[sinkspur]

Actually, Say's law is stupid.

No manufacturer would build a product for which there was no demand. The Edsel is an example.

Our bishop has said he will grant an indult Mass to any parish that can support it with at least 100 people.

ONE PARISH has asked, and only once a month.

[JNB]

According to the FSSP web site, there is a indult mass at St Mary of the Assumption Church every Sunday at 5:30 PM, with the 2nd and 4th Sunday being high masses. Also keep in mind many traditional Catholics in your diocese probably go to St Mary the Virgin parish.

[rogator]

"Our bishop has said he will grant an indult Mass to any parish that can support it with at least 100 people."

Maybe, then, your bishop, in order to be consistent, should order all Masses with under 100 people average attendence to be cancelled.

[dsc]

"Actually, Say's law is stupid. No manufacturer would build a product for which there was no demand. The Edsel is an example."

As are television, the motion picture, the cassette tape, the eight-track, VHS and Beta, and the DVD.

Every innovative company designs products for which they *think* there will be demand, and the presence of the product in fact creates the demand. Or sometimes not. Demand for the pet rock proved to be transient.

The safety razor and deodorant are great examples of products that created their own demand.

Something has been bothering me about your oft repeated statements that there isn't any demand for the Tridentine, but I only just figured out why it is not only bogus but deceptive. Apparently the fellow who posted the link on Say's law saw it more quickly.

There isn't much demand for authentic Southern barbeque in rural Japan.

Why not? It's good, isn't it?

Well, if a person has grown up eating an entirely different cuisine, and his palate and digestion are entirely unaccustomed to barbeque, a first encounter is likely to be disastrous.

Take away the Latin liturgy, stop teaching Latin in schools, take care often to mock and revile those who prefer the Latin Mass, and pander to every human weakness imaginable, and then proudly announce, "There isn't any demand for anything better."

Reminds me of nothing so much as an antebellum cotton planter declaring, "My slaves are happier than they would be free."

[ninenot]

Our bishop has said he will grant an indult Mass to any parish that can support it

Looks real "generous" to me.