Divine Worship in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
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Excerpt from Divine Worship in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Contrasted With and Adapted to That in the Nineteenth The purpose which the author has had in view in this work is (acting in the spirit of the "Ancient and Godly Fathers," the last of whom was S. Bernard), to discover, set forth, and fix such a correct: and reverential standard of Ritual and Ceremonial in Public Worship and in the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist, as shall serve for a pattern to those who are now labouring to restore to the Services of the Church somewhat of their pristine dignity, beauty, propriety, solemnity, significance, and devoutness. Ecclesiastical Architecture, as all must acknowledge, culminated, attaining its highest excellence, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries of our era, and it has happily become an accepted duty, an incontrovertible axiom with the great majority of well-informed Englishmen, that their Churches ought to be built or restored after the models which that age has furnished. The reasons for this conclusion are obvious. Not only are the forms of construction then adopted by our ancestors abstractedly of surpassing elegance and most agreeable to the eye, but to every considerate observer they are also eminently adapted for duly setting forth the paramount dignity and importance of Divine Worship in general, the highest duty and privilege of man, and for the honourable Celebration of the Great Mystery of our Religion, the Holy Eucharist in particular; moreover, for impressing upon the minds and hearts of all the grandeur and sublimity of the Catholic Faith. If, then, the mediaeval Church builders with their exquisite and elevated taste, emanating as it did from a comprehensive and spiritualized intellect, succeeded in representing, expressing, and embodying these objects and sentiments in their imperishable material works, it was also to be expected that the Clergy and Laity of those Ages of Faith, for whom these noble edifices were reared, would also in the order and method of their Liturgies and Sacramental Ordinances, realize and show forth in act a like spiritualized beauty, splendour, significance, and reverence in their devotions, as well as express vividly thereby the unspeakable importance of the fame Eternal Verities of the Faith. And such is the undoubted fact. It is historically certain that at no period during the existence of the Church of Christ was Divine Worship and the Celebration of the Sacraments conducted with such impressive earnestness, reverence, decorum, and refined splendour as between the years of our Lord 1200 and 1400. 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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