{"product_id":"2940013067912","title":"Low Mass Ceremonial - In Accordance with the English Rite As Set Forth in the Book of Common Prayer","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original hardcover edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe word Ritualist has come to be a term of reproach used to describe that futile and boring type of religious person who delights in the minutiae of ceremonial. The most tiresome of all ritualists is the priest who invents out of his inner consciousness strange and original ceremonies to accompany the sacred duties he must perform—the priest who is \"so dramatic at the altar.\" Fr. Burnett's little book is not intended for such as these, but rather for priests who take their priesthood seriously, who realize the awefulness of their office, who know that they handle the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and who wish to do so reverently and carefully and in accordance with the customs of the Catholic Church, and not lightheartedly inventing novel ceremonies of their own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Preface it appears that this is to take the place of Fr. McGarvey's portion of \"The Ceremonies of the Mass,\" which is out of print but a new edition of which is hoped for. In the mean time a small manual like this is useful. But we believe that condensation has been carried too far to leave a really practical book. To describe even very simple ceremonies minutely enough so that one who is unfamiliar can reproduce them is an almost endless task. We do not believe that a candidate for the priesthood could learn to perform correctly, with only the help of this book, all the actions Fr. Burnett prescribes. influence in the Church of England was the shocking irreverence with which the Body and Blood of Christ were frequently treated, what remained after the communion of the people being used as common bread and wine. (7) To stop such sacrilege the rubric \"And if any remain of that which was consecrated ...\" was added in 1661, but this rubric ordered no ablutions—a ceremony then entirely disused and forgotten. (8) It is impossible to read into this rubric a command to reserve the Blessed Sacrament till after the blessing. Cosin, whom Blunt calls \"the most learned ritualist among the bishops,\" and who is believed to have originated the new rubrics, has left a memorandum regarding the rubric \"if any remain\" in which he says: \"if he (the celebrant) be careful . . . none will remain.\" (9) When a disused ceremony is restored to use it is surely most reasonable to perform it, if possible, at the time and place it formerly occupied (unless, indeed, one wishes to emphasize the differences between us and other Catholics). (10) Few if any of those who argue for the deferred ablutions really obey the rubric, which orders that some of the communicants shall join the celebrant in consuming what remains of the Blessed Sacrament.\u003cbr\u003e[graphic]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe note a number of changes from ordinary usage and from the directions in \"The Ceremonies of the Mass,\" and some of them puzzle us. On page 23 the celebrant, at the words \"are unworthy,\" is told to strike his breast thrice, although once is ordered—the ordinary rule. What authority is there for the celebrant rubbing his fingers over the paten instead of over the chalice? A pause for \"meditation\" is ordered after receiving from the chalice (p. 25) as well as the customary one after receiving the Host. Does Fr. Burnett really believe that he can revive the separation of the sexes at communion? The directions for veiling the Sacrament after communion require the paten to be left on the corporal instead of on the chalice, a new, and we should think awkward, arrangement. The wiping of the lips at the ablutions is omitted. We are sorry to see the change in the wording of the prayer said by the priest when he has ascended to the altar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFr. Burnett deals with a question about which there has been considerable controversy recently, the proper time for the ablutions in our mass—whether immediately after the communion or deferred till after the blessing. He defends the latter custom. Without attempting to judge in the matter we may set down certain facts which we believe are not disputed. (1) \"Ablutions\" is a technical term for the ceremonial cleansing of the chalice (and sometimes the paten and ciborium) and the celebrant's fingers. (2) By the twelfth or thirteenth century this ceremony had become fixed throughout the West in practically its present form and place as now found in the Roman Missal—i. e., immediately after the communion. (3) No Prayer Book of the Anglican communion has any direction whatever for the ablutions. (4) Those priests who conformed to the new order in the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth and who performed the ablutions (as presumably all who retained their Catholic belief did) undoubtedly performed this ceremony where they always had, immediately after the communion of the people, there being no new direction. (5) Some time in Elizabeth's reign the ceremony of the ablutions fell into disuse...","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069749051632,"sku":"2940013067912","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013067912_p0.jpg?v=1763575967","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013067912","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}