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The various threads that pop up from time to time (hand-holding, blessings, glass vs. gold, purification, liturgical colors) got me thinking.
For whatever reason, we’ve got priests, deacons and bishops who decide not to follow, strictly or not, liturgical norms, and so their parishioners by default do not do so either.
I see both sides; parishioners who are informed and don’t like variations from what’s supposed to be done and parishioners who like such “local traditions” (my use of the term) and want to continue them or don’t want to fuss over them.
I suppose that this is something that has, is now, and ever will be happening in the practice of our Catholic faith, and that’s about the only conclusion that I’ve come to in putting a lot of thought into this issue.
For me, and perhaps many other “mature” Catholics i.e. those of us that have been at it a while, it’s a lot easier to understand than those who are new to the faith, see such a variation, and perhaps get confused as to which side of the issue they should lie. I guess that’s an argument for the side that rigidly supports what we’re supposed to do. On the flip side for new Catholics, there are perhaps things that they have experienced in mass, maybe hand-holding for example, that they like and that perhaps add something to the mass for them.
I don’t want this thread to rehash the reasons why we should or should not do certain things, Lord knows there are enough threads on such things already, but just throw a few thoughts out there on the general nature of “liturgical dissent” (my use of the term, again).
For whatever reason, we’ve got priests, deacons and bishops who decide not to follow, strictly or not, liturgical norms, and so their parishioners by default do not do so either.
I see both sides; parishioners who are informed and don’t like variations from what’s supposed to be done and parishioners who like such “local traditions” (my use of the term) and want to continue them or don’t want to fuss over them.
I suppose that this is something that has, is now, and ever will be happening in the practice of our Catholic faith, and that’s about the only conclusion that I’ve come to in putting a lot of thought into this issue.
For me, and perhaps many other “mature” Catholics i.e. those of us that have been at it a while, it’s a lot easier to understand than those who are new to the faith, see such a variation, and perhaps get confused as to which side of the issue they should lie. I guess that’s an argument for the side that rigidly supports what we’re supposed to do. On the flip side for new Catholics, there are perhaps things that they have experienced in mass, maybe hand-holding for example, that they like and that perhaps add something to the mass for them.
I don’t want this thread to rehash the reasons why we should or should not do certain things, Lord knows there are enough threads on such things already, but just throw a few thoughts out there on the general nature of “liturgical dissent” (my use of the term, again).