THE DENIGRATION OF TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC REVERENCE FOR A FAUX SECULAR CATHOLIC ENTHUSIASM

What happened in this post-Vatican II Liturgy…

Would never have happened in this form of a Catholic liturgy:

Very early in the implementation of the Modern New Mass in the early 1970’s, and maybe a few years earlier in some places, complaints were made that traditional Catholic reverence was being overturned.

Here are some of the complaints:

1. People encouraged to talk to each other prior to Mass and afterwards in the nave of the church.

2. Moving the tabernacle away from the central axis of the sanctuary and sometimes outside of the sanctuary altogether.

3. Standing for Holy Communion, receiving in the hand and on the move

4. Eucharistic Ministers dressed in secular clothing and casual in the manner in which the Sacred Species is handled to include an affectivity in gestures while distributing Holy Communion

5. The introduction of applause during Mass

6. The Kiss of Peace a moment of romantic love rather than platonic sign of the love and peace and unity experienced in heaven

7.  Cat calls, whooping and secular applause for married couples at the conclusion of a Nuptial Liturgy als though one is at a sporting event or an entertainment venue

None of these things occur in today’s celebration of the Pre-Vatican II Liturgies, even when non-Catholics attend because even non-Catholics who attend a pre-Vatican II Mass, Nuptial Liturgy or Funeral Liturgy, experience the awe and reverence that the older rites exude and how these rites form Catholics and even non-Catholics who attend. 

The pre-Vatican II Church and her liturgies could not be hijacked by ideologues who have an amoral and political agenda as they would not be allowed to promote these in the planning of funeral and nuptial liturgies. 

The clown Funeral Liturgy at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral is the result of the rotten fruit that the revision of the Liturgies of the Church after Vatican II has caused. It is more the revision of reverence, awe and respect in God’s house and during liturgies that has spoiled the fruit of what Catholic Liturgies should bring forth here and in the afterlife. 

I would suggest that if the liturgy for the LGBTQ+++ ideologue at St. Patricks had been a Pre-Vatican II Funeral Liturgy, even with the same crowd of non-Catholics or post-Catholics who attended, it would have been reverent and respectful. 

Pope Francis and the bishops of the Church need to revisit what post-Vatican II Liturgical revisions did to Catholic reverence, awe, wonder and fear of the Lord! They are to be blamed for the sacrilege during Catholic Liturgies that are all too common today!