There is no church that is actually traditional. I'm not sure that I believe anymore that Tradition actually exists, except in the mind...Maybe Tradition is an illusion which only exists in our minds. Sure, we may have a good prayer life and devotion to Our Lord and Our Lady, but hardly anyone here talks about that?
The sacraments at whatever chapel we attend may be real enough, but outside of Mass, who really cares about Our Lord and Our lady?
Trads are quite worldly. I'm worldly too. It's obvious that Tradition is not the answer to the Crisis in the Church.
Saying this does not bring me satisfaction, but your comments make me think of the almost-universal effects of the monumentally and radically erroneous philosophy of Kant, arch-Modernist that he was. He believed, in a nutshell, that our minds
create reality, not that reality simply IS and the health of our minds, i.e., our sanity, is measured by how well our minds conform to objective reality.
I am also reminded of
materialism in piety, something I have posted about many times. Many within Traddieland may *think* they have a good prayer life because they are faithful to a few external practices, but the inordinate attachment to the material side of the objectively-valuable deeds, rather than to the invigorating spiritual side, leaves them largely void. The intended spiritual fruit flows over them, never penetrating the soul, like water flowing over a rock.
Men are worldly, period, and always have been. Most, maybe even the majority, throughout Traddieland continuously look at this or that take as if it is, or at least proposes to be a solution, an answer. There is NO answer, for the solution, whatever God decides it is to eventually be, is entirely in His hands, not ours. Christ proved He is God precisely because He raised Himself from the dead, by His own divine power. Holy Church will be shown, to the entire world, to be Divine by a similar, unquestionably-divine miracle. Very, very few in Traddieland want to accept (or even consider) the fact that Holy Church, like Her Spouse, died. Her soul was separated from Her body, although not within the order of law (i.e., via a legal pronouncement confirming what is plain to all with eyes to see within the order of fact). The wound will be healed, but not by human means, power or agency. We helped caused the problem, but only God can provide the healing solution. Our only duty is to hold fast to the faith and practices of our fathers as best we can. Godspeed, Meg. Do not give into doubt. You have striven too hard until now to give way to despair.
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