Priest's apology for column

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Wow, that is a very nice letter by the priest. Thank you for posting that. It was very charitable.

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Just for clarification, wasn’t his first article the highly controversial “The Latin Mass–will anyone come?”
 
Pious_Mat said:
Just for clarification, wasn’t his first article the highly controversial “The Latin Mass–will anyone come?”
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Yes, I’m pretty sure it was. Karl Keating discussed his original article in one of his e-letters.

I also thought he did a good job of describing why one might prefer the TLM.

He also cites “intelligibility” as one of the virtues of the New Mass in the vernacular. Nevertheless, I have to state that since people can learn Latin well enough to understand the TLM (as he apparently did), or they can follow along in their missal, I don’t think intelligibility is a real issue. It’s not as if the TLM is in Sanskrit and the Vatican is refusing to leak a translation.
 
Hmmm. I wonder if the new Archbishop of Baltimore had anything to do with this.
 
Boy, that’s what I have been trying to articulate. Father is of an age with me - I quit being an altar boy at the end of my junior year in high school - 1968.

I want that connection to the past. We have such a rich vibrant past…He raises that old ugly shibboleth - no one understood the Latin. Baloney. Latin is the root language of Spanish, French, Italian. English incorporated hundreds of Latin words during the Renaissance. We had our missals!

Great article!
 
The old Latin ritual was universal. No matter where you were, from Korea to Chicago, it was the same. Its universality united us and set us apart. I still remember the thrill I felt when I visited Rome in 1967 and chanted the creed in one voice with Catholics from everywhere in the world.
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BING! BING! BING! We have a winner!
This does not mean I have changed my views. I think the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council were correct and necessary. But I was wrong not to recognize the good motivations of those who love the Latin Mass. They have a deep devotion to a beautiful form of prayer.
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IF the changes were a tweak here or there, I think we would not be where we are now. But when you create something new from what was not there before, then you create discontinuity and an unsettled situation.
 
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