Posted on 03/07/2005 5:42:13 AM PST by NYer
It's nice that your parish church still has kneelers. I trust your pastor doesn't allow Dan Schutte's music ("Here I am Lord" etc.) because of the implicit humanistic and homosexual agenda in those songs as published by the Oregon "Catholic" Press.
"It appears that the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown is up to the same old tricks. On Saturday September 11 at Mount Aloysius College there will be a liturgical music workshop by the former St. Louis Jesuit priest Dan Schutte."
"'Schutte is a leader of the dreadful movement in modern liturgical music that has changed the emphasis of our hymns from adoring, praising, and glorifying God to pridefully asserting how wonderful and faithful and loving and marvelous We ourselves are. A discerning eye will note how often these new hymns mention 'I' and 'My' and 'Us' and 'Our' far more often than the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Eucharist, God the Father, Jesus Christ, the angels and saints, or even the wages of sin or the grace that saved a wretch such as 'me.'
"More troubling is the fact that Schutte is no longer a priest but is now publicly identified as a partnered gay man. He is best known for his song, Here I am, Lord, a song that has become the anthem for the dissenting gay rights movement within the Catholic Church.
"There should be, and probably are, Church laws against Catholic dioceses and colleges sponsoring workshops by former priests living what most Catholics consider a scandalous lifestyle. But as one of our local pastors quipped, when asked why his parish was making a liturgical change that violated Canon Law, 'In this diocese, we don't obey Canon Law. We obey the bishop.'"
what diocese is that where they don't kneel at all during consecration? I'm in the Metuchen diocese, and haven't seen anything like that at all. Instead I've been very impressed with how reverently the N.O. is celebrated here. Even the student Masses at Rutgers are free of liturgical abuses, which is alot more than I can say for student Masses at my undergrad, Notre Dame.
I went to mass in a church in the trenton diocese where the priest stated the bishop allows standing during the concecration. Most of the people who belong to that parish stand.
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