Posted on 03/10/2025 11:24:54 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
I know little about Catholicism but I have attended a full blown Catholic wedding......thank goodness there was an elaborate reception afterwards complete with open bar......that ceremony was a workout!
LOL
I’m all for elaborate wedding receptions with open bar. We need more of those!
My TLM monsignor would heartily agree with you!
Trust me......I EARNED IT. 😏
Seems the Latin Mass should be elaborate. It is a celebration of the most elaborate ceremony known to mankind; “The Transubstantiation”.
Reason #236 why I'm a Catholic.
Amen! If we could get even a minimal glimpse of the multitude of angels celebrating bread becoming the body of Christ along with us we would die not of fright, but of overwhelming joy.
Anything that adds weigh to this miracle on our part should be celebrated,
I’ve been hearing about this from older relatives and parents since I was a kid. Many of them grew up going to Latin Mass. Unless it is something other than just a language issue, I don’t understand why there is such opposition to it. Otherwise, what’s the big deal if a church does it and people want to go?
While I have attended many traditional Tridentine Masses, I had never seen a Novus Ordo mass, in Latin, in the USA. I didn't know such a thing existed, until I was traveling in Germany a few years ago. While in the Koln area, I did an internet search on nearby Catholic Churches and Latin mass - and that's where it sent me.
Who died and made him pope?
Once when I was in San Francisco for a conference I found that a nearby church had a Novus Ordo Latin Mass so I went to it. That was many years ago. It was done reverently and the Latin was pronounced correctly but still not the same as the Tridentine Latin Mass.
I looked into the ultra-trad movement many years ago and found out that in some places, the priests who did not like it were vilified and re-assigned to tiny parishes in the middle on nowhere as punishment for their views.
Some of the modernized were really horrible about it. They criticized the pre-V2 church as pray, pay, and obey, and then took that to new levels.
This is kind of the background as to why it is “such a big deal.”
You’re right...the stand up...sit down...kneel down...stand up...should simply stop...I think it’s to keep you awake.
I’m still trying to figure out which kind of Latin Mass Jesus performed. I want the authentic one.
This yutz is going to make mass a drive through...
Would you like absolution and fries with that? F, S, & HS, Amen.. 2nd window, please..
My sister married an orthodox Greek and that was one amazing ceremony.
I have friends who are Chaldean Catholics and I went to one wedding and the reception was really off the hook.
“Francis, took the opposite view, warning that it had been weaponised by traditionalists with an axe to grind against his more liberal agenda. He said it was “being used in an ideological way” and reintroduced restrictions in 2021.”
So..... the commie pope actually admitted that he had a liberal agenda. The arrogance. As a rep or spokesman for God he is not supposed to have an agenda, liberal or otherwise, other than converting people to Christianity and following and spreading God’s word.
Not true. While Vatican II did give some limited freedom to priests to occasionally use the vernacular, it was not intended to be a wholesale abandonment of the Latin language. And the Council said NOTHING about facing the people. BTW, when the priest says Mass ad orientem, he is not "facing away from the people." He is symbolically facing East, in anticipation of the Lord's second coming.
It's really not about the Latin language. It's almost an entirely different Mass. The new Mass is so stripped down that it's almost unrecognizable as being connected to the Traditional Latin Mass. I attend Mass in all three forms of the Latin rite: 1) the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), 2) the Ordinariate form of the Mass, and 3) the Novus Ordo, which is what is celebrated in 99% of the parishes in this country. The Novus Ordo, even when celebrated with reverence and beauty, leaves so much out. Everyone I know who attends the TLM says that the language has nothing to do with why they attend. It's the reverence, mystery, and beauty of the Mass, as compared to the Novus Ordo.
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