The Rev. Michael Wiener says a woman comes to Mass once a month by taxi from Modesto. Chronicle photo, 2007, by Katy Raddatz
I agree. how is praying for anyone to come to be saved by Christ, going to harm them in anyway?
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“...church grappling with the needs of a diverse membership...”
What do they want, a *latino* mass instead?
Ahhh, the dreaded journalistic "some" who always criticize, question, or doubt anything good and decent.
A Pox on "some".
But were they "deeply saddened"?
No, he doesn't. He offeres the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
LATIN MASS MAKING COMEBACK
then, below, a column wide subtitle:
Some ask whether the traditional ritual is right for the times
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We hope to attend a Latin Easter Mass in a VERY small town an hour way. But I have a gout flare up, just can’t handle the clutch pedal well. Happy Easter to all.
“But the revitalized tradition is drawing controversy. Some question whether the traditional rite is too outdated for a church grappling with the needs of a diverse membership and facing unprecedented challenges, such as an increasingly interreligious world.”
This is an argument against the Latin Mass? Absolutely incredible. Whose first language today (or, for that matter, in the past millenium-plus) is Latin? Part of what made the church “universal” for centuries is that the language of the Mass was exactly the same, universally. Which brings up an irony that still chafes: No sooner had the language-change occured, Catholics were suddenly and unaccountably provided with “liturgy” books in exactly the same language as what was spoken from the altar!
This goes right back to the octopus of diversity.
If a local church wants a latin mass so be it. If it doesn't, so be it. All this scanctimony about pro and con is ridiculous. A
nd I can't believe the posters here who think latin is the traditional. The traditional is local language. That's what Pentecost was all about. Get over yourselves.
This is nonsense. I know this parish, I’ve been to Mass there, I know people who attend, and this is one of the parishes that had the indult before Summorum Pontificum, therefore have been practicing the “old” rite for years and years. There is no controversy, and they are not “under fire” by anyone except the San Francisco Chronicle.
Some = three atheists, two hippies and a partridge in a pear tree.
Pray also for the writer and editors at SFGate for their ignorance and bigotry in publishing this much ado about nothing article. I wonder how they feel about Pastor Wright’s damnations from the pulpit? Or about the incendiary jihadists that likely exist in one or more mosques in the City of St. Francis? Pray also for Professor Parrella, who took the deposit of Faith that was handed down to him through the blood of martyrs and twisted it into self-worship of spiritual humanism. The Latin Mass faithful are “shopping” only for authentic Catholicism true to Tradition and the Magisterium; they are not cafeteria Catholics shopping for permission to sin.