charlesh
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« Reply #30 on: September 21, 2007, 12:44:AM » |
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However the purpose of the Mass is not to entertain or please me That's true, but the abuses will erode your faith if you are consistently exposed to them. You may fight them interiorly for a long time, but they will wear you down until you relent from emotional exhaustion. Besides, the abuses will only multiply. A shocking abuse today, if repeated enough, becomes blase and happenstance tomorrow. Tomorrow, there will be even more shocking things, plus everything from today. And so on until there is no faith left to abuse. |
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« Reply #31 on: September 28, 2007, 10:03:AM » |
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I have been to some beautiful Masses in the ordinary form of the Roman Rite (mostly celebrated by the Dominicans). The Priest faced the same direction as the congregation. The mass was in latin. All the servers were male. The priest, during homily, spoke against the Protestant heresy. The songs were in a glorious polyphonic, with a powerful organ, and choir in the back, and above the congregation. And this is the way the ordinary form should be. This is the spirit of Vatican II. Anything less than this should be abandoned, for anything less dishonors the spirit of Vatican II, making a mockery of the words of our Bishops, as well as the eternal heratige of our worship.
Because of this, I attend the Traditional Latin Mass at an indult parish, normally. The Latin Mass seems to be much more in line with the spirit of Vatican II than almost any ordinary Mass I've seen.
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Justus ex fide vivit - St. Paul
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« Reply #32 on: September 28, 2007, 10:08:AM » |
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If what they're doing is so shockingly bad then how can walking out do more good than staying there and praying for them?
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« Reply #33 on: September 30, 2007, 05:05:AM » |
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If what they're doing is so shockingly bad then how can walking out do more good than staying there and praying for them?
Because staying not only makes you party to the sacrilege, but can also scandalize your own children. |
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"I'm back sinners."
“Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ.” - St. Athanasius, AD 373
"It is granted to few to recognize the true Church amid the darkness of so many schisms and heresies, and to fewer still so to love the truth which they have seen as to fly to its embrace." -St. Robert Bellarmine
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« Reply #34 on: September 30, 2007, 10:28:AM » |
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We haven't attended the N.O. as a family because of the scandalizing of our children. The key for us in making that decision was when a priest told my (now 12 yr old) daughter to "get up" as she was kneeling to receive Holy Communion. Many things had happened before this occurrence, but this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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~Karen in Kansas!
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Julia 11, Veronica 10, Emily 9, Mia 8, Alexandra 6, Gabriel 5, Ysabel 3, and Daniel 2, and wombie due 11/3/12
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« Reply #35 on: September 30, 2007, 10:44:AM » |
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I have walked out of one Mass where the female parish secretary (I am not making this up) was permitted to get up and deliver the homily. This is routine at our parish; the "pastoral associate" (SECRETARY!!!) gives the "homily" at the Good Friday service. Every single year. I have a post up here somewhere about her submoronic Protestant theology and pop culture references. |
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kjvail
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« Reply #36 on: September 30, 2007, 07:44:PM » |
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We avoid this problem by not attending under any circumstance. Yes, solve the problem of when to walk out if you never walk in to begin with. The last time I attended an NO mass was for my son's confirmation (We weren't given the option of him being confirmed in the old rite). My daughters are 6 and 4 so I figure the next time I'll be in one is in about 10 years. |
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Pax Tecum,
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"I am a converted pagan living among apostate puritans"
- C.S. Lewis
"In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing,
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« Reply #37 on: October 01, 2007, 06:52:AM » |
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I spoke to the Newman Center's director about the idiocy going on at mass, and I haven't been the only one to express displeasure. The chaplain is going to be spoken to, and will be notified that an anonymous student will not be attending mass any more unless the rubrics of the mass are observed and mass is said with dignity.
I can't keep quite for much longer. I'm up to here.
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AdoramusTeChriste
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« Reply #38 on: October 01, 2007, 07:08:AM » |
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I spoke to the Newman Center's director about the idiocy going on at mass, and I haven't been the only one to express displeasure. The chaplain is going to be spoken to, and will be notified that an anonymous student will not be attend mass any more unless the rubrics of the mass are observed and mass is said with dignity.
I can't keep quite for much longer. I'm up to here.
Don't be surprised if the anonymity is short-lived. ;) |
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TRAD UP!!! S.A.G. ~ Kathy ~ Sanguine-choleric. Have fun...or else. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi, quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. To listen to the hymn- http://fisheaters.com/forumpix/adoramustechriste.html"I am convinced that the crisis of the church which we are living through today was largely caused by the disintegration of the liturgy." - The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger "Their cold stares remind me of the neo-cons that just sign up to FE - they are fish, but they are dead." ~ Marty |
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fridayer
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« Reply #39 on: October 01, 2007, 06:30:PM » |
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I spoke to the Newman Center's director about the idiocy going on at mass, and I haven't been the only one to express displeasure. The chaplain is going to be spoken to, and will be notified that an anonymous student will not be attend mass any more unless the rubrics of the mass are observed and mass is said with dignity.
I can't keep quite for much longer. I'm up to here.
Don't be surprised if the anonymity is short-lived. ;) The only reason I'm anonymous is because I don't want to seem arrogant. But we all know I am! ;) |
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