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To: Kolokotronis
When I experienced the kind of Latin NO rituals you described, I felt I was in the presence of the collective abomination of desolation, the madding crowd, the me-myself-I handholding claque who do not believe that God is really present anywhere other than within themselves.

However, there are a few places where the Traditional Latin Mass is celebrated or the Anglican Use of the Roman Rite, and I have found these to be in some way very similar to my own significant experience of the Maronite Church and the Melkites. Those Latin masses (or English in the case of the Anglican Use of the Roman Rite) were marriages of heaven and earth where the Bridegroom swept me away as His own and I received Him with joy and trembling and the leaping of my heart, aching to be truly with Him at all times and in all places and for ever, where Cherubim and Seraphim cry Alleluia and the Most Pure and Holy Mother of my Lord and God welcomes me as her daughter with her tangible embrace.

All that I know pales in comparison to what I experience of the Most Holy Trinity through the venerable and ancient Liturgies of Holy Mother Church.

40 posted on 10/13/2005 7:46:02 PM PDT by Maeve (O most merciful Christ, how shall I sing thee praise?)
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To: Maeve

"Those Latin masses (or English in the case of the Anglican Use of the Roman Rite) were marriages of heaven and earth where the Bridegroom swept me away as His own and I received Him with joy and trembling and the leaping of my heart, aching to be truly with Him at all times and in all places and for ever, where Cherubim and Seraphim cry Alleluia and the Most Pure and Holy Mother of my Lord and God welcomes me as her daughter with her tangible embrace."

Not an "obligation" to go there, is it Maeve?


41 posted on 10/13/2005 7:50:20 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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