Remember… there’s only one expression of the Roman Rite now. RIGHT?!?
And then there’s this.. whatever the fresh hell this is.
I’m afraid to look at their archive.
From their Youtube site:
Welcome to Church of the Nativity! We aim to be a church that people who don’t like church, like! Our strategy is to creatively reach out to disconnected Catholics in our North Baltimore community with a fresh and relevant presentation of the life-changing message of the Gospel to help them take their next steps on the path of discipleship to make them fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
I don’t know.
But the people who want the TLM have to be crushed.
Is there anything legit about this? The consecration was valid but…
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They want to be the church that [insert group] likes? Count me out. People pleasers are insufferable, and I am done with trying to be liked.
My old diocese. The place is very well-known, especially because of the book series (“Rebuilt”).
It is obviously super problematic for a number of reasons, but the young adults trek from across the diocese for the “relevant and engaging liturgical experience,” and it is a cash cow. I only went once, out of curiosity… It was in the old church building. I had the distinct feeling, pulled out of the deep recesses of my memory, that I was entering a laser-tag arena. Awful. And the homily was… well… about how the Pharisees didn’t understand what Jesus was doing – the obvious implication being that people who complain about the way Nativity does things just don’t get it.
You can find a LOT about what’s going on there – and the serious, serious problems – online and in the books. But from this, it looks like things have gotten even worse. Terrible. So many kids will jump to the megachurches in college. And when the pastor retires, the Archbishop will be absolutely stuck with whom to put there.
I’ll pass, thanks.
I’m almost too scared to look at the video. I think this is the church around which the “Rebuilt” series was written — bringing lessons from the Christian megachurch movement into the Catholic praxis.
But Father, the production values!!!
Blessed to have an SSPX mission chapel 40 minutes away with the Trinidine Mass!
This is such a scandal. That priest is leading these people into Protestantism. When he is gone and another priest tries to fix this mess, they all become Evangelicals. The Eucharist is given second place to entertainment. Those who desire to offer true worship through use of the traditional rite are the enemy. I long for the days this trial has passed. They are imploding and will soon be gone.
This hell dwarfed by that of C. Fernandez.
This is indeed glossy silliness, but let me shine a little light of hope:
For a number of years, I would go to the TLM early in the morning, and then take my wife to her beloved rock-n-roll Mass. (I teased her I was working off purgatory time by doing this.) She just couldn’t bear the Latin, and, frankly, I can see that she has a more fruitful prayer life than I do, so who am I to presume how the Holy Spirit works?
Then, when the pope’s cruel dictat was released, she insisted we go to the TLM that Sunday. Still not her thing, but she won’t be cowed by an unjust rule.
Tonight she asked me to sit down for an important discussion: she wants us to join the FSSP parish in our area. Would that be ok? Could I help her to learn the prayers?
The God of surprises indeed!
The altar boys look and act as though they were shipped in from the local TLM parish. Don’t get me wrong, the execution of everything else was atrocious. But I can’t shake the feeling that maybe someone else is pulling those strings behind the scenes?
At first, I thought it was the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
How did they find so many boys to serve the altar?
Why is it that the Sanctus and Agnus Dei are always in Latin in these bizarre liturgies? Why not the rest? Does that have to do with something that OCP or one of the other publishers put out?
Ugh!
@EC
Libs calling orthodox thinkers is the cloud calling the cotton ball white…providing the cloud is white but the cotton ball is dyed purple.
Let’s examine this point:
Claiming that praying the Mass is not active participation.
Claiming that chapel veils represent their imaginary view of patriarchy.
Claiming that Fiducia supplicans is only blessing individuals while ignoring the illustrious Amerika Magazine ad saying “The Catholic Church is changing”
Claiming that women can be ordained when, even if approved, will not validly happen.
Claiming the issue people have with Pope Francis is that he is from South America and hence they are racists (even though I would love Card. Sarah to be Pope).
