tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post7080419272423898451..comments2024-03-28T16:21:24.386-04:00Comments on southern orders: OCCASIONALLY I GET INSECURE ABOUT MY MUCH TOUTED CLAIRVOYANCE, SO PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE I WROTE ON MAY 26, 1988 TO PROVE TO YOU AND ME TODAY THAT I TRULY AM CLAIRVOYANT!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-33921486796629494682012-07-30T10:22:43.694-04:002012-07-30T10:22:43.694-04:00Not to knock your clairvoyance Father, but sometim...Not to knock your clairvoyance Father, but sometimes the captain, or shepherd, sees what the sheep do not based on training, experience, and his vantage point. Shoulders of giants, sort of. That is my biggest problem with the NO and the Spirit of V-II revisions. First, they assumed that they could create a Mass as meaningful as the, now, EF in a couple of years. Secondly, they deconstructed the EF based on almost farcical beliefs of how the early Church worshiped , again, without consideration of why those practices were abandoned or not used widely. Thirdly, they lowered the bar for gifts to The Ruler of the Universe theoretically to make the lowest amongst us to feel good then took that as a pass to give less of themselves.rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-37480373777040924542012-07-29T01:58:34.028-04:002012-07-29T01:58:34.028-04:00Sometimes I wonder just how many of our Catholic p...Sometimes I wonder just how many of our Catholic problems we have created for ourselves...ytcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-42603366658414541512012-07-28T13:49:37.969-04:002012-07-28T13:49:37.969-04:00John, I personally agree. With both you and St. Ed...John, I personally agree. With both you and St. Edmund Campion. However, I'm sometimes torn between my personal belief (and preference) and the possibility of appealing to the vast majority of contemporary Catholics (so called, at least) who cannot be lured into the TLM fold, but desperately need everything about the traditional liturgy, except possibly the Latin itself, which (as Fr. McDonald suggests) may be the principal impediment to a full restoration.Henry Edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-49892423714858493252012-07-28T12:12:17.478-04:002012-07-28T12:12:17.478-04:00Henry, there is no reason to wait around since the...Henry, there is no reason to wait around since the Roman Rite is still available. "Gorgeous Elizabethan English" disguised a heretical rite and sent Catholic martyrs to their deaths. St Edmund Campion on the scaffold was exhorted by the heretics to pray in English but preferred to pray in a language (Latin) "which both He and I understand".John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-20143781258856905222012-07-27T20:02:56.535-04:002012-07-27T20:02:56.535-04:00Fr. McDonald, there's no reason to wait around...Fr. McDonald, there's no reason to wait around. The "English Missal"--the Tridentine missal in gorgeous Elizabethan English--is available right now, ready when you are.Henry Edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-61215428346380116442012-07-27T16:19:44.548-04:002012-07-27T16:19:44.548-04:00I believe it was 1985 when new coke came out and c...I believe it was 1985 when new coke came out and comparisons between it and the new Mass were made in the press. However there would be rebellion if we went back to the 1962 Latin missal. However there would barely be a blink of the eye if the 2012 English missal with the Extraordinary Order for it--that would work!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-49014190177842994322012-07-27T15:03:26.478-04:002012-07-27T15:03:26.478-04:00A Lesson to be Learned from New Coke
"Over t...<a href="http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2012-0731-byrnes-new-coke.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>A Lesson to be Learned from New Coke</b></a><br /><br />"Over the past 40 or so years, the protests have not dimmed, but the ridicule and oppression of those seeking the Traditional Mass has not abated (Pope Benedict’s Summorum Pontificum not withstanding). This would be understandable if the New Mass had accomplished what it was formulated to do: to increase the faith and devotion of Catholics and make the faith clearer to the modern Catholic. Unfortunately the opposite has occurred: the number of Catholics attending the New Mass has steadily declined, as have vocations to the priesthood and religious life, not to mention the knowledge of the faith amongst the vast majority of Catholics who still attend Mass weekly. <br /><br />"Would you not think that presented with these facts, the Church’s hierarchy would take a look at the value of the “new formula” and start asking themselves whether this experiment was a failure on most every level? Instead, we are continually told that the problem is not with the product, but rather with how it is marketed or how it is consumed (to use corporate images). In terms more ecclesiastical, we are told that the Novus Ordo Missae isn’t the problem, but it was implemented badly in the 1970s or that those who regularly ignored the rubrics have caused the Novus Ordo Missae to not bring about the expected fruits. There is no way under God’s heavens that the Novus Ordo Missae is at fault, we are told ad nauseum. <br /><br />"It took Coca-Cola executives only 79 days to realize that they had made a mistake, and this before there was any appreciable decline in their sales or market share. Why, oh why, has the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, after 40 years of declining numbers in almost every measurable category and appearing, at least in the United States, more and more like a corporation, not begun to ask themselves whether the problem might just be with the product and not the consumer?"Henry Edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-63570467634410558972012-07-26T20:23:12.632-04:002012-07-26T20:23:12.632-04:00The second photograph is of the Birmingham Oratory...The second photograph is of the Birmingham Oratory, Cardinal Newman's church (although he didn't live to see it completed).John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-61787268338002423172012-07-26T18:31:15.734-04:002012-07-26T18:31:15.734-04:00Btw, Father, one of the most exciting videos I'...Btw, Father, one of the most exciting videos I've ever seen:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s1S9kvnwaeEytcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-90265169406660971972012-07-26T17:12:29.312-04:002012-07-26T17:12:29.312-04:00Spoken like a true prophets. Perhaps you're s...Spoken like a true prophets. Perhaps you're seeing Marian apparitions?!ytcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-58227481374275390072012-07-26T16:53:04.855-04:002012-07-26T16:53:04.855-04:00Wow! A far more enlightened article than I recall ...Wow! A far more enlightened article than I recall seeing in a diocesan paper--or anywhere else--in the year of Our Lord 1988. You really were ahead of your time, especially for a diocesan liturgy director. And, to tolerate this kind of forthright clairvoyance, you must have had a better bishop then than I--in the neighboring archdiocese just to the north of you--then knew about.Henry Edwardsnoreply@blogger.com