Summorum Pontificum<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 2007). Isn\u2019t freedom of worship wonderful?<\/p>\nVeils are beautiful. Someone wants to wear one? Great! If not (like my wife and daughter), great! Don\u2019t look down on the one who does, or the one who doesn\u2019t. The Church permits both. Isn\u2019t true toleration (not mere fashionable lip service) wonderful?<\/p>\n
You receive Holy Communion on the tongue, kneeling (as I do?). Great! You receive it standing, in the hand? Great! The latter was the consensus practice in most of the early Church for some six centuries (as I have researched).<\/p>\n
Etc., etc.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sort of in-between, as my (quite unique) parish offers Latin Mass in a very traditional way in all respects; yet it is Novus Ordo<\/em> \/ ordinary form. \u00a0But that\u2019s beside my present point, which is about accepting the Mind of the Church: expressed through Pope Benedict and ceasing to play the \u201csuperiority game.\u201d\u00a0What I\u2019ve consistently said when these sorts of \u201cus vs. them\u201d issues come up, is that reverence and piety ultimately derive from God\u2019s grace and\u00a0each person\u2019s heart and soul<\/em>, per the Sermon on the Mount.<\/span>
There are plenty of people who look down on the \u201cother\u201d Mass, from both directions. I\u2019ve seen it countless times. We ought to condemn all prejud<\/span><\/span>ices of this sort.\u00a0The Church allows and sanctions both, so we can worship as we please. If someone prefers one over the other, then they go there, and vice versa. What good is accomplished by a sustained discussion of \u201cyour dad [e<\/span><\/span>r Mass] is uglier than mine!\u201d? That establishes an unhelpful \u201ceither\/or\u201d outlook, whereas Catholicism is usually \u201cboth\/and\u201d in approach.<\/span>
I myself have argued that it\u2019s quite possible to contend\u00a0that one seems to foster more reverence in particular places and times (I\u2019ve argued this way about kneeling for communion, but at the same time deny that standing is intrinsically less reverent).<\/span>
But I don\u2019t analyze or assert alleged inherent or intrinsic qualities, as these folks are now, who are starting to say that the reform of the reform has failed. I think that is an alarming development that will bode ill for the future, because it\u2019ll cause division.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWhat happens if we figure out (however it is done) that one form of the Latin Rite Mass is \u201cobjectively superior\u201d to the other? People still have the right to worship as they please. Why must we determine that,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0as opposed to each person deciding for themselves which Mass to attend?<\/span>
The only tangible difference would be to ban one form, or to reverse the ordinary \/ extraordinary classification. The latter idea is interesting, but at this point, it doesn\u2019t seem possible, given the relative numbers of preference.<\/span>
\u201cTraditionalists\u201d habitually talk about the superiority of the TLM \/ EF, but us regular old \u201cCatholics\u201d (i.e., non-trads) do not usually think in those terms, and we think this sort of reasoning fosters division in fact or potentially. Why? Well, because in human nature, if it is established that x<\/em> is better than y<\/em>, then those who like x<\/em> are usually gonna tend to look down on the y<\/em>-advocates as inferior or kind of dumb, because they don\u2019t get what is so \u201capparent\u201d or \u201cclear\u201d to the x<\/em>-proponent.\u00a0<\/span>And the y<\/em>-proponent will then tend to regard the x<\/em>-proponent as spiritually prideful or condescending. I\u2019ve seen lots<\/em>\u00a0of this in fact, from both directions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nPope Benedict has already wisely given us (eight years ago now) the solution<\/em> to these games and cliques and unCatholic \u201ceither\/or\u201d mentalities, if only we will heed<\/em> his sage advice. This is why we have popes, and the loving guidance of Holy Mother Church. They shepherd<\/em> us. I like to say: \u201clive and let live, and worship and let worship.\u201d Or there is the old Sly and the Family Stone song (now I reveal that I am a Baby Boomer): \u201cDifferent strokes for different folks . . . \u201d (Everyday People<\/em>).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pontifical Mass, from a Missal of the Fifteenth Century. [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons] Don\u2019t look down on the one who prefers one way, or the one who prefers the other Mass. The Church sanctions both (Pope Benedict XVI: Summorum Pontificum\u00a0\u2013 2007). Isn\u2019t freedom of worship wonderful? Veils are beautiful. Someone wants to wear one? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"featured_media":2208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[68,70,66,67,74,72,69,71,73,65],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eucharist-liturgy","tag-extraordinary-form","tag-latin-mass","tag-latin-rite","tag-ordinary-form","tag-radical-catholic-reactionaries","tag-rigorism","tag-tlm","tag-traditional-liturgy","tag-traditionalism","tag-tridentine-mass"],"yoast_head":"\n
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