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Entry: The Folk Mass is Ended... Go in Peace Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_folk_mass_is_ended_go_in_peace#31954 Post contents: Mr. Zimark. My outrage is specific to the contents of the post vis a vis the trads. I have spent many many years dealing with dead Dioceses - such as the Diocese of Portland (the state of Maine) where I had the Chancellor of that Diocese tell me, "We all think you are crazy. We laugh at you." so I am well aware of the recent unpleasantness. I am of the opinion the Church is almost always in a state of crisis - it is either purifying or putrefying - and the, apparent, "golden age" of Catholicism into which I was born was, in actuality, a state of unhealthy clericalism in which our parents left it to the Priests to educate us and the Faith, as I and me friends experienced it, was built upon rules, rubrics, and rhetoric about fear whereas , Traditionally (see the Catechism of Trent)the Faith was built upon love of God. And Catechetical Instruction is, primarily, the duty of the parents. At least one of my objections to the (otherwise many praiseworthy results) fruits of Mr.Davies books and articles was it drew so many of the, apparently, best and brightest away from the field of battle into the schism and those of us who maintained the Bonds of Unity, in Worship, Doctrine, and Authority, were left with diminished numbers in our combat against progressive-minded men and women and the Chancery, Deanery, and local Parish. All Ecumenical Councils trail in their wake all manner of crackpots, apostates, schismatics,kooks, cranks, and weirdoes but what is new is the self-anointed blaming the Church for all of the demented detritus floating near the surface of our consciousness. Well, I can see I am getting wound-up so I will just cease. I really do appreciate your intellect, humor, knowledge, and industry, Mr. Zimark and If I, from time to time, take issue with you, it is not my fault. It is genetics (I am Irish-Agonquin) and geography (I am a Vermont Crank) and so I cannot accept responsibility :) Oh, I do want to end by observing how thin-skinned are they who can not tolerate to read criticism of Mr. Davies but who, routinely, attack Holy Mother Church (a most untraditional action) Peace, brother. Sent at: 2008 12 01