maryz, thanks for the ping! Excellent article!
Still nothing said in my diocese, except one priest who has written several articles, on the diocesan website, about how we have a priest shortage and some people just don’t ‘get it’. (I e-mailed him previously - I wonder if I’m one of those people he’s talking about?) Also, my parish priest sent an e-mail that he has not received a ‘directive’ from the bishop regarding a Latin mass and that there wasn’t going to be any in our diocese ‘as far as he knows’. No encouragement there!
Anyway - that’s the latest. Thanks again for the excellent article! Our church is noisy before and after mass. There is no color. It is bland and plain. The tabernacle is bland and plain. Not a suitable throne for our King at all. There is rarely incense. I guess I just keep hoping and praying. I take heart from favorable reports from other places in the country and hope that has an influence here! :-)
Like the woman on Fr. Z's blog who said she wrote a letter to her pastor requesting a TLM, so he couldn't say he hadn't gotten any requests -- he'd have to at least say he'd gotten a request from one nut! And what's this with a "directive" from the bishop? Didn't he read the MP? ;-)
I haven't heard anything definite around here either -- I gather there's some movement, but it's sort of sub rosa for time being, at least until September 14, since it's not exactly encouraged by the cardinal!