At St. Charles it was the custom to have seminarians pick the music for daily Masses. They would make their selections, and then have the priest celebrant approve/modify the request at his discretion. One year, a fellow got todays celebration as his day. He picked several Marian hymns for the Mass. The priest celebrant, a theology professor who taught, ahem, the theology of grace among other classes, told him that it was not a Marian feast, and that Marian hymns were not appropriate. This, my friends, was the kind of theology that erupted into Catholic seminaries from the 1970s, and continued on into the 1980s, and even 1990s. Its kind of hard to fathom how a Feast that starts with, Hail, full of grace. . . said to the Virgin Mary is not a feast celebrating her as well as the primary focus of EVERY feast, Christ her Son. That professor has long since retired, and I wish him well.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:51:46 +0000
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