[Magdalen] Epiphany

[Kristin Rollins]

It would be stirring up more than I tend to, but I wonder if we need a
balance of both silence and music to be spiritually healthy. (I would
recognize that those may or may not need to be found in liturgical
settings. I think that I need both styles of worship regularly, but do
not assume that to be universally true.)

Kristin

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  Kristin Rollins
  kristin at verumsolum.com
  Portsmouth, VA

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015, at 12:11 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> 
> 
> In a message dated 1/7/2015 11:41:42 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
> 
> I was  intrigued when our cathedral called the new Dean almost 2 years
> ago 
> now...  we had been in the pause mode for both gospel and post sermon,
> but 
> we 
> now  have music, music, music.  At first it was a jolt, and I sometimes 
> still  
> find my self missing the quiet  pauses.>>>>>
>  
> This parallels the contrast between the old Latin Tridentine Mass in
> its two forms:  (1) Low Mass, which is said without any music, but  since
> there is much of it that is sotto voce (inaudible - something  apparently
> imported from the Eastern Rites), the Rite has a lot of silences; and
> (2) Solemn High Mass during which and for which music, either
> instrumental or choral is essentially continuous.  I think the 
> expression
> "cover" music was invented to describe the High Mass.
>  
> The music filled Solemn High Mass is always described as the older
> form and the "norm" for worship, and not the other way around, as
> many thought in the pre-Vatican 2 days, so to quote one author,
> "Music was born singing".
>  
> That said, there is something refreshing and deeply spiritual about a
> said liturgy such as the Tridentine Low Mass and this would include  such
> as the said 8 AM Eucharist's so typical of TEC parishes.   There.   I've
> said it.  I never thought I would admit that liturgy can be spiritual 
> and
> meaningful without music, but, quite honestly, it can.
>  
>  
> David Strang - Older, and perhaps wiser.