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To: steve86
We have a former Episcopal priest in our parish. He is fantastic in delivery Orthodox Catholic teaching. He really appreciates what he has found and wants to share it with cradle Catholics who take it for granted.
58 posted on 12/13/2010 9:44:35 PM PST by Barnacle (God help us.)
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To: Barnacle

Good for you. The problem, when posters point out that their own particular parish has a recently ordained defector from so-and-so and he is great (and I don’t doubt he celebrates the Mass with great fidelity and alacrity), is that each individual parish sort of becomes a Catholic variant on its own, some great and some not so great. Sort of like how each Protestant congregation is a little bit of a unique religion.

I want a normative Tridentine Mass which is the same everywhere even if it is a Martian celebrating it — well, maybe not that. OK, some priests deliver a homily-sermon better than others, can’t get away from that. But no vernacular, no experimental family structures to distract.


59 posted on 12/13/2010 10:05:41 PM PST by steve86
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