Hand Missal History Project
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Independent history project by @NicoFassino. Exploring Catholic history through the untold and forgotten experiences of the laity across the centuries.
Joined July 2020
I’m back with a new research project!. It's a study of vernacular congregational participation at Mass between 1861 and 1961. Everything you think you know about liturgy before the Second Vatican Council is probably wrong 🧵⤵️
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RT @1SharonKabel: Hi guys, my main Twitter account @SharonKabel got hacked. I’ve had that account for 14 years and despite submitting lots….
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RT @1SharonKabel: You better believe I’m still collecting Catholic wedding booklets &c . The center and right ones are 1961 and 1968 copies….
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After losing her original account and all of thousands of awesome posts on her original research, @1SharonKabel has made a new account. If you loved her stuff, please re-follow her, and RT to spread the word!.
Hi guys, my main Twitter account @SharonKabel got hacked. I’ve had that account for 14 years and despite submitting lots of IDs and dozen of tickets, @X support is nonexistent. Really upsetting, but what can you do. So I’m here at @1SharonKabel until further notice!.
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Let's cool it with the personal attacks.
We forced a bot to watch 10,000 hours of academic writing then asked it to produce an article. It told us it would start next month when things will have probably settled down but it also has a new idea for an interesting, unrelated article.
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For more on the history of microphones in the pulpit, on the altar, and the introduction of television cameras, check out this article series:. “Lift up thy voice with strength” - A survey of microphones in Catholic worship, 1922-1958.
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A three-part series of illustrated articles, exploring the history of the use of microphones, loudspeakers, and television in Catholic worship between 1922 and 1958.
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But these trends, and obsessions, with microphones originated far earlier than many realize
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With the transition to the new liturgy after the Council, microphones became essentially a de facto requirement or prerequisite. Which helps explain why they remain such a prominent part of all major liturgies (even in physically small spaces).
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By the early 60s, before any post-liturgical changes had been implemented, the auditory environment of the average parish was dominated by electronically-amplified sound. There were widespread complaints about "the booming [of] the loudspeaker"
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By 1951, some bishops were even mandating microphones be installed at the altar. Like this example from the diocesan directives of Bishop Edwin O'Hara of Kansas City
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There's also a report of a major US cathedral (also in 1945) that was preparing to install . “a controllable sound-outlet at every single pew, much as a sound-outlet is afforded every car in a drive-in theatre"
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It's a fascinating cultural phenomenon: . There was something close to a borderline obsession with microphones that developed in the decades before the council throughout the West. By 1945, moveable mics and even lapel mics (!) were in use.
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For some reason it's oddly comforting, in a small way, to see that mosquitos were also a problem back then lol.
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Endpapers of an old prayer book 😍. very charming
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'Academia Dot Edu' somehow managing to find new and ever more insane ways to deepen my disgust towards AI and increase my loathing of their site. why is everything like this?. literally nobody is asking for this
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.@Support @X . @SharonKabel just let me know she's been hacked by a NSFW scam/spam bot. She says you've already auto-rejected her help request. Sharon is a friend, librarian, and nerdy Catholic researcher. This is an obvious hack. Can you please restore her account?.
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See also:. The "worker's chapel" of Our Lady of the Railways. Opened in 1955 in Boston's South Station. I'm not sure about confession, but it offered 18 Sunday Masses and 4 daily masses. (it closed in 1972)
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We did this once (*almost). We can do it again. We have the technology. See, for example: . The church of St. Francis of Assisi in New York City . 13 Sunday Masses between 2:30am and 12:45pm.13 Daily Masses between 5am and 12:45pm.Confessions daily from 6:45am to 9pm
A church that has daily Mass on the hour, every hour, all day. A church with 20 priests that always has Mass and confession. Can somebody invent this?.
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And that's a wrap! . This has been my attempt at exploring and reconstructing the decline in popular devotions -- exemplified by the rosary -- during the immediate years following the Second Vatican Council. (and be sure to let me know your thoughts or feedback).
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