"The Most Beautiful Mass I've Ever Attended"

Mater Ecclesiae Roman Catholic Church ^ | 7/25/04 | Antoninus

[drstevej]

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.

[sneakers]

"To be fair, there are a few baby-boomers in the congregation at ME, but not nearly in proportion to their numbers in the general community"

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.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Beautiful! To use an expression I heard back in my Evangelical Protestant days in the 1980s (and it is expressed as a heartfelt compliment), now that is what I call church!

Is a new convert allowed to cheer and get a bit choked up? Catholic churches that look like this seem to be as rare as snow in August.

[k omalley]

We baby boomers may indeed be the lost generation, but please don't blame us for the changes wrought by the "spirit" of VII or the mess made out of the liturgy, most of this was done by an older generation. Most of us boomers were in high school or college at the time and the only choices were to leave or go along. Many left.

[livius]

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.

[Antoninus]

We baby boomers may indeed be the lost generation, but please don't blame us for the changes wrought by the "spirit" of VII or the mess made out of the liturgy, most of this was done by an older generation. Most of us boomers were in high school or college at the time and the only choices were to leave or go along. Many left.

It's true, I don't deny it. Most of the changes were wrought by the older generation. I was simply commenting on the obvious lack of folks from the baby boom generation in the traditionalist ranks (as a proportion of their numbers in the general population). Furthermore, the ranks of the liturgical, architectural, and spiritual wreckovators is predominantly populated with aging baby boomers.

I don't blame you personally at all, or cast a blanket condemnation at every member of the baby boom generation. Some of them have suffered terribly through all this, no doubt.

[M007]

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.

[Antoninus]

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.

Be aware that this is only a one-time shot at the cathedral in Camden. If you can't make it for the Assumption Mass on August 15, then don't bother going to Camden. It's not the most beautiful spot on the planet by a long shot.

On the other hand, if you are in south Jersey on some other Sunday, feel free to visit Mater Ecclesiae parish in Berlin. That's where the indult parish is located.

[Antoninus]

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[GirlShortstop]

Please attend this mass if you can. You won't regret it.
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