[VermiciousKnid]

The electric "candle" situation is one of the most awful things that has happened to our traditions.

The author is spot-on in this article, and though I try mightily to teach my children the richness of their Catholic heritage, it is very difficult to do when your church looks like the Brady's TV room, when the nuns not only don't wear habits, but openly chastise you for wearing a chapel veil (doilie-type) to church (one sister asked me if I was trying to be Jackie Kennedy -- not on your life, sister...), where we have one priest who flatly refuses to recite the Credo AS WRITTEN (he has made it "gender neutral" among other things), and where week after week, with rare but very much appreciated exception you are subjected to Elvis gyrating on the altar while singing the odious "Christ Be Our Light".

If we want our children to be inspired by their heritage, then by golly...we have to give them something worth the inspiration,

Even the most inpiring of all -- the Holy Eucharist -- is hidden away where no one can see Him.

It's all so very sad. I pray that we will be able to reverse this trend.

Regards,

[Desdemona]

http://www.cathedralstl.org/tourism/tour.html

This is where I have been going to Mass of late. Unfortunately, we can't have lots of real candles because the soot damages the mosaics. Believe me, the pictures do not do it justice.

[TexConfederate1861]

Sounds like this guy is doing the same thing that basically happened in the 800's all over again...Somebody thinks they can add to or change the Creed....but..once that door was opened, and the anethemas were ignored...........................!

[maryz]

one sister asked me if I was trying to be Jackie Kennedy

Jackie Kennedy didn't wear mantillas to church -- she wore headscarves, folded into a triangle and tied under her chin -- which our nuns considered hardly one step above the Kleenex girls sometimes pinned to their heads to make an unexpected visit. (She may have started to wear mantillas at one point, because there was a lot of negative talk about the headscarves, but I don't remember.)