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Post by Michael O'Donovan on Nov 23, 2007 0:31:27 GMT
This link www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6AOvStZS64 is to an extraordinary film of the Mass made in 1941, narrated by the then Monsignor Fulton Sheen. The unpleasant email comments are unfortunately inescapable on YouTube.
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Post by royalosiodhachain on Dec 7, 2007 22:23:43 GMT
When I was a young boy on the farm, my parents would allow us to watch only a little television and then only on a Saturday night. With school assignments during the week and chores, there was no time for foolishness. The one television program my father approved of was Bishop Fulton J Sheen. Latin Mass was the Catholic Mass, there was no other mass, it was unheard of. Even our confessions were punctuated by Latin absolutions. I thought at the time that all Catholics spoke Latin and that I would have to learn the language in catechism. I was correct in 1951. Now I love to speak all languages.
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Post by Michael O'Donovan on Dec 12, 2007 23:57:57 GMT
In some dioceses like the Archdiocese of Dublin, bishops have been very willing to provide for the Extraordinary Rite (or the Tridentine Mass as it used to be called). Other bishops have been less accommodating. Have any readers got experiences to share or discuss?
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Post by salvaporta on Feb 24, 2008 16:58:28 GMT
Thank you Michael, That is a rare and precious survival. Having grown up entirely with V2, I was very taken with the beauty of the Liturgy. It looked like a series of dramatic tableux and had a great sense of awe and wonder to it. I was struck by the comment of Monsignor Sheen, that in partaking of the Mass it is like all living or plant things being given to man for his sustainance. The lower partakes of the higher, and we eat the things that the earth produces and forms of life and in a rather similar way, we eat of God Himself , so we partake of the divine life, which is given to us. .
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Post by JOHN on Feb 27, 2008 16:31:39 GMT
In some dioceses like the Archdiocese of Dublin, bishops have been very willing to provide for the Extraordinary Rite (or the Tridentine Mass as it used to be called). Other bishops have been less accommodating. Have any readers got experiences to share or discuss? I think what's important is that in each diocese people who want the TLM should come together and ASK their parish priest to give them one. People shouldn't just wait for an initiative from their bishop as Pope Benedict has put the ball in the layman's court. It's great of course if the bishop does act but this certainly won't always happen and if there are no requests from people on the ground the bishop may legitimately report that there is no demand for it.
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