N.B. This TLM business is bringing the cruel monsters and petty backbiters out of the woodwork…
From Anthony Esolen @AnthonyEsolen on Twitter/X:
This is the sort of profoundly stupid article you get when you do not even bother to address the issues of contention, but with false generosity speak in contempt of those who prefer the old Mass -- stacking the deck against them. I do not attend the TLM, and I am under no obligation to explain to anyone why not. But any notion that the main difference between the "reformed" Mass (his word) and the old Mass is that in the former, the people participate, and in the latter, they sat like bumps on a log, is nonsense. The telltale here is that Fr. Reese wants to bring back the rejected 1998 ICEL translation, with its dumbing-down and its silly allergic reaction to sacral language and to the English universal "man." Bring that back, Father, and expect a lot more people to bolt to the Tridentine rite. And they will not be pious ignoramuses, as you characterize them.
Then there is the sheer gratuitious nastiness of forbidding people to attend the Latin Mass on the high feasts of Christmas and Easter. You suppose, Father, that THAT will bring them around? That they will not resent it deeply? That they will not notice how stupid the hymns are -- for example? That they will not long for what feeds them? What is the point of it, other than to punish?
“Is church unity worth a Latin Mass?” ncronline.org/node/323321 via @NCRonline
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