I am reminded of a quote by Dietrich von Hildebrand:
The basic error of most of the innovations is to imagine that the new liturgy brings the holy sacrifice of the mass nearer to the faithful, that shorn of its old rituals the mass now enters into the substance of our lives. For the question is whether we better meet Christ in the mass by soaring up to Him, or by dragging Him down into our own pedestrian, workaday world. The innovators would replace holy intimacy with Christ by an unbecoming familiarity. The new liturgy actually threatens to frustrate the confrontation with Christ, for it discourages reverence in the face of mystery, precludes awe, and all but extinguishes a sense of sacredness. What really matters, surely, is not whether the faithful feel at home at mass, but whether they are drawn out of their ordinary lives into the world of Christ-whether their attitude is the response of ultimate reverence: whether they are imbued with the reality of Christ.
"Send in the clowns; don't bother, they're here." This spectacle is such a mockery of Our Lord; may God give the participants the grace to repent. Perhaps the Holy Father should pay a visit to Germany and close this "playground."
Toys R Us? Again, why using children to promote their heresies and scandals? Their gatherings are so boring and tasteless that they have great need of "creativity" to keep attendance from boredom and emptiness.
Gott in Himmel! Whose crazy idea was this? And why on earth did the priests go along with it -- oh wait, it's all supposed to be "relevant" and "innovative", to keep the children "plugged in" to the parish. Well, my sons never had to go through that kind of thing, but after years of Sunday school, where it was all "cookies and juice and coloring and Jesus loves you", they no longer attend Mass regularly. As Jesus says, by their fruits you shall know them. Pretty sterile.
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Is this from the 80's, or is this recent?
I am reminded of a quote by Dietrich von Hildebrand:
The basic error of most of the innovations is to imagine that the new liturgy brings the holy sacrifice of the mass nearer to the faithful, that shorn of its old rituals the mass now enters into the substance of our lives. For the question is whether we better meet Christ in the mass by soaring up to Him, or by dragging Him down into our own pedestrian, workaday world. The innovators would replace holy intimacy with Christ by an unbecoming familiarity. The new liturgy actually threatens to frustrate the confrontation with Christ, for it discourages reverence in the face of mystery, precludes awe, and all but extinguishes a sense of sacredness. What really matters, surely, is not whether the faithful feel at home at mass, but whether they are drawn out of their ordinary lives into the world of Christ-whether their attitude is the response of ultimate reverence: whether they are imbued with the reality of Christ.
Twice you laugh
three times and think why the hell isn't someone from the CDF down there roasting them alive.
Again, why using children to promote their heresies and scandals?
Their gatherings are so boring and tasteless that they have great need of "creativity" to keep attendance from boredom and emptiness.