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Thursday July 24, 2008
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Guess which prominent British Catholic has signed a petition demanding wider access to the Latin Mass? Wow. Who knew?! (Hat tip to Doug LeBlanc)....
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Rod,
Indeed, who knew? I won't give away the surprise here (yes, people, go to the link and read the story for yourself!) except to say that one of the signers is the prominent former wife of a very famous rock star. Wow!
One of the remarkable things about this story is that the petition drive was initiated by a young and (until now) obscure Oratory parishioner by the name of Eveline Booth. What wonders the Holy Spirit can perform with a single mustard seed?
I'm confised...the caption says Bianca Jagger, so why is the photo of Michael Jackson?
I'm confused, too...
When I posted it on my blog, I put "Who knew?" as well. Interesting...
I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no satisfaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no Satifaction with the NEW MASS
lol someone could have fun with the lyrics
Rod: Guess which prominent British Catholic has signed a petition demanding wider access to the Latin Mass?
Rod, you were Catholic long enough to know that you do not demand anything of the hierarchy, from the "princes" of the church to the lowliest curé. You meekly beg and accept the crumbs with abject gratitude.
If the Vatican were half-serious about restoring the Tridentine rite, then the pope could have celebrated a Latin mass for World Youth Day in Australia. He did not. I am more and more convinced this is a shell game to sucker the disaffected boomers before they croak.
I think that it will take a schism to restore the true mass: the bien-pensant crypto-Episcopalians will join their abortion-craving, divorce-demanding, priestess-worshipping, bishop-buggering fellow travelers in the rump of the Anglican church. Benedict's smaller church will be a reality.
The petition - which has been signed by Catholics from across the political spectrum - "humbly requests" that the bishops make traditional Masses widely available to the faithful, in accordance with Pope Benedict's wishes.
If the Vatican were half-serious about restoring the Tridentine rite, then the pope could have celebrated a Latin mass for World Youth Day in Australia. He did not. I am more and more convinced this is a shell game to sucker the disaffected boomers before they croak.
Hmm. Perhaps, but what do you make of the recent changes at the Vatican regarding reception of Communion on the tongue and while kneeling?
fbc,
Thanks for the quote from the petition -- I had made my comment based on Rod's having used the word "demand". "Humbly requests" is certainly the phraseology that will titillate the vainglory of the episcopacy.
The Communion issue in my view is simply a means for purging the Novus Ordo of one of a myriad of blasphemous perversions.
Of course it could simply be an anti-PZ Myers precaution. ;-)
the bien-pensant crypto-Episcopalians will join their abortion-craving, divorce-demanding, priestess-worshipping, bishop-buggering fellow travelers in the rump of the Anglican church.
Am I the only one who almost spit coffee all over the keyboard while reading the juxtaposition of "-buggering" and "join ... in the rump"?
Sorry. It's been a long week.
David J. White: Am I the only one who almost spit coffee all over the keyboard while reading the juxtaposition of "-buggering" and "join ... in the rump"?
Tsk, tsk. I meant that metaphorically, as in the "Rump Parliament", but I always try to accommodate a literal reading as well. :-)
To Tony D.:
Bianca Jagger is now darker than Jacko.
Also, I think she looks that way as the result of NO plastic surgery.
Have a friend and her family who sought out an RCC that only does the Mass in Latin...she has been attending for many years...they find it a more beautiful Mass.
Tsk, tsk. I meant that metaphorically, as in the "Rump Parliament"
Yes, I knew that. But, as I said, it had been a long week. ;-)
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