Traditional Latin Mass- In with the old, out with the new!

[dcointin]

For the life of me, I can’t understand why they didn’t just offer the traditional mass in the vernacular with increased congregational participation.

 

[ProVobis]

For the life of me, I can’t understand why they didn’t just offer the traditional mass in the vernacular with increased congregational participation.

They did that in 1965 and 1967. Didn’t work.

 

[Ockham]

Here’s an article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks ago. It may be deserving of its own thread but it certainly is relevant to this one as well. Yes, it’s about Evangelicals but the parallels to The Church are obvious.

“*'How can we stop the oil gusher?” may have been the question of the summer for most Americans. Yet for many evangelical pastors and leaders, the leaking well is nothing compared to the threat posed by an ongoing gusher of a different sort: Young people pouring out of their churches, never to return.

As a 27-year-old evangelical myself, I understand the concern. My peers, many of whom grew up in the church, are losing interest in the Christian establishment.

…]

If the evangelical Christian leadership thinks that “cool Christianity” is a sustainable path forward, they are severely mistaken. As a twentysomething, I can say with confidence that when it comes to church, we don’t want cool as much as we want real.

If we are interested in Christianity in any sort of serious way, it is not because it’s easy or trendy or popular. It’s because Jesus himself is appealing, and what he says rings true. It’s because the world we inhabit is utterly phony, ephemeral, narcissistic, image-obsessed and sex-drenched—and we want an alternative. It’s not because we want more of the same." *online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704111704575355311122648100.html

 

[dmorgan]

Here’s an article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks ago. It may be deserving of its own thread but it certainly is relevant to this one as well. Yes, it’s about Evangelicals but the parallels to The Church are obvious.

“*'How can we stop the oil gusher?” may have been the question of the summer for most Americans. Yet for many evangelical pastors and leaders, the leaking well is nothing compared to the threat posed by an ongoing gusher of a different sort: Young people pouring out of their churches, never to return.

As a 27-year-old evangelical myself, I understand the concern. My peers, many of whom grew up in the church, are losing interest in the Christian establishment.

…]

If the evangelical Christian leadership thinks that “cool Christianity” is a sustainable path forward, they are severely mistaken. As a twentysomething, I can say with confidence that when it comes to church, we don’t want cool as much as we want real.

If we are interested in Christianity in any sort of serious way, it is not because it’s easy or trendy or popular. It’s because Jesus himself is appealing, and what he says rings true. It’s because the world we inhabit is utterly phony, ephemeral, narcissistic, image-obsessed and sex-drenched—and we want an alternative. It’s not because we want more of the same." *online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704111704575355311122648100.html