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To: jrny

"I agree with you. I think Low Mass, in hindsight, should never have been invented."

Hhhhhm. Do you perceive a possible contradiction here with the way things should work within the Church? What did our Lord say?

Mat 16:18 "...I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Jhn 16:13 "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:..."


180 posted on 07/28/2005 8:33:12 AM PDT by Graves (Remember Esphigmenou - Orthodoxy or Death!)
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To: Graves; jrny

Wasn't the simple mass developed as a battlefield expedient in medieval Europe? You can't do a high mass at dawn before a battle out in the woods. You are sending men to their deaths and they want to be shriven and take communion...which for many will amount to viaticum.

Do the Greeks and Russians not have comparable traditions?


181 posted on 07/28/2005 8:37:58 AM PDT by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: Graves

You are approaching my words from a different angle. However, I should probably rephrase myself so that I do not come across in the way you perceived.


183 posted on 07/28/2005 8:52:32 AM PDT by jrny (Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Benedicto Decimo Sexto.)
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