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Posted on 10/08/2002 5:21:40 PM PDT by B-Chan

Fellow Catholics:

Are you tired of modernist impiety, post-Conciliar disrespect, and hippie embellishments at your parish Mass? Are you frustrated at the cavalier attitude that some so-called extraordinary ministers -- or even priests -- have towards the Most Precious Body and Blood of Our Lord? Are you nauseated by Communion-In-The-Round, liturgical Soul Train, Communion-in-the-Paw, and bare-bellied altar girls? Are you sick of being made to feel uncomfortable simply because you don't wish to join hands during the Pater Noster -- or because you are the only person in your parish who knows what "pater noster" means?

Are you tired of AmChyrch's constant drive to be "inclusive" instead of being Catholic? Do you pray for the day when you can go into a Catholic church that looks, feels, and smells like a Catholic Church is supposed to?

Well, your prayers have been answered. Thanks to His Holiness Pope John Paul II, you now have the option of worshipping Christ in a mass that really conforms to the rubrics, where altar chicks, New Age kum-bah-yah, rock and roll "praise orchestras" and liturgical dance are unknown -- a 100% Roman Catholic mass, Pope-approved, and the way it used to be, complete with incense, kneeling at an altar rail, Communion on the tongue, and a judicious and proper usage of Greek and Lain along with a beautiful, traditional English liturgy.

No, you don't have to go to the schismatics, integrists, or sedvecantists for this kind of mass. You only have to go as far as the Pastoral Provision for the Anglican Usage of the Roman Rite. Thanks to the Pastoral Provision graciously granted by His Holiness more than a decade ago, Anglican priests and congregations wishing to reconcile with Rome were received into the Roman Catholic Church and allowed to celebrate the mass according to the lovely and dignified Anglican Usage (corrected to conform to the norms of the Church). But these parishes aren't for ex-Anglicans only; any Catholic is welcome to worship at an Anglican Use parish. There, you'll find a traditional mass setting sans modern "improvements": kneelers, processions, approriate music performed on appropriate instruments, traditional vestments worn at the appropriate times, incense, shrines, lovely statuary, the works. You are welcome and encouraged to kneel during the Consecration, genuflect before the Body and Blood, receive Him in both Kinds on the tongue while kneeling reverently at an altar rail, and adore Him at regular and well-publicized Adorations. You can confess your sins in a real confessional , be absolved by a real priest of God who believes in sin and in penance, and say the rosary as often as you like. And all of this without worrying if your priest or bishop is a poofter, a Protestant, or a part of some fringey radical outfit.

Fellow Catholics, if you're tired of being herded to Communion like customers at a fast-food drive-thru window; if you're tired of loopy liturgy, hippie hagiography, and gum-snapping teenagers handling the Body and Blood of Our Lord like Triscuits and Kool-Aid at a middle-school mixer, then do something about it. Visit the Pastoral Provision website for more information or, better still, check out a Pastoral Provision parish in person.

I think you'll be glad you did.

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