Posted on 07/25/2004 11:39:57 AM PDT by Antoninus
This year on the feast of the Assumption (Sunday, August 15, 2004, 4:00 PM), the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Camden, New Jersey will be the site of a Solemn High Mass celebrated in the Traditional Roman Rite. This Mass is an annual event and is quite simply, the most beautiful Mass I have ever attended.
The Mass is sponsored by Mater Ecclesiae Roman Catholic Church, a parish of the diocese of Camden located in Berlin, New Jersey. Mater Ecclesiae is an indult parish which celebrates the Tridentine Mass.
If you are able, I encourage you to attend this Mass. It has become quite an event each year and if you love the beauty and solemnity of the traditional Catholic liturgy, this Mass will be an unforgettable experience. I have never felt so optimistic about the future of the Church as directly after this Mass. Here's a photo taken after last year's Assumption Mass:
You'll note the average age of the individuals in this photo. Compare this photo to the ones commonly posted on FR showing liturgical travesties of various sorts. This is exactly the sort of event we need to be supporting to the hilt.
Honestly, I have no idea how they decide what goes where. Obviously some threads are both news and religious. My observation is usually they are exiled here.
Polycarp wanted these religious news stories to have some interation in the news forum.
Well, this is one baby boomer who sat at mass this morning who tried hard to hold back tears. We just got a new music director who has taken us back to the 1970's with awful music that, I notice most people refused to sing. Silly music, shaking of hands, loud conversation and carrying on before mass when many of us wish to pray in silence, altar girls dressed in flip-flops and young people in the congregation half-dressed - or dressed in clothes that look ripped and have strings hanging off all around (a new fad I suppose).. I love our priest. He has made changes for the better. But we have a long long way to go. I so long for the traditional church again. We have no Traditional Masses in our area. I've already sent an e-mail off to our new bishop asking for a possibility of a Latin Mass in our diocese. No response, of course.
You people in Vermont are very lucky.
Thank you! I think we baby boomers are unfairly maligned. Many of us did leave in the face of the changes imposed by people who were 10 to 40 years older than we were at the time of VatII. Many of our generation who stayed with the Church did, unfortunately, go with the flow and are now part of the problem. But many of the good new bishops who are being appointed now are also part of our generation, and they obviously suffered through somehow and are now trying to bring back the true Church that the preceding generation destroyed.
VatII was an expression of something that had been going on underground for some time; VatII just threw open all the doors (or "windows") and let that formerly hidden force explode and take over the entire Church.
I planning to go to Freehold NJ soon and I hope I can go to Mass at Camden. How is the neighborhood? Is it safe? I don't know too much about Jersey.
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