Was not the NO really the Church going back to the early days of the Church, during its first 300 years as a Church?
No. We had this discussion a few days ago dear lady.
There wasn’t anything like today’s serious modernist errors in those early days. The modernists hadn’t been encouraged by Satan at that time.
Some rather good things happened during those first 300 years as the tenets and rubrics were growing. The Douay Bible was collated during that time. Of course many Catholics today don’t know what a Douay Bible is.
I don’t believe in the early days the priest was praying towards the congregants instead of to God Almighty. Thanks to that Bible many of the prayers of that early Church were lifted verbatim from scripture and are still found today in the Tridentine Mass.
Anything not contrary to quiet respectability was what was going on in the early days.
Sorry to butt in here but that's gotta be a resounding NO. But suppose that it was true, wouldn't that be like a grown man going back to the way he did things as a child? Dumping all that he has learned over the years and ignoring the fact that he is now an adult?
That’s the party line for sure. And I’ve been learning that it’s not even accurate. Even if it were, why would the Church after hundreds of years choose to do this? How is this not saying that the Church was WRONG for all of those years?