This is why I stopped going to the NO Mass Father. Its too bad you can't see the beauty of the Latin Rite.“... to see if I could feel comfortable being the main celebration of the Latin Mass.”
What a motivation for worship in the ancient form of the Tridentine Mass, before we got herded into self absorption and “feelings”. The good father is in trouble.
Boo Hoo!
GAD!!
I am sure that the Holy Father will provide an inconveniently scheduled and located “indult” Mass for those who are not able to adjust to the restoration.
This screed sounds like it was written circa 1965 when guitars, tambourines and hymns set to Peter Paul & Mary were all the rage at folk Masses.
Typical Jevvie... hollers for change but never changes.
This is why I stopped going to the NO Mass Father. Its too bad you can't see the beauty of the Latin Rite.The Mass seemed to focus on the priest
What a howler! The "Ordinary Form" is all about the priest - his personality, how he reaches out to people, etc... and you often here people talking about how they go to this or that church because of the particular priest who does / does not celebrate Mass there. The new form is all about the priest. This article has it completely backwards. Not surprising for a guy who thinks the Second Vatican Council was a great success!
I actually know Peter Schineller. I can understand his consternation, but the attraction of the Tridentine is that you could go anywhere in the world and experience the same mystery.
Spoken like a true Jesuit - “It’s all about me”.
So a priest is “uncomfortable” at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Hmmm. He is out of touch on most of his comments, but a key mention is that the people follow using the missal. At my TLM parish, the congregants are more “active” than in any NO Mass I’ve ever attended. They follow the prayers in great detail and with great reverence. No they aren’t running around, reading the Epistle, distributing communion, shaking hands, etc. But they are deeply involved in the adoration and sacrificial offering which is occurring. BTW, the prayers after Mass to which he refers, are typically said after a Low Mass, not a High Mass such as he attended.
2000 years of a Tridentine Mass essentially and this poor follower of Jesus, a priest, writing in the AMERICA rag of all places, can’t feel Christ front and center.
Not so sure anyone writing, or reading the AMERICA rag of all places, can feel Christ.
I certainly didn’t feel Him reading this. Invincible ignorance. Pray for him.
2000 years of a Tridentine Mass essentially and this poor follower of Jesus, a priest, writing in the AMERICA rag of all places, can’t feel Christ front and center.
Not so sure anyone writing, or reading the AMERICA rag of all places, can feel Christ.
I certainly didn’t feel Him reading this. Invincible ignorance. Pray for him.
On those occasions, people start to show up at least 90 minutes before the scheduled Mass because they know if they come late, they will be standing in the Vestibule or out on the steps.
Perhaps because I served as an Alter Boy, and responded in Latin and took four years of Latin in school, that I personally love the Latin Mass.
I understand why the Church changed it's ways but just like obama loves the sound of the call to mooselimb prayers, I love the sound of "Dominus vobiscum" but I can understand, "The Lord be with you".
My love of the old Latin Mass is probably just a yearning to return to my youth, but as all old farts always say, "Those were the days", not "back in the day". Sighhhh.
“America.” Isn’t that National Catholic Reporter with a glossy full-color cover?
The few times I have attended the Latin mass, it is as if I were suddenly transported back to my childhood and youth. I read from the Missal and felt no exclusion. The priest, of course, was not as familar as my priests had been. For them it was a comfortable suit; for him a bit tight. more so foe him, I think, than me.