Organists and communion
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Re: Organists and communion
If it were physically possible for me to get to communion I probably wouldn't anyway, as i do not feel that, having been playing the organ and directing the choir, my mind has been totally on the spiritual/devotional side of the mass.
Re: Organists and communion
So you go to another Mass when you can concentrate? The way we are going, you will be lucky to be somewhere where there is more than one Mass. We used to have an organist who felt like that, but, apart from the fact that family life would make two Sunday Masses for Mum a bit difficult, I have always made my music ministry my offering to God, and (when I remember,) I pray that that is acceptable.
Re: Organists and communion
VML wrote:So you go to another Mass when you can concentrate? The way we are going, you will be lucky to be somewhere where there is more than one Mass. We used to have an organist who felt like that, but, apart from the fact that family life would make two Sunday Masses for Mum a bit difficult, I have always made my music ministry my offering to God, and (when I remember,) I pray that that is acceptable.
We have 3 masses each weekend, and I play for all of them!
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Re: Organists and communion
asb wrote:If it were physically possible for me to get to communion I probably wouldn't anyway, as i do not feel that, having been playing the organ and directing the choir, my mind has been totally on the spiritual/devotional side of the mass.
A lot of people think this way, and in my opinion they are wrong. You pray through your ministry, whatever that happens to be, and this includes all the practical preoccupations that fill our minds when we're serving the assembly as a minister - even a music minister. (I've even known priests who have been heard to say things like "I'm too busy to pray when I'm presiding at Mass"....) This is what liturgical spirituality is all about: the whole assembly prays together to God, and for and with each other, as they celebrate God's wonderful works and minister to each other in so doing.
In this sense. going to another "quiet" Mass could be seen as a denial of the fact that it's the whole assembly that celebrates, which would be bad ecclesiology. I hate to caricature it, but it feels a bit like getting one's own private "fix".