4. Did it ever? I think it is safe to assume that it doesn’t now, since the ADL's complaint about the change only cited an insulting reference to the Jews in the Good Friday mass (only; it used to contain a prayer "Oremus et pro perfidis Judaeis"). This phrase has, I am sure they will be pleased to learn, been removed in the Missal of 1962, the version of the Tridentine Mass which is being allowed broader use. (Also, the motu proprio doesn't authorize the 1962 Missal for use during the Good Friday/Easter Triduum anyway.)
3. I don't think that was his primary intent, but it was a secondary one, yes.
2. Mollpeartree's interest in the mega-church phenomenon stems from its new influence in the Protestant church of her childhood. I don't think that anyone was confusing it with a movement within Catholicism. While I don't completely understand the appeal of the mega-churches, I doubt that they are associated with "old tyme religion" by anyone.
1. In my experience, mainstream liturgy in the U.S., which is influenced by progressives more than any other single group, has a very strong desire to make the mass fun. This is especially evident when trying to attract/engage young people, when it is also especially futile. True progressives, judging from the ones I knew in Minnesota, have a rather different agenda, which they would never think to describe as "fun."
The real problem with the liturgical progressives isn't so much their specific agenda (although some elements of that are problematic) as the fact that their devotion to it leads them to approach the liturgy wrongly, as a field for arbitrary changes and experimentation to try to get the effects they want. This is fundamentally discordant with the general Catholic respect for tradition and, specifically, with the basic understanding that the Eucharist is something given to us, not something that belongs to us which we can remake at will.
I suppose it's fairly clear that I think setting apart the liturgy from ordinary time is in no way opposed to "leading a Catholic life on a daily basis." It has not been my experience that progressive liturgies are notably more helpful towards the latter end in any case.
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This phrase has, I am sure they will be pleased to learn, been removed in the Missal of 1962, the version of the Tridentine Mass which is being allowed broader use. (Also, the motu proprio doesn't authorize the 1962 Missal for use during the Good Friday/Easter Triduum anyway.)
3. I don't think that was his primary intent, but it was a secondary one, yes.
2. Mollpeartree's interest in the mega-church phenomenon stems from its new influence in the Protestant church of her childhood. I don't think that anyone was confusing it with a movement within Catholicism. While I don't completely understand the appeal of the mega-churches, I doubt that they are associated with "old tyme religion" by anyone.
1. In my experience, mainstream liturgy in the U.S., which is influenced by progressives more than any other single group, has a very strong desire to make the mass fun. This is especially evident when trying to attract/engage young people, when it is also especially futile. True progressives, judging from the ones I knew in Minnesota, have a rather different agenda, which they would never think to describe as "fun."
The real problem with the liturgical progressives isn't so much their specific agenda (although some elements of that are problematic) as the fact that their devotion to it leads them to approach the liturgy wrongly, as a field for arbitrary changes and experimentation to try to get the effects they want. This is fundamentally discordant with the general Catholic respect for tradition and, specifically, with the basic understanding that the Eucharist is something given to us, not something that belongs to us which we can remake at will.
I suppose it's fairly clear that I think setting apart the liturgy from ordinary time is in no way opposed to "leading a Catholic life on a daily basis." It has not been my experience that progressive liturgies are notably more helpful towards the latter end in any case.