There are a couple of issues that Pope Francis had with Catholics, especially young Catholics, who prefer the ancient liturgies of the Church. First, outside of the authority of the pope, was that Pope Francis decried traditionalists as rigid hiding deep psychological problems, although he did not elaborate on what that would be.
But the other was that he felt those who celebrate the TLM were elitists, denied the validity of the Second Vatican Council and wanted to prevent Pope Francis from fully establishing his progressive agenda of revamping Catholic morality to make all kinds of once disordered behaviors inclusive, acceptable and to be celebrated.
While I personally know some who celebrate the TLM who are elitists and anti-Vatican II, I know too that most are not that way and would like to see the Modern Mass celebrated properly and with the same consistency in terms of style, rubrics and ethos as the Ancient Mass.
But why look at the speck in the eyes of certain traditionalists and not see the plank in ordinary rank and file Modern Mass goers?
1. How many modern Mass goers want the ideologies of the LGBTQ+++ approved by the Church and all kinds of sexual behaviors celebrated and loved?
2. How many want a complete overhaul of the anthropology of all the sacraments based upon the male/female marital union, Christ the Bride Groom and the Church’s souls the Bride of Christ? How many want same sex marriage, polygamy and all the ideological possibilities for marriage and Holy Orders that is a part of the LGBTQ+++ ideologies?
3. How many Modern Mass goers have left the Church for schismatic liberal Catholic expressions, or the Anglican Communion or non-denominational Christianity? The number of Catholics who are in schism by joining other communions or becoming nones is far, far, far more significant in numbers that the traditionalist movement’s so-called separatism.
4. How many modern Mass goers are pro-choice, promote abortion, artificial birth control divorce and every other abomination that is against Catholic morality teachings? How many?????
Maybe a future pope will ban the Modern Mass because so many of Modern Catholics and their clergy are not in full communion with all that the Catholic Church teaches, proclaims and believes to be revealed by God.
That’s the same logic of Pope Francis for taking the TLM away from traditionalists.
8 comments:
Your logic is irrefutable! Well done!
Fr. AJM,
It's a lot easier for hierarchs to pick on faithful Catholics than on those who barely even bother to go to Mass. Somewhat like an employer who woos potential hires with many honeyed words but grinds long-term employees down presuming on the latter's loyalty.
Nick
"While I personally know some who celebrate the TLM who are elitists and anti-Vatican II, I know too that most are not that way and would like to see the Modern Mass celebrated properly and with the same consistency in terms of style, rubrics and ethos as the Ancient Mass."
This is one of the greatest errors in traditionalist thinking. The ETHOS of the so-called "T"LM, aka the "Ancient" Mass is gone. And it cannot be revived.
Reverence is most certainly achievable and is present in the great majority of "Modern" mass celebrations.
The rubrics of the "Ancient" mass are applicable to that style, not to the mass celebrated in the great majority of churches worldwide.
I had the good fortune to be formed by a priest who loved the Liturgy in all forms and the many expressions of Mass throughout the world. He was a polyglot refugee from Poland and would tell me stories about the different traditions and rites all over the world. So the intolerance of the Church under Francis struck me as odd and a break with any sort of tradition, including the reconstructionist versions offered by Vatican II enthusiasts. The lack of empathy and acceptance to TLM seemed almost humorous when compared to the totally fabricated and ad hoc liturgies that were and still are, 'performed'.
It is difficult to not be an elitist when discussing Mass with people who get their theology from the music that is Vatican II or social justice sermons that are little more than weak attempts at buying indulgences with virtue signals.
But I will admit that I get a similar frustration with my own kind of TLM adherents who think that the TLM transfers some sort of superiority rather than humility.
"The lack of empathy and acceptance to TLM seemed almost humorous when compared to the totally fabricated and ad hoc liturgies that were and still are, 'performed'."
Africans, "Mayans," and possibly-soon South Americans get their own bespoke liturgical accommodations; trads are mentally ill. Obviously.
Nick
So much for GIRM 42.
Nick
Fr K., what do you mean by ‘ETHOS’?
How would K know? He votes for a Party that believes abortion is “healthcare!”
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