I am officially ashamed of my parish. Not only did we have to show the CMA video this weekend and support it, my family had two extra kids with us at Mass that day--neither of whom regularly attend this church. I started humming the Sanctus in my head during the detestable Spirit Alive song--I know the whole thing in Latin and I also learned the chant-style tune. Sadly, I missed my cue to respond in Latin at the end... my brain makes the automatic language switch.
(A note: I never watched the CMA video online, so I almost cried when I saw the clips of Saint Stan's.)
Sacramental Living today was... interesting. I think I scared my teacher. Heheh. >=D
See, we were discussing the Rite of Baptism. So we read the rite with different people reading different parts. We had two boys as the parents, two boys as godparents, and myself (I am a girl, just to clarify) as the celebrant, but we were just reading it to grasp an understanding of what goes on in this particular Sacrament of Initiation. The teacher and I batted comments and snippets of discussion back and forth (ex: our people setup would get us totally slammed and shut down by the Holy See) until I finally seemed to make him flustered. I said, "You know, the hard truth is that the Church is exclusive. You're either in it all the way, or you're not in it." This was somewhat blown off. That's how I know I scored a little victory. Happy-dance for Ink~
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"I never watched the CMA video online, so I almost cried when I saw the clips of Saint Stan's."
Many people are upset with video. It's tasteless. It feels like they [the progressives in our diocese] are trying to shove their vision of Catholicism down our throats by flaunting all of this stuff inside of the home of our Traditional Latin Mass community. The very TLM community we had to fight this bishop almost 20 years ago to obtain.
The video is a giant middle finger more or less to those who didn't roll over and adapt to the "Spirit of Vatican II".
~Dr. K
A number of years ago, Fr. Corapi visited a local youth group. While in the area (I'm not sure if it was at that youth group or not), someone asked him about the SSPX or some other thing of that nature, and essentially tried to imply that they were somehow less off-base than leftist schismatics...
Fr. Corapi responded that "You're either in the boat or you're not! If you're out, it doesn't really matter how far away from it you are, or how close you are, you're still swimming around in the water instead of being on the boat!" (perhaps not the exact wording)
Your comment at the end reminded me of this tidbit
Will you be at Latin Mass this Sunday? It's gonna be awesome!
-Arialdus
I'll be there!
I hope I will be, though we have to go to Mass at our normal parish because two of my three little sisters are involved--Sistra and the next one down, who I'll call Grace. So we'd be doing Saturday 5pm at our home parish, and then probably Mum and myself and Sistra at the High Mass--depends on whether or not Grace and the littlest, who I shall dub Princess (because she is) are up to it. They have a lot of energy sometimes.
...Idea! The DoR bloggers should designate a spot where we can all meet in Saint Stan's if non-parishioners decide they need an orthodoxy booster-shot.
A few minutes after Benediction, I'll be checking out the Una Voce book tables and chatting in the narthex. College and HS students aren't exactly commonplace at Latin Mass, Unfortunately, despite my plugs :(
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