Posted on 02/28/2011 5:35:55 AM PST by verdugo
Where are the MEN who follow God?
Ne Zot! Sensuous cleavage in pants!
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Some sort of reform was obviously necessary.
Once again I comment that Traditionalists should thank God for those Roman Catholic chapels and churches that never changed following Vatican II.
Satan is in these Novus Ordo ‘churches’ that look like airplane hangars. where the ‘congregants’ carry on their conversations in loud voices as they know this is not a sanctuary and that nothing important will be happening.
Where’s the confessional? Where’s the tabernacle?
The answer to both is: hidden.
The ‘priest’ is merely the president of the congregation who has abrogated most of his duties to the lay-women who dress like men.
"In the United States today, 45 years after Vatican II, 31,000 lay persons plan liturgies, direct the music groups, schedule the lectors and run the education programs for adults, engaged couples and children; four-fifths of these ecclesial ministers are women.
Before Vatican II, most of those jobs did not exist; less than 1 % of these jobs were filled by lay people. (3) Before Vatican II the average parish lay woman were most likely to be found in the Altar Society or Holy Name Society. [Additionally]Today, almost 50 % of all administrative positions in dioceses are held by women. Before Vatican Council II, Catholic men frequented the Sacraments, took family responsibilities seriously and filled the seminaries. After Vatican Council II, the churches emptied, the divorce rate skyrocketed, and the sacristy was overrun with women. A kind of effeminate man attracted by the New Theology entered the seminaries, and the virile ethos of the Church grew fainter and fainter. It is no wonder not only men, but also many women, are leaving the Catholic Church today or no longer assist at Sunday Mass."
I refuse to go to my in-laws Catholic events (Confirmation, etc.) because of the horribly sloppy, wrong-headed Masses that are offered up. Men and women handing in shorts handing out the Host, little girls pretending to be altar boys - sickening! I just sit home with my husband and mail in the check, lol.
Your “reform” then was to bring in effeminitized clergy, and women, and chase away the real men?
Isaiah 3:12-13 As for my people, children are there oppressors, and women shall rule over them, O my people, they which lead thee to err, and to destroy the way of they paths. The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
There is a very interesting book that has been around for a while called The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas. Professor Douglas brings up some very insightful points about how religion became subjected to feminization in the more affluent era of the mid to late 19th century. Whereas the more visceral Calvinism informed the Protestantism of an earlier era in America, the more passive and feminine Unitarianism favored by the rising class of intellectuals and merchants took hold of the American psyche. It is this feminization that took the masculine God who was worthy of worship and the judge of sinful people and made Him into friendly, middle class uncle. It signaled the beginning of the end for Biblical inerrancy in the main stream Protestant churches. Evidently the Roman Catholic Church has undergone a similar invasion since Vatican II.
If it is Marian Horvat, then it is probably posted on her website: http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/m015rpFeminization.html
“Men and women handing in shorts handing out the Host, “
Handing in shorts? That would be a problem.
When I got married, in a traditional mass at an SSPX chapel, everything about the church looked like you were back in 1930. It was a small humble church. My uncles walked in and immediately froze! They genuflected and sat down without a word. You could hear a pin drop. THEY INSTANTLY RECOGNIZED that they were in a Holy place, and nothing had started yet. When the priest, the male altar servers, and the bride and groom, and others walked in for the wedding. they all were dressed like Catholics dressed at church in 1930's, my uncles were even more impressed. My wife was 25, that was 10 years ago.
THAT"S WHAT ATTRACTS MEN!
My uncles never forgot that wedding, and I'm certain that it was because of that ONE TIME that they saw/heard a real Catholic mass (the first since like 1958), that we were able to convert them before they died.(one died 3 seconds after receiving the REAL sacrament of Extreme Unction! Not that new fangled "healing of the sick")
1) It's not MY reform. I was in protestant Sunday School at the time. My married homosexual alcoholic youth minister was very enthusiastic about V II, we studied it all the time. I'm merely a well-informed observer.
2) By "reform", I was referring to the pervasive control over the Church by powerful homosexual leaders like Spellman and O'Connell.
3) If you think V II was (among other things) a "turn towards protestantism", I think you're right. Given the enormous homosexual corruption of the pre-Vatican II American church, JXXIII had a limited menu of options to work with. I understand the opinion that he made unwise choices, you may be correct about that.
4) The judgement of the fruits of V II should be made independently of the nature of AmChurch in the 1940s and 1950s - a church run by powerful homosexual cardinals who created a system to groom and ordain the Birminghams, the Shanleys, the Geoghans who were unleashed on Catholic families before V II was even convened.
5) THAT was the reality of AmChurch in the 1950s, and presenting it as a faithful witness to the gospel and a faithful disciple of the Holy Spirit (in opposition to V II) is misguided.
I know that you have been conditioned to think that what you wrote makes you look like "one of the guys", but THAT IS A BIG LIE. Learn from your mistakes and move on.
I have 5 children eight years old and younger who sometimes read my monitor when I step away. Please be carefull what you put out there for everyone in the world to see. You should never talk like that to ANYONE. It is not Catholic.
God Bless,
In the Knights of Columbus. The Parish Council is the preferred assembly to “halls”. Early in our existence it was suggested by certain people on the Paris Council that we not meet in the hall. The Pastor would have none of it. We are now the most effective and visible ministry in our Parish.
The article seems to find fault with the modern Mass as a result of Vatican II.
I’m not so sure if it is Vatican II, the misinterpretted implementation of Vatican II, or an aging and shrinking number of priests to perform all of their functions.
All of the above?
What is the basis for the thought that altar servers need to be male?
I was an altar server in the 70s. Back then, girls were not allowed. My church tried them for a little while but were quickly told not to use them.
As an altar server in the 70s, I had a lot more functions than what altar servers do today. I held the Lectionary for the priest to read. I participated in the distribution of the Host by holding a crumb catcher under people’s chin. I had many functions for Stations of the Cross and weddings.
Could it be that these functions were eliminated because of female altar servers?
As Great Lent comes upon us, this is a time to reflect and pray and devote our minds, thoughts and services to God.
LOVE your post. You capture it so perfectly and I love your uncles, too! My father was buried from an Orthodox Catholic Church - my mother insisted. It was lovely. And so lovely to see how many people REFUSED Communion because they were in a state of sin. Not like the horrible suburban Masses where everybody crowds the aisles and altars because they don’t believe that the Host is the Body & Blood of Jesus Christ. Also, after years of horrible services, I was surprised and somewhat shocked to hear the priest say my dad was going to be marching around in Purgatory for awhile, lol! I guess we all are!
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