The top photo is a composite of a few different photos melded together. But the Mass that is being celebrated by “yours truly” is from a different photo taken in St. Joseph Church in Macon, Georgia. The windows and the rest of the photo are not from my parish church at that time, maybe around 2010 or so.
But the hilarity of it all is that the Mass I am celebrating is the Ordinary Form of the Mass but ad orientem. I also celebrated the much celebrated TLM at this altar as well, but this photo is the Modern Mass ad orientem.
I was at the forefront of promoting Pope Benedict’s reform in continuity, but those who used this photo and made something else out of it did not know that and that is the point f the reform of the Mass in continuity!!!
The irony though is that the “meme” quotes Saint Augustine of Hippo. This meme was created a little after 2010 long before Pope Leo became pope. Our Pope Leo is an Augustinian and often quotes Saint Augustine of Hippo!
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I’ve seen that photo many times over the years on TradCat sites. Their use of it has always been funny to me for the reasons you mentioned—to anyone who knows, it is obviously a Novus Ordo mass! No altar cards, placement of the thurifer (that thurifer is me, by the way).
A lot of TradCats aren’t principled. They’re hyper-aesthetes.
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