=Ockham;"It is 40 years ago today since the New Mass of Paul VI was introduced into our parishes, writes Margery Popinstar, editor of The Capsule. We knew at the time that this liturgy was as close to perfection as humanly possible, but little did we guess what an efflorescence of art, architecture, music and worship lay ahead!
There were fears at first that the vernacular service would damage the solemnity of the Mass. How silly! Far from leading to liturgical abuses, the New Mass nurtured a koinonia that revived Catholic culture and packed our reordered churches to the rafters.
So dramatic was the growth in family Mass observance, indeed, that a new school of Catholic architecture arose to provide places of worship for these new congregations. Throughout the Western world, churches sprang up that combined Christian heritage with the thrilling simplicity of the modern school, creating a sense of the numinous that has proved as irresistible to secular visitors as to the faithful…]" Damian Thompson
Telegraph.co.uk blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100018329/happy-40th-birthday-novus-ordo/
***13] "Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few. "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. **** You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit. A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. [19] Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will know them by their fruits. "Not every one who says to me,
Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’ “Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.”
Oh really**
***The FACTS don’t seem to support this optomestic position?
P.E.W. Report 2008*
Catholic Mandatory Mass attendence 1970= 70% in 2008 = 23%; percentage of Catholics going to Confession at least once per year about 65% in 1970 and in 2008 10%
As a result of these two stastics how many Catholic Churches have been closed, how many Catholic schools have been closed and how does the FACT that the second largest Christian sec become “Fallen away Catholics?”
Why are we in the URGENT need for priest an religious?
Why are there three times as many self professed Catholics who do not accept…
The Real Presence?
Papal Authority?
The Churches Moral teachings on Abortion and conterception?
Why do Catholic Marriages result in 50% divorice rate?
So friend, tell us the effects you see as GOOD?
Why has our Liturgy beocme Horizonial instead of Vertical and God Focused?
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Dear God help us!***
