Benedict. It is located near Spoletto in Umbria and is 2½ hours drive northeast of Rome by car. It is however accessible by train as far as Spoletto and by buses from there, also from Assisi and elsewhere. continued . . .

30 It is particularly good to hear that the full Benedictine Divine Office is sung in Latin and that there is Sung Latin Mass in the Novus Ordo every day. Some of the monks come from the United States and English-speaking pilgrims or retreatants are particularly welcome. The monastery has an attractive and informative website which we would urge all to consult for much further detail. It can be found at www.osbnorcia.org .

MUSIC AS A WAY TO SPEAK OF GOD Jordi-Agustí Piqué Collado

n an interview with the news agency ZENIT in October 2006, the Benedictine I monk Jordi-Agustí Piqué Collado of Montserrat Abbey expounds on the sub- ject of his doctoral thesis, “Music as a Way to Speak of God”. He explains that music is much more than a simple ornament of the liturgy but can open men and women of our time to the experience of God. Music has always been present in the God and religious practice because they celebration of Christian worship. do not find a language to communicate Singing, as one of the fundamental their experience. I believe that in our elements, as the basis of all liturgical contemporary period, I as a theologian prayer, contributes something more than have the obligation to “say God”, to a simple ornament or to the communicate my experience, to make it celebration, as St Pius X pointed out in empathic, participatory, comprehensive. his motu proprio, . If It is the drama of Moses in Schönberg's theology seeks to say something opera which I analyze in my thesis: He comprehensible about the ineffable has experience of God, with whom he mystery of God, then music helps us to speaks, but he cannot find the just, understand, to celebrate and to beautiful and moving words to transmit participate in this mystery, especially to his people the grandeur of that when united to the Word. I believe that experience, and his people prefer to both theology and music can be worship a god of metal, the golden calf, languages of transcendence. I believe, as because at least they can see and some phenomenologists point out, that perceive it. I believe this is the drama of the problem of our age is, essentially, a our time. It is the paradigm of the problem of language. I believe that the conversion of St. Augustine, one of the question of the existence of God is today theologians analyzed, who through the already surmounted, that is, it is not the singing of the Church gathered together, central concern of those who deep down feels overwhelmed by the singing that continue to seek God, but that they seek leads him to tears - and those tears, he him experientially; a formula or says, did him good. definition is not good enough for them. The language of theology, today, does Music is a language that can lead to not help in this search. Hence one sees perception, to understanding something many abandon their relationship with of the Mystery of God and in that sense

31 is, also, theology The Church has always God. In my work, I have enlarged this adopted it as an essential element of her vision with the analysis of some liturgy. But today I think that, even composers who in their works have outside the liturgy, it can be a key of addressed theological problems: Tomás openness to transcendence. I could Luis de Victoria, Arnold Schönberg and mention the examples of Taizé or the Olivier Messiaen. phenomenon of Gregorian chant as examples of aesthetic experience. But MAWBY REQUIEM AT ST the experience that passes through ETHELDREDA’S Conducted sensible perception is not always by the Composer unanimous: The distorted music of a n the 30 th January a Solemn discothèque can lead to alienation; the O music of an advertisement can lead to Latin Requiem Mass in the compulsive consumption. But, I believe novus ordo was celebrated at St. that an aesthetic experience can open Etheldreda’s, Ely Place on the ways to understanding the transcendence anniversary of the death of Jenny and Mystery of God. Perhaps today, Floyd who had been a stalwart helper when addresses and words are so at the parish for many years, and was devalued, the aesthetic experience might always welcoming when the be the key to help the men and women of Association held several early our time to find the encounter with God. AGM’s there. Of course this experience will have to be followed by catechesis and formation, The Mass was specially but at least the indifference is commissioned for the occasion and surmounted which seems to lull our was composed by Colin Mawby who Western world. also conducted it. St Etheldreda’s In my thesis, I analyze some theologians Director of Music, Paul Gillham, who, at different times, have treated conducted the Gregorian proper music as a theological problem. St. including the . Mawby’s Augustine, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mass was well received and was free Pierangelo Sequeri are the main ones. of any unwelcome departures from But in the writings of Joseph Ratzinger – the conventional formula. It was who is known to be a good musician – a good to find a restrained In theme appears that is the key for me: the Paradisum included. Bishop George biblical foundation of the theological reason for music within the liturgy. He Stack, auxiliary in Westminster, was able to establish the basis for that celebrated the Mass wearing a fine understanding from a reading based on black and gold chasuble. Fr Kit the Psalms, the Bible's book of music Cunningham was sadly confined to a par excellence , and in the reading of St. wheelchair following a fall, but was Thomas. From here he explains how as always in generous spirits and song and music, within the liturgy, are after the Mass all were invited to a elements that lead to an understanding of reception in the crypt.

