can one be a modernist and secretly follow the old order of mass?

-- paddy mcpat (mcpat1999@hotmail.com), May 15, 2004

Answers

Why would you want to?

-- Scott (papasquat10@hotmail.com), May 15, 2004.

Your path to Christ can be made in any Catholic church. If the Latin Rite seems to bring you closer to Christ, why would you feel "wrong" about that. There are many Latin Rite parishes, which are not seperated from the Church.

As we move closer to the Celebration of Pentecost, it is important to note that it was the spirit who caused them all to hear in their own languages. That seems to me a pretty clear mandate to worship in a language which you can understand.

To Jesus, through Mary

Peace be with you

-- Leon (pookieboy@jmj.com), May 16, 2004.

How are you modernist?

How do you want to secretly follow the old order of the mass? Do you mean Tridentine?

-- Brian Crane (brian.crane@cranemills.com), May 17, 2004.

There is certainly nothing wrong with the Latin Mass, nor is there any reason to celebrate it in secret. To the contrary, in fact: it is, after all, the "Most Beautiful Thing This Side of Heaven."

Regarding other languages: I really don't understand what is so great or advantageous about hearing the Mass in our own native language, as long as we have a translation available, so we can know what is being said. (And there are many, many places where you can locate a translation, besides the Missal.) If it were impossible for us to understand the Latin, that would be a different argument altogether.

On the other hand, hearing the Latin Mass gives you a sense of history; these are words that connect us spiritually to the early days of the Church, and allow us to feel the continuity that we are meant to feel, as well as the spirit of the Sacrifice. The Tridentine Mass is not a watered-down, Protestant-friendly compromise; it's the REAL THING!

And I am not the only one who understands and appreciates the beauty of the Latin Mass; the Pope does as well.

And about modernism:

http://www.allcatholicbooks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ACB&Product_Code=N20x45ff&Category_Code=

(Partisans of Error - St. Pius X against the Modernists)

-- Joe-Jeff (Soon2B@Catholic.com), May 20, 2004.