SPECIAL GUEST
Peter Kwasniewski
Website - https://www.peterkwasniewski.com/
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* I never ever repeat talks on a lecture tour.
* So there will be new information at each destination.
Sulphur - Lessons Catholics can learn from the history of the Popes.
Lafayette - Elevated by the past, the normative role in traditional life.
Covington - Poets, Lovers, Children, Madmen and Worshipers.
New Orleans - The genius of Christianities Roman Rite.
* A lot of what happens have practical reasons too.
* They had a natural habit of wanting to attach symbolism to them.
* Like washing the hands, it is a Ritual Purification - symbolic value.
* Lifting of the chasuble - in the beginning it was b/c they were very heavy garments.
* The Roman chasuble when it entered it is a much simpler and cut down shape.
* It is almost like a sandwich board and it is extremely easy to elevate the Host but we would never give up the ‘tradition’ of this.
* The Priest is acting as Christ - so it must be like the woman in the Gospel that touches Jesus’ garment to be healed.
* It isn’t contrary to anything it just ADDS to the symbolism of the Mass.
* The Catholic worship has always been deeply rooted w/ Jewish worship and structure.
* Christ was a Jew, His apostles were Jews - obviously they took what they knew from that and inserted Catholicism.
* Into the Passover Ritual -