Cardinal invokes Canon Law to stop Archbishop Burke celebrating Latin Mass at Westminster

[sidonius]

Because EF’rs have developed a sense of entitlement and think they know better than everyone else.

I say put it (EF) in a couple of “museum piece” churches around the world so that people can visit it on their holidays and say things like “Oh, how quaint?”. Otherwise get rid of it.

I do not disagree with the first sentence, but the second undercut the point. The EF is as it always was, a true Mass. Those who are attached to it may be so for many reasons, but for the most part they are good and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ.

 

[CradleCath]

The Holy Mass, in whatever form it is said, is property of NO particular group of people. It is a gift to the entire Body of Christ, given by God Himself.

I’m glad to hear that because in 1969-70 & on-ward it seems as if the vast majority of Catholics didn’t consider the Latin Mass a gift at all. Plus, you’ll find that most Catholics today wouldn’t attend this Mass that “is their property”,.no matter what.

 

[Eileen_T]

I’m glad to hear that because in 1969-70 & on-ward it seems as if the vast majority of Catholics didn’t consider the Latin Mass a gift at all.

My memory is a bit different. It was thrust upon us by the hierarchy and we were never given the opportunity to have the Latin Mass we had grown up with, as an alternative.

I imagine English Catholics went through a similar experience at the time of the Reformation when they no longer were able to attend Mass. I accepted the Novus Ordo and gradually my only memories of the Mass in Latin were rather hazy.

Then we shifted from our small town with only one churchv to the city, to a parish where there was a Latin Mass every Sunday after the NO Mass. We never considered attending until one day we were unable to attend the usual Mass and decided to attend the later EF Mass.

We chose not to attend Mass in neighbouring parishes although two are only 10 minutes away as we didn’t like the liturgical abuses and insip “hymns” we had to endure there.

The EFM brought back a few memories but it was a few weeks before necessity brought us back again. By the third time this happened we were hooked. We loved the reverence and sacred silence after Communion which we had not found for some time - I am talking about the laity not the priest here.

We still attend the EF Mass for preference but occasionally attend the OF as well as I have been asked to be a reader.

Plus, you’ll find that most Catholics today wouldn’t attend this Mass that “is their property”,.no matter what.

Several people with young families attend every Sunday, as well as some older teens and young adults who periodically come from other parishes. In the few years I have been attending our numbers have grown.

Fr Z has posted something he received from a reader about the polarizing, in the Catholic Church, between various groups. I have seen this myself and agree with the author that it is deplorable. My fear is that it is likely to get worse before it gets better.

1 Corinthians 13:13 And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

from The Telegraph (UK):



I’ve read that Card. Murphy-O’Connor has opposed the Holy Father on expanding the use of the EF but this is pretty damned rude.

It’s not Burke’s diocese. The Cardinal is the one who gets to say what goes on liturgically in his diocese, & Burke should have had the courtesy, as well as the respect for the Archbishop’s authority in such matters as the ordinary, not to go ahead and do otherwise. He doesn’t like being opposed in his own diocese. The only rudeness in sight is his.​

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

from Fr. JohnZuhlsdorf’s blog, WDTPRS:

That says everything that needs saying - nicely quoted ​