What a wonderful harvest for Christ. The percentages are almost certainly a vast under-estimate, because of the Islamic tradition regarding apostasy. No doubt there are many who have embraced The Lord and His Mother, but opt to keep their heads down.
Since Vatican II the church decision to dialogue with world in a spirit of fraternity has meant the Church is more conformed to the world than the world to the Church. James 4v4-5 Don't you realise that making the world your friend is making God your enemy? Anyone who chooses the world for his friend turns himself into God's enemy.
I have made it a point to be less controversial here. But on this particular topic, I cannot seem to help myself. So, here I go, please forgive me: I am afraid the Holy Mass was already changed, following Vatican II. This, alongside the "spirit of VII" is the root of the problems in the Holy Catholic Church, and the modern-day papacies are simply a fruit of that. The solution could be a return to tradition, to seek out a Traditional Latin Mass-parish. God bless!
Strange that I was just thinking the same exact thing this morning. I rarely attend Latin Mass because of the long distance from my home but last night I went to the closest church that offers Latin Mass, 27 miles from my home. I'm going to sign up as a parishioner there. Case closed.
Yikes. Good for you! I used to do that when I was younger. Now I make do with what is available here. The Mass is very reverent. We have good priests so I make no complaints.
It honestly doesn't really feel like a sacrifice. I love the time we spend together in the van. We read to each other, pray, listen to good quality music... And our priests and the beautiful Mass brings us more joy than anything else! Sometimes I wonder why we moved to the country when the Mass is even more beautiful. One time my 4 year old son whispered to me at church, "Mama, Mass is where we live." I will say that the shock people (my husband's coworkers in particular) experience when they find out we drive so far to go to Mass seems to have a good effect on them. It makes lax Catholics want to go to Mass again!
I have wondered this often. After some research into recent Eucharistic miracles I firmly believe Christ is still present in NO masses. It's what has kept me from going sedevacantist. With that said, I am convinced the liturgy needs to be restored to the traditional. I could be completely wrong, my mere two cents.
Yes, I agree, eucharistic miracles confirm the Novus Ordo is valid. But if we look into these, in some cases Christ is perhaps bleeding because of liturgical abuse. For example, sometimes the eucharist dropped on the floor, due to attempted communion in the hand, and that later turned into a eucharistic miracle. In one case, Our Lord was left behind on a candle-holder after the priest had administered Him into the hands of a parishioner. Yes, I am also avoiding sedevacantism but I am convinced the liturgy needs to be restored to the traditional form. Same here, I could be completely wrong. We are on the same page. PS: Forgot to mention, the Traditional Latin Mass also has eucharistic miracles. The only one that comes to my mind is Lanciano, dating all the way back to the year 700, as I recall. There, the priest was doubting transubstantiation, and Our Lord proved it by transforming the host into His blood. God bless!
I love the Latin Liturgy and prefer it. However I have no doubt whatsoever that the New Mass too is legit. It is just not properly ordered. For instance the Eucharist should be taken on the mouth and on the knees. The priest needs to face away from the congregation, less room for the priest to make his own thing etc, etc, etc. In Spain the traditional Latin Mass hardly exists at all and I miss it. But I am fine with the New Mass if it is said well. I don't get too hung up about it all. I think as Fulton Sheen said it is what we take too the Mass is what we get out of it. I could go to the Latin Mass with Padre Pio and if I do so with a closed heart it will do me little good. If I go to the New Mass with Pope Saint John Paul 2 with a closed heart that will do me little good either. It's mostly about what we bring, not what we take .
If you look at this old video of the Latin Mass said by St Padre Pio way back in 1956, there was far,far too much irreverent movement around him at the altar, what were they even thinking ? Scandalous. It is just as possible that there may be irreverence at the old mass as at the new. It's a case of what you bring with you. People simply were not paying attention enough.
Yes, you are right about the Eucharistic miracles often happening to strengthen weak faith. It has happened that way even centuries ago, when priests who had lost their faith or belief in the Real Presence would witness a Eucharistic miracle. And this was during the Latin Mass. God in His mercy reaches out to all of us when we're struggling. I believe that God saw the approaching and growing irreverence of the faithful and the priests that would come in the 2nd half of the 20th century, and in His Divine Providence He allowed the new Mass to be devised and implemented everywhere so that the beauty and reverence of the Latin Mass would be preserved. Basically that it was set aside for a future time in which the Faith would be rekindled and people would once again search for Truth and Beauty. I think that's why it has now begun its return and the young especially are drawn to it like a moth to the flame. But the new Mass has always been valid and one could always find Christ there. I think one of the hidden blessings was that those who sought intimacy with Christ could go into a church, find Jesus waiting alone in the Eucharist, and go up to Him and comfort Him one on One. What wonderful times those were....to be alone and be able to even hug the Tabernacle, just Jesus and no one else there. And to clarify, I'm talking about in those little side chapels where poor Jesus was stuck in a little room all by Himself in a free-standing box of a Tabernacle with a few chairs around.
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