tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post116899174244377312..comments2024-03-28T09:54:55.115-05:00Comments on Dad29: Actuosa Participatio--a Property of TraditionalistsDad29http://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post-1169080992278682742007-01-17T18:43:00.000-06:002007-01-17T18:43:00.000-06:00Thanks, a very perceptive discourse on real vs. fa...Thanks, a very perceptive discourse on real vs. fake "participation". I've been telling anyone who will listen for some time now that the best way to measure the only kind of participation that counts, the deep inner kind that involves one's very soul, is to watch the faces, ie., at every traditional mass I've ever been to when I've been able to watch the faces of my fellow worshipers I have noticed a great beauty in them, joy and sorrow, longing and consolation, forgetfulness of self to an extraordinary degree, awe and wonder as if reflected in them was heaven itself as viewed "through a glass, darkly". These are the faces of those who have been striken by something very powerful and beautiful, the faces of those who are in love. If you set out to paint these faces or sculpt them, photograph or film them at their very best this would be the time to to it. This is as close as you can come on earth to seeing these faces as they would appear in heaven and in observing them, for they cannot lie as mere gestures might, one can begin to understand what real "participation" in the holy sacrifice entails.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com