[illinidiva]

I don’t care if people want to go to a Traditional Latin Mass as long as TPTB scrub all the anti-Semitism out of the Latin missal. However, many TLM types tend to be very self-righteous in their beliefs. Theirs is the only Mass that is valid despite the fact that the new post Vatican II is also licit. I think that the prime example of this is the feet washing non-controversy. The Pharisees-R-Us wing of the Church spent time screaming about how this would lead to lady priests and missed the entire point of the Pope’s lesson.

I’m fine with them having their Mass as long as they don’t act as long as they aren’t scolds to the rest of us.

[RobbyS]

I clearly recall how the Latin mass was commonly conducted two generations ago, and it was hardly the grand and eloquent thing some may think. Many of those attending did not understand what was going on, and those who did realize how much superfluity there was to many parts. In many churches, the ladies were say their rosaries, in large part because they were simply marking time until Communion. reaching was, on the average, subpar compared with an Episcopal, a Presbyterian, or Methodist sermon, and often disconnected with the epistle and the Gospel for the day. High masses were rare, even the missa canta, because few priests knew how to chant. Even the use of incense was perfunctory, and altar boys were poor representives of the laity. Choirs were mediocre at best and the best Latin seldom heard. Father Faber is a weak imitation of Charles Wesley. so. proof that nostalgia is dangerous. BUT what replaced it was worse.