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Title: | A plea for the restoration of Baroque and theatrical elements in the liturgy |
Authors: | Serracino-Inglott, Peter |
Keywords: | Art, Baroque Liturgy Liturgical drama Liturgical reform Church architecture Art, Baroque -- Malta -- Periodicals |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. International Institute for Baroque Studies |
Citation: | Serracino lnglott, P. (2001, December). A plea for the restoration of Baroque and theatrical elements in the liturgy. Baroque Routes Newsletter, 3, 11-13. |
Abstract: | Let me begin by making it absolutely clear that I think that the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council was overdue and, on the whole, was an excellent achievement. I am in no way in favour of a return to the liturgy of Pope Pius V, although (as a person born, resident, and intending to die in Valletta, the city which is very indebted to him for its coming into existence) I have reason to be grateful to that Pope. There are, however, some aspects of the liturgy which have been greatly impoverished by Vatican reforms, in consequence, I suspect, of the desire to eliminate from it anything that smacked of the theatrical and the baroque. The positive motivation of this antibaroque and anti-theatrical purge was the greater involvement and participation of the people. Today, thirty years afterwards, it is clear that the opposite result has come about the certain crucially important instances. |
Description: | This paper was delivered at the symposium on Baroque Theatre during the Manoel Baroque Festival in May 2001 (vide pp8-9) |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/39992 |
Appears in Collections: | Baroque Routes Newsletter, No.03, 2001 |
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