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To: Bud McDuell
. Why is it that one should have to travel from parish to parish searching for a reverent Mass? Doesn't that tell you that there is something wrong with the Mass?

No, it doesn't. It may say something about the bishop of that particular diocese, the pastor of that particular parish and mostly the particular priest at the Mass that you found to be so poorly celebrated...but it says nothing about the intrinsic value of the Mass itself. Is Jesus Christ offered as sacrifice on the altar? Are the bread and wine consecrated and transubstatiated into the body and blood of Our Lord?

I've been to indult Masses in my area that I found to be dreadful...the priest and the altar boys were mumbling the prayers and responses in such low monotones that nobody else in the church could have had a clue as to what was being said. Is that Mass intrinsically superior to the Novus Ordo Mass celebrated at my home parish? I would say no.

54 posted on 07/22/2002 9:14:53 AM PDT by pgkdan
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