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Posted on 08/08/2011 2:30:58 PM PDT by NYer
Here is something that should put some heart into readers who are feeling down about continued liberal and dissenting dominance in many places.
Here is something from a blog of a Catholic bishop, His Excellency Most. Rev. Christopher Coyne, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. He was just consecrated bishop this year.
Here are a few excerpts, but there is a lot of great material over there. We come into the story while the bishop is having a bit of a vacation…. My emphases and comments.
Why I Didn’t Go to Confession Today.
This morning I attended Mass rather than concelebrated Mass. Earlier in the week I was unable to find a Saturday morning Mass anywhere in the area so I was pretty much going to have to miss Mass today. But late last night on the internet I found a church abut a half an hour away that had an 8:00 AM Mass. This was doubly good for me because I wanted to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation if the priest had time after Mass since it and been a few weeks since my last confession. But it was a little late to make any arrangement for concelebration.
I left around 7:15 AM and got there in plenty of time to spend some time preparing for Mass and, hopefully, the Sacrament of Reconciliation. When Mass began, the priest, a guy about my age, came out and said, “Hello,” and then proceeded with the Mass. The only problem was he had forgotten the Sign of the Cross. Well, maybe he was just a little distracted. I think we did the penetential rite but I’m not sure. There was no “Gloria” so I was beginning to think we weren’t going to be celebrating the Feast of the Transfiguration since it hadn’t been mentioned yet but eventually we got there when he “prayed” a spontaneous opening prayer that did mention the Transfiguration. [I am sure this worthy fellow while a simply priest knew about these happenings. It is good, perhaps, to see them with episcopal eyes, too.]
Things kind of went downhill from there. I’ll spare you the details. [...]
As “Mass” progressed I was both disappointed and annoyed. I wasn’t angry. I learned the trick long ago of moving into emotional “cruise control” when this stuff starts to happen. [...] [That would be a good tool to develop.]
[Here is an important bit... and I am sure you have sympathy.] I do know one thing. I certainly wasn’t going to ask him to hear my Confession. If he changed the words of the Institution Narrative, there’s no telling what he might do with the words of Absolution. I suppose I could have asked him before we began the sacrament if he would be so kind as to use the Church’s rite and not his own but then that opens a whole can of worms. So I didn’t go to Confession. I’ll try and make an appointment with a priest and go Monday. But isn’t it a shame that I couldn’t go to Confession?
Every time people ask my why some in the Church have a desire for the “extraordinary rite,” the traditional Latin Mass, I guess I can give them at least one good reason. Masses like this. When one attends the Mass according to the Tridentine Rite, you know what you are going to get. There is no one being ‘creative,’ no one making up their own prayers or rite, and no question of validity. I am a child of Vatican II. From the time I was old enough to understand what was happening at Mass, it has been the Mass of Pope Paul VI. I have been formed in it. I have studied it. I love it. Outof it, I have been ordained a deacon, a priest, and a bishop to celebrate it for the people of God. I have no desire to celebrate the Tridentine Rite but any time I hear people criticize those who want the “traditional” Mass, I am more inclined to understand why they want this form of the Mass. Perhaps if each priest were committed to the correct celebration of the present Mass of Paul VI – the Church’s rites and not the rite of Fr. X – then maybe there would be less clamor for the “traditional” rite. Just a thought. [While there are differences in the two forms which are themselves a basis for preferences, aside from the ars celebrandi, he has a good point. No?]
First, WDTPRS kudos to Bp. Coyne for writing about this. For writing at all! Good for him!
Second, how many times have I talked about how priests who screw around with rites of sacraments, especially the form of sacraments, sew sow doubts in people’s minds and leave them unsettled, if not downright fearful. If this sort of thing can happen in the mind of a bishop, how much more understandable is it that it would happen among the faithful when a priest fools around with the words of baptism or consecration during Mass?
Until I know what that age is, I'm willing to cut the priest some slack.
Guess that rules Jesus out. Thanks for playing.
What, exactly, does your comment have to do with the article?
Since Jesus is God incarnate and was present during creation, as all things were made through Him, I'd say He's not to be held to the same standards as we would hold man.
I respect that you might believe differently.
It’s the obligatory slapshot by a mindless drone.
St. Paul?
So according to your way of thinking...
A man can’t be a obstetrician because he can’t get pregnant.
And if you’ve never had cancer, you can’t be an oncologist.
You can’t be a historian unless you experienced the event.
or...
Unless you’re black, you don’t understand racism.
That's what I thought.
You can’t be serious. Dante never left Rome but he knew the world. And if you’d been watching recent crime documentaries you’d know of pastors killing one another over adultery etc., to say nothing of the in-laws and issues of inheritance and property claims like what’s going on at Annaheim’s Crystal Cathedral. You don’t have to be married to know about issues of morality and scripture.
I’ll have to remember that...
Who asked you? Have any sensible comments about the article?
Shoots.......And Scores!
Two for two. Man. I’ll have to remember this one too...
Luther was an ordained priest.
That's a discipline I wish I could develop. Whenever I'm present at a 'Mass'' such as this I leave in a state far removed from the State of Grace I should be in after Mass!
My wife and I vacation every year at a lake in SW VA and I have ceased attending Mass at all while I'm out there because I can't find anyplace to attend that doesn't leave feeling like I missed Mass.
Why would he miss Mass? Does he mean he'd miss a public Mass? Don't priests still carry a Mass kit with them so they can celebrate Mass everyday no matter where they are?
Why would he miss Mass? Does he mean he'd miss a public Mass? Don't priests still carry a Mass kit with them so they can celebrate Mass everyday no matter where they are?
I never heard of a bishop who would miss Mass because he couldn't find a convenient one that meets his schedule...change your schedule if you must.
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