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To: narses
"The point is that the liberals in the hierarchy (and they are legion) HATE the Tridentine Mass. Why? I dunno. THEY will be the potential schismatics if Rome removes the Indult requirement..."

This is very important to highlight. Why would any Catholic hate any Mass? This is our source and summit of our faith...everytime I hear of a negative reaction to any Mass (granted I am not fond of the "guitar" Mass, Hula Mass, etc. as I don't think they are respectful) I cringe, but a reaction like this which demonstrates a hatred to the Latin Mass indicates the smoke of evil to me. How can we hate Christ in the Eucharist? How can we hate our heritage?
29 posted on 07/19/2002 8:13:58 AM PDT by Domestic Church
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To: Domestic Church
How can we hate our heritage?

The modernists do precisely that. Are you old enough to remember when they used to snarl and spit out the epithet "pre-conciliar" against anything remotely traditional? I remember telling one of my professors that the Bible was "pre-conciliar"; she about had a fit of apoplexy over that one. :)

30 posted on 07/19/2002 8:18:23 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: Domestic Church
Why would any Catholic hate any Mass?

I don't believe it’s the Mass they hate although they may say so to get a rise out of their audience. There are defense mechanisms involved here and I'm not sure which ones (displacement & rationalization?). It's not the Mass; it's what the Mass represents to these people. It represents an authority that is not their own (Rome), chain of command, Canon law, etc. Plus it represents a threat to the pervasive "pastoral flexibility" which dominates Amchurch.

The same principle applies to the One Dimensional Christians who ridicule the Mother of God and the Eucharist. Mary and the Body of Christ represent (to them), the Catholic Church and the challenge/threat it presents to their own autonomous authority and freedom to do whatever they wish without any higher earthly authority telling them different. The heresy of 'individual interpretation' permits it, you see.

Knowing that there is a large group of apostolic Christians who will prove to you that you are WRONG using the bible itself to do so, is a threat to the ego. Defense mechanisms are the means of coping.

32 posted on 07/19/2002 8:49:44 AM PDT by Sock
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To: Domestic Church
Being stupid and young (at least relative to some of you) I have to say I don't know anyone who knows the Tridentine mass, let alone hates it.
270 posted on 07/23/2002 12:03:44 PM PDT by WriteOn
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