BOMBSHELL: THE NATIONAL cATHOLIC REPORT PRINTS A COMMENTARY THAT PRAISES THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS!

 

You can read the NcR story HERE.

Here is an excerpt:

One of the most painful divides in the Catholic Church today is around how we worship. But when we really listen to the hearts of young Catholics, we see that the desire for tradition is not about ideology, but identity. It's about feeling rooted in something eternal when the world keeps shifting beneath our feet.

In my opinion, the traditional Latin Mass, with all its ritual precision and theological depth, continues to draw young Catholics precisely because it refuses to compromise the signs of the sacred. The use of Latin, incense, chant, sacred silence and the like are not frivolous or outdated. They engage the whole person — body, mind and soul — in an act of worship that lifts us out of ourselves and into the presence of God. 

Young people want a liturgy that reflects the weight and glory of what we profess. They want to hear sacred music that stirs the soul rather than mimic the culture outside the church walls. They want to see beauty. They want to be caught up in mystery. 

To move forward as one body, we have to stop pretending that reverence belongs to the past when, in fact, it's one of the only things still bringing young people in. The future of the Catholic Church depends not on reinvention, but on deepening. We don't need to discard what's still bearing fruit. We need to water it, tend it and let it flourish. 

My hope is that this pontificate offers space for that to happen; that we won't be asked to silence what gives life, but invited to share it freely and joyfully with the world.

My Comments, humble, but profoundly astute:

If Pope Francis who was very fastidious at imposing Traditionis Custodis in the most cruel and authoritarian fashion as possible, that now, Pope Leo would be as fastidious and authoritarian in forcing bishops to make sure that all Masses in the Modern Form be celebrated by reading the black and doing the red. That kneeling not be banned but be given pride of place in terms of receiving Holy Communion and that receiving on the tongue should be encouraged. And ad orientem has a place of honor too in the celebration of the Mass of Paul VI!

As well, make sure bishops cannot micromanage the Roman Missal and its general instruction and its various options by banning anything in the Missal that is allowed in rubrics and the GIRM. 

Make sure that bishops cannot impose that which is not allowed in normal circumstances on priests who celebrate the Modern Mass. I understand that a bishop in West Virginia has forbidden people to kneel during the Eucharistic Prayer—that bishop should be corrected by the papal nuncio of this country and forced to repeal such silly edicts that he has no authority to make. 

One of the reasons priests and laity love the TLM is that it is predictable. You know what you are going to get no matter the various forms, from the Low Mass, to the High Mass, to the Solemn High Mass, to the Solemn Sung Pontifical Mass. 

And as the NcR commentary indicates, you know that you aren’t going to get trendy sounding hymns, piano accompaniment and broadway ditties set to sacred words. Music is a disaster in the Modern Mass, an absolute catastrophe. A reform is long over due from the Vatican, top down!

The Modern Mass is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get! That must change and only the pope can change that!

Apart from that, I have already indicated ways that the Holy Father could re-enchant the Modern Missal with an appendix that makes the celebration of the Modern Mass more in line with the TLM, even if in the vernacular.