To: Destro
The way is indeed narrow. At 39, I am the youngest member on the Liturgy commission at my church. I stand on the cusp between two generations. While I can understand the younger generation's quest for authenticity, I cannot understand the older generation's fascination with novelty. They seem happiest when denigrating tradition and seem oblivious to the fact that this undermines their own authority. For now, however, they are running the show and I have resigned myself to being marginalized. I hope and pray for a restoration of the sacred and the beautiful. The good and the true.
17 posted on
03/04/2003 8:17:12 AM PST by
TradicalRC
(Fides quaerens intellectum.)
To: TradicalRC
The issue is this, Martin Luther was right but his correction was not to return to Orthodoxy but to innovate.
From the Protestant branches you had an explosion of Christian re-interpretations (all claiming to be the reveal truth long suppressed somehow-more or less). I think protestantisim has mutated so much it is no longer recognizable as a Christian theology but a Christian sociology.
Which then turns to Orthodoxy and Catholics have to confront a tradition in the Greek rite that is as Apostolic and Catholic.
18 posted on
03/04/2003 8:41:41 AM PST by
Destro
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To: TradicalRC
...and I have resigned myself to being marginalized.
Many are called, but few are chosen. You aren't marginalized if you are on the side of Our Lord. You are Blessed.
23 posted on
03/08/2003 7:21:46 AM PST by
narses
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