Which is wise and prudent, and something I too had planned on doing until this current issue arose two days ago.
I'm trying to work through it myself, and a lot of folks I know personally are really frustrated by this and having a hard time sorting it out. If even Fr. Z is flustered by these developments, I don't feel so bad for being flustered.
As I said earlier, I attend the Novus Ordo mass daily. I attend the TLM almost every Sunday. Honestly, I attend the latter on Sundays not so much because I love the TLM, but because I hate liturgical abuse, and there are none at the TLM.
To see our Pope ignore the rubrics is to my sensibilities very troubling.
Wow the Catholics who are objecting to the feet cleaning sound like the Pharisees who objected to Jesus’ disobeying of the jewish law. When your laws get in the way of the beautiful thing the Pope did, you and your laws have issues.
We are fortunate to live somewhere where there are many, many Catholic parishes to attend. We love the pastor of our territorial parish, but he's a big ham up on the altar, and I've just gotten too old and crotchety to put up with it. We rarely, if ever, attend Mass there.
These days, we usually just go down to the Shrine (the Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception) in DC. Msgr. Rossi runs a pretty tight ship, and Masses there range from Masses celebrated with no egregious deviations from the rubrics to Masses celebrated by priests who took the time to do it right, letting the light of Christ shine through the liturgy rather than their own egos.
I'll continue to wait with Pope Francis. I wonder whether actions that would appear reasonable in one culture - Latin America - might not be quite right on a wider stage. Perhaps the new pope will learn that what flies in Buenos Aires may be less helpful to the Universal Church. I don't know. Maybe I'm just too rule-bound and uptight, LOL. For now, I'll just wait and watch and hope that he'll catch on and do a bang-up job of it.
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