Upon receiving this person's message, my first impulse was to rip off an email in response. But I waited, wanting things to settle. My thoughts were:
Like many who "don't get" the True Mass issue, that they -
1: Don't really understand what the Mass is! 2: They often have no or little respect for Quo Primum.
And then they proceed to mince away the Mass issue in pieces, via words, equivocations, sophistries and superciliousness.
Truly, I did want to hand this person a Great Sacrilege, and say, "Read it, if you never have. And if you have, read it again."
But this may be taken as an insult and/or just be a waste of time. For this person feels they are a "teacher of Israel." They themselves write Church things to instruct others, you see.
But brains, nor eyes, nor grace seem to have affected this person - yet. And one would think that with older Catholics especially, who have spent many pre-Vatican II adult years living the parish life, and experiencing the Church with NO OTHER MASS but the Latin Mass holding court, with no thought of any other Mass being referred to or even imagined when the word "Mass" was used in any context - with everyone thinking the same thing when Mass was mentioned or thought of - you would think that such a person as this one claims to be, and with this experience and background, would react electrified and with an absolute shout of "Sacrilege!" when the New Mass crept in. But no.
Now in old age, well, the day is drawing late.
Topic: Calling the Novus Ordo a sacrilege - or not (Read 2317 times)