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If this is true, I will consider it very good news indeed.

Last Sunday, I attended Mass as usual. We sang "Amazing Grace," which is an admittedly beautiful song, but not terribly Catholic (and they felt the need to mess around with the words: no more "wretches" in the New Church!), then we sang, "See Us Lord About Your Altar," which is without a doubt the LEAST Catholic song in the hymnal ("...where once was flesh and blood now is bread and wine..." -- something like that), then we sang "The Lord of the Dance," which...well...I consider it the "Feelings" of hymns...once you've got it in your head it takes a full week to stop saying, "and we danced with the flowers and we danced with the trees and we danced with the squirrels and we danced with the bees..."

And as if that wasn't bad enough, we had a visiting priest who preached a very nice, holy homily and when he stepped down from the pulpit, the congregation applauded.

Wait! It gets better! Then the new pastor (a monsignor) came onto the altar and called up all the new catechists for the year. There were literally 50 people on the altar (in the middle of Mass). Monsignor spoke a few words, asked them to vow to teach the children with integrity, and then he told the congregation to "raise your right hands" and bless these teachers.

I'm sorry, but I simply cannot do this sort of thing. It looked like a skinhead rally in there and I refused to do it. Instead I said a simple, silent prayer that the catechists would do well this year and left it at that.

Like I said, I hope this report is true.

Regards,

"The draft also warns against the use of non-Biblical language during the mass, such as readings from poets. "

so Psalms and Song of Songs are ruled out if they arent spoken in Greek (i believe is the original tougne... correct me if im wrong, but it isnt Latin i know that much)

this is further proof to me that one has no need for church outside of guidence. Christians everywhere can benifit alot more from simply reading the Bible themselves and coming to their own conclusions.

if you think God wants us to sit around and look pretty just because we're in church and only recall God's Word on Sunday's, then fine. as for me though, im going to do "all things in moderation". im going to live my life, while being wiser in the Word. not listen to some priest stand up and yammer on all day. they have the purpose of guiding the lost. Spread the Word and support those in need. that is all. There is no need for the Catholic Church to hold more wealth than it could possibly spend and continue to ask for more.

Read the Bible for yourself people. just because we are called to be sheep, doesnt mean we cant at times be our own selves.