Claiming that Easternizations are what Latin Catholicism needs. Just as I am opposed to Latinizations of the East, I will also genuflect in my home Church. When I attend a Divine Liturgy I respectfully bow and cross right to left.
Claiming that Jesus had 2 dads for the purpose of normalizing same sex relationships within Catholicism. Joseph was the chaste legal/foster father of God the Son and to use this to justify their ends is blasphemy that would make even Luther vomit.
If one wants to see Pharisees and divisiveness, one needs to simply look to the left.
I missed a word in my opening paragraph. It should have read:
Libs calling orthodox thinkers Pharisees is the cloud calling the cotton ball white…providing the cloud is white but the cotton ball is dyed purple.
Yup! It seems everything is acceptable in the Catholic Church these days except Catholicism.
It’s almost as if Fr. Dwight Longenecker saw your post and crafted this (non-polemical) response to it.
https://dwightlongenecker.com/traditional-catholic-worship-why-do-you-do-that/
Makes me wish I could pull up roots and move to Greenville Carolina where there is both a TLM and TLM informed Novus Ordo.
Or maybe it’s just a conicidence.
A Christmas music concert is great. The Mass is holy. Just don’t mix them.
A perfect example of a church formed by the times, instead of what it should be, a church forming the times.
I skimmed a bit of it. Several of the dancers near the beginning looked dead-eyed and I had to bail out as they started to play “Simply Having….”
Hmmmm…”relevant”…they obviously are unaware of the diminished relevancy of “relevance.” It has all the credence of an episode of the the Partridge Family.
They inhabit an alternate universe and are a danger to themselves temporally and in eternity. Now that their deficiencies are a public scandal from Rome to Washington and across the rest of globe perhaps they will wake up?
No Cross, no crown. We shoulder on.
It’s like Pastor Phil’s church in the movie Four Christmases.
And then there is this: Little Children are NOT welcome – the pastor himself says so… my jaw dropped reading this:
Why We Don’t Encourage (little) Kids In Church
January 26, 2019 Fr. Michael White
https://nativitypastor.tv/why-we-dont-encourage-little-kids-in-church/
Note also, people can go to the Google Maps site for this church and see the negative comments – and perhaps leave one or at minimum, like the thumbs down comments as helpful.
Yeah…uh..I’ll go drive an hour and hang out at my narrow-minded FSSPX church instead. I’m there for God, not everyone else.
It recalls Four Christmases, and it also recalls the Princess Bride, where Inigo Montoya admonishes the Sicilian (who overuses “Inconceivable!”) …
“The Gospel”? “discipleship”?
I don’t think those words mean what you think they mean.
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Liturgically atrocious, but not going to lie, those were some sick musical arrangements, just not for Mass.
a fresh and relevant presentation? Relevant to whom or what, exactly? Have they ever considered striving for reverent instead? Who thinks the liturgy needs to be fresh? Has the Word and worship of God gone stale? I would say that is a problem of your heart, not the presentation. It is a sanctuary and an altar. It is not a stage. Silence is important at Mass, as Our Lord was silent in front of His accusers.
When our schedule does not permit us attending one of our local Latin masses, we end up at a musical Novus Ordo, with piano, guitar, drums, and clarinet. Every response has to be sung, accompanied by the feel good band. I am quite uncomfortable with the whole thing. My wife refers to it as the clown show.
Such music, when intended for the liturgy, is designed to entertain, not to inspire. It condescends rather than transcends. It is ephemeral rather than eternal. I only wish I could un-hear what they did to Mendelssohn at the end. I thereafter hastened to cleanse my ears with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxKqLrXCXxw
Sooo…Mass meets rock concert meets…pledge drive??
I expected the first two, that third was a new wrinkle.
Maybe it’s time for me to count my blessings again. My FSSP parish has begun work on renovating our church. Best contribute to that.
I was surprised not to see any altar girls!! Wow! Popular entertainment is not appropriate for Holy Mass. Are they worshipping God or the rock band? Poor people! The pastor is giving distractions and confusion instead of the clarity of worship in spirit and in truth.