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Tuesday - Friday 6:45am
Saturday 5:10pm
Sunday 9:00am
Photography
Photographs of liturgical services provide a useful record of parish and family events. They will even help people re-enter the religious experience long after it has passed. However, the taking of photographs also endangers the very prayer it records.Vatican II’s Instruction on the Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery offers this guidance:
Great care should be taken to ensure that liturgical celebrations, especially the Mass, are not disturbed or interrupted by the taking of photographs. Where there is a good reason for taking them, the greatest discretion should be used and the norms laid down by the local ordinary should be observed.Photography threatens distraction both for the photographer and for the assembly. The photographer who attends to the equipment and shot locations becomes an observer more than a worshiper. The assembly will have a harder time focusing on the primary symbols of the liturgy when a photographer steps into view. Photographers may think they are simply recording an event, but they are actually part of it.
Liturgy is not theater, in which a few people perform and an audience watches. Liturgy asks everyone to worship. Everyone. Those engaged in some other action distract from the experience of those who came to pray. Conspicuous photographers draw us out of worship and into another sphere that observes prayer but does not enter it. This applies to video as well as still photographers.
Photography’s role at liturgy should be limited. It then keeps the assembly and the photographer focused on their prayer. Parishes will establish their own guidelines but some tips should prevail. Photographers should remain inconspicuous to the liturgical action, which takes place both in the sanctuary and in the pew. No flashes should penetrate the liturgy. Video cameras should remain stationary. Posed shots after the liturgy will amply serve as reminders of the significant event, who was there, what they wore and how good they looked.
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Tipton, Iowa 52772
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St. Mary's Rectory
211 Meridian Street
Tipton, Iowa 52772
563-886-2506Office Hours:
Monday-Friday
8:30am-12:30pm
St. Mary's Parish Hall
209 Mulberry Street
Tipton, Iowa 52772
563-886-2545Diocese of Davenport
Most Revered Martin Amos
Bishop of Davenport
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City of Tipton
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Last updated 06/21/2008