Saturday, July 07, 2007

New Poll on Sidebar

My last poll is obviously redundant, so here's a new one. Roll up, roll up!!

What will be the main fruit of Summorum Pontificum?
Reconciliation and growth of SSPX
More dioceses with an extraordinary Mass
Growth of Ecclesia Dei communities
Better integration of Latin Mass communities into parish life
More reverent celebration of the ordinary Mass
More priests learning extraordinary Mass
More extraordinary High Masses
pollcode.com free polls
at 9:40 pm

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous8 July 2007 at 16:08:00 BST

    I voted "More priests learning..."

    This "extraordinary Mass" business is amusing. For a millennium and a half or more, the only Mass in the West, was the "extraordinary" one?!

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  2. Andrew9 July 2007 at 02:03:00 BST

    I think the most under appreciated side of this motu proprio is that local bishops are now starting to begin to sense in which direction the Church is moving. For many years now, because of a lack of clear cut and direct guidelines from Rome and the Holy Father personally, they, mainly the older ones, have the impression that the 60s mentality is still the norm. Now that clear guidelines are given and the mind of the Holy Father made decisively clear, perhaps we'll be surprised to see many bishops fall in line?

    As an anecdotal example, after many years of hearing that black as a colour for cassocks has been banned by the bishops, for priests and servers alike, we decided to ask the bishop himself when he visited and got a very surprising answer, one that many would not have though possible, given his track record. So, yes, things are moving, albeit slowly and I do not hope that the extraordinary form of the Mass will be celebrated here anytime soon for many reasons. But, hopefully we'll see more priests and bishops sentire cum ecclesia.

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