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Lalia Mackay said:I have noticed.:clapping:
**What a wonderful and open hearted post!!! I truly wish other non-Charismatics would take the time you have and read the material.My wife attends charismatic events, and I prefer the TLM. To us this is a sign of the catholicity of the Catholic Church.
The literature she brought home from a charismatic conference in Scranton, PA has some approving statements on the CCR, among them:
I also noted that the schedule of events included something I would like to see more of: printed instructions on the reception of the Blessed Sacrament. This prominent notice reminded Catholics that they must be in a state of grace to receive, and informed non-Catholics that they cannot receive. Confession was available through 15-20 priests, with people waiting in line. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament was going on for the entire three days of the conference, with people kneeling on the floor during the Benediction.
- Statements on the CCR from the American bishops in Grace for the New Springtime
- Pope John Paul II’s greeting to the Ninth International Conference in Rome (1975)
It was also nice to see that the literature for sale at the event carried imprimaturs.
The charismatic Mass is not my taste (my Asperger’s Syndrome rebels at loud or sudden noises), but everything I have seen from events my wife has attended seems orthodox. I would have to say that the CCR is a good thing.
WARNING: This post is meant to be light-hearted.My wife attends charismatic events, and I prefer the TLM.
Agreed, and it is so encouraging to see a thread listed as debate, yet still having mostly supportive posts.We have spent much time trying to teach folk in this and other Catholic forums just how orthodox the CCR is. How close it draws us to the Sacraments and how obedient we are moved to be to Holy Mother Church. And you know, we just keep falling in love with Jesus, over and over and over and over again.
Your wife is indeed a fortunate lady to have such a loving and fair hubby. I am sure she knows this.
Bless you.
I grew up in the 1950’s and attended a Catholic school. We attended a Latin Mass almost every day. At about the age of 8, you would find me up in the choir loft with the other children singing a Requiem Mass for the latest funeral. If you went to a Mass in a big city back then, it was usually like all of the people coming to a gas station and being “spiritually filled up” for the week. They just headed out the door and went to their cars. Some left after Communion because technically you had heard Mass if you were there for the Gospel through Communion.What I find distasteful and offensive, is that on the one hand, we have the Tridentine (Pre-Conciliar Latin) Mass…a Mass steeped in hundreds and hundreds of years of tradition, etc…on the other hand, we have the fairly new style of Charismatic Masses (circa late 60’s-early 70’s) with things taking place during the entire Mass that is not called for in the Girm…Yet there is an indult required for the former, and the latter is accepted with wide open arms, no indult is required, and you are a social philistine for not speaking in favor of it. I don’t think that is fair whatsoever…There is an indult required for one mass which is steeped with tradition, reverance, and respect…yet the thing of the future seems to be to have no indult requirement for masses with rock bands, drum roles during the consecration, etc…Does anyone else get sick on their stomach thinking about this?
robertaf said:**What a wonderful and open hearted post!!! I truly wish other non-Charismatics would take the time you have and read the material.
I will be going to the SCRC Conference in Anaheim, CA in a few weeks. I have been going every Labor Day weekend for years and years.
The lines are always long to go to Confession, folks not only kneel before the Blessed Sacrament but I have seen some face down, prostrate before our Dear Savior in the Holy Eucharist.
We have spent much time trying to teach folk in this and other Catholic forums just how orthodox the CCR is. How close it draws us to the Sacraments and how obedient we are moved to be to Holy Mother Church. And you know, we just keep falling in love with Jesus, over and over and over and over again.
Your wife is indeed a fortunate lady to have such a loving and fair hubby. I am sure she knows this.
Bless you.
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