Communion on the Tongue through the ages . . .
At Mass, a 2nd-rate experience is imposed by Novus Ordo? Aka new mass, standard offering in RC churches worldwide.
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Moments of silence rare or absent, depending on priest’s preferences, which can vary day to day.
Head trip for all: instruct, instruct, instruct. Less experience than lesson.
All to meet “pastoral” needs, which can also vary day to day.
Closes off possibilities of interior life, mimicking the world as it is.
Who needs it?
Plus distractions.
Reader lady, who reciting the closing line says alarmingly, repeatedly, “Let us pray TO the Lord,” as if to fend off the heresy that says we can pray only about the Lord, because He can’t or won’t listen to us and/or we dare not make bold to do so.
Part of the great preposition war raging in today’s church.
Not just prepositions. Priest intones “ALL the saints,” lest we be choosy in the matter. And not just on All Saints Day.
Can (maybe) solve this problem with meditation on and prayers to the saint(s)…
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Pro-gay James Martin SJ to the fore in U.S. synodality lineup. Francis picked him. He’s F’s fair-h aired boy, all in for DISCERNMENT, a wonderful vehicle and a demanding one . . .,. . . with long Jesuit history and nothing to pull out of a hat, ignoring its demands and history.
What Pope Benedict said about clapping at mass, it’s not an option if you know what’s going on. It’s not a party or even entirely a commemoration or a rejoicing in one another’s presence . . .,. . . or entirely a holy meal celebrating sisterhood and brotherhood per membership in the Mystical Body . . .
Regrets
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Regrets are a pain in the behind. And lots of other places. They can consume you if you don’t watch out.
Solution lies somewhere between accepting God and accepting God very much.
Don’t worry about overdoing it. That won’t happen. In a million years it won’t, which is short for never.
Why he used a manual typewriter,The late Kevin McGowin, 1970-2005
SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL (362 A.D.) Martyrs and what they can tell us about going along to get along . . .,They lost their heads over Jesus. In their own back yard.
Biden and his lifelong borrower friends, stuck with outstanding loan debt which they entered freely, lured to good things by when you get down to it, the gummint and his agencies. Pied Piper.
Six-pack Joe to the barricades:
“I’m not going to stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need,” the president said at the White House on Friday hours after the Supreme Court overturned his plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt for Americans making under $125,000 a year.
He’s a man, who’s a man? Our pal Joe.
Blithe Spirit 