Posted on 09/11/2021 4:34:37 PM PDT by ebb tide
The “sad experience” of 2020's "liturgical 'fasting" has highlighted a “goodness” of the “long liturgical journey” that has been made since Vatican II, Francis wrote in a message for the Italian Liturgical Week (August 23-26), although there is no direct link between the Novus Ordo and Covid.
But already in the next paragraph, he contradicts this accolade when stressing the difficulties of the resumption of the liturgy which he calls “an alarming sign of the advanced stage of the change of epoch.”
The euphemism “change of epoch” shows that Francis fears facing the extent of the liturgical disaster. Instead, he evasively speaks of a “changed perception of time” in people’s “real lives” that has repercussions on the way of “being and feeling community.”
According to Francis' abstract language, the “Sunday assembly” is “unbalanced in terms of generational presence” because of “cultural inhomogeneity.” It would have been more honest to admit that liturgical secularising led into a deadlock.
What the dickens did I just read?
Was that written by Boyd Crowder?
“unbalanced in terms of generational presence” because of “cultural inhomogeneity.”
Translated:
The old are dying off and the young don’t come anymore.
“The old are dying off and the young don’t come anymore”
except to traditional Latin mass.
Bergoglio's dictator bishops locking Catholics out of Sunday Catholic Masses is not "liturgical fasting"; it's liturgical robbery.
Pure speculation on my part but I’m just guessing that:
- Novus Ordo Mass attendance has not recovered from pre-scamdemic numbers — not even close.
- TLM Mass attendance has fully rebounded and may have even increased from pre-scamdemic numbers.
I’d welcome any hard data on this hypothesis.
Yet, to this day, he has not lifted the suspension of the Sunday and Holy Day obligation.
And Bergolio is complaining about nobody returning to Bungnini's "New Mess".
I don’t have any hard data, and I don’t attend Novus Ordo except for weddings, funerals etc., BUT anecdotally I can tell you that it’s business at usual at the TLM while I’ve heard from family members who go to the Novus Ordo that attendance there is abysmal.
Huh?????????
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