How come some priests don't want to celebrate EF?

[Thursday1]

LOL! You think there is actually a relic in that Novus Ordo table-altar???

Whether or not the Altar actually contains a relic (btw my Church’s Altar contains a piece of a bone from St. Cecilia (or patroness) as well as a piece of the True Cross) is immaterial, as the more important fact is they are putting benches on top of a Altar, consecrated by the Church, and sanctified by the countless time the Eucharist has been confected on it. If it were not something so base as a bench, I might not have a problem with it, though I think a better option would be to place something taller behind the Altar if one wants that effect.
But even that is unnecessary as the EF can be celebrated versus populum.
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A freestanding Altar is not an innovation, it is a tradition of the Church.

One final question: You refer to a freestanding Altar as a “Novus Ordo table-altar,” would you like it if I referred to a built in Altar as a “Tridentine glorified Mantelpiece-altar?”

Yours in Christ,
Thrursday

P.S.
My point is that architecture is not an impediment, the EF can be celevrated Versus Populum on a freestanding Altar.

 

[JKirkLVNV]

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Yet it is our Pope who return the EF to the Church —so what you believe the Council called for is irrelevent to the EF. Now you may say that our Lord is no more honored one way or the other—but it how we approach Him that shows how we as creatures honor and adore Him—and that is reflected in the EF—whether anyone accepts this or not.

Not so, when the Council called for “noble simplicity,” it was the EF it was speaking of (the NO had not yet been promulgated).

Yes, you’re right, how we approach him shows how much we adore and honor him. And I don’t want to keep on about lace, but to choose not to wear lace is not necessarily choosing not to honor Him. It may simply be that one thinks lace is ugly or gauche. When the Holy Father wears a relatively plain chasuble, is he failing to honor our Lord? And how much lace should one employ? If lace (or gilding or braid) honors our Lord, shouldn’t every square inch of our liturgical garments be lace (or gilded or braided)? I’m sure you’d say no, because it would look tacky, ugly, gauche, or overdone.

I’m simply saying that people can have a conversation about such things and should be able to without being accused of having a twisted mind or an ulterior motive, much less of being a bad Catholic.

 

[Jean_Anthony]

This thread is closed. Thank you all.