Medieval Mass

[MrLidless]

My "apologies" if this link has been posted before. . .

The Medieval Mass (Circa 1450)

 

http://www.liturgy.dk/default.asp?Action=Menu&Item=285

[InquisitorGeneralis]

I can't get that to play.  Hmmm...

[MrLidless]

I just tried it again and it worked for me... 

 

After you click the link and the page loads, click the "Technical Info" link on the left-hand side of the page to see whether your computer has the necessary software; i.e., Windows Media Player 7.0 or better, Internet Explorer 6.0 or better, ISDN connection, etc.

[Croppyboy]

Worked for me . . . and I use the Opera browser . . .

[miss_fluffy]

Is that really true that only the priest would communicate in medieval times?
 

[Ourladyofconsolation06]

Probably not

[MrLidless]

Is that really true that only the priest would communicate in medieval times?

Have another listen... he said, "The first to Communicate, and often the only one..." 

 

This corroborates what I have learned from my priest.  Plus, as you might recall in more recent times (relatively speaking) Pope Saint Pius X issued Decrees calling for more frequent reception of Holy Communion by the faithful.

 

Call them "scrupulous" if you will, but the sense of the Sacred was much stronger then... the faithful did not feel worthy to receive.  As my priest has said (partially tongue-in-cheek, partially not), "Back then, people would go to Confession every week and Holy Communion once a year... nowadays, it's the other way around."

 

[OrlandoCatholic]

True, but to be clear, there were Holy priests out there long before St. Pius X that argued for frequent Confession & reception of Holy Communion. St. John Cantius being one of them.

[MrLidless]

 

True, but to be clear, there were Holy priests out there long before St. Pius X that argued for frequent Confession & reception of Holy Communion. St. John Cantius being one of them.

Why do you take my words and cloud the issue?  The point was receiving Holy Communion--or, more specifically, the lack thereof--not Confession.  Moreover, citing Pope Saint Pius X underscores the fact that, 500 years after St. John Cantius, the message still needed to be said.

 

I don't see the clarity you're attempting to add...

...but I'm willing to listen.

[HMiS]

"Back then, people would go to Confession every week and Holy Communion once a year... nowadays, it's the other way around."

 

Well, if even that. If they would confess once a year, they would at least live, according to the Council of Laterans, as good Roman Catholics, for they would still fulfill the 4th law of the 5 articles of the Church.

But don't be fooled. Among trads and in trad chapels this might be the case, though most people there confess more often, but in Novus Ordo parishes the normalcy is, that only 2-4 %, mostly elderly, go to Confession, well, once a year, probably at Easter, like my dear grandmother did (and she complained, that the modernist priest would be so liberal in Confession; note, he had been a co-seminarian for many years with the founder-priest of our local traditionalist church!). But I agree, that it is a bit Jansenistic or even quietist, to only confess once per year. It is pride too. These days we often sin by our views. 

 

The nice thing I find, that in the Middle Ages, even at a Mass said by one priest for a few faithful in some crypt, they would still have at least one cantor and one altar server.