[Magdalen] Here We Go Again.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/5/2015 3:39:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com writes:

The one  thing I do 
not have in hard copy is the  ordinal.>>>>
Not long after about twenty years ago when the FSP (Fraternity of Saint  
Peter)
arrived in NE Pennsylvania, there were some ordinations to the  diaconate
planned.  They immediately discovered that a copy of the Tridentine  Ordinal
was nowhere to be found.  It had been twenty years since any  ordinations
in this area had followed the Latin Ordinal.  The ordinations required  the
Tridentine version.
 
Finally, after much international scurrying a copy was found in the  far
north of Canada, and the final preparations began.
 
The Scranton Cathedral was chosen as the church large enough to 
accommodate the crowds, but the sanctuary there had been modernized
with an un-elevated free-standing high altar.
 
There was more scurrying about to rearrange the existing altar with  six
office lights, large crucifix, and oriental rugs, etc. to make the  
sanctuary
acceptable for the Old Rite which was, of course, ad  orientem.  
 
This rearranging hadn't been thoroughly approved by the Pastor  and 
Cathedral
clergy, and those of us who were rehearsing the music for the  ordinations 
had
a good view in gallery of the tremendous argument that ensued when the  
rearranging
was discovered by them
 
It bordered on fisticuffs with Cathedral clergy vs. Tridentine  clergy.
 
The disagreement in the sanctuary was far more interesting than the  
ordinations.
 
 
David Strang.