Absolutely Exquisite! The offering up of our prayers within the unison of ancient music that will too outlive each of us in this world and bring us closer to the next. "The self" is lost here in here in mystery of Christ and sacrifice of the Mass.
In fact, the vestment change from red to violet was an innovation, promulgated in 1955 as a part of the transition to the Novus Ordo. The traditional Roman rite uses violet vestments (with folded chasubles for the ministers) for both the palm ceremony and the Mass.
Before the liturgical reforms of 1955, the deacon and subdeacon wore chasubles (folded up in front) during the penitential seasons. This was a very ancient custom, and preserves a usage that predated the introduction of the dalmatic, originally reserved to the deacons of the church in Rome, and later, when more widely permitted, only allowed outside of Advent and lent, when the older usage was preserved.
The difficulty with S. Clement's (as with all Anglo-Catholics) is that they follow pre-Vatican II Tridentine ritual. Better they follow Sarum Use (the ancient rite of the Church of England up until the Reformation) instead of ritual that was codified by the 16th c. Council of Trent in reaction to the Protestant Reformation. There is an inherent contradiction here... But if they must follow 'traditional Roman ritual' then do it fully and not pick and choose which parts they will observe.
Shouldn't the altar and sacred ministers be vested in red for the Blessing of Palms and Procession, then change to Lenten violet at the beginning of Mass?
The reforms of the liturgy for Holy Week (starting with Palm Sunday & ending with The Easter Vigil) promulgated by Pius XII preceded the post-Vatican II Novus Ordo reforms of Paul VI by more than 15 years. It is therefore liturgically absurd for an Anglo-Catholic church (part of the Episcopal Church USA!) to go back even further to a 'traditional Roman rite' not in use since 1955. S. Clement's is more 'roman' than Rome!
Absolutely Exquisite! The offering up of our prayers within the unison of ancient music that will too outlive each of us in this world and bring us closer to the next. "The self" is lost here in here in mystery of Christ and sacrifice of the Mass.
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In fact, the vestment change from red to violet was an innovation, promulgated in 1955 as a part of the transition to the Novus Ordo. The traditional Roman rite uses violet vestments (with folded chasubles for the ministers) for both the palm ceremony and the Mass.
Before the liturgical reforms of 1955, the deacon and subdeacon wore chasubles (folded up in front) during the penitential seasons. This was a very ancient custom, and preserves a usage that predated the introduction of the dalmatic, originally reserved to the deacons of the church in Rome, and later, when more widely permitted, only allowed outside of Advent and lent, when the older usage was preserved.
Beautiful music and dignified ceremonial. This church has a very fine choir! But why are the deacon and subdeacon wearing chasubles?
The difficulty with S. Clement's (as with all Anglo-Catholics) is that they follow pre-Vatican II Tridentine ritual. Better they follow Sarum Use (the ancient rite of the Church of England up until the Reformation) instead of ritual that was codified by the 16th c. Council of Trent in reaction to the Protestant Reformation. There is an inherent contradiction here... But if they must follow 'traditional Roman ritual' then do it fully and not pick and choose which parts they will observe.
Shouldn't the altar and sacred ministers be vested in red for the Blessing of Palms and Procession, then change to Lenten violet at the beginning of Mass?
…I wonder what happened? Is this just a defunct church now? Where did it go?
The reforms of the liturgy for Holy Week (starting with Palm Sunday & ending with The Easter Vigil) promulgated by Pius XII preceded the post-Vatican II Novus Ordo reforms of Paul VI by more than 15 years. It is therefore liturgically absurd for an Anglo-Catholic church (part of the Episcopal Church USA!) to go back even further to a 'traditional Roman rite' not in use since 1955. S. Clement's is more 'roman' than Rome!