POSITIVE NEWS! TLM Parish in @dioprovidence

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I want to add a couple things before you watch this.

First, the reporter refers to this as “going back in time”. Well, yes, okay. We know that if we are going in the wrong direction, we have to retrace our steps and find the right road. However, the retracing is for the sake of the future and NOT the past!

Also, she referred to Bp. Tobin’s decision as “drastic”. NO! Common sense is NOT DRASTIC! NOT acting on common sense is drastic. She got that terribly wrong.
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I have seen this exact same mindset among some of a certain age. For whatever reasons, they did not like the “old Church” and approached the massive changes of the 1960s and 1970s as a kind of liberation. Maybe in the case of some of them, something had happened.

I heard one story of a woman who was put off in her growing-up (1930s thereabouts) because she was forced to eat fish on Fridays and she couldn’t stand fish. (Evidently that was what her family served; we are to abstain from meat, not necessarily to eat fish.) Her Episcopalian (and Masonic) husband finally, after many years, managed to get her away from the Catholic church. He was proud of this. They are both deceased now; I would say that he now sees his pride was misplaced.

Another was a teacher of mine in high school. She positively glorified in the post-Vatican II changes. She utterly despised the teaching of the Mass as a Sacrifice. I don’t know why. Mocked the idea of putting statues in our new church.

There are many, many examples of this.
 
I don’t mean to sound cold, but that whole generation who had hangups about the pre-Vatican II Mass or traditions in general is dying off now, and while I am not wishing death on people, we will be hearing much less from that generation who had some weird emotional hangup about Catholic tradition because they felt oppressed as kids or had some personal situation. They are tiresome. The older people in my family didn’t have any particular issue with the old school Mass.
 
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I don’t mean to sound cold, but that whole generation who had hangups about the pre-Vatican II Mass or traditions in general is dying off now
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Well, I didn’t want to say it, but…

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

But I always try to be fair. I can understand why, for instance, nobody would want to go back to the old communion fasting regulations (from midnight onwards, and not even water is allowed), or families having multiple children they couldn’t afford (there’s no need to — NFP is much better now than it was back them), or what have you. I wouldn’t call it so much a “weird emotional hangup” as I would call it having put what was, in some cases, an unbearably oppressive life behind them, with no desire to return.
 
The thing is, I had this huge Catholic extended family who were all adults pre-Vatican II, including my mother, and nobody ever groused about feeling oppressed by the Mass practices prior to Vatican II. If they didn’t like the fast, they just went to super early Mass and then ate a big breakfast. They all grouse a lot more about the changes made later. These weren’t super-pious people, they were ordinary working class who drank beer and played cards and had a good time in general. So I always think people who felt oppressed were maybe “doing it wrong.”
 
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