The young love the Modern Catholic Mass. But Holy Father, give them the one thing that they really want for the Catholic Mass, more important than ad orientem, kneeling for Holy Communion.
I celebrate Mass on an Island with a huge tourist population. Young visitors to the beach, and there are a bunch of them, attend Mass while here, some for daily Mass. And you know what? They are the ones kneeling on the floor to receive Holy Communion. Nine times out of ten, when a young person approaches me for Holy Communion I predict they will kneel and they do!
The portable altar for the Mass isn’t the mega sized one for Papal Masses. The odd thing is that the facade of the altar has two images of the papal tiara!
This is a synopsis of the opening Mass for the Jubilee of Youth. At the end the Holy Father makes His Holiness tumultuous appearance and he’s a rock star. But you can see that the Holy Father is kind of amazed at such a scene and he’s the cause of it! Very endearing.
I wonder if the Eastern Church, either the one in union or the schismatic one, have anything like this?
The Leo Effect:
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I don't mean to be flippant, or critical, but, our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ is my rock star. I realize the HF maintains a tight schedule, but, rather than appear to eclipse the eucharistic gift many just received, why wouldn't he simply have been the principal celebrant, or in choir?
While we have focus groups for youth, and our bishops and/or metropolitan might concelebrate one of our liturgies/administer sacraments then share fellowship with refreshments, I'm unaware we have anything on this scale. Does that make us lesser for not having rock star moments? I don't think so. Our gatherings have contemplative moments coupled with communal liturgy and fellowship as mentioned. The same occurred here, just on a scale that is mostly unfamiliar to us.
I don't wish to speak for Marc; however, I suspect any response he might choose to provide would have similarities to mine.
When our archbishop comes, which he is doing next week (God willing), it’s a pretty big deal. But it is ceremonial and ritualized… he is greeted by the clergy and people and given the traditional gifts of bread and salt before entering the Temple. When he celebrates Liturgy, Vladika only distributes Holy Communion to the minor clergy, monks and nuns, presumably to avoid people clamoring for him.
People wear their best clothes and the children are pretty excited to see him. But I would say he carries himself with a dignified, fatherly presence.
There’s nothing “rock star” about the situation. Our liturgy doesn’t allow for these sorts of spectacles.
This from Pope Benedict, will upset the "steak and eggs, time server bishops" we have all known and come to despise:
The entire recollection of Cardinal Ratzinger’s remarks reads, as follows:
1) “It is hard to see what the Church owes to Archbishop Lefebvre, not just for his
‘African period,’ but also later for the Church as a whole. … I consider him to be the most important bishop of the 20th century with regard to the universal Church.”
2. “Had the French episcopate at that time shown even a little more
Christian charity and fraternity towards Archbishop Lefebvre, things might have taken a different course…”
3) “From my current point of view, I have to agree with Archbishop Lefebvre in retrospect about having his own bishops. Today after the experience of ’15 years of Ecclesia Dei’, it is clear that such a work as that of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X cannot simply be handed over to the diocesan bishops.”
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