Mass of Fr Benedict in the US

I was just notified of a post about a Thanksgiving Mass of Father Benedict (who was just recently ordained) on his trip here in the US at Church of St. John the Evangelist in Stamford, CT with the Society of Saint Hugh of Cluny. The Mass was in the Extraordinary Form. Father Cassian, the prior of the monastery in Norcia, is in the 5th picture giving the homily. The photos are beautiful.

Thanksgiving Mass of Father Benedict Nivakoff, OSB

As a side note, on the first picture in the above link, a monk's hood replaces the biretta, so whenever a priest would wear his biretta, a monk would wear his hood up.

RS

A winner is me!

Well, apparently I have the ability to spot bad taste.

In The Crescat's "Ulgy Vestment Contest" which had "men's vestments," "ladies' vestments," and "miscellaneous" categories, my entry won in the "ladies' vestment" category.

Behold the "Daisy Bedsheet Chasuble":


She and Vincenzo even gave out a virtual trophy for it.



With as much nausiousness as I had to endure looking at all the bad vestments to find the ones I submitted, I would hope I earned this trophy.

Thanks, Carolina Cannonball, for the (disturbing) contest, and thanks Vincenzo for the trophy.

RS

I'm a contributor

I'm not sure if I should be proud or ashamed, but I helped contribute to The Crescat's "Ugly Vestment Contest." The searching was VERY painful on the eyes. Man can be quite creative, but it's sad when that creativity is used for evil purposes.
(Thanks to those who helped me with a couple of submissions.)

Let's just say it's sad when this is a rather conservative vestment compared to the ones in the contest:


'Nuff said?

There are three categories:

1) Men's Vestments

2) Ladies Vestments

3) Stoles and Mitres

So go vote at The Crescat blog.

RS

Very cool vestment

This is for Carolina Cannonball.

I share her intrest in Eastern things. Liturgically, the Eastern Churches (Byzantine Cahtolics and Eastern Orthodox) have, for the most part, done a good job of preserving the liturgical tradition. One thing I love is how much respect they give the Mass (Divine Liturgy as it is usually referred to in the East). I mean, if you look at their icons, their churches, their vestments, you can see they generally take it seriously. Don't get me wrong, we can do some pretty beautiful liturgies in the West, although it is much less frequent in the Novus Ordo reform. You can tell there has been a general decrease in the respect for the Mass and liturgical tradition in the West after the reforms of the 1960's (but that is for another post).

Anyway, I found this picture of an Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan in Milan.


I don't know why, but I love the pattern on the vestments. I am wondering if something like that could work on a chasuble (more likely a more gothic vestment than a Roman style). Of course, that much blue wouldn't work since that is not a liturgical color in the West (sorry, Advent is violet and Marian feasts are white in the West). Still, I think the pattern could possibly work. It's certainly better than the burlap/curtain/drapes/polyester material a majority of vestments in the West seem to be made in.

Anyway, I need to try to get more good Western vestment pics up since we need all the encouragement we can get in these liturgically chaotic days.

For example, Fr. Z. had a beautiful chasuble for All Souls the gold and black material is impressive (just ignore that last photo ... or at least avoid drinking anything when you view it, otherwise your beverage will end up all over your keyboard and monitor).

RS