tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post6571572332352086142..comments2023-06-01T09:22:18.917+01:00Comments on Liturgiae Causa: Percy Dearmer...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-37496050404974084312011-04-04T20:53:55.308+01:002011-04-04T20:53:55.308+01:00"The first [principle] is: ... a true philoso..."The first [principle] is: ... a true philosophy of values shows us that beauty is necessary to a right life, as truth is; and that a worship aesthetically bad is so far untrue to the Divinity who is worshipped, and so far is an idolatry, sine it is directed to an object that is not the supreme Artist of the world, 'for the first Author of beauty hath created these things.<br /><br />The second principle I have already mentioned -- that doctrine follows ceremonial." <br /><br />The Rev. Percy Dearmer: Preface to the twelfth Edition, "Parson's Handbook" 1949.Fr. Gregory Wassenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13751849568854606897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-92130826325114021962011-04-02T21:25:38.785+01:002011-04-02T21:25:38.785+01:00Dale, I should have said that Dearmer would not ha...Dale, I should have said that Dearmer would not have been used as much as Fortescue, and many accused him of ''British Museum'' style Liturgy, or something similar. My edition of Dearmer is from 1913.<br /><br />I was writing a post about Adrian Fortescue and Percy Dearmer about two months ago but it fell into abeyance due to writer's block.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-12026189612587031732011-04-02T21:21:23.341+01:002011-04-02T21:21:23.341+01:00Patrick,
Great post!
Here is my own favourite De...Patrick,<br /><br />Great post!<br /><br />Here is my own favourite Dearmer quote:<br /><br />"[T]he use of the biretta offends an immense number of excellent lay folk, and thus make the recovery of the Church more difficult. An English priest has no more right to adopt the distinctive headdress of the clergy of other countries than an English colonel has to wear the helmet of a German officer" (page 124, 1928 edition).<br /><br />It is not always what Dearmer has written, but how he writes it that is such a joy when reading the "The Parson's Handbook." Personally, not being English, I shall happily remain loyal to the use of the biretta, but one does wonder what he would have thought of an "English" priest porting a Greek or Russian Klabook!Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06431501238259860462noreply@blogger.com