Monday, 02 November 2009
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... purgatory?
The rough draft of my annotated bibliography for Research Techniques was due last Friday. This draft was to have 15 of our 20-25 sources. Two of the sources I had ordered from OhioLink didn't come in, but I was able to scrounge up enough to hand in for the draft. I got those two books in today. One of them is exactly what I expected it to be: a long and detailed expounding upon various aspects of Britten's War Requiem (which is my topic). The other, entitled Masses for the Dead and motives for having them celebrated, was decidedly not what I was expecting.
Here I was, thinking I would get something with a nice history of the Requiem Mass and how it has been used over the years and why ... you know, sort of an anthropological take on things, which would have been a nice complement to the sources I already have. Instead, I got 121 pages about how masses for the dead should be celebrated more often to set all of the souls of the departed free from purgatory.
Also, for any of you who have read (and/or seen a film adaptation of ) Pride and Prejudice, I'm pretty sure the author of this book is some sort of a Catholic reincarnation of Mr. Collins. As proof, an excerpt:
"The Church in her maternal solicitude for the salvation of her children has condescended to the weakness of poor fallen nature, and has commuted these canonical penances into Indulgences, by means of which the temporal punishment due to sin can more easily be paid. Do Christains in general take advantage of this loving condescension of the Church? Many of the prayers which they recite daily are enriched with partial, and, upon certain conditions, also with plenary Indulgences."
Oh dear. I'm afraid I'm one source farther away from a completed bibliography than I thought I was, but on the other hand, this was good for a laugh.
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