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Exciting New Documentary : Mass of the Ages – Tonight!

Veronica Brandt · August 15, 2021

OR THE LAST FEW YEARS, a film-maker called Cameron O’Hearn has been working on an amazing project – to make a film to convey the appeal and value of the Latin Mass. To go with this lofty goal, the team also had the ideal to film it to the highest standards to make it a film worthy of its subject. A high ideal indeed!

Now, I haven’t seen the film yet, so I’m going from the previews so far released on their Kickstarter Project and their YouTube Channel.

Yesterday I listened to the following interview on the John-Henry Westen show. This is what decided me to promote the film in whatever way I could. Specifically, the discussion of belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.

 

I didn’t grow up with the Latin Mass, but I did grow up with kneeling to receive Communion. The Real Presence was important to me, by the grace of God. When a new parish priest decided to end the practice of kneeling to receive Communion, I was up in arms, writing to the Bishop, only slowly facing the fact that no other parish in the Sydney archdiocese still used altar rails in 1990 – if I’m wrong about that, I’d love to know. I even dreamed about it – a vivid nightmare where extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion distributed little cards with Bible quotes – but fortunately I have never seen this is reality.

The main takeaway is that the way you act at Mass has a profound effect on how you believe. Little changes can add up to big effects. The aim is not to dismiss the changes of the 1960s out of hand, but to listen to the stories and look at what we have learned since then.

MASS OF THE AGES: Episode 1 — Discover the Traditional Latin Mass (4K)

Premieres 8pm Sunday 15th August 2021 EST

(That’s 1am Monday morning in London and 10am in Sydney)

And don’t worry if you can’t make the premiere – they want this movie to be widely available and plan to leave it up for good.

For more information, see their beautiful webpage: theliturgy.org.

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About Veronica Brandt

Veronica Brandt holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering. She lives near Sydney, Australia, with her husband and six children.—(Read full biography).

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I’m still trying to decide how to visually present the “pure” Editio Vaticana scores, using what is (technically) the official rhythm of the Church. You can download my latest attempt, for this coming Sunday. Notice the “trochee trouble” as well as the old issue of neumes before the quilisma.

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This year’s upcoming Sacred Music Symposium will demonstrate several ways to sing the CREDO at Mass. This is because—for many parishes—to sing a full-length polyphonic CREDO by Victoria or Palestrina is out of the question. Therefore, we show options that are halfway between plainsong and polyphony. You can hear my choir rehearsing a section that sounds like harmonized plainsong.

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“As liturgical art, church music is obliged to conform to ecclesiastical law. But to construct artificial polarities here, between legalistic order and a dynamic church music, demanded by the alleged needs of the day, would be to forsake the foundation of a music rooted in liturgical experience. What is in fact the pastoral value of the shoddy, the profane, the third-rate?”

— Dr. Robert Skeris (1996)

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