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To: Aussie Dasher

The restoration of the liturgy is necessary to reigning in the so-called "Spirit of Vatican II." I predict that Mass attendance will improve dramatically now that B16 is going to stop the insanity. The liturgy of Novus Ordo Masses are just too open to abuse. Altar girls, Eucharistic ministers, lay readers, Mass facing the people, no Communion rail, guitars instead of an organ, Communion under both kinds, liturgical dancers, and the responsorial psalm where we have to repeat the same sentence in a monotone like zombies have played a part in driving people away from Mass. If we go back to praying like Catholics, we will eventually go back to believing and behaving like Catholics, too.


16 posted on 06/19/2005 10:27:23 PM PDT by RPTMS
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To: RPTMS

I don't feel any less a Catholic because I go to the "new" Mass. I'm sure the Lord thinks no less of me because I speak to Him in Enlish rather than Latin.

It's not the way Mass is said, it's the message (or lack of it) coming from the pulpit that is impacting.

We need a strong, loud, clear Church now.


17 posted on 06/19/2005 10:37:25 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: RPTMS
Communion under both kinds,

While I agree with your sentiments, receiving the Eucharist under both species does NOT qualify as an "abuse".

47 posted on 06/20/2005 6:58:33 AM PDT by TradicalRC (I'd rather live in a Christian theocracy than a secular democracy.)
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