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April 13, 2008
Reform of the reform
One reason I haven't church-hopped much this year in Rome (well, besides this week, when I might have had trouble getting on and off busses to do so or last week when I didn't go to Mass at all because I didn't leave the apartment Saturday, Sunday, or Monday until 3 p.m.) is the 11 a.m. Missa Canta at Chiesa Nuova. They have a small but excellent (to my ears*) schola singing in Latin. The ordinary is in Italian, but the mix is good for my Italian, too. Not an ad orientem mass, but six candles and a crucifix across the altar. Brick by brick.
*I am tolerant of people who don't know much about art but know what they like because I don't know much about music but I know what I like. Toleration does not imply letting people like them on committees to make decisions about buildings or letting me on liturgy committees with control over music. These are not highly transferable skills - many people who do music I like very much like art I find distressing - and they also are willing to do music I find distressing. I'm sure they feel the same about my willingness to coexist with good modern architecture.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at April 13, 2008 12:05 PM