Silence
Once again, on the 11 November two minutes of silence were observed at 11:00 am to remember the dead of the United Kingdom in the armed conflicts of the last century.
Another impressive and moving demonstration of how powerful silence is.
Silence is a simple and very effective way to give honour. If you want to sabotage what is honoured, you can very effectively do so by sabotaging silence.
As Annibale Bugnini & Co. very well knew.
Mundabor
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Posted on November 11, 2013, in Catholicism, Conservative Catholicism, Traditional Catholicism and tagged Remembrance Day. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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Well said. I understand this more and more everyday as I try to grow in the devout life.
Ahh Bugnini. He was sent to Iran as Nuncio instead of enjoying a predicted stellar ecclesiastical career when (as rumour has it) his freemasonic links became known. When Khomeini insisted that all members of the diplomatic corps kneel in his presence, he did as he was told. The joke in the Vatican was that his Mass reduced kneeling and eradicated genuflections and there he was doing it in Iran. Justice?
Yesterday’s Novus Ordo was especially painful with screeching off-key singing, guitar music, sermon that more or less said we are all heaven-bound, and a phalanx of Eucharistic ministers. Teen girls coming out of Mass blabbing with hilarious laughter about something “sucking”, It is all so rotten.
A remarkable thing about even quite reverently celebrated NO masses is the piano muzak which inevitably breaks out if either the hymn at the Offertory or the hymns at Communion are not “long enough” to cover all the action. Or, often the muzak which breaks out during the time the choir is receiving Communion or even immediately as the priest communes. Not one second of silence must be permitted.
Presumably the dead of the United Kingdom and not the death of the United Kingdom? 😉
Ouch 😉
M