“Life Teen Masses” aren’t any different than any OF Mass, they simply have different music and occasionally will encourage kids to sit in the first few pews.
Have there been questionable practices? Sure, you can probably find some on Youtube. Of course, the lack of Youtube on abuses pre-1962 isn’t there because mini-cameras weren’t around then. I find the assumption that there wee no abuses pre-1962 to be a laughable one.
The other funny thing is the same people who say “no screens, no technology, no anything like that” during Mass will just as easily use a Youtube clip from Mass to prove a point, which meant someone had to have had a camera in there, and possibly the whole reason they were at Mass was to video tape waiting for something bad to happen.
Life Teen is approved by Rome. You can find all about them on their website. I’ve been volunteering at a Life Teen program for eight years, and I haven’t seen anything disastrous. I have seen plenty if obedience to the Holy See, as they at on point informed Life Teen that a certain practice would have to be stopped. A communique went out quickly, and the practice was swiftly removed.
This is much better than I can say than some members and Societies within the Church who don’t listen to Rome or local ordinaries.
Right because all the clips of bad things happening at masses, are all by angry traditionalists, none of them could be of people who were videotaping for the sake of it, promotional videos (as this one clearly was), curious people, mums or dads videotaping their kids or a whole host of other reasons.
I don’t even know where you got the pre-1962 issue from
Looks like you are trying to bait people into setting the two forms of the mass against each other, which is amusing seeing as the EF has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this thread.
The music is absolutely appaling, I cannot see how it would in any, way, shape, size or form lift the mind to God. It also appears that they are playing in the sanctuary, but I may be wrong its hard to tell. The whole concept behind lifeteen masses is frankly, speaking as a 20 year old, insulting. Its as if young people are so insulated in their own culture and so biased that they can only appreciate their type of music, they need to have special masses otherwise they might get bored or distracted and leave and they need to have a simplified mass or else they might not understand things. Young people can as a whole be particularly self-centred, something hardly helped by our society, creating a form of mass just for them hardly helps this matter and separates them in a way from the people of God. The mass is for everyone regardless of age, social background or culture, it is supposed to be universal, we do not need special masses for different people, of course there may (and I say may) be exceptions perhaps for deaf people etc… But if we go down this road whats next? Rock masses for people who like Rock music, rap masses for people who like rap music, classical masses for people who like classical music? Masses for elderly people? Middle aged masses? Masses for women and masses for men? Its divisive and lessens the mass from a sacred thing to something centered around man and his preferences and choices.
I disagree with lifeteen masses for much the same reason I disagree with masses for children, children aren’t idiots, they can grow up and appreciate a normal mass and the sense of the sacred it provides. Besides which they will never learn otherwise. St Theresa of Liseux and her siblings certainly did not a mass for young children in order to appreciate the mass.
And no this has absolutely nothing to do with the NO or the TLM, I am speaking solely about lifeteen masses and I do not intend to be conveying anything other than my own personal opinion.
And that is the last I will say on the subject so as not to derail the thread or nag people.
