so i thought I’d just leave my 6 yr old bio. ❤️ Would you like to be saints together? ❤️ Just the girl next door. And um yeah I love to write. Sky falls. #UP13
@PappaSciarappa Invest/relational ministry
I assign one core team member (someone who isn’t afraid of a challenge) whose sole responsibility is to get to know them, become respected by them, and eventually guide them
It takes soo much time but the outcome is beautiful
“Do you pray & include God in your work day?”
Heck yeah, every time I make a phone call I pray the other person doesn’t pick up so I can just get away with leaving a voicemail.
Pope Francis has said that Traditionalists have a 'dead faith of the living', in remarks made during his return flight from Canada.
https://t.co/U253Mgdqi8
In a sane world, bishops would see how the TLM is drawing scores of young Catholics to the Faith. This would prompt initiatives to provide more TLMs at parishes across dioceses. Instead, we see (some) bishops trying to suppress it. Pure ideology. Sad & completely out of touch.
An underlying liturgical phenomenon worth noting is this:
There is a group of Catholics who say “We love Vatican II so much we want the liturgy it calls for.”
Those people are consistently identified as opponents of Vatican II.
So i watched this. And found it so unhelpful.
In a way, this is what I attempted to address in this week’s @clericalpod (though admittedly I struggled to get there this week. Too many ideas floating still)
Anyways: thread 🧵
https://t.co/SvZeNSlZZZ
French Catholics in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in Yvelines (France), celebrating Christmas Midnight Mass outdoors in the rain. After #PopeFrancis's #TraditionisCustodes, the diocese won't provide a church for them in which to offer the traditional Latin Mass. https://t.co/dKumFCye8i
Whenever someone says “why don’t trads just celebrate the Novus Ordo in Latin” it reveals that they really don’t know what attracts people to the older form.
For most it’s not the language. I’d bet if the older form was available in the vernacular it would be popular.
A Christmas tradition in Bethlehem is the chanting of Luke’s account of Our Lord’s birth at the very place where it happened, concluding with the great throng of Heaven singing “Glory to God in the highest”, which is taken up by the Franciscans, who chant Gloria in excelsis Deo
A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent.
At some point we went from:
“We have to modernize the liturgy so that young people will show up.”
to:
“If we don’t publish Latin Mass times, we will keep young people from showing up.”
What’s the real priority here?
(a) Vatican II is not a rupture in the church and the faith remains unchanged
(b) the post-VII Mass is an expression of that faith
(c) the pre-VII Mass is not an expression of that faith
You can't expect people to be convinced of (a) and (b) when you're also telling them (c).