Dominican Rite Instruction in Washington DC

As readers know, the Western Dominican Province provides a for-credit course, Dominican Rite Practicum each year for friar students at our house of studies, the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. Now, through the kindness of our co-author, Bro. Innocent Smith, O.P., I can happily report on a recent Dominican Rite training project in the Eastern Province! I am often asked when there will be public celebrations of the traditional Dominican Rite here. We now can be certain that plans are under way in that direction. Here is the report:

INSTRUCTION ON DOMINICAN RITE MASS

IN THE PROVINCE OF ST. JOSEPH

by Fr. Benedict Croell, O.P.

On October 19th and 20th, Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P., offered several training sessions for the celebration of the Dominican rite at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. The training sessions included demonstrations of the words and gestures of the priest and server for the private form of the Dominican rite, known as the Low Mass. During the presentations, Fr. Pius emphasized the pastoral dimension of learning to say the Dominican rite in order to respond to the legitimate requests of the faithful for the celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. In addition to the formal training sessions, the friars had the opportunity to participate in the Low Mass.

To learn more about the Dominican rite, you may view a Dominican Rite Online Tutorial, which presents videos and texts which explain the celebration of the Dominican Rite, or read a Q&A on Universae Ecclesiae and the Dominican Rite, or sample the other postings at Dominican Liturgy.

For those interested here are links to two slide shows from this instruction session:

GESTURES OF THE DOMINICAN RITE SLIDE SHOW

Watch the whole slide show by clicking on the title or here.

DOMINICAN RITE LOW MASS SLIDE SHOW

Watch the Dominican Rite Slide Show by clicking on the title or here.