sense of the sacred: Televised Mass in the Extraordinary Form

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Televised Mass in the Extraordinary Form

This was our first attempt at having the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite aired over national television in the Philippines last Sunday, January 23, 2011. The telecast hopefully made many people aware of the existence of this legitimate alternative to the Ordinary Form of the Roman Mass. So far, we have been receiving good feedbacks. The televised Mass was that of the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany.

Thanks to Emmanuel TV for making this happen. Thanks to Jesson Allerite for the pictures.

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We ought to get back the dimension of the sacred in the liturgy. The liturgy is not a festivity; it is not a meeting for the purpose of having a good time. It is of no importance that the parish priest has cudgeled his brains to come up with suggestive ideas or imaginative novelties. The liturgy is what makes the Thrice-Holy God present amongst us; it is the burning bush; it is the Alliance of God with man in Jesus Christ, who has died and risen again. The grandeur of the liturgy does not rest upon the fact that it offers an interesting entertainment, but in rendering tangible the Totally Other, whom we are not capable of summoning. He comes because He wills. In other words, the essential in the liturgy is the mystery, which is realized in the common ritual of the Church; all the rest diminishes it. Men experiment with it in lively fashion, and find themselves deceived, when the mystery is transformed into distraction, when the chief actor in the liturgy is not the Living God but the priest or the liturgical director. - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Chile, 1988)

Do we still need sacred space, sacred time, mediating symbols? Yes, we do need them, precisely so that, through the "image," through the sign, we learn to see the openness of heaven. We need them to give us the capacity to know the mystery of God in the pierced heart of the Crucified. - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Spirit of the Liturgy )