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Even as composed by professionals, liturgical jazz is inevitably something of a special taste, and too distracting for the average congregation. Moreover, the up-tempo rhythms of modern jazz chafe against the stately language of the Roman Missal or the Book of Common Prayer. Yet many churchmen are hopeful that the gap is being closed. "Jazz today is a valid form of musical expression," says the Rev. Alva Cox, who has promoted liturgical jazz on the National Council of Churches' television series Look Up and Live. "Our conviction is that, far from being a musical form simply for entertainment...
...other chapters, started debate on a schema outlining the duties of bishops, and drafted declarations concerning religious liberty and antiSemitism. So much was being prodded through the lengthened daily sessions that an African bishop complained: "I feel like a nun who has lost her place in her missal...
...their church before Rome -as the East believes - fell away into schism in 1054. In doctrine, Western Orthodox believers follow the bearded patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch and Moscow, but their way of worship is the Mass rather than the lengthy Divine Liturgies of the East. The Western Rite missal has been purged of Roman "heresies," such as supererogation, the belief that man can acquire grace through the merits of saints as well as through Christ's redemption. Communion is given in the form of bread and wine instead of bread alone. The Nicene Creed is recited without a major...
Founder of the Western Rite was the Rev. Joseph Overbeck, a scholarly German priest who converted to Orthodoxy in 1865. Overbeck had only a handful of followers, but he prepared a revision of the Roman missal and outlined a theological defense of the Western Rite idea that eventually convinced Orthodox church leaders. In 1926, the Orthodox Church of Poland accepted the allegiance of some Polish Catholics, who were allowed to keep the Mass and most of their liturgical customs. In the U.S., most of the Western Rite Orthodox belong to the Syrian Antiochian Archdiocese, which drew up rules...
...There, on TV, Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing stood dressed in odd black garments, droning Latin phrases toward the east" wall of the cathedral, striding from one side of the altar to the other as he ceremonially poured wine into a chalice or read from a black-bound missal. Much of the mystery will soon be modified. Last week Pope Paul VI formally promulgated the first and almost only concrete accomplishment of the Vatican Council: a 12,000-word constitution that authorizes what could become the most sweeping liturgical reforms in Roman Catholic history...