I must say, I have always wondered whether Bugnini was a servant of the Devil. He never went far enough to destroy the Mass, but he certainly went out of his way to do as much damage as he could get away with without getting caught until it was too late.
And then Donald Trautman and the ICEL took what he gave them and made it even worse in the English translation.
However, I attend Mass every Sunday, in a Catholic Church. It’s not what I would like, and I am in great sorrow at how much damage it has done and how many people it—and other abuses such as catechetical failures—have driven out of the Church.
Nevertheless, the Church is the Church, and the Mass is still valid. The Church still gives us the Sacraments.
This is not the first time that the Church has suffered from abuses and painful difficulties. During the Arian heresy, all but a few bishops fell away from orthodoxy, and it must have been painful and confusing for their flocks. But the answer is not to drop out. That is what Satan wants.
Demographically, the latin mass is making a come back.
Whenever we travel, we look the 1962 version up on the internet. Una Voce USA is a good source of info. You can pretty much predict what you will get.
Can’t say the same about the nervous ordeal.
Hats off to you. I can’t bring myself to attend the usual parish Church Mass. It makes me mad. Chatting in Church, a celebrant who speaks about the weather, and an unforbearing cantoress that would make glass shatter.
Hats off to you. I can’t bring myself to attend the usual parish Church Mass. It makes me mad. Chatting in Church, a celebrant who speaks about the weather, and an unforbearing cantoress that would make glass shatter.