[Land of the Irish]

Anne Roche Muggeridge once invited a non-Catholic friend to Mass in Ireland where she thought the liturgy would be save from the despoilers. She reported that she was embarrassed: "It was like taking someone home to meet your mother and having her get drunk and dance on the table."

[Land of the Irish]

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[bornacatholic]

excellent post, land...

[Kolokotronis]

You know, Land, I seldom agree with much of what you post, but this is spot on! Lex orandi, lex credendi.

I was recently at a Mass of the Resurrection for the mother of a childhood friend. It was all very nice and I know a comfort to my friend and his family, but the "Mass" left out so much, including the Creed! I was frankly astonished. A couple of summers ago I was at a family wedding where there were even worse gaps in the Nuptial Mass and the priest seemed to be making up the Canon as he went along. All in all it seemed far off even the NO rubrics. I was sitting with a cousin who is a professor of theology at Fordham and asked him what form of Liturgy it was. He gave me a sour look and said he had absolutely no idea.

[Convert from ECUSA]

" Liturgical abuses are a form of Liberal Catholicism, the great enemy of the Church today. It is a reincarnation of Modernism. St. Pius X spoke of "the perfidious plot of liberal Catholics." Of liberal Catholics today, Mother Angelica said recently: "Everything God doesn't want is on their agenda." In the moral order, liberal Catholics call for freedom from sexual restraint, the right to premarital sex, contraception, divorce, homosexual practice, even abortion. In the liturgical order, it takes the form of freedom from rubrical law.

Liturgical abuses, like all liberal Catholicism, are a rejection of divinely constituted authority. As Cardinal Newman said, authority is the very essence of our revealed religion, coming through Christ to St. Peter and his successors to us. Liturgy is so bound up with authority and the apostolic hierarchy established by Christ that without it "there would be no public worship as Catholicism understands the liturgy." (Fr. John Hardon, S.J., "The Catholic Catechism," Doubleday and Co., p. 450)."

Amen! Good post, Land of the Irish, thanks!

[conservonator]

A fairly recent atrocity is the "Tyme Mass" in London, England, during which the young danced in a night-club atmosphere, a young woman gave the homily and sesame-seed loaves were consecrated in ceramic bowls. This experiment had the approval of Cardinal Hume as "a means of attracting young people back to the Church." (cf. Christian Order, May, 1997, pp. 262-269).

Since we've done away with silly traditions and superstitions like the Real Presence, a snack cracker, or whatever's handy can make a suitable substitute for the symbolic presence of Christ, right Cardinal? BTW, I'm partial to these....

Stock up, and I might stop by for "Mass".