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Entry: Sake and the Latin Mass Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/sake_and_the_latin_mass#2133 Post contents: 1. I have long experience, both in the seminary and in the parish, of “liturgists” who twist documents to mean what they want them to mean. Call it “liturgical deconstruction”. I fear that the document's phrase “stable group” will be twisted into a number, a number decided arbitrarily, and a number that must be present every single day or Sunday - or the guillotine. Or <i>instable</i> will be held to mean “nutcases” or “disobedient to the pastor’s (heterodox and heteropraxis) whims”. 2. The “my-way-is-the-only-way” types enjoy being entertainers and the center of attraction. They consider their “touchy-feely” antics to be “loving”, “concern”, “welcoming”, “building community” etc. And I am very sorry to report, but based on my own painful experience in the seminary and in local churches, and based on rumor, report, law suits, and criminal prosecutions, many of these types are also homosexuals, and regard their “play liturgy” part of their sexual identity. Others just have a pathological hatred of “the old Church”. In short, plenty of these clergy will now dig in their heels and fight tooth and nail. 3. We all live in a particular culture. Americans are largely influenced by the Non-Conformist Ranter and Evangelical emotional tradition in religion, and otherwise live in a culture of banal, insipid, vulgar, sensationalist, or kitsch emotions. Serious, devout, formal, and traditional solemnity isn’t what most folk are used to, and certainly not what they haven’t gotten at Mass for the last 40 years. We have this resistance as well. Sent at: 2008 09 08