There are many great celebration videos on YouTube, many of which seem to run with a repetitive theme (which, I feel, misses the point in many ways).
Here is a beautifully simple and powerful video (by 20 year old Kyle) which conveys something of the beauty and awe I long for in the Mass. See what you think:
Here is a beautifully simple and powerful video (by 20 year old Kyle) which conveys something of the beauty and awe I long for in the Mass. See what you think:
Yes, awesome is the adjective.
ReplyDeleteI was at a Tridentine Mass where afterwards the spontaneous reaction by some toddlers/infants was to run to the altar rails and kneel and pray/gaze at the sanctuary (they all had their hands joined).
Do we get that response after a new rite Mass?
This makes a welcome change from some of the near-blasphemous clips posted by others who should know better. The odd thing about blogs is that they reveal far more about the bloggers than they realize and have the power to change otherwise sympathetic readers minds against them. I see many whom I once respected in an entirely different light since they started blogging and think that, all in all, they do more harm than good and play into the hands of the opposition by justifying their criticisms. Reading blogs, like reading Catholic newspapers, can become occasions of sin. I exclude yours, Matt, because you are fundamentally good and have the best intentions. I wish I thought the same about some of the others.
ReplyDeleteMetaphysics aside, it is a great thing the Holy Father has done.
ReplyDeleteDear Matt,
ReplyDeleteI hope and pray that God will continue to bless you with the gift of discernment and humility, so you will continue to make wise choices in the comments you allow to be published on your blog, or those you publish but later reconsider and delete.
Joee Blogs has done great work for the AUTHENTIC Catholic faith and for the Catholic blogdom. For this reason, it's not surprising that every now and then we see those bursts of Joee Blogs envy coming through in some unflattering comment that goes way beyond the bounds of reasonable feedback. He must be discouraged at all costs from keeping up the good works his blog does. If the girl(s) didn't get him, then what better way to distress and throw him off track than to use a friend. Joee is gushing and I think sincere about his friendship with you. I feel he would not allow unflattering comments about you on his blog - especailly when they are unfounded.
Don't allow the evil weevils out there to cause a tone of competitive envy to come through in your friendship with him, or some undercurrent of joy at seeing him put down while you are raised up. I hope you can see though the cloaked liberal commenting anonymously at #2 above. These people sense their reign is at end, old things have been made new, so their strategy is subtly shifting to psychological warefare on faithful Catholics who they can no longer shut out. What better way to do this than to make the trad bloggers feel all wrong, that they are damaging the cause by their methods, that they are not as popular with good traditonalists as they feel.
The idea is to discourage and disorient these faithful Catholic bloggers so they will shut up and close shop - like the pastor in valle did. Anon at #2 gave his colours away - the devil's old strategy of divide and rule comes through clearly. As in, 'you know Matt, I'm not refering to you, you're the good one, its Joee Blogs and his ilk who are the bad people.' Flattery to get you to allow him to use you and your blog to sow the bad seeds of doscord among friends or a band of faithful who are becoming more effective. You are a fan of Star Wars, I am sure you remember how that technique was used by the evil lord to turn Skywalker to the dark side and become Darth Vader.
Keep up the good work you do by not giving those Church destroyers even a comma's space on your blog. And keep encouraging Joee Blogs. His posts are always soul-warming for this closet trad who lives in a parish of Pope-hating, Christianity-destroying, traditionalists-bashing, progressive liberal Catholics - both priests and laity.
God bless you and your family and best wishes for your new job. My prayers are with you and Joee Blogs. I think he is having an effect on that person, otherwise why keep reading an absurd blog. The draw of truth and light cannot be resisted forever, especially as the darkness is falling so fast and so hard on our Western societies.
Thank you "huge fan of Joee Blogs". I was indeed drawn into psychological warfare. I am unfortunate in that I read a flattering comment about myself, before the one which was divisive about Joee. The comment has now been deleted, but I only published it in the first place to air the cautionary view that it is not wise to antagonize bishops. I don't want to open a can of worms, and simply want to reiterate that I will not publish comments which are overