Posted on 03/07/2005 10:01:29 AM PST by Cato1
Apparently the author isn't one of those with a college education.
The Catholic leadership needs to get it's theology srtaight, then it needs to get it's homopedophillic priests under control.
The wishy-washy attitude on the theological side, and the rampant homosexuality among it's clergy will be the death of the Catholic church.
The Church I grew up with left me in 1965 when services went from Gregorian chants to Peter Paul and Mary (not the Saints).
Reminds me of some Reform synagogues... by the time you learn the liturgical tune they change it again. There's something to be said for 3,000 year-old traditions.
Maybe they're in the Religion forum. Have you checked there?
The last Latin Mass I attended was in 1987, and frankly it didn't do anything for me that the recent Mass doesn't do. Someone who is likely to be bored at the recent Mass will likely be bored at a Latin Mass. Those who pay attention, and for whom the Mass is truly a Celebration of Christ's Sacrifice, Death and Resurrection would likely be happy with either, though some may like the Latin more than the vernacular.
I wouldn't mind attending a Mass in Latin, but I wouldn't want to see a return to the Mass in Latin only. We don't need the pendulum to swing completely in the opposite direction, we only need some balance.
There is no wishy washiness on the Theological side of the Church. The squirrely-ness comes in the form of Theologians or 'Leaders' who try to move the Church from her teachings into something more modern or 'relevant'. Most of those are in America or Europe.
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I'm not Catholic, so what's so special about Latin? How about some reformers go really old school and start preaching in Aramaic. And what does that say about your church if people would rather attend if they can't understand what the leader is saying?
Guilty as charged! My husband jokes that we're still doing Penance for our singing of "Blowin in the Wind" at Mass.
Most of the folk music we sang was banal, but I must say that when we were involved with a Charismatic community in New Jersey, a lot of their music was very Spirit filled and holy. It all depends on the words. There is some 'traditional' music these days that is just as banal as the folk music I grew up with, and some more lively music that praises Jesus in wonderful way.
I frankly prefer music done on the organ; more classical style, and our two younger kids prefer it as well. We used to attend the later in the day Mass on Sunday, but when they began having music that was more 'rock style' and our kids decided that they didn't like it. Frankly we didn't either because it just wasn't done very well. Now we go to the morning Mass with the organ choir and they like it much better.
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Last summer I attended my first Latin Mass, MEL's favorite, in decades. It was being said by a Priest from the -FATIMA- Foundation.
Get it..? I sure did.
And so does MEL.
See Post No. 13...
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Soooooo, let me get this straight. The writer thinks that Roman Catholics are leaving the pews because of the change 20 years ago from the traditional Latin mass to the Hootenany??? ROFLOLOLOL! Nice try!
I don't suppose the corruption in their seminaries, which includes pedophilia, has anything to do with it at all.
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THE Gallup Poll: 64% of all American Catholics and 73% of college-educated Catholics prefer the restoration of the Tridentine Mass as the normative Mass of the Roman Catholic Church after forty years of bad liturgical road! Who'd have thunk it? That was the Gallup Poll not NCReporter.
It's almost enough to tempt me to support a very limited democracy in the pews but not quite. How about you?
It's not going to be vacated, it has a billion followers. Transmogrified, in all likelihood yes, vacated, no!
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