Tuesday, May 3, 2011
How Can I Keep From Blogging . . .
About the fact that the singing at the recent Royal Wedding was so much richer and more beautiful than the singing at the Mass of Beatification for Pope John Paul II, a point also noted by English Catholic religion columnist Damian Thompson (here). With understandable English pride Thompson notes that the service for the royal nuptials was "simply magnificent" and that it made him wish "just for a split second" that he was an Anglican. Being Irish and American, I can't quite bring myself to that moment, even in jest, but I can join him and others in hoping for something better, not only from Rome, but from dioceses and parishes near and wide.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/05/how-can-i-keep-from-blogging-.html
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So true, and it seemed as if everyone in the place was singing! Some complained that the service was too "Anglican" (Michael Sean Winters expressed this lament, along with outrage at the trees in the church; he's so peculiar); I found the assertive "Anglican-ness" of it all refreshing. I've been to so many Episcopalian services where they go out of their way to avoid giving any offense, that it was nice to see them assert some identity.