I came out of self-imposed exile for Holy Week for this?! I have FB pages for Holy Week and figured I needed to check them out. MIS-take; I might go back into exile. Or delete FB.

This so-called priest STUNS (Ireland; "roman catholic") alright. You have to see it to believe it. It's being hailed on FB as all kinds of wonderful, of course, but all I could think was ...well, you fill in the blanks. (Though admittedly live rounds might be better.)

I've never seen a wedding like this. And I never will again, God willing. (I stopped before the halfway mark). But if this isn't a crisis, I don't know what is. (If it's elsewhere on CI, my apologies, but this is just something that the SSPX any flavor should never abide. Thus, "Crisis" section.)

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I always liked that song, but it's not appropriate for mass.  If he was determined to sing it, couldn't it wait til the reception?

I also notice that more and more often, things are imitated.  In this case holy music is imitated along with the Holy Mass.  People have learned to accept mimics as real...
In my gut, this mimicking of holy things feels as  though it is truly offensive to God, more than most things...

Oh I like the song — not at Mass, as you say, but the whole thing is, apparently the priest bursting into song was a "surprise" to the couple. I was surprised first that the guy (father whatnot) had his butt to Our Lord, mostly, and was facing the couple, and singing to them uninvited --just winging it at their Holy Matrimony. But to face the couple and sing their glories (I heard the couple's names in the song, and that's about the time I stopped watching), while you're jacking up the entire ceremony with your butt facing Our Lord, it was nearly like the priest was worshiping the couple!

I just don't understand why the man isn't drawn and quartered. (For the good of his own soul.) And he basically jinxed the whole Marriage ...really, had I been the bride, I'd have turned around and run out of the building. All that couple and their parents went through to have a beautiful service, and this joker bunks it up like that. "Offers strange fire", as it were.

I checked FB again and   it's being shared even more, with catholics wishing their priests would do that for their upcoming nuptials.

I'm too young to feel too old... some woman 20 years my senior (easily) (she's a grandma) told me to lighten up!

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Seriously, not trying to be a fuddy-duddy, and I have no clue what Frank's been doing during Lent (mostly, because of no-internet; and when I've tried to catch up on Sundays, I've tried to avoid all things Frank); I seriously don't think it's cool to rub a Holy Sacrament in God's Most Holy Face! I'm concerned out of concern (and shock) for those who think this was touching or beautiful, but I also fear we can't be linked with a people so out-of-touch with God. (Maybe especially during Holy Week?)

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Rosary time. But I'm glad you found it disturbing, as well, Mama Chacha. Sometimes I feel like I belonged in different era. (Like the 14th or 15th centuries.)

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You can hear titters from the crowd as it was dragging on, and you can see the approving reactions from the bride and groom at several spots, but the key to the 'acceptability' of this drivel is found at minute 4:45 when the audience is shown giving applause and several people standing up to do so.  It certainly appears that no one present was disappointed at all.  

I would have felt a lot like StCeciliasGirl and might have walked out the door at that point.  Even if I was the groom.  

In case you didn't notice, the manner of speech this priest has makes him sound rather effeminate.  



This ties in well with the current assault on marriage taking place in a larger venue.   New thread here.

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This happened in my country? Im afraid the novus ordo is only going to get more weird. It is as a poison that spreads from country to country.

What makes anyone think that this took place in a Catholic church?

I tell you these novus ordo "catholics", they are not Catholic. :really-mad2: