Posted on 02/17/2009 7:00:22 AM PST by Mershon
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The problem here is that very few priests remain that know how to say a mass in Latin. It is not taught in the seminaries and the older priests are dying off.
The new religious orders that are involved exclusively with the Tridentine Mass (the Fraternity of St. Peter, the Institute of Christ the King, etc.) are dominated by young priests -- and their seminaries are filled with young men with priestly vocations.
It's the "Baby Boomer" priests who never learned to say the Mass in Latin . . . and THEY are now the ones who are getting old, retiring, and passing on.
It is being increasingly taught in seminaries and there are special sessions offered all over the country to help priests learn the old Mass.
A priest who know no Latin can learn the old Mass in a year with hard work.
Catholic ping!
This screed is no exception.
I’ve seen that too — there are online Latin Mass for Priests courses, it’s taught at the seminaries, there are old (Irish) priests (at our parish, anyway) who know it, and we have a feisty priest, young, who presides over the Latin Mass currently here in Los Angeles.
How is making peace with the SSPX anti-neoconservative?
I knew this liberal turd who called me a neocon a number of times. I finally asked him just what a neocon was... he could not answer. I am a Reagan conservative, so put that up your neo.
I am rather puzzled by the application of the “Neocon” label to what seems to be a liberal Catholic. I would think that it would mean “more conservative” than typically conservative, who are in fact “moderates” that want to abide, not change.
Were I to apply the label of “Neocon” to a Catholic group, I would think their agenda would include such things as a “Counter-Reformation” against liberal heterodoxy and pagan heresy in the Americas. Even so far as to call on the Vatican to create an instructional mission, for several religious orders to observe and correct such error where found in each diocese, under the authority of the Holy Office.
>>The problem here is that very few priests remain that know how to say a mass in Latin. It is not taught in the seminaries and the older priests are dying off. <<
My pastor learned in three weeks. Now we have a TLM.
It is very common to describe Wiegel, Novak and late Neuhaus as neo-conservatives. Are you objecting to the shortened form or to the label?
I don't find the label particularly useful ... and I generally find that those who insist on using it have very little that is useful to say.
Cranmer was the first neocon.
A couple of weeks ago I assisted at a workshop for permanent deacons interested in the Extraordinary Form. I’ve spent the past several months working with a couple of Jesuits learning and becoming proficient in the EF. This past Sunday one of those Jesuits celebrated his first Solemn Mass in the EF.
The younger men have a hunger for authenticity and mystery and commitment, which the NO Mass cannot supply.
An FSSP priest in my diocese is offering Latin classes on Monday nights. I would go, but can’t make it at that time.
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I use quotes around the word "religious" above because First Things is notoriously non-religious in many respects . . . at least in terms of its watered-down approach to religious subjects.
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