The New Missal continues (theology)

The Roman rite has always progressed in essentially the same forum. The Eastern literagy has very many site requirements. The ritual demands that the space be a certain way. If it is held elsewhere things have to be brought in. As monasteries form and develop you have more donors asking specifically for them and their families. There is a crises. You can’t say all the Masses in one alter and still have the Mass for the rest. So you get more than one alter, to pray for the world. That slight change in the Monastic Cathedral Church is going to provide a shift. The private collapses in some cases all for one person. All the books (prayer of readings, prayer, etc..) are placed in one book. Here you get the Missal, the one book for the celebration of the Eucharist. It is a secondary thing. It is going to become very significant at a great cost. The Germanic sense of the Holy is going to have an effect on Christian Churches. The introduction of the Rood screen, you are re-creating of the Holy of the Holy of the Temple. Does two things: Monastic community for the faithful - separating parishioners and community. It is also a focus of instrument architecturally. It is not a wall. It is a phase of - can look through it and focus on the Eucharistic. There is clearly now a separation. Something has become broken. The response - the Gothic turn - high Middle Ages. Own prayer practices eg. the Rosary, their own way of praying. The Priest now is saying all the prayers, readings himself. No one else is doing any of the ministry himself. What has happened is the private Mass is being moved to the central Mass. Music and preaching are now the only points that intersect orally. This Gothic Cathedral is intentionally an expression of world order. How do you unite them? You put it in one cosmic order. The relationships are outwardly expressed. What was in the meal is now in the space. Building < > visual arts < Ritual > (all interactive). * Prayer facing - facing towards the Alter. All of us - facing with the people toward Christ.* There is a sense of the music having a beauty in itself. The Architecture - what it does is it advertises itself. As the Gothic develops, every single arch is advertised in all of its complexity. Its the beauty itself that gives praises to God, building and music. *This is very important because it will become a shift. To be continued with the late Middle Ages goes to the Italian Renaissance. Next week back to psych notes.