Mores Catholici, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from Mores Catholici, Vol. 2: Or, Ages of Faith The predominant passion of the ages of faith, a thirst for justice - The wants of man´s nature - The necessity for having a Divine object felt and shown - The language of the ancient writers on this head; The voice of the Church was the voice of desire - The sacred offices expressed the thirst for justice, and originated in that desire - Sketch of their history - The observance of the canonical hours - The divisions of time - The divisions of the office - The necessity for a uniform liturgy - The mode of celebrating the Christian mysteries always essentially the same - The ecclesiastical offices considered in relation to beauty, justice, and truth - Origin and use of ceremony - The ceremonies of the Catholic Church - Objections against them considered - The moral value and beauty of the institution of the canonical hours - The opinion of the holy fathers respecting the night - The vigils - The night of the middle ages - The offices of the morning and day - The holy mass - Nones - Vespers - Complin; General observations respecting the sacred offices - Origin and explanation of the universal adoption of the Latin tongue in the public offices of the Western Church - Remarks on the language of the Catholic liturgy - Its symbolic character - The Christian use of symbolism, in relation to language and ceremonies - Admirable beauty of the offices - Their historic character - The Litanies - Remarks on the objections brought against them - Grandeur and decorum observed in all parts of the Divine office - Its sublime poetry - The beauty and solemnity of what was also visible in the Church - Magnificence in that respect of the middle ages - The use of incense traced and explained - The custom of having lights - An occasion of great splendor - The procession - Its origin and importance - Its symbolic character, described by St. Bernard; Importance of music in the estimation of the ancients, of the holy fathers, and of the scholastic theologians - History of Church music - That of the middle ages: its excellence and characteristics - Origin and use of organs - The aurea missa - Decline of Church music; Opinion of the middle ages respecting the music of the Divine offices - Psalmody, the spirit of the Psalms, became the spirit of the age - The people joined with the clergy in singing the office - Provision every where to meet the love of the people for the Catholic offices - Wisdom of this - The external behavior of men in the churches regulated - Why importance was About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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