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The proper sphere of a Catholic craftsman who is responsive to the appeal of the liturgical movement is to translate its doctrine into terms of form and colour, and so help in presenting it to his fellow men through the medium of the senses. Let us be quite clear about this. His work is not that of a teacher, but of a translator of others’ teaching. His normal function is to get on with the job without explaining what he is doing or why he is doing it. He may well consider the job important enough in itself, if he accepts the definition of Catholic philosophy that all truth has to pass through the senses before reaching the understanding. Nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu. And of these senses he may well recognise the eye as affording a more direct avenue than the ear, if he agrees with Horace:
- A thing when heard, remember, strikes less keen
- On the spectator's mind than when ‘tis seen.
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- Copyright © 1947 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers
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This article is reprinted from LITURGICAL ARTS, February 1942, with the kind permission of the Editor. Liturgical Arts is a quarterly devoted to the Arts of the Catholic Church and published by the Liturgical Arts Society of America.
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2 ‘Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem, Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus et quae Ipse sibi tradit spectator'.
3 Dominus regnavit, decorem indutus est; indutus est Dominus fortitudinem, et praecinxit se.
4 It appeared first in Burckard's Ordo Missae of 1502.
5 In 1570.
6 Caer. Episc,Lib. i, cap. xii, para 11.
7 E.g. Van der Stappen, Sacra Liturgia, Ed. 2, Vol. iii, Q. 44.
8 The Celebration of Mass: A Study of the Enbrics of the Eoman Missal by the Reverend J. O'Connell, Vol. 1, p. 241; Burns, Oates, 1941.
9 Astitit regina a dextris tuis in vestitu dcaurato.
10 Mark 14, 50.
11 Joseph Braun, S.J., Der Christliche Altar, vol. 2, p. 23, 1924.
12 Several more photographs are shown in plates 181, 132, of gilded metal frontals and of painted detachable wooden ones in plates 140, HI, showing twelfth and thirteenth century examples of this same motif.
13 Polio 118, V, reverse side; preserved in the Chatsworth Library.
14 Amalarius, De eccles. officiis, 1. 1. 12. 13. P.L. CV. 1023 D, 1026 C.
15 Joseph Braun, of cit., vol. 2, p. 10.
16 Translated by Bertram Colgrave, Cambridge University Press, 1927, p. 37.
17 Joseph Braun, op. cit, vol. 2, p. 22.
18 Ibid,, p. 31.
19 E.g., vol. 2, plates 127, 129, 135.