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| Fortunatus | Saturday, 16. August 2008, 14:13 |
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Certainly it would seem that Fr Lawler has a personal following but if you pursue the Holy Smoke comments further you will also see it suggested (I put it no stronger) that the OF in the vernacular was resulting in reduced congregations. Now it would be a major leap of something other than faith to suggest that this bears out what some people have been saying for the last 30+ years, namely that it was the cack-handed reforms, or at least the cack-handedness that went with them, that accelerated the exodus from the pews. Nevertheless if the majority of the parishioners are happy with either an EF Mass or an OF Mass in Latin with the readings in the vernacular (which is a perfectly legitimate way for a priest to say Mass) then why is there such a fuss from Hinsley Hall? Answer (and I'm guessing): the V-G is one of those who sees anything except OF versus populo in English as a threat. To what I'm not really sure. If you'll forgive a moment of mild crudity there were those clerics who held that anything except the missionary position with the light out was sinful. It's a related mindset. "I don't really understand it; I don't like it. So stop it." I am starting to suspect that the good bishop is not full aware of what is being done in his name. |
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1:21 PM Nov 25