Imagine my horror in looking to Archbishop Samples installation Mass to see good liturgy only to find they were having a pirate Mass. I believe at pirate masses Amen is replaced with 'yarr' and of course all must come in costume , even bishops, as they did at this mass as can be seen on the video here. Look at the guy just behind the nuncio.
I know people had been worried about a down grade in liturgical solemnity, but I did not think it would be so quick , or start with the great AB Sample, of all people.
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