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Online Gray2023

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Re: Latin mass at the circus in 1952
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2024, 11:22:25 AM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on January 06, 2024, 11:08:21 AM
    Of course, certain situations of necessity would permit Mass to be offered in different venues, but I doubt this was such a situation.  I've also seen pictures of this circus online that entailed seriously immodest dress on the part of the entertainers.  Canon Law was fairly strict about where it was appropriate to offer Mass, except in situations of extreme urgency ... but left the typical "out" that it was up to the bishop.
    So they were taking licenses they shouldn't have taken.
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    Re: Latin mass at the circus in 1952
    « Reply #16 on: January 06, 2024, 11:38:28 AM »
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    • Quote from: Gray2023 on January 06, 2024, 11:22:25 AM
    So they were taking licenses they shouldn't have taken.

    That's my personal opinion, and we all know that the Liturgical experimentation was well underway already in the 1940s and 1950s.
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    Re: Latin mass at the circus in 1952
    « Reply #17 on: January 06, 2024, 02:51:54 PM »
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    • Highly irregular and people dressed—or not—immodestly.  Even if the Mass was held on the circus grounds, it seems to me the acrobats, dancers, etc. should have thrown on a caftan and the masks removed.  I’ve been to Mass in a few unusual places, either because the local bishop refused use of the church for traditional Mass or because a proper church was not available, ie. in a house or place on private property, en route on a pilgrimage, at a camp or wilderness trek.  
    It could also be that many of the circus workers were not Catholic or uncatechized. They were curious on-lookers.  
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    Re: Latin mass at the circus in 1952
    « Reply #18 on: January 07, 2024, 06:47:37 AM »
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    • I would recommend looking at Gerald Ellard's 'The Mass of the Future' published by Bruce, Milwaukee in 1948 and his other works.  They show all sorts of experimentation going on.  Internet Archive have a link but you have to login in and 'borrow' the book:

    https://archive.org/details/massoffuture0000ella/page/n425/mode/2up

    There is a description of a 'workers' Mass' in Castres, France in 1944 on p. 155  Note it was all in French, save for the Canon, and facing the people.


    There are some photographs too of early changes to sanctuaries adapted for Mass facing the people, e.g.:


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