Just a little lighter fare in the wake of some attacks on the TLM… no… on the PEOPLE who love the TLM.
Do you DARE to find out for yourself?
Just a little lighter fare in the wake of some attacks on the TLM… no… on the PEOPLE who love the TLM.
Do you DARE to find out for yourself?
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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“Communion Rails too high to jump over”
“rosaries clutched!”
“The REAL reason these people dont leave right after mass”
Oh that is too funny, thanks a lot for that father.
“Come see the Priest from the East perform sensibility-defying stunts!
*Turning his back to the parishoners!
*Whispering inaudibly!
*Incensing!
*Speaking a dead language!
*So Much Incense!
*Putting the Eucharist on the tongues of strangers!
All this and more!”
Brilliant! Love it!
“A disturbing countercultural display in which women and men are overdressed in a heteronormative fashion, families exceed recommended limits, children appear to be overrepresented, and the entire focus is on a deity to the neglect and effective disparagement of the community. Not recommended for impressionable minds. Likely to be offensive to openminded individuals.”
Thank you Fr. Z – this meme just made my day, and the comments make it even better!
Shared with my brother who is a weird hybrid of Marxist and catholic. He loves liberation theology, the Bishop of Rome and named his firstborn “Boff” (just kidding!). He disdains and says ugly things about the Latin Mass. Please whisper a prayer for “John”. This poster will make his head explode.
That’s superbly well done. The thurible is my favorite part, as a substitute for the joint in the original poster.
“Just a little lighter fare in the wake of some attacks on the TLM… no… on the PEOPLE who love the TLM.”
Well said Fr. Z. Great comments.
“Men participating throughout the Mass.”
“Boys at the altar vested and praying in Latin.”
I’ve never been to TLM but would love to attend soon. What advice would you give to someone who wants to experience it for the first time? What should I expect?
[Firstly, don’t buffalo yourself into thinking that it is going to be so foreign that you don’t know what is going on. There are some strong differences in how Mass begins and how it ends, but the rest is going to be the familiar structure, even if it is in Latin and ad orientem. Remember, too, that this is the Mass that nourished the lives of countless of our forebears. It was familiar to them and it can be familiar to us, too. Don’t try to follow everything in a book, at least at first. Perhaps review the readings and proper prayers ahead of time and then just try to take it all in. Absorb. Experience it. ]