On bringing unity to the Church

[Catholic21]

Should all churches offer the Tridentine Mass along with the ordinary form in order to end divisions among traditionalist Catholics and non-traditionalist? Would this end people joining the SSPX and sedvacantists churches if all churches could accommodate to their spiritual needs regarding the liturgy?

Thank you.

 

[stpurl]

I would like to see both rites offered. I’d also like for more places to offer the Maronite rite and other Eastern rites. Heck, I’d like more churches to offer Lifeteen for the teens, a ‘low’ mass without music, more Masses with sign language for the hearing-impaired, masses with organ, masses with guitar, masses early in the day, masses late in the day, you name it. But not to ‘end divisions’ (and believe me there are as many ‘divisions’ among Catholics on all these topics and more as there supposedly are among "traditional-minded’ and "progressive-minded’.

And nothing is going to solve everything.
Susan from the Parish Council is not going to be placated by an OF and an EF, for example, and her OF is going to look absolutely awful not only to ‘traditional’ minded but to probably 3-4ths of the ‘just plain Catholic’ folks out there who really don’t want to have liturgical dancers and womyn priests.

How about, "Can all Catholics work together to reverse poor catechesis, foster vocations to the priesthood and religious life, develop all the rich traditions of the Catholic faith, including the newer as well as the older, such that as the faith blossoms and more and more priests and religious enrich Catholic communities we will see more churches, need more Masses, and these things will come about naturally?

 

[Catholic21]

Can all Catholics work together to reverse poor catechesis, foster vocations to the priesthood and religious life, develop all the rich traditions of the Catholic faith, including the newer as well as the older, such that as the faith blossoms and more and more priests and religious enrich Catholic communities we will see more churches, need more Masses, and these things will come about naturally?

What are some ways to bring about this mission? How can we reverse poor catechesis and bring vocations back?

 

[stpurl]

Good questions.
CA forums and other sites with their libraries and their opportunities for people to express opinions help. The more any person learns here, or at reddit traditional Catholic, or fisheaters, or watching You Tube, or EWTN, getting clues from these sites to check out other things, books, catechisms, treasures from old (Didache, Aquinas) to newer (Thomas Merton, Peter Kwazniewski) and in between, the more they’ll start talking to others at their own parishes, to their families, their friends, and then those friends will start checking things out as well.

There is a lot from the past that unfortunately for whatever reason has been ignored. There is also a lot from the present that is getting ignored as well, because people today tend to label and to put people into boxes. If you like chant, then you can’t like guitars, runs that theory. Or if you like seeing more women having a voice, you can’t possibly like St. Louis de Montfort or wearing a headcovering. You get the idea.

But then you come here and you start to hear from people and realize we aren’t just labels.

And you come here and you see threads about prayers, and you start, quietly at first, just offering a prayer without actually responding. . .and then later responding. . .and still later, starting a prayer. . .and suddenly, you are working for all those things. You are working in a small way to stand up for good catechesis; you are praying for vocations, you’re becoming aware of and starting to advocate for all the rich traditions. It can take awhile, it can be real strong maybe for you one year, and then quiet for a couple, and then strong again. . .but Jesus prayed "That they all be One’ and hey, if HE is for us, who shall, ultimately, be against us?