Cynthia Bailey Manns, the director of adult faith formation at the Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Community in Minneapolis, Minn. The parish is known for its robust social justice ministry and unique style of worship, which includes regular reflections ahead of Mass delivered by laypeople.
This is the Mass for last Sunday, the 13th in Ordinary Time. I thought it was a nursing home Mass. Residents there certainly need the Church's ministry and this must be a part of their robust social justice ministry, no?
This liturgy is so similar to the liturgies at my seminary in the late 1970's. It makes me so nostalgic! No!
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That parish should have been suppressed decades ago, full of leftwing loons (I know some of them personally).
It's all so yesterday!
Love the tabernacle opening procedure.
At my mother's parish, a priest, almost always in cassock and surplice does this. I wouldn't say the celebrant here is overwhelmed - one might conclude there wasn't sufficient time to vest properly.
This is fairly typical for most parishes in the Midwest.
rcg,
It’s typical of a parish in the Midwest with a pastor in his 50s plus. Radically different in parishes with younger, more tradition minded priests in their 30s and 40s. In my area there are three parishes headed by priests in their mid 30s all of whom celebrate the TLM and the Novus Ordo with TLM sensibilities. That’s why PF is so desperate to destroy tradition while he can. He won’t succeed
TJM,
To be clear, I have no ill will towards PF. That being said, and just being realistic, time isn't on his side to ram through this dated agenda to finality. Additionally, I suspect many will both breathe and reflect deeply when the Holy Spirit decides this period in the Church's history has found its end. Unlike JPII, where the end resulted in disbelief for many, myself included, I think many will just sit in stunned silence not believing what we have lived through and how, productively, do we move forward.
ByzRus and TJM, there are some who are at least more orthodox and respectful, but many are sloppy and bored. Age seems a minor factor; Fr Fox nails it and gets approval even from our Altar Rosary Society who could white glove a rocket launch. If things go bad for the FSSP here in Dayton his family of parishes will be on the short list. But they will be on thin ice, too, I fear.
I don’t think our trial is over by a long shot. Relatively young priests in the mode of Fr James Martin are numerous enough that there is a substantial bench available to overbalance the College of Cardinals in perpetuity unless something significant happens to nip that fruitless bud.
where to start, Fr Milktoast speaks in that detestable "priest" voice, not a trace of testosterone; without a mike he is doomed. No altar cloth so I suppose the glass is wiped down onto the floor as it is polished; love the sign of peace. Notice how the congregation faces each other instead of God, is there room for him in the circle? Sadly I see much of this up here again with our "new" crop of ready to retire priests. Seems that 70's stuff that was gone has come back. Personally if there was an SSPX chapel near me I'd go just to keep my sanity. STOP trying to be "with it" and do your job!
rcg,
Every young pastor in several parishes I frequent are orthodox, in their 30s, wear cassocks and celebrate the TLM so I don’t know what you are talking about. Among the young, liberalism is a spent force in Catholicism and the “liberal” tyrants know it. While focusing on Synods on Synods (licenses for perverts), 16,000 young French men and women were marching to Chartres for the TLM. It is beyond belief the old losers in Rome ignored them - those fossils are beneath contempt - they are evil, twisted people.
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