tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post1989109763616815643..comments2024-03-25T20:03:03.657-06:00Comments on Καθολικός διάκονος: More on the motuDeacon Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01385969740195992108noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post-39018717878856105632007-07-17T21:06:00.000-06:002007-07-17T21:06:00.000-06:00I don't agree with Monsignor Mannion. The Cat...I don't agree with Monsignor Mannion. The Catholic world, including the backwaters of Utah, is ready for the Tridentine Mass. A lot has changed in twenty years whatwith the Internet and mobility of Americans. They will experience the Tridentine Mass elsewhere and yearn for it in their home diocese. Forty years of liturgical abuse is enough and even if the Tridentine Mass isn't adopted in whole, Latin and chant will one day (40 years hence?) be commonplace in the Mass. I, for one, am weary of the pedestrian music, the slovenly and disrespectful manner of dressing and the sermons whose main objective is to not offend politically correct sensibilities. I think the resurgence of the Tridentine rite will change the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post-21544739077317103332007-07-18T07:24:00.000-06:002007-07-18T07:24:00.000-06:00I suppose the proof will be in the pudding. Howeve...I suppose the proof will be in the pudding. However, keep in mind that data is available via CARA on such matters. It is also important to read the motu which sees the so-called Novus Ordo as the normative Mass. The Mass authorized by Pope Benedict XVI is not the Tridentine Mass as the reformed missal approved by Pope John XXIII in 1962 is quite different from that promulgated by Pius V in 1570. <br><br>While left to the discretion of the pastor of the parish, apart from celebrating private masses, which does not make a lot of sense to begin with, the motu lays down stipulations for celebrations, which Msgr Mannion discusses, for the celebration of Mass according to the missal of 1962.<br><br>In other words, the main masses on Sundays cannot be replaced by a Latin mass according to the '62 missal. The motu still leaves it to the bishop to determine whether there is enough of a need and desire for the Latin mass to establish a non-territorial parish in which the old rites can be celebrated as normative. <br><br>Far from insinuating that Catholics in Utah will not flock to Latin Masses of any kind being a function of Utah being a backwater, Msgr Mannion is speaking from both his research as a scholar and his experience as a pastor in Utah. Apart form the roughly 1% (in this diocese not even that many) many Catholics would like to experience the <i>"old mass"</i> more out of curiosity than anything.Dcn Scott Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09994604395739905637noreply@blogger.com