That is what I thought from the start with the inclusion of “don’t let the door...”Well, okay. Then leave.
Hmmm.. I think that IS what you are actually doing.... yes?I’m not going to bend to please everyone because that’s impossible.
priests and even bishops in the years (even decades) before the council who couldn't wait to jettison what they had come to feel was an oppressive regime and long outdated ritual.
priests of all ages who will with brazen cheek tell you that 'I don't care what the council said, I want.....'
Weird that they would rather go to a parish with inferior music selections and inferior performance quality because they have an irrational aversion to Latin such that they can’t tolerate one Latin hymn for 90 seconds or less at the beginning of Communion.
Perhaps the woman who doesn't want any Latin would be more likely to accept it if she had a translation, (not saying that you should provide it.)
Actually, I wasn't there and neither was anyone else alive today. I suppose someone could make an argument that we were spiritually there but that has always seemed a bit thin to me. I suspect that spiritual appeals to sentimentality maybe akin to the popularity of "Amazing Grace." Hard to tell.
I have let everyone that if 'Amazing Grace' is sung at my funeral, I will come back and haunt them for the rest of their lives!
The Germans were so terrified of them that they called them the ladies from hell.
But the mind of the church does not have a reputation for being caring about the well-being of lay people,
would leave a parish that only offered chanted Latin hymns - because spiritually they just leave me cold, I get no sense of a loving, redeeming God from them. Should I feel that way, according to the "mind of the church"? Probably not. But the mind of the church does not have a reputation for being caring about the well-being of lay people, so I give it far less weight than I might if it was better behaved.
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