32 BAD MUSIC IN THE CHURCH by James MacMillan The much respected Scottish composer James MacMillan is known for the strong Catholic faith that infuses his work as much as his life. His most performed work is Veni Veni Emmanuel (1992) a Concerto for percussion and orchestra - but he has composed Masses and sacred works for including the Magnificat. His Mass of 2000 was commissioned by Westminster Cathedral for the Millennium and was first performed on the in 2000. In this MacMillan set the vernacular text rather than the Latin, building on the tradition of modern choral settings espoused by Britten with his Missa Brevis, which was also written for Westminster Cathedral. He departed from convention by setting the and Eucharistic Prayer as well as the sung Ordinaries, but his work was acclaimed by the music critics. He had just finished a work for the Welsh National Opera, when he was asked by the Catholic Times, 8 th October, what he had to say about the music at any one of a thousand Sunday parish Masses across the UK. He replied unhesitatingly: “Awful!” and went on to expound his views passionately in an article, in which he also condemns anti-Catholic prejudice in Scotland, of which the following are extracts.

believe bad Liturgy has probably The human voice is a wonderful I been the cause of more Catholics instrument. It is not that difficult to sing leaving the Church than controversial chants and they don't even have to matters such as Humanae Vitae . be in Latin. They are an ancient Yet the Liturgy is the greatest gift the means of worship which can have a Church has. Done well, it joins our place even at school Masses in a hearts and minds with a cosmic gym hall where there is no organ. If Liturgy. We ignore the Liturgy at our we want good music in church, we peril. Vatican II was ful-some in its need to see leadership from the top. praise and emphasis on the Let's start by training priests in semi- importance of Gregorian Chant. nary how to sing. So much of the Organ music was always intended to Liturgy should be sung, but it is just play a vital part in the post-conciliar spoken. One of the benefits of Latin Mass – with no instruction to sideline was that it bound people together, these to occasional 'special events.' regard-less of ethnicity or culture or Most of the music at a typical Sunday sex. It could not be hijacked by Mass is just terrible. I suppose that anyone and there was a feeling of since Vatican II took place in the worshipping as one. 1960s when the folk guitar was the I share the view that music is the most musical choice for many, it was given scared of the arts. It gets under your central stage at Mass. But the council skin and into the crevices of the soul. never voted to abandon the organ It is analogous with grace. I or the chant. acknowledge the truth of music. It is

33 something profoundly spiritual. Music Serious musicians were more and can transform our lives. We all have more caricatured as elitists, favourite music, or even music that reactionaries and Tridentinists by a takes us by surprise that we can in new philistinism in the Church. Other retrospect see as a crucial, defining churches now regard the Catholic moment in our lives, which has Church as having engaged in a changed us in some way. But in order cultural vandalism in the 1960s and for music to do that, I think the human 70s – a destructive iconoclasm which soul has to be ready to sacrifice wilfully brought to an end any something, sacrifice a certain remnant of its massive choral tradition amount of our time; something of our and its skilful application to liturgical attention, something of our active use. In short, music in the Catholic listening. Music's not something which Church is referred to with sniffs of can just wash over us. It needs us to justified derision by these other sacri-fice something of ourselves to denominations which have managed meet it, and it's very difficult to maintain high standards of music- sometimes to do that, especially with making in their divine services. the whole culture we're in today. Sacrifice and self-sacrifice – certainly Is this negativity justified, and if so, sacrificing your time – is not valued how did this sorry state of affairs anymore. come about? Discussions of this issue usually throw up divided opinions Earlier, MacMillan had contributed a about the state of Catholic liturgy major article on Church Music and before the 1960s. Reform certainly Liturgy to the magazine Open House , seems to have been overdue. The which was subsequently reproduced in a pre-conciliar liturgy by all accounts full page feature in the Catholic Herald . seems to have been a ritualised This included the following: expression of the moribundity that had so calcified the Church. We In recent times the Church has were certainly ready for the developed uneasy relations with its rejuvenating breath of the Holy Spirit musicians. Growing up in the 1960s to cleanse, renew and refresh every and 70s I was aware of a creeping aspect of Catholicism in the modern separation between my serious age. However, even although the engagement with the study of music, pre-conciliar liturgical experience the application and practice of could be an alienating endurance for assiduously honed skills, and what the some, others speak fondly of how Church seemed to need and want widespread the practice of choral for its liturgy. I soon discovered that singing was, even in the most lowly most serious Catholic musicians were provincial parish. Performance of being repulsed by an increasingly major composers, from Palestrina to rigid misinterpretation of the Second Mozart, seems to have been natural Vatican Council’s reforms on music. practice from Aberdeen to Clergy and “liturgists” began Kilmarnock, from Glasgow to expressing a scarcely veiled disdain Cumnock. [James MacMillan is very for the very expertise and learning much a Scot! Ed] that musicians had sought to acquire.

34 The chant, Gregorian or otherwise, can’t. It is quite straightforward to has cropped up in recent news stories understand with whom the Church about Pope Benedict’s hopes and can and should be working. fears for the Church’s liturgy. As to be Secondly, congregations in and expected, the media have given outside the Catholic Church have these stories a spin of bogus been singing chant in Latin and in the controversy and have traduced the vernacular for centuries. In Britain, the Pontiff’s words and motivation. A monumental efforts to keep alive the number of liberal ‘liturgists’ have plainchant tradition over the last rushed to condemn Benedict’s century have not been nurtured by “cultural authoritarianism” and have the authorities. found willing accomplices in the When Plainsong for Schools was institutionally anti-Catholic BBC and published in 1933 it sold over 100,000 other media outlets. The Pope is copies in the first 18 months. The presented as a stern-faced, party- Society of St Gregory organised pooping disciplinarian, stamping out regional chant festivals throughout electric guitars, pop-crooning, and the land and held summer schools. the sentimental, bubble-gum “folk” Between 1937 and 1939 music used in many of today’s congregations of 2,000 and more met Catholic churches. Consequently we at Westminster Cathedral and sang will now all have to “endure” his the Ordinarium Missae from the much-loved Mozart, Tallis, Byrd and , with a schola of male Latin plainsong. The people queuing amateurs singing the Proper. This up to attack the Pope are the very shows what can and what could still ones who were responsible for the be done. There is indeed a new banal excrescences enforced on us momentum building in the Church in the name of “democratisation of which could be directed to bringing the liturgy” and “active participation” about this new, creative “reform of over the last few decades. They claim the reform”. Part of that momentum that the Pope is forcing through a comes from a widespread disgust at narrow, one-dimensional vision of what was described recently as liturgy, and imply that chant is “aisle-dancing and numbskull jogging beyond the capabilities of ordinary for Jesus choruses at Mass”. The days people. They are wrong on both of embarrassing, maudlin and counts. sentimental dirges such as “Bind us First, Pope Benedict has been quite together Lord” and “Make me a clear that updating sacred music is channel of your peace” may indeed eminently possible but “it should not be numbered. happen outside the traditional path of Gregorian chant or sacred John Ainslie, one-time secretary of polyphonic choral music”. Clearly, the Society of St Gregory, wrote in the there are living composers who know 1970s. “Many well-intentioned nuns, and respect this tradition and context teachers and later priests thought and can allow their contemporary that such ‘folk music’ would appeal work to be infused by it, and there to teenagers and young people are other composers who don’t and generally and so encourage them to

35 participate in the Liturgy instead of could be performed by the most walk out from it. But it has never been diverse groups and individuals, persuasively shown that whatever surmounting the divisions of age, sex, young people may find attractive to ethnicity, culture, economic status, or listen to in a disco, they will find political affiliation. “The liturgy stands attractive to sing in church. Further, out as a magnificent objective the style is unsuitable for singing by creation if the will to assist both large congregations, more so if the lovingly and well was there. Now one only accompaniment provided is a fears that the tendentious guitar rather than the organ, since manipulation of particular interest- guitars, even amplified, have groups is liquidating the ritual bonds insufficient ‘bite’ to keep a whole which held the entire heterogeneous congregation singing together and to mystical body together in worship.” In give them the support they have the light of this, the reformed liturgy come to expect from the organ.” can be seen as yet another glaring failure by the Leftists in the Church to Liturgy as social engineering has deliver, even according to their own probably repulsed more people from agenda. It was not meant to be like the modern Catholic Church than this. Reading Sacrosanctum any of the usual list of “social crimes” Concilium , the Council’s document trotted out by the Church’s critics. on the liturgy, one realises just how Like most ideas shaped by 1960s true reform has been betrayed by the Marxist sociology, it has proved an wilful misdirection of liturgical activists utter failure. Its greatest tragedy is the in recent times. It is clear that Vatican wilful, de-poeticisation of Catholic II did not abolish choirs, the great worship. Our liturgy was hi-jacked by choral tradition, Gregorian chant, opportunists who used the vacuum organs, prayerful liturgy, or even Latin. created by the Council to push home In fact as a study of the documents a radical agenda of de-sacralisation makes clear, all these things are and, ultimately, secularisation. The positively encouraged. So who did Church has simply aped the secular abolish them? West’s obsession with “accessibility”, “inclusiveness”, “democracy” and “anti-elitism”. The effect of this on Moving house? liturgy has been a triumph of bad taste and banality and an apparent vacating of the sacred spaces of any palpable sense of the presence of God. The jury is still out on any “social gains” achieved by the Church as a result. It may be timely and sobering to reflect on what we have lost. In the early 1970s Victor Turner, the Please tell the Membership Secretary cultural anthropologist, wrote of the (see p 2 for address) old Roman rite: “One advantage of the traditional Latin ritual was that it 36 CHURCH SINGING WORKSHOP AT WONERSH Parish organists and choir directors Priests with Jeremy de Satgé Parish choir members he liturgical music publishers, The Others interested in improving T Music Makers , are pleased to liturgical music. announce a new initiative in their campaign to help improve the state of The Workshop is open to all, but is Catholic parish music. In collaboration specifically aimed at parishes within the with St. John's Seminary, Wonersh a Dioceses of Southwark, Arundel and “Church Singing Workshop Day” is to Brighton and Portsmouth. If the day be held at Wonersh on Saturday, 9th proves popular, then further workshop June 2007. The day will be led by Fr. days will be organised in other parts of Gerard Bradley and Jeremy de Satgé, the country. Director of The Music Makers and For more information and booking Council Member of the ALL. The details, please visit Choral Singing Workshop is aimed at: - www.themusicmakers.org/csw.pdf

STOP PRESS The Papal Exhortation As a foretaste of the discussion of Sacramentum Caritatis planned for our next Newsletter, here is a brief extract that will appeal to our members: The Latin language Paragraph 62. The Pope writes: "I am thinking here particularly of celebrations at international gatherings, which nowadays are held with greater frequency. The most should be made of these occasions. In order to express more clearly the unity and universality of the Church, I wish to endorse the proposal made by the Synod of Bishops, in harmony with the directives of the Second Vatican Council, that, with the exception of the readings, the homily and the prayer of the faithful, such liturgies could be celebrated in Latin. Similarly, the better known prayers of the Church's tradition should be recited in Latin and, if possible, selections of Gregorian chant should be sung. Speaking more generally, I ask that future priests, from their time in the seminary, receive the preparation needed to understand and to celebrate Mass in Latin, and also to use Latin texts and execute Gregorian chant; nor should we forget that the faithful can be taught to recite the more common prayers in Latin, and also to sing parts of the liturgy to Gregorian chant."

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