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To: jrny
Why are you not advocating a Tridentine Rite, which would accommodate your wishes and those who desire the TLM?

You are simply not going to suppress the Novus Ordo, no matter how much you wish it would happen.

The number of Catholics who desire to worship at a Latin Mass, NO or TLM, is tiny and, if given a choice, will always go to the vernacular NO.

49 posted on 03/15/2005 6:14:45 AM PST by sinkspur ("Preach the gospel. If necessary, use words.")
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To: sinkspur

If you read my propositions carefully, you will see that I am advocating the free and wide access of the TLM independent of the NO establishment in addition to the TLM being present alongside the NO at all churches. I said the liturgical battle has to be fought on two fronts. If you think the NO as it is today is not in need of fixing, then I pity you. I also said I was open to a reform of the reform as Ratzinger advocates, although I personally would prefer the eventual suppression of the NO. Let's discuss my ideas and maybe yours too about the merits of the specific ideas themselves. I am not bashing anyone, but you seem to be bashing me and won't even consider anything I have had to say. Again, if you think the NO as it is now is just right, I pity you and I have nothing more to say to you.

Do I not get any credit for offering a more thoughtful and prudent course of action rather than an immediate suppression of all changes of the last 40 years? Will someone else here in this forum actually have a liturgical discussion with me as to the merits or shortcomings of the specific ideas I proposed?


50 posted on 03/15/2005 6:20:45 AM PST by jrny (Tenete traditionem quam tradidi vobis)
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