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Even for a Protestant, the Latin Mass is part of our historic religious heritage. As with the Divine Liturgies and Icons of the Orthodox Church, the mysteries of the Latin Mass can draw one into a profound feeling of sacredness.

I don't wish to offend any Roman Catholic friends by commenting on something that is their business, but it is hard to imagine why the Vatican is actually forbidding its practice. Such an imperious attitude by a Pope has precedence before in the Great Schism, the Norman reforms of the Irish Monastic Church, and the Protestant Reformation. Unfortunately, when you're told it's this way or the highway you can feel there's no choice but to hit the road.

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Even for a Protestant, the Latin Mass is part of our historic religious heritage. As with the Divine Liturgies and Icons of the Orthodox Church, the mysteries of the Latin Mass can draw one into a profound feeling of sacredness.

Thank you for posting this. While I am not really "invested" in the Latin Mass, it is most certainly part of Christian Heritage. I feel the same way about this vandalism as I did when I saw Notre Dame de Paris in Flames. It made me so upset! FTR, I am a bass player in a Contemporary Christian Band that ministers in a Pentecostal Church, but I also love the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostem.

We are all impoverished by this left-wing pope's behavior. I can't even IMAGINE how bereft our Traditional Catholic Friends feel over this.