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I Am a Catholic, And I Vote | Home |Turn About is Fair Play
Say Ahhhhh... Nyum, Nyum, Nyum, Nyum, Nyum...
Posted by: tony on 11/27/2007 12:48 AM
Updated by: tony on 11/27/2007 12:48 AM
Expires: 12/28/2007 12:00 AM

Fr. Z. from What Does the Prayer Really Say has an interesting and quite compelling comparison of the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite and the Extraordinary Form:
At the risk of being somewhat provocative, I suspect the older form, the TLM will become (at least for a while) the "grown up Mass", while the Novus Ordo, still reverent and sound in so many ways, will be lighter, less challenging.

The analogy of a parish having a children's Mass and a solemn Mass on a Sunday limps terribly, but it is close to what I am getting at.

Think of how St. Paul speaks to his beloved spiritual children who are being fed milk by him because they are not ready for "solid food". Get my drift? This would not mean that the Novus Ordo is bad (and that is what some trads will conclude from this analogy - and they would be dead wrong and will have missed my point). Think of it this way: little children need food for children. They don't benefit from what the adults should eating… yet. They are not little adults: they are children. Children aren’t defective. You don't put a rare T-bone in front of a 1 year old. That is not what he needs. You don't give pureed carrots to an adult, unless his jaw is broken or he is ill. Unless he is, in some way, defective. Once people grow up, they normally stop wanting baby food. They can survive on it for a time, but they won't thrive.

This is what I have desired for my parish. Even though there isn't a lot of Latin, the Holy Mass is celebrated very reverently, and the homilies are with few exceptions, extraordinary. We have gone from pureed carrots to small chunks of beef in gravy. As much as I'd like to sink my teeth into a nice juicy T-bone steak, I have to remember my fellow travelers, and not let my personal preferences get in the way of their spiritual growth.

If I have a burning desire to attend a Latin Mass, I can always go to a hermitage within 20 minutes, or a TLM every Sunday at another parish (which has been celebrating the TLM under indult by our local ordinary long before the Pope's Motu Proprio).

Now I'm content with an occasional "Agus Dei" and an entire chant setting on Holy Thursday (including the obligatory Pange Lingua). We also will probably sing Adeste Fidelis on Christmas with plenty of strong voices from the congregation.



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