Unbelievable. But at least they're consistent with the time.
Is it just me? Am I a simpleton or something that I find this enthusiasm for this aliturgical crap completely shallow and ill-informed? I am asking in all seriousness and earnestly. What is it with these people that they are so blind? Why can't they see that this is not tradition? As thralls they have found thrall hearts. How it angers me! But what angers me more is the fact that when they are presented with Tradition, they don't want it! THEY JUST WANT CRAP! It's like when I bought my first altar missal when I was 20. This 1862 French missal, very handsome, I brought it to my parish and was shewing it to people, many people who just feigned interest. When I came to a certain woman, she refused to even look at it. Why? Well, clearly out of malicious contempt for the Tradition of the Church and her obvious preference for tat and superstition. It reminds me of my father's old adage: "you can't polish a turd." And it's the same with these "Saint Thomas Apostle" rabble. Well, they're welcome to the rubbish but I don't see why they have any right to call it "traditional."
Yes this is becoming all-too-common, if you peruse the Holy Week schedules posted on Rorate Caeli, etc. At one point a few years ago I bugged the local ICRSS priests about doing Tenebrae, and they finally decided to do it once - on Holy Saturday at 9am! And this from men who have nothing positive to say about the Pacellian changes, even more. There is even another Church in the diocese which does Tenebrae at the correct time. It is bizarre.
ReplyDeleteAnd I bet that other church does the post-1911 psalms for Lauds and cuts a few Miserere's. Talk about Do-it-yourself, half-a-job Bob, cowboys. Dress a pig in a lace cotta and call it Tradition.
DeleteAt least the line in Spanish is honest!
ReplyDeleteWhy bother? That's what I don't understand. If you said to any of them, why not have Mattins and Lauds of Epiphany with the Blessing of the Water they'd look aghast at you. But where the Pacelli reforms come in, they just lap it up. It's this kind of attitude that shews most clearly that Tradition is dead in the Papal communion.
DeleteWell, of course. What is actually celebrated is in many ways irrelevant. The attraction is the identification with 'traditional' and making a protest against the SVC. The fact that Tenebrae almost certainly was never celebrated at 9:00am before 1956 really is of no consideration. It's before the Council so it must be traditional by their 'logic'.
DeleteIn some respects, it's like Nazism. So long as they all think alike and make the sieg heil salute to every papal pronouncement (well, when it's the right pope...), the rite itself matters not. And the cult of the pope plays a significant part. They practically worship Ratzinger! God bless our Holy Father Pope Francis, gloriously reigning, who couldn't give a shite!
DeleteTraditionalism really has degenerated into tribalism. The demographic has transformed beyond recognition. Years ago there were decent, honourable and intelligent traditionalists with liturgical standards. Now traddieland is full of neo-con riff raff who find the "extraordinary form" attractive (out of sheer liturgical ignorance). Time was when you could safely question the doctrinal and liturgical integrity of the new rites (including '62), not to mention modern Roman orders; now that is unthinkable.
DeleteThe legal positivism will eventually stifle Traddieland until it implodes. Rome's strategy towards them since 1984 has been a strict 1962 line and since then there has been compromise after compromise for a sake of concord with the pope. When Rome imposes a common kalendar and the ritus servandus of, say, 1967, who's to say they won't accept it? Fifty years from to-day they will all be doing the Novus Ordo like everyone else and they won't even have been in any sense conscious of the shift in their own principles - not that they have any.