By Peter Kwasniewski
Excerpt from his book “Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis”
As Augustine said, ‘only the lover can sing.’ We sing words that we are in love with, or rather, words that remind us of the one we are in love with. Whenever the Epistle or the Gospel is chanted at a Tridentine (Latin) Mass, it makes my heart race; it is a love-song, a song of the human heart caught up in romance with the eternal Word. In the new liturgy, by contrast, the Bible is nearly always merely read out. There is no love affair; it is a sedate meeting where a certain amount of business has to be gone through.
Remember this? Father (then Deacon) Van Lieshout (Livonia) chants the Gospel.
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