Traditional Mass from WW2

[Big_Feet]

I think you’re misreading the joke, Big Feet. TempleServant wasn’t joking about the Mass or the soldiers’ sacrifices, but the “liberals” who may easily say that this proves a Mass doesn’t need to be on an altar. If a liberal Catholic, who doesn’t care about the liturgical rules, had his way, then they may want to have the Mass on everything from a sofa chair to a toaster!

TempleServant was mocking the liberals, not the Mass.

And is mocking anyone at all charitable in the least?
I think not, but you and TempleServant may think so.
Fraternal correction - appropriate.
Mocking - disrespectful and abhorrent.

 

[The_Scott]

And is mocking anyone at all charitable in the least?
I think not, but you and TempleServant may think so.
Fraternal correction - appropriate.
Mocking - disrespectful and abhorrent.

I never mocked anyone, nor do I intend to. I was simply explaining TempleServant’s remark.

Either way, I feel like we’ve spent too many posts on a simple statement. We should focus on the topic at hand - and that is the beauty of the Mass during WWII.

 

[Maryann_C]

Getting back to the topic ish. There is a moment in the movie War Horse ( WWI) where the soldiers were in the trenches and just before going ‘over the top’ one was receiving Holy Communion. The moment evoked in me the beauty of faith in the face of fear, Our Lord giving strength to carry on but I am sure that some would say well it was intended as an irony.
Anyone see the movie?..I think I will take this to a new thread …hold your horses before you answer

 

[roadsend]

Here’s a research paper regarding Nazi chaplains during WW2.

history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133p/133p04papers/ALewisChaplains046.htm

I see calling them “Nazi chaplains” as a real stretch.
They were German Army chaplains serving the spiritual needs of German Army soldiers. The priests discussed were in no way Nazis, regardless of the fact that the Nazi party ran Germany at that time.
Calling them Nazi chaplains is like calling American army chaplains in WWII Democrat chaplains.

 

[choliks]

I see calling them “Nazi chaplains” as a real stretch.
They were German Army chaplains serving the spiritual needs of German Army soldiers. The priests discussed were in no way Nazis, regardless of the fact that the Nazi party ran Germany at that time.
Calling them Nazi chaplains is like calling American army chaplains in WWII Democrat chaplains.

I apologize for the misnomer. I had no intention of denigrating such holy men.

 

[TempleServant]

And is mocking anyone at all charitable in the least?
I think not, but you and TempleServant may think so.
Fraternal correction - appropriate.
Mocking - disrespectful and abhorrent.

This is something I’ve noticed on here. A traditionalist makes a critical remark and someone comes back with the standard ‘charity’, ‘obedience’, ‘schismatic’ or ‘Church allows it’ rejoinders.

What it all boils down to is: ‘You shut up’.

And then, in time, the Pope says we’re right, after all.

I’ve seen a picture of a bishop confecting on a coffee table. I’ve read the argument ‘they said Mass on the hoods on jeeps so my priest’s al-fresco experiments are OK’. I don’t buy it.