I just watched more of the Mass at Holy Family Church in Chicago and I can’t believe what I am hearing and seeing. Press the red HERE for the Mass:
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It is preposterous to say that the greatest threat to Church unity is the TLM! Just watch as much of this as you can take. And I fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg, melting or not, of liturgical abuse in this Archdiocese and dioceses throughout the world.
Let me name a few of the abuses that I can remember from watching this video and yes, I feel so defiled by this that I need to go to confession!
1. The slovenly dressed interpreter for the deaf next to the priest for the entire Mass signing the Mass—put her somewhere else and put an alb on her for the love of God!!!!
2. The Introductory Rite turned into an announcement and homily prior to getting to the Penitential Act
3. The Collect not the Collect for this past Sunday but something made up! That’s a no no!
4. The homily incorporates a scene from the cartoon Shrek which is seen on screens.
5. Glass is used as the chalices and ciboriums.
6. This Mass is geared to children thus a children’s Eucharistic Prayer is used but a lot and I mean a lot of improvisation.
7. At the Agnus Dei the priest distributes Holy Communion to all the Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion (two of whom talk to each other during the Agnus Dei!). When the priest receives his Host the EMCs do also with him! But after the Agnus Dei, but prior to the “Behold the Lamb of God” the priest invites everyone to say a prayer composed by Pope Francis. Then the priest makes an announcement about Holy Communion that everyone should tell the minister of Holy Communion their first name because this makes Holy Communion more sacred! Yes! He said that!
9. No kneeling at all by the laity
10. The priest makes up his own rubrics for the Mass—he has a grand platform to be the star of the show—it is narcissism on steroids and truly a spectacle!
If I hear one more complaint about the TLM communities being the major liturgical problem for Pope Leo I am going to commit a mortal sin against the seamless pro-life teachings of the Church and commit suicide because if this Mass is a foretaste of heaven, hell can’t be that bad!
Please, Cardinal Cupich, do not lecture us about how wonderful the Post-Vatican II Mass is compared to what preceded it! Please don’t insult us!
4 comments:
More proof that Redemptionis Sacramentum was, especially in the Archdiocese of Chicago, a dead letter. 🙄
Father, were the ‘translator’ to be enveloped in an alb, I fear she might look like Frosty the Snowman
Dreadful but not surprising!!
She’s an interpreter not a sacred minister so need to wear an alb. I don’t see anything wrong with her dress (except maybe a little informal if jeans).
I think you’re overreacting to this mass.
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