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To: Petrosius; cloudmountain

I read this nearly ten years ago and found it one of several influential pieces that brought me into the Church, along with all things EWTN and the Journey Home.

The network is doing the job of the Church by the grace of God here, in the United States.

The work they do has stood in the gap for God, while the American heirarchy of leadership was on vacation, seen trying to look like protestants as far as they could push it.

No kneelers, or kneeling rails
No veils
No religious habits
No genuflecting
No St. Michael prayer following Mass
No recollection prayers before Mass
No silence in Mass
No Latin
No Gregorian chant
No traditional hymns
No smoke
No bells
No Tridentine Mass
No adherence to Rubrics
No traditional catechesis
No centerpiece Tabernacle
In exchange, we got protestant behaviors to piety.

Yes, to bobbing heads, or no acknowledgement at all
Yes, to spaghetti straps and cleavage; shorts
Yes, to men in shorts and flip flops
Yes, to whole groups of dissident nuns in ordinary dress
Yes, to centering prayer, yoga
Yes, to the labyrenth
Yes, to getting into the aisles first at dismissal
Yes, to popular phrased songs with guitars and drums
Yes, to lay women over religious women and men as extraordinaies
Yes, to the gymnasium style nave and sanctuary
Yes, to out of sight Tabernacle, separated, or off to the side walls
Yes, to the backs of priests and extraordinaries to Jesus in the Tabernacle
Yes, to tromping back and forth with no bow before the Tabernacle.
Yes, to the highjacking of piety and beauty

I hope all this changes back at a faster pace than it all fell.

We are, however, obligated to pray against and to rail against dilution, dissolution and dissent.


5 posted on 04/06/2012 8:57:50 AM PDT by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT.)
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To: RitaOK
All you wrote was correct.
That is why Catholic Radio and EWTN are my two go-to media. They counteract the lack of respect, holiness and humility that was the Catholic populace ... a long, long time ago.
11 posted on 04/06/2012 12:59:17 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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