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October 2009 Issue of He Resisted They Shot Him Several Times in the Head The Parish of St. Edmund, King and Martyr Waterloo, Ontario www.stedmund.ca UPDATE The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada / The Traditional Anglican Communion October 21, 2009 - St. John Cantius November Schedule November 1 Sunday All Saints' Day November 3 Tuesday All Souls' Day November 8 Sunday Remembrance Day November 15 Sunday St. Edmund, King and Martyr November 22 Sunday Christ the King / The Sunday next before Advent November 29 Sunday The First Sunday in Advent Service Times and Location (1) All Services are held in the Chapel at Luther Village on the Park - 139 Father David Bauer Drive in Waterloo. (2) On Sundays, Matins is sung at 10:00 a.m. (The Litany on the first Sunday of the month), and the Holy Eucharist is celebrated (sung) at 10:30 a.m. (3) On weekdays - Major Holy Days - the Holy Eucharist is usually celebrated at 7:00 p.m., 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. ___________________________________________________ NOTES AND COMMENTS 1) Right worship feeds right faith - THE parts - please, no comments until you have read the REBELLION AGAINST THE SELF-EVIDENT - this whole article - page 5. page. 4) Father Marriott makes - A VISIT TO L'ABBAYE 2) Reminiscences: Australia - ROBERT'S DE LA SAINTE MADELEINE - page 8. RAMBLINGS - page 4. 5) On homosexual unions - the second of four parts 3) DEALING WITH ISLAMISM - the second of three - CONSIDERATIONS - page 9. THE REBELLION AGAINST THE SELF-EVIDENT It is a not uncommon issue in modern times that have become something arbitrary . Anyone those who put forward that the external aspects of who perceives the form and takes it seriously is our sacred rites are important and therefore worthy in danger of being deceived. This is the trouble of attention, that beauty matters and therefore the with the aesthete. He looks for truth in the wrong beautiful should be pursued, and that these things place, that is, in the realm of what can be seen, are so because they are fundamentally tied to the and he looks for it with the wrong (and forbidden!) interior aspects of our Faith (moving heart, mind and means, that is, with his senses, taste, experience soul toward God), that these people and ideas are and intellect. This philosophical rebellion against viewed with a certain amount of suspicion. Often everything self-evident has given birth to the there are intimations (if not direct statements) of basic attitude of our generation, namely, an all- being mere aesthetes whose concern is merely for pervading distrust of every kind of beauty and aesthetics and liturgical "show." Others might simply perfection. Nowadays, the most withering suggest that those who give this any focus or weight condemnation is to say that something is 'merely are at very least exhibiting misplaced priorities; beautiful'. focusing upon accidentals rather than that which "really matters". [...] The matter is spoken to by Martin Mosebach in The The crushing power of this contemporary attitude Heresy of Formlessness: The Roman Liturgy and has inhibited Catholics and made them fearful Its Enemy: and uncertain, faced with the task of defending their traditional form of prayer and sacrifice. This In Germany, whenever there is a debate about form, this mighty architecture composed of the great Catholic liturgical tradition, it only needs language, music, and gesture was too visual, too someone to utter the accusation of 'aestheticism', full of concrete significance: it was bound to and it is all over. provoke the vehement opposition of our contemporaries. [...] [...] The German vice - philosophy - has firmly fixed the idea of a distinction between content and We cannot just laugh this off. It is difficult, if not form in the minds of very diverse people. impossible, to break out from one's time, and According to this doctrine, the content and form sometimes it seems as if there is hardly anyone can be separated from one another. What it left unscathed, untouched by this guilt feeling on regards as the authentic reality it calls the account of liturgical beauty. content: abstraction, the theoretical abstract. By contrast, it regards bodies of flesh and blood, Another quote which is pertinent to our physical and tangible structures, as mere form, consideration, found via a paper of Dr. Alcuin Reid, expendable and shadowy images. The idea is comes from Dom Lambert Beauduin, OSB, one of that those who occupy themselves with this the "founding fathers" of the original Liturgical external form remain at the peripheral level, the Movement. He wrote early in the 20th century: level of accidents, whereas those who go beyond the form reach the realm of eternal abstractions The whole priestly influence is exercised on the and so attain the light of truth. In this view, forms members of the Church only by means of sensible, authentic forms, which are its vehicle. In both cases, we have a problem, and the common Formulas, readings, chants, rites, material root is an improper divorce of the interior and elements, in short, all the externals of the Liturgy, exterior dimensions of the Faith which fails to are indispensable for sharing in the thoughts, the recognize not only that there is an intimate teachings, the acts of adoration, the sentiments, relationship, but which perhaps fails to comprehend the graces which Christ and His visible priesthood how the outer aspects, even down to its details, destine for us. Hence, to minimize this visible have a profound influence upon us and are a contact under the pretext that the soul can then gateway to the inner aspects - aspects that they better achieve something interior, or that invisible wish to (rightly) give importance. (For those who communion suffices, is at the same time to would debate the issue of details, one must ask diminish the priestly influence of the hierarchy themselves why the Church legislates on these and consequently the action of Christ in our matters if they are inconsequential, shallow, or souls. (Liturgy the Life of the Church) without importance and influence? One specific example to consider in this regard is how the Church Of course, many more such statements could be mandates the use of "precious" and "noble" culled from innumerable authors. However, the materials for a chalice. This is not only for pragmatic issue here is not to provide an exhaustive series of reasons - less possibility of breakage - but also quotations on the subject, but rather to invoke because the noble materials both befit and visually reflection upon one of the issues we face in the speak to the invisible mystery contained within: the Church today: the problematic tendency to view Precious Blood. Many other similar examples can valuation of these things, or to give them any be cited.) practical concern, with suspicion and generally to view these aspects in a diminutive way; and as Such a divorce between the outer and inner aspects regards those who hold them, of being a mere could be understood to amount to a kind of liturgical aesthete, of only being concerned for show and dualism, because it places a division where there is pomp, or of having misplaced priorities in the face of not properly one, and where instead there is an the "more serious business" of the day. But these intimate, intertwined relationship. Of course, not all suggestions are both too general (since there is no who object to a consideration of externals are, such necessity) and also fail to understand or give strictly speaking, suggesting there is no relationship sufficient weight to the serious business that is the whatsoever, but they are perhaps not giving sacred liturgy - a business, let's recall, that sufficient weight to that relationship, and thus there particularly touches and forms all of the faithful, day is something of a dualistic tendency that is arguably by day and week by week, including our future present to some greater or lesser degree - to what priests and bishops - and it most certainly fails to degree could only be evaluated on a case by case, consider the sacred liturgy in all its parts and argument by argument basis. However, if one aspects; parts and aspects that are intimately woven accepts the reality of this fundamental relationship, together. that the outer aspects are a "gateway" to the inner aspects, the visible speaking to the invisible, which Ironically, it is a problem which seems to have in turn reaches back out to and influences the other heightened precisely at the time of (and possibly, in aspects of the practice of our Christian life, then the some cases, in response to) the pontificate of concern as to whether this is not a misplaced Benedict XVI, a Pope who in both practice and emphasis should quickly be resolved, with our only discourse, evidently understands the importance of concern being to ensure that, in our pursuit of these both aspects, as well as the central importance of projects (which should be pursued), we concurrently the liturgy generally. work against any form of liturgical reductionism, including mere, narcissistic aestheticism on the one Let's be fair though. Could someone hold a skewed hand, and liturgical minimalism on the other. view of these things? Absolutely. But let's remember that the skewed view of the outer aspects That our experiences, actions and other external of the liturgy can cut two ways. The way of the dimensions of life generally have a profound aesthete, yes indeed, who intentionally pushes aside influence upon us, forming us, moving us and so what the outer things relate to. This is wrong. But forth, is really a matter of common sense and our on the opposite end of the spectrum, those who fail lived experience.
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