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To: Snuffington
But I DO hop from parish to parish about half the time so as not to lose touch with what is going on in the Novus Ordo parishes. I am particularly concerned that Tridentine Catholics not close themselves up in the comfy cocoon of a Tridentine parish and make believe that the rest of the world does not exist.

One of my biggest gripes with the usual gang of "traditionalist" suspects is their propensity to separate themselves from the Novus Ordo parishes and to develop an incestuous inbreeding of ideas in which they imagine themselves superior to the actual Church because all fifteen people they know agree with them.

The Novus Ordo churches have a need for some traditionalists with emotional self-control to check the abuses that the Kumbaya crowd want to institutionalize. There is nothing that the AmChurch liberals love more than ghettoizing Trintine Catholics. The suspects are eager to ghettoize themselves.

As to the last point, of course, the Faith was never meant to be limited to our homes, but it must BE in our ho,mes as well as in the public arena. We are the ones who are responsible for our respective children and their moral development. If we don't educate them, others will and we will not like the results. Not only that but we are morally responsible for our failures to educate the children God has entrusted to us. I know you know that but I wanted to say it lest anyone else be misled.

I started my eldest in the parochial scool I attended. The pastor of the parish was thoroughly orthodox and used to say the Tridentine Mass for us at another parish on occasion. Even he could not stem the evil of a bureaucracy which imposed a radical ex-nun as the principal (as we learned the hard way). When our then six year old was repeatedly taught that Christ did not know He was God even on the cross, we were convinced of homeschooling after exchanging nastygrams with the radical ex-nun to no avail.

706 posted on 12/04/2002 12:36:16 PM PST by BlackElk
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To: BlackElk
The Novus Ordo churches have a need for some traditionalists with emotional self-control to check the abuses that the Kumbaya crowd want to institutionalize.

Easier said than done, especially when the Kumbaya people are the more respected in the parish due to social/economic status. That's another chunck of why I left the last parish. The Kumbayas actually managed to persuade the people in favor of tradition that they were wrong on a few things.

Well, guess what. Everybody's favorite cantor got up and left. And people have been asking where I've been and one of these days I'm going to actually have to tell them the whole truth.
707 posted on 12/04/2002 12:42:07 PM PST by Desdemona
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