They'll have to make it a full Tridentine Latin Mass!
The Member of Parliament for Leicester South, Jon Ashworth, in reference to the skeletal remains found in a city supermarket car park, believed to be those of King Richard III, has stated that:
"I think he should have a state funeral because he is the last English monarch to have died on a battlefield.
But there are some questions we have to confront.
He would have been a Catholic, whereas today's monarch is head of the Church of England, so I would anticipate some sort of service which involves both a Catholic priest and Church of England clergy."
Uh-oh! Richard was a Catholic therefore, forget all that monarch being the head of the C of E rubbish, that has nothing to do with it.
As a Catholic he deserves a Catholic funeral.
I think that, were he able to comment on the prospect of a couple of vicars or vicarettes sharing the sanctuary, he would really take the hump (ugh!).
And not only a Catholic funeral but, as a card carrying Extraordinary Form of Catholic King, he would command an Extraordinary Form Requiem Mass, sung with hordes of tonsured monks in attendance - and not in a Protestant Cathedral.
It would be inconceivable to do less.
Can you imagine Mass in the vernacular? With C of E ministers joining in?
There would be echoes of: "Off with their heads".
But, with a TLM one might hear a whisper of : "Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York"
The Member of Parliament for Leicester South, Jon Ashworth, in reference to the skeletal remains found in a city supermarket car park, believed to be those of King Richard III, has stated that:
"I think he should have a state funeral because he is the last English monarch to have died on a battlefield.
But there are some questions we have to confront.
He would have been a Catholic, whereas today's monarch is head of the Church of England, so I would anticipate some sort of service which involves both a Catholic priest and Church of England clergy."
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| "some sort of a service" is not good enough |
Uh-oh! Richard was a Catholic therefore, forget all that monarch being the head of the C of E rubbish, that has nothing to do with it.
As a Catholic he deserves a Catholic funeral.
I think that, were he able to comment on the prospect of a couple of vicars or vicarettes sharing the sanctuary, he would really take the hump (ugh!).
And not only a Catholic funeral but, as a card carrying Extraordinary Form of Catholic King, he would command an Extraordinary Form Requiem Mass, sung with hordes of tonsured monks in attendance - and not in a Protestant Cathedral.
It would be inconceivable to do less.
Can you imagine Mass in the vernacular? With C of E ministers joining in?
There would be echoes of: "Off with their heads".
But, with a TLM one might hear a whisper of : "Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York"
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