Hoc est

May 30, 2005

Over at Amy Welborn's, Catholic worshippers talk about the liturgical state and practices in their parishes Sunday by Sunday. A lot is inside-Latin dope, but universal haunting moments arise out of the fragrant smoke, like this one from the University of Chicago campus.

There was a procession across the campus from the Chapel (which is interdenominational and attached to the Divinity School) to Calvert House (the Catholic Center). Some workmen were laying sod in preparation for graduation in a couple of weeks. (U of C, on the quarter system does not finish until mid-June.) As we passed by, singing Pange Lingua, a middle-aged worker, Mexican, I think, stopped working, (he was already on his knees for his work), placing his hand over his heart, and watching us silently for about two minutes. I found this very moving.

Yesterday was the Feast of Corpus Christi in the Western Church, and 2005 is the Year of the Eucharist.  A double whammy.

In the same vein, for pure cloistered sweet sounds, you can click here. Wait for the voices.

Courtesy the Anchoress

Long rumination from the relentless Porretto, probably palatable only to the already-convinced.

Corpus Christi photos from Compostela, courtesy Mangan's Miscellany. We think the comment was praising the blogger's good writing about good things. Always the goal, isn't it? 

Comments

[Francis W. Porretto]

Relentless? Moi?

Well, all right. And no, it wouldn't be of much interest to a non-Christian, except perhaps for its mythical resonances. But hey, a lone Curmudgeon can only do so much.