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To: Aussie Dasher; onyx; Lady In Blue; ninenot; sittnick; Petronski
That the restoration of the Tridentine Mass will not cure ALL ills does not mean that it will not cure MANY ills. It should be restored with appropriate provision for those wedded to Novus Ordo. Chasing poofters from our seminaries and pulpits and chanceries will not cure ALL ills but it will cure many and we ought to do it. Proper translations of rubrics to English at Novus Ordo Masses, likewise. Rigorous catechesis, likewise.

Abortion is a separate issue from liturgy. I represented without fee 1100 people arrested in militant sit ins to shut down abortion mills. I would have done it one way or another whether I was attending Novus Ordo or Tridentine Masses. In fact, one week before the worst incident of mass arrests and brutality against my clients, I was attending a Latin Novus Ordo Mass, reverently said daily at a retreat house. The heroism of the clients did not end all abortion in the USA but Planned Parenthood conceded that many scheduled abortions interrupted by sit-ins would not be rescheduled. The ten or fifteen kids who lived and were saved on that brutal day will live an average of 75 years or so. They will get to exercise free will. They will be able to do good or ill. They will not have been murdered in the womb. Not a perfect solution to everything but better done than not.

If I say only one prayer to God this week, I do not create a prayerful world or even a thoroughly prayerful me but the prayer is worth saying. Better done than not. Maybe next week it will be two prayers and eventually a rosary a day. better done than not at every step along the way.

250 posted on 06/21/2005 10:35:55 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: BlackElk

I've always believed God mostly works through his people. Prayer and action is an unbeatable combination.

Yes, B16 should be attending to the liturgical side of the Church, but he should also be ridding our Church of the poofters and child abusers that have done Roman Catholicism so much harm. He should also be actively encouraging EVERY Catholic to blockade and close the abortuaries.

I applaud your efforts in representing those outstanding men and woman who put themselves between the babies and the killers. I pray every day that the Lord will give us all the strength to do likewise.


307 posted on 06/21/2005 5:19:13 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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