tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post114487738646043065..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Liturgy & TheatreDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1145026807268485832006-04-14T11:00:00.000-04:002006-04-14T11:00:00.000-04:00Many excellent points!One of the points I make in ...Many excellent points!<BR/><BR/>One of the points I make in this regard is that we presume too much if we think we <I>comprehend</I> the meaning of the liturgy. We certainly get a lot of its meaning; but we don't fully penetrate it. Indeed, we don't know how well we penetrate it, precisely because we are in the realm of <I>mystery</I> -- which is not something we don't understand at all, but something whose meaning we never exhaust.<BR/><BR/>Thus, we do better to remain very humble before the liturgy, taking it as-is, not with strict rigor, as if we can make no adaptations or accommodations (the rubrics are full of invitations and permissions for such things, so we needn't invent them), but with the attitude that this is far bigger than we are; we receive it, we are not its masters.<BR/><BR/>With all that, there is one, fine point I would note, about what you described in your parish for Holy Thursday: it is correct to have the tabernacle "completely empty before the celebration." You'll find that in the sacramentary for Holy Thursday.Fr Martin Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01375628123126091747noreply@blogger.com