This would be the nightmare from Down Under -- my diocese.
Catherine White, director of liturgy for the Toowoomba Diocese, observes that much of the work of modern liturgists is focused on restoring the importance of the liturgical assembly and overcoming the unfortunate legacy of the Middle Ages, when people focused on the act of transubstantiation and adored the Host. Oh Siobhan, this is truly heinous! What has happened to our church!
Stay tough! Fight the good fight! And know that we are all with you through our prayers. The Waderer is keeping your situation alive, through a lengthy series of articles. May God have mercy on the sheeples who blindly follow these leaders.
Oh, this sounds really really really bad...
" a stone trough of water, and vessels of sulphur, salt, and mercury. . . . The objects function rather like sacraments where simple physical things (bread, wine, water, oil) are imbued with transcendent meaning..."
An Analysis of the Gnostic Mass..
http://www.hermetic.com/egc/mass-analysis.html " The 3 steps may represent IAO, the 3 Triads, the 3 Triangles, the 3 Stages of Life and Initiation, Salt—Sulfur—Mercury, the 3 chapters of the Book of the Law, the aeonic progression of Isis, Osirus, Horus, etc. The Black and White squares are yin/yang, +1(-1), etc."