{"id":21063,"date":"2013-08-11T08:12:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T14:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=21063"},"modified":"2013-08-11T23:43:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T05:43:06","slug":"catholicism-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/11\/catholicism-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Mass in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in Amsterdam this week for the biennial meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/iah-hymnologie.de\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft f\u00fcr Hymnologie<\/a> (\u201cInternational Fellowship for Research in Hymnology). I\u2019m German-English translator for this group, and I\u2019m giving a keynote this year on \u201cDavid\u2019s Harp in Postmodern Times: Psalm Singing Today.\u201d Composer and <em>Pray Tell<\/em> contributor Paul Inwood is speaking on liturgical composition.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to visit last week with some leaders in music and liturgy from the Haarlem-Amsterdam diocese. With me (on his way to the UK) was <em>Pray Tell<\/em> contributor Chase Becker. It is sad to hear how rapidly the Catholic church is in decline here, with only a few mostly elderly people involved in the church anymore. Our hosts spoke of parish choirs with average age of 75. Fifty years ago, over 40% of Dutch people were Roman Catholic. The figure is now below 17% and will soon be below 10%. About 1% of the entire population attends Catholic liturgy on Sunday. Never before have I had the sense that by going to Sunday Mass, I would contribute significantly to raising the national average.<\/p>\n<p>I had made plans to worship at the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominicusgemeente.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dominicuskerk<\/a> (Church of St. Dominic) on Sunday, the home of people such as <a href=\"http:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Huijbers\" target=\"_blank\">Bernard Huijbers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huub_Oosterhuis\">Huub Oosterhuis<\/a>. Perhaps you\u2019ve read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-performing-audience-essays-liturgy\/dp\/B000710CA0\">The Performing Audience<\/a><\/em> or sung \u201cWhat is this place where we are meeting?\u201d I was prepared to experience progressive Catholicism up close. My\u00a0hosts simply said that they do a lot of singing at Dominicuskerk, but the liturgy is overly stark and simple, almost anti-ritualistic.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know about Dutch Catholicism? It was the cutting edge of left-wing Catholicism already before Vatican II, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenroyedwards.com\/popeinholland.html\" target=\"_blank\">and certainly after<\/a>. Think made-up liturgies that don\u2019t use a sacramentary\/missal. Already under Paul VI, the Vatican stepped in with moderate and conservative episcopal appointments to regain control of a runaway church. Then came very conservative appointments under John Paul II.<\/p>\n<p>I once believed (about 20 years ago) that the Netherlands were a perfect example of how progressive theology destroys Catholic identity and empties churches. Then I read John Coleman, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Evolution-Dutch-Catholicism-1858-1974-Coleman\/dp\/0520028856\" target=\"_blank\">The Evolution of Dutch Catholicism, 1958-1974<\/a>. <\/em>Coleman has a bias, to be sure, but his statistics seem to show that the episcopate in the Netherlands maintained high respect of Catholics of all ages, including young people, during the wild years, certainly much higher than the episcopate in neighboring countries whose credibility was in free-fall. Then came Rome\u2019s counter-revolution beginning around 1970, and respect for the episcopate began to plummet, soon catching up with and falling below neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>(I know, I know, causation is not easily established. What would it have been otherwise? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiltenberg.org\/cms\/images\/stories\/artikel_antonianum.pdf\">Would anything have worked<\/a> in this rapidly secularizing society?)<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0hosts said that interest in the 1962 missal is almost non-existent in the Netherlands. Latin Mass at Sint-Agneskerk is the same time as the Dominicuskerk so I couldn\u2019t do both, but I hope to attend a Latin daily Mass this week if the conference schedule allows.<\/p>\n<p>And so I set out this morning for Dominicuskerk, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveusthisday.org\/\">Give Us This Day<\/a><\/em> in hand since I don\u2019t quite always catch everything in Dutch.<\/p>\n<p>Dominicuskerk is a big neo-Gothic building. Now, there is\u00a0a platform against the left wall in the middle of a long narrow nave, congregation gathered around all sides, piano and choir opposite platform. Pretty full church, virtually all over 60 or 70. Only a few who looked to be in their 30s or 40s, all female. About three children.<\/p>\n<p>Large pipe organ (rather Romantic sounding) was used for about 1\/3 of the music, piano for the rest. Choir sang in harmony, sometimes with people and sometimes alternating with them. Quite advanced and interesting piano parts, at times a sort of Dutch version of Calvin Hampton. Music of\u00a0Hiujbers and L\u00f6wenthal and Oomen and others. Quite nice music, really.<\/p>\n<p>My first indication that\u00a0<em>Give Us This Day <\/em>wouldn&#8217;t be of much use was when I looked at the Order of Worship handout. No Penitential Act, Gloria, or Collect. No first reading, responsorial psalm, second reading, Alleluia, or Gospel. Rather: song, prayer by female prayer leader, song repeated; welcome talk by another woman; song; a man read from Dorothee S\u00f6lle; homily by another woman; song; and on to the collection with piano intermezzo. Uh, no Nicene Creed. Then a table prayer with sung elements (no Sanctus) led by seven people (5 women,\u00a02 men, none vested), and sharing of the bread and wine. Then general intercessions, blessing, and song. Coffee served at the platform.<\/p>\n<p>I was flabbergasted by all this, to say the least. Frederick Bauerschmidt has helpfully prodded all of us at <em>Pray Tell<\/em> to move beyond tired old conservative\/liberal labels in theological discussions. Fritz, I\u2019m really trying to heed your advice, but is it OK this one time for me to\u00a0use the term\u00a0liberal??<\/p>\n<p>After the service I spoke with a man who said he\u2019s a priest but married and not in official ministry, and he pointed out to me another priest (lay clothes in front row) who was at the service. He told me that this style of liturgy was accepted by the local bishop after Vatican II as one example of what the Council made possible, but later bishops did not approve, and it eventually came to a break between the bishop and the Dominicuskerk community.<\/p>\n<p>So now I knew, I was part of a schism. (Actually, I think under the old theology you couldn\u2019t be guilty of doing what you didn\u2019t know you were doing.) I thought to myself that the last time I missed my Sunday Mass obligation was in high school when I rode an all-night bus to the Future Farmers of American national convention in Kansas City and then slept all morning in the hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>I met a very friendly couple who invited me to a local place for coffee and the best apple pie in Amsterdam. Delightful conversation. I asked when the break with the diocese had happened. No, we\u2019re still part of the church, the man said \u2013 Dutch Catholicism has a wide range to it including communities and services like this. Actually not, his wife informed him. That\u2019s why there\u2019s no official priest presiding. News to him \u2013 he thought it was because there are so few priests left in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I find interesting: in the Netherlands there are Catholics who don\u2019t think in the usual categories of official and unofficial, who think that a service with seven unvested lay co-presiders is with diocesan approval, because that sort of thing was apparently possible at one time. It then struck me that the diocesan music and liturgy people I met earlier didn\u2019t raise an eyebrow when I mentioned Dominicuskerk or say a word about it being outside the church. I gather that boundaries of all sorts are fluid in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Dominicuskerk is, to say the least, a bit beyond my usual comfort zone, but I&#8217;m grateful to have been a part of it. I tried to experience it through the eyes of the dedicated and passionate people whose home it is. We sang and prayed of a new world, a new creation, of a God who is with us in Christ, accompanying us on the journey and calling us to a better future.<\/p>\n<p>And so my week has begun.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pray Tell<\/em> doesn\u2019t ordinarily get into hotel recommendations, but I will say this about Best Western in Amsterdam. When you ask at the bar next to the reception desk for just a bit of wine, a few drops in the bottom of a glass, they give it to you at no charge and don\u2019t say a word about it being a strange request.<\/p>\n<p>awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know about Dutch Catholicism? 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