[ThomasMore]

I am VERY conservative. But traditionalism is not always conservative. For the longest time, because of rigid Jansenistic opinions among the clergy AND laity, most Catholics only received communion once a year. In fact, Catholics were encouraged not to receive frequent communion. This was practiced for so long and so universally, that it was considered “tradition”. Thank God for Pope St. Pius X!!!!

I also thank God for the Vatican II Council. I would hope and pray that all Catholics would. But I can understand the nostalgic desire for the old Latin Mass. And certainly would not hold someone at fault for their love of that form of the Holy Mass. But likewise, we should be careful whom we belittle and also exclude from the celebration because that’s what “we” think it should be.

Deacon Francis

[Romulus]

If you are really a deacon, you really ought to know that the desire for the Extraordinary Form is powerfully attractive to young people and frequently sought after by families. To characterize it as a concession to nostalgia is grossly ignorant and inexcusable in a cleric.

Your understanding of participation also appears to be deficient and deformed. Are you sure you’re a deacon? We used to have a “deacon” around here who turned out to be a fraud.

[miss marmelstein]

I'm not nostalgic for the Latin Mass - I attend it every Sunday at St. Agnes in NYC. I do know that during the medieval period of Catholicism, not every Mass offered Communion. I've never heard of people encouraged not to take it. My trouble today with the Eucharist, is the number of people who are receiving it who are not in the state of Grace. I refuse to take Communion when not having been to Confession. I once turned to a pal while watching the sneakers and shorts crowd dashing for the Host and said “We're the only decent people here!”