Sense of the Sacred

[renel]

The sense of the sacred has not been lost, it has been deliberately thrown away, run out of town on a rail,by the arrogant agents of the New Paganism of Modernism masquerading as Catholic reformers, who have introduced novel pratices into the Church that demean the Eucharist, show contempt for tradition and for what our fathers taught us, and have led to a worldwide crisis of Faith of umprecedented proportions.

But for me, through the grace of God, it is no puzzle. I know exactly where “the sense of the sacred” is found, and I cling to it with a fierce tenacity. It is found in the celebration of the Old Latin Tridentine Mass where profound reverence for the Blessed Sacrament is ingrainedd into every moment off the Liturgy, and where Communion in the hand and “Eucharistic Ministers” are still looked upon in horror with Catholic eyes, and are clearly recognized as the out of place, sacrilegious, non-Catholic practices that they are.

 

[Miles_Mariae]

“The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries nor innovators, but men of tradition.”

• Pope St. Pius X

“…if some new contagion were to try to poison no longer a small part of the Church, but all of the Church at the same time, then he will take the greatest care to attach himself to antiquity which, obviously, can no longer be seduced by any lying novelty.”
-St. Vincent of Lerins

I reserve judgment about comparing the Ordinary Form against the Extraordinary. It is clear though, as you observe, that there is much good to be found in the Traditional Latin Mass. Perhaps it would be a good time to attach ourselves to antiquity.

 

[bear06]

and where Communion in the hand and “Eucharistic Ministers” are still looked upon in horror with Catholic eyes, and are clearly recognized as the out of place, sacrilegious, non-Catholic practices that they are

.Uh, how can you possibly claim that Communion in the hand (and by the way I’m not for it nor do I practice it) is a non-Catholic practice or even sacrilegious for that matter? I can see saying you don’t like it and that you’d like the practice to be once again thrust into the past practice category but it would actually seem quite un-Catholic to usurp authority you do not have to claim it un-Catholic or sacrilegious.

Here’s a pretty good piece containing many quotes from the Fathers. matt1618.freeyellow.com/communion.html