{"id":2184,"date":"2007-04-10T00:30:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T00:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/solesmes-journal.html"},"modified":"2007-04-10T00:30:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T00:30:49","slug":"solesmes-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/solesmes-journal.html","title":{"rendered":"Solesmes Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A travel piece in the NYTimes:<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\n

One of the tasks of Roger Server as mayor of this quaint village in western
\nFrance is to console misguided tourists who want to hear the monks in its
\n11th-century monastery singing in Gregorian chant. \u201cPeople come and ask, \u2018Can
\nyou visit the concerts?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Tourists are restricted to the back of the church, he said, shaking his white
\nhair in mock exasperation. \u201cI tell them: \u2018You can visit at the offices. You can
\nadmire the sculptures in the church.\u2019 But the monks say, \u2018We\u2019re not here to
\nreceive tourists; we\u2019re contemplatives.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

The monks, 55 of them, inhabit the monastery that hovers over the village
\nlike some great granite mother hen over her chicks. But in recent times the
\nmonks have gained a measure of fame for their dedication to Gregorian chant, the
\nsimple vocal music<\/a>
\nwhose cadences, in Latin, for centuries adorned the Roman Catholic liturgy.<\/p>\n

Now, a constant stream of visitors comes to Solesmes to sit in the monastery
\nchurch and listen while the monks sing the psalms and prayers, seven times a
\nday, of the sacred liturgy. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey want their calm,\u201d Mr. Server, 65, a retired schoolteacher, said of the
\nmonks. \u201cAnd after all, the monastery was there before us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One small note: Remember the "aequum est" question raised by Fr. Z and others about par. 62 in Sacramentum Caritatis?<\/a> About the language for international liturgies..originally translated into English as "could be," but into every other language as something with more force like, "should be" or "fitting?"
(Eventually corrected, by the way, as noted in that link)<\/p>\n

Well, SC finds its way into this piece. And look at the sense of it:<\/p>\n

\n

They were encouraged recently when Pope
\nBenedict XVI<\/a>, in a papal pronouncement known as an apostolic exhortation,
\ndecreed that \u2014 especially at international gatherings \u2014 the liturgies should be
\ncelebrated in Latin, except for the readings and the homily. Moreover, he said,
\n\u201cIf possible, selections of Gregorian chant should be sung.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s kind of garbled (implying that SC says all liturgies should be celebrated in Latin) and the subsequent (2 paragraph) analysis of this is shoddy, relying on the "some see" mode of reporting, but I was struck by the rendering of this section, which skips right over that first moment of mistranslation… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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