tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589378.post112775060782288722..comments2023-10-21T05:40:55.660-04:00Comments on man with black hat: David L Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13871706129906941567noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589378.post-1128002671749780682005-09-29T10:04:00.000-04:002005-09-29T10:04:00.000-04:00"It takes more than just the Mass to securely tran...<I>"It takes more than just the Mass to securely transmit the faith from one generation to the next. It takes more than just a Mass to minister to a whole family..."</I><BR/><BR/>Right. It takes being in communion with Rome. Not some abstract "eternal Rome," but one where the successor to St Peter reigns. "Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesiam." Joining the SSPX does not facilitate that. You do get a nice Mass, though. But it takes more than that, right?<BR/><BR/><I>"[T]he prudential decisions of Rome have been a disaster and they just don't know what they are doing."</I><BR/><BR/>Wouldn't be the first time, would it? We have had all manner of heresies, schism, bad popes, exiled popes, you name it -- all while the "Mass of All Time" was in normative use. At least now they're big enough to admit that things have gone awry. You think the Borgia popes took time out from the "Mass of All Time" to do as much?David L Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13871706129906941567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589378.post-1127964999151318922005-09-28T23:36:00.000-04:002005-09-28T23:36:00.000-04:00Even a universal indult does not in itself create ...Even a universal indult does not in itself create a functional parish that will be a home for a young, traditional family. I began attending an SSPX chapel when it came time for my oldest son's first communion. Even the indult priest wanted to catechize with cartoon books about a "community meal". It takes more than just the Mass to securely transmit the faith from one generation to the next. It takes more than just a Mass to minister to a whole family (and nurish potential vocations, I might add). <BR/><BR/>A universal indult just makes it clear: the prudential decisions of Rome have been a disaster and they just don't know what they are doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589378.post-1127798624165805922005-09-27T01:23:00.000-04:002005-09-27T01:23:00.000-04:00I fail to see how the Old Mass is adverse to "Orga...I fail to see how the Old Mass is adverse to "Organic Developement".<BR/><BR/>To have two Roman Rites at this point in time could only help the strong to survive. If this should happen, I believe that the Novus Ordo apparatus would be gone in about four decades. The attendees would contracept themselves out of existance as has Western Europe and the seminaries would remain bare. There is no problem with seminaries being filled in the Traditional ones nor is their a problem with contraception withing Traditional familes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com