To: narses
You reject as UNCHRISTIAN the EXTERNALS of the Pre-V2 Catholic Church? No. I reject some of the externals as not in keeping with the life of Him who had nowhere to lay His Head.
They are, for the most part, now gone. Things like gloves for bishops, lace vestments for priests, gold mitres and jeweled rings.
You still find these things in the SSPX, if you miss them.
150 posted on
08/01/2003 7:45:18 PM PDT by
sinkspur
("Boy, watch that knife!'" Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton in "The Searchers")
To: sinkspur
Oh? You prefer the cheap druid robes so common in today's Nervous Disorder Messes to dressing to honor the King of all Creation? Remember the man in the Gospel who refused to wear the wedding garment.
To: sinkspur
You cloak your contempt ("No.
I reject some of the externals as not in keeping with the life of Him who had nowhere to lay His Head.") in faux-piety, ignoring John 12-1, why?
Our Lord was born in a Manger, but had Gold Frankincense and Myrhh brought to Him right THERE!
158 posted on
08/01/2003 7:54:36 PM PDT by
narses
("The do-it-yourself Mass is ended. Go in peace" Francis Carindal Arinze of Nigeria)
To: sinkspur
They are, for the most part, now gone. Things like gloves for bishops, lace vestments for priests, gold mitres and jeweled rings...
...along with reliquaries, images of the saints, crucifixes, holy water dispensers, beautiful stained glass windows, altar rails, and ornate baldaccinos. Tabernacles have been moved to the basement, the Body of Christ stored "in a closet" (as Fr. Corapi would say), crackers are used for communion and placed in your hand by perfumed ladies wearing gold, lace and rings much bigger than those the priest used to wear.
What an improvement. I'm sure Jesus is thrilled.
172 posted on
08/01/2003 8:16:15 PM PDT by
Antoninus
(In hoc signo, vinces †)
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