Posted on 01/13/2005 7:52:00 AM PST by latae sententiae
Now there is something that is "newsworthy." Written in 1975. Phew!!!
Also, did it ever occur to anyone that there is a distinct difference between the "liturgy" and "the Mass" itself. Perhaps it was modeled on Luther's liturgy, but since there is no apostolic succession, there is no "Mass."
SSPX circles tend to cloud these very important distinctions between the rite or the liturgy and "the Mass."
No. I just thought that Free Republic was for "news" not history, but... I'm not too terribly upset by it. In fact, I think it is a good article, except for the obvious lacking distinctions between "liturgy" and "Mass" that I mentioned and you avoided.
You can't blame the failings of the "divinely inspired priesthood" of the RCC on Martin Luther. If the Catholics are heading over the cliffs with all this modernism, it's their own doings. (But it does kinda makes you wonder about their "inspiration".)
And many tend to think that a Lutheran-based "liturgy" will not alter their beliefs in "the Mass."
What looks more like a Lutheran service a Tridentine Mass or a Novus Ordo Mass?
I have experience with Methodist liturgy and the resemblance to the Novus Ordo is amazing....the Tridentine...is unlike any of these.
I've never attended a Lutheran service and to my knowledge, a New Mass so it's difficult for me to compare. I will say that all this modernism in the churches/Church is beginning to make it difficult to distinguish one from another and is the forbearer to ecumenticalism. Personally I think that's a (very) bad thing but IMHO what drives it is corruption of doctrine.
Lefebvre appealing to Bernardin. Unreal.
"Fit's in well for you doesn't it. According to your reasoning, age absolutely makes an article irrelevant. Phew!!!"
What is the reason for the ' in the word fits?
No, according to journalistic standards and "newsworthiness," an article or topic written in 1975 is not "newsworthy."
But then again, with an SSPX adherent worldview, everything stopped around 1959; even if it really wasn't part of Catholic Tradition or tradition.
In any event, perhaps with you, you don't even recognize Vatican I, based upon your moniker.
Let me let you in on something, as one who works with journalists: 1975 isn't news.
Good article though!!!
"And many tend to think that a Lutheran-based "liturgy" will not alter their beliefs in "the Mass.""
Oh, but I am not one of them. I recognize the lex orandi est lex credendi moniker well.
the apostrophe was me typing too fast. And I do accept Vatican I. And how can you say that the SSPX worldview claims that everything stopped in 1959, when they use the 1962 missal? hmmmm..... fallacious statement?
Great article, huh? Got any from 1959? Or how about 1962?
Keep in mind that the Anglicans and some other Protestant denominations revised their liturgies after 1970 to make them more like the "Novus Ordo," so if your experience is much after 1970, the "resemblance" may not be coincidental, but may be a deliberate imitation on the part of the Protestant group. For example, the Anglican "Rite II" (promulgated in 1979) is basically the NO Mass with some Protestant tweaking done on it.
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