I voted for the top one. But do any of you think that the Protestant reformation provided a nudge to the Church or to us Catholics. I mean would we be having the Mass in the vernacular, Catholic laity more interested in the Scriptures now, etc without those events? Or do you think that God would have guided the Church to these changes anyway?
If you don’t think that God has always guided the Church through the Holy Spirit then you need to back up and pray about your faith in such.
I know the traditionalist aren’t going to like me making these statements, but I voted the second only because I can see the positive inspirations and blessings from my perspective.
I was away from the Church for about 40 years only occasionally visiting with my mom on mom’s day but not receiving the sacraments. There is much more openess now than in the Latin days. To hear the readings is wonderful and everything in English especially the Psalms is enlightening. At first i wanted to hear the Latin just because my vernacular was way back in my memory and didn’t want to change. Yes change is good it means growth yes it should be governed and maybe go back some too to tradition but let’s not throw out the new traditions or the new babies with the bathwater. I never thought I would ever see some of the new things combined with the Catholic.ie’s;
Byzantine icon’s, the East was a far far thing and I didn’t think that Orthodox was even Catholic, at all.
The Holy Father speaks english on TV as would you want to go back and have no EWTN Eternal Word Network ? No I didn’t think you would. Now was Mother Angelica led by the Holy Spirit? Yes but I do remember when TV was thought of as maybe a demon to our culture.
The music is very good and I now see Catholic contemporary artists sing some wonderful music, ie rosary tapes chants, praise and worship, and the instructional could bring everyone to to studies for a long time and gives us more options for our DVD players and TV shows as why should the protestants have a monopoly on the available media.
Why should they anyways?
I was lured away from the RCC by many means but am being wooed back to a real understanding in my heart and mind and soul and those that have had it you can’t see it because you have had the privilage of being in it all your lives.
My mass does get noisy, and we do need quiet time as this is why I love the adoration moments and rosary time, and there are not a lot there to attend, but guess what there were only 11 at the beginning with Jesus and at ours there are some from every age group and if you take a poll of your church you will find many of different backgrounds as Jesus showed us as the apostles were many different trades in their lives.
I believe that John the apostle was very young and learned from Jesus and the elders of the group and when Jesus went to heaven to expected him to continue to get the nuturing he needed from the rest and that is what will bring us unity as I continue to listen to the older folks in my parish that continue to come to daily and I don’t just learn from the sermon from father but these older ones have been taught by many ‘fathers’ over their 8o years of faithfully serving the Church and have gone with th changes and probably have rejected and written to the bishops for years about abuses aand they are our founding fathers in our parishes.
Well I have talked too long but wanted to give you a few words for thoughts.
Dessert
Sorry but that question was hard to pick a choice. Is that a word Christiandom? I never heard it before.
It’s a nice idea though - lovely, even; but it’s not going to happen: not unless a* lot* of people miraculously forget their beliefs; or have the contents of their brains wiped by wandering Martians. Which is no more unlikely