I made the decision this last Lent to go back, full-time, to my parish, which celebrates mass in the ordinary form. After a long period of "discernment", I decided that I was going to have to tough it out, no matter how infantilized the mass was with guitars, hand-holding and bad music (and I will raise you up on Eagle's wings...). After all, I thought, the priests seem orthodox. As long as they preach the faith...
Then this, in last Sunday's homily, concerning the understanding of God's will:
"For instance, some question why we don't ordain women yet in the Catholic church. They need to understand that God may have a reason not to ordain women yet in the Catholic Church."
The emphases aren't mine. They were audible.
My two eldest children, twelve and ten, were with me.
So, this evening I am going to mass in the extraordinary form about 25 miles from here to think things over.
4 comments:
The use of the first "yet" can do nothing to establish the priest's position, since he is referring to a question others might ask. The second use of "yet" is more problematic, since he is giving his own response. I would note that the ending of his first and second sentences are in exact parallel: "ordain women yet in the Catholic Church." It's possible the second "yet" was unintentional. Since you've had no reason to question his orthodoxy up to know, perhaps you should ask him to explain his position.
Like you, I have to rough it at the parish, and settle with the New Mass most days. While I would prefer to go to the Traditional Latin Mass, either one in a former "indult" parish or in the chapel where the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary worship, my mother is a busy working woman, and usually can't spare the time or money to go to a far away Mass.
However, we have increasingly been annoyed by a visiting priest who often fills in, and zooms through the canon quite irreverently. Our ordinary pastor, on his part, has gotten into the habit of homilizing about "pastoal planning", and treats the closing of diocesan Catholic churches as routine, inevitable, and worst of all, caused PRIMARILY BY ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. Granted, heating and electricity prices are hitting our parishes hard, but doesn't he realize a failure to instill younger Catholics with a love and understanding of the Faith (and a wariness of the things of the world) has been one of the primary problems. Just today, I attended a Blue Army hour, and predictably I was the only young person. To some extent, older folks are always more pious, but when I hear them talk about their good years at the local Catholic high school (which is long gone), it is a great contrast with the bad memories my peers have of CCD. With this in mind, my mother has resolved to make a greater effort to attend the Traditional Latin Masses.
-zooms through the canon quite irreverently-
You know what I would like? I would like to hear Eucharistic Prayer I. I have never heard it in my life! LOL
Except, of course, at the TLM.
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