tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post4104770842278143800..comments2023-06-01T09:22:18.917+01:00Comments on Liturgiae Causa: Old Sarum...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-4793207255550208182012-01-26T09:02:40.505+00:002012-01-26T09:02:40.505+00:00I suppose the fundamental question to be asked is ...I suppose the fundamental question to be asked is whether a recovery in the West of Western rite orthopraxis is possible, or is it a case, to use a euphemism, off 'pi**ing against Niagara'?Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-78022005890389342982012-01-24T22:29:45.205+00:002012-01-24T22:29:45.205+00:00Stephen, by the way you have a good point. This is...Stephen, by the way you have a good point. This is why the Western rite of the Orthodox Church is very important. The lack of qualified candidates to the priesthood also made many very ignorant people make up the priests we have today, sorry to say. This makes inroads in orthodox approaches to the faith qutie challenging. The ordination of married men is at least a partial solution to that problem which has been a great asset to the eastern church communions (even if it means a few priests do have more stress and occasional divorce! ). Everything is a sacrifice somehow to make us better.Xristoforos McAvoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16761973056388424084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-58343545487951910762012-01-24T22:26:17.404+00:002012-01-24T22:26:17.404+00:00My friend, it is better that you continue praying ...My friend, it is better that you continue praying the divine office privately, Sarum form cerainly if you like, any form, rather that give up too much on religion. Do whatever you can, but continue praying to God for help. Even if you feel uncomfortable attending the holy sacfrice of the eucharist more than once a year. do something rather than nothing. I know you will be blessed if you do. You're not atheist mate ! keep up the good work.Xristoforos McAvoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16761973056388424084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-57718360910625726672012-01-21T15:32:08.720+00:002012-01-21T15:32:08.720+00:00Things great and wonderful are lost because of fal...Things great and wonderful are lost because of fallen human nature. That which was liturgically great in the West has been lost because the West cut itself off from the Church. And, like sap running out of a great limb severed from the trunk, liturgical life in the West slowly ran out over the past thousand years. <br /><br />Traditionalist Catholics - and not all of these are hyper-papists - are loathe to consider this consequence of the Western unconditional embrace of the filioque. Hence their impulse to discount the entire filioque controversy, and inability to consider that the same Papal machinery which severed the West from the Church in the 11th century is that which has been turned on them with all the modern western liturgical reforms in the 20th and 21st. It is impossible to engage Catholics in a rational discourse on this topic, perhaps because they know the corner they paint themselves in.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12833345391579579562noreply@blogger.com