Like so many initiatives of clerics who came of age in the wake of Vatican II, it is both futile and malign. Catholicism is an entity with twenty centuries behind it. To attempt to transform it over night was bound to fail. A tragic chase after the wind which did harm to countless souls who only asked to practice Catholicism as how their ancestors had practiced it, making adversaries of those who loved the Faith.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
And so, God wins. As Sarah Hoyt would say, this is my shocked face.
I have read all the arguments of the TLM haters, and none of them has either reason or facts on which to base their claim. I wish I could understand what their thinking really is. 🤷🏻♂️
It’s not so incredulous that Christ would Choose to be Present in the Eucharist.
But what is incredulous is that a man as a Priest would dare think that he (Not HE) knows better. Since the Holy Spirit Leads the Church, we follow in the wake of 2025 years, to think otherwise is crazy.
I’ll take a wild stab at it, Frank.
The hate is centered upon a fact that it is grounded. It represents a problem to a faction within the church that see’s a future Catholic Church willing to modernize and have the church loosen up to accommodate acceptable societal trends. Empowering women, LGBTQ integration, abortion as Reproductive Rights, just to name a few.
Frank. I apologize in advance if your question was rhetorical.
A threat to reformers, the TLM stands firm.
It sits upon the foundation of Truth hence it’s strength throughout the centuries.
Philip, thanks for that perspective. It’s not rhetorical, I really wonder. You may well be correct.
Your welcome, 🙂
Frank, the biggest argument against something is usually the people who support it. I love the old Mass but we are not always charitable toward those who don’t, we’re not always obedient toward Church authorities, we’re not always as discerning or well-read as we think we are in matters of theology.
Phil is right. They hate the Latin Mass for the same reasons that we love it–it shows a continuity with the 2000 year history and teaching of the Catholic Church. They like to have the worldwide network which the Catholic Church represents. They don’t like the content, particularly the moral content. They want to “reimagine church,” as a society in which what we did in the past “doesn’t count,” and can and should be jettisoned. In so doing, they destroy the very thesis for the existence of the Catholic Church–that the life and teaching of Christ will be passed on intact in essence from Christ through his apostles to their successors until the end of time. The implosion which they created is entirely predictable and logical. But if what we did throughout the centuries is still legitimate and beloved, it shows that while externals, languages, etc. can change, the content does not. Indeed, the ancient liturgy is a perennial expression of the four historic marks of the Church as enunciated by the Nicene Creed.
Pinky and Daniel, thanks for those insights as well.
The Catholic Church is not ours to change.
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