Never mind that Traditionalist Catholics have been complaining about so many reforms of the Liturgy and the Calendar for decades now. But at least, those voices that count, the liberals, are now voicing the very same thing!
And the other problem with the current liturgy is that it allows you to make it up as you go and thus promote not only that dreaded individualism of the pre-Vatican II Church, but congregationalism which is that dreaded individualism on a collective basis thus on steroids.
First, this cogent liberal/progressive comment to a post on Praytell:
I think that if you want to maintain and teach the centrality of Sunday, then subsuming sundays into ‘Ordinary Time’ is not a good way to do it. For starters the term ‘Ordinary Time,’ whatever its intended meaning, in normal use implies dullness and routine, neither of which applies to the weekly memorial of the Lord’s Rising from the Dead.
One of my students said to me once that he thought that the liturgical colour for Ordinary Time should be grey, not green! I sympathise.
At least the numbering of sundays in relation to feasts such as Pentecost and Epiphany does not have any of the connotations of ‘ordinariness.’ And also Pentecost and Epiphany are about Christ the light of the whole world and the Pentecostal mission of the Church.
And I am sorry, but I really miss Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima …
AG.
And this comment from Alan Griffiths (someone please inform him the proper spelling has two “L’s”) is from this post which has comments indicating how the post Vatican II Mass and calendar allows you to do with it as you wish because the Mass itself on a Sunday just isn’t enough (the Resurrection of the Lord, mind you):
Between Epiphany and Lent: A Soft Point in the Liturgical Year