From the St. Louis in Pittsford bulletin:
I’m amazed that progressives continue to defend their liturgical abuses. To violate liturgical law is to take away from the solemnity and respect due to the Holy Mass. When you violate the liturgical norms, you are putting yourself above the authority of the Catholic Church (incl. Rome and the local ordinary) to regulate it. Do these free spirits ever stop to think that their deviations from liturgical law are driving away the people in the pews?
Previous posts concerning St. Louis/Fr. Murphy: here, here, and here.
Tags: Liturgy, Progressive Drivel
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The only enslavement that goes on in the DoR, is the enslavement of congregations that have heretical liturgy heaped upon them by misguided liturgy committees and heretical liturgists that come from St. Bernard’s Institute. The only recourse is to flee from the pews and try to find a proper liturgy in the dwindling number of parishes that adhere to true Catholic liturgical norms.
Fr. Murphy seems to be a bit confused. Who exactly are the “idiosyncratic few” here? (Or when did Catholicism become a democracy?)
The Novus Ordo Mass is how old now? 40 some odd years? It looks like the bloom is now off the rose and the NO is no longer novel enough for Fr. Murphy.
There may be a decline in the number of vocations to the priesthood in this country, but vocations to the papacy are booming.
of all the NOs I’ve been to in the area, OLV is by far the most “by the book” (following the liturgical laws). If there is a correlation to the focus on love and worship of God and adherence to liturgical laws, I’d suggest someone attend mass there and decide which end of the spectrum aids in the love and worship of God.
@Mike – LOL! “vocations to the papacy are booming” 🙂
Depends on what he means. If priests or laity are doing something wrong out of ignorance or plain honest mistakes, then yes, getting in knot about it can interfere with worship of God. However, given a brief look at another of the Fr’s quotes, it’s pretty clear this is oblique defense of the Monkeys-in-the-Sanctuary approach to liturgy.
But it doesn’t really bother me, because quotes like this sound like a dead ideology circling the drain.
Am I the only one who doesn’t see anything wrong with this blurb? The statement by itself seems spot-on to me.
From the article it appears that people are actually questioning Father as to his deviations from the liturgical norms. I think that is a great thing! He needs to be challenged. The abuses I see when he presides at Mass are very frustrating. To list them I would have to start a blog of my own! I often wonder why he remains a Catholic priest when he always appears to be in rebellion to what the church teaches. The funny thing is the 3 retired priests, who live at St Louis, seem to have no problem with going “by the book” during mass….I wonder why that is? Please pray for him.
Liturgical rules prevent hijacking of the Liturgy by any one person (e.g. the priest) or group (e.g. a social class or committee). They also, of course, insure orthodox prayer/doctrine.
What father wants is freedom to enslave the congregation to his own interpretations. In his mind, it’s his show. (These fellows love to say that in the TLM it is all about the priest. How ironic.)
I share the same observation, Md. The retired priests at St. Louis are very holy and orthodox men.
Ben,
I “borrowed” that line from John Martignone, who admits he got it from someone else:
Am I the only one who doesn’t see anything wrong with this blurb? The statement by itself seems spot-on to me.
On it’s own, yes, it is unoffensive because if priests or laity violate liturgical norms out of ignorance or by honest mistake, then yes, getting in a knot about it to the detriment of worshiping God the best one can in the situation is bad.
Deliberate violations however are another kettle of fish, and even a quick glance at the Fr’s other quotes are enough to reasonably take this quote as an oblique defense of the Monkeys-in-the-Sanctuary approach to liturgy.
From the article it appears that people are actually questioning Father as to his deviations from the liturgical norms. I think that is a great thing!
That was the same impression I got.
Padre, it’s never, ever going to be 1978 again.