Moto Sensibility
Posted by: tony on 09/15/2007 03:01 PM
Updated by: tony on 09/15/2007 03:01 PM
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Expires: 10/16/2007 12:00 AM
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Jeff Miller from The Curt Jester makes a good point:
People complain about abuses precisely because they are abuses - they depart from the missal. I just think it sets up a false dichotomy to make a comparison between ordinary form of the Mass celebrated improperly and irreverently with the extraordinary form of the mass celebrated correctly. These attitudes against the ordinary form of the Mass are common among schismatics and sedevacanist and I wish they were less common among those who don't fall into these groups. Lets have both forms of the Mass in the Latin rite celebrated properly and work to those ends.
And this is true.
I am very much an offender of this. Partially because it's the abuses of the Novus Ordo that I have seen and experienced that makes enjoy the Holy Father's attitude with regard to the two forms of the Latin Rite.
Comparing the best to the worst is a common tactic used by those who advocate adoption by gay couples. "Would you rather have a child adopted by the Manson Family, or a loving gay couple".
The liturgical question is: "Would you rather have a correctly and reverently celebrated extraordinary form, or a clown mass?"
I'd rather have a reverently and properly celebrated Novus Ordo mass in either English or Latin. I'd prefer boys on the altar because boys have a possibility of a priestly vocation. I'd prefer kneeling for Communion at a rail, and elimination of the reception of the Precious Blood by the laity. I'd prefer the Latin, because not many priests (especially "progressive" priests) have the kind of command of the Latin language that would encourage "improvisation".
Let's leave improv to the comedy clubs. Let's keep authentic liturgy in our churches.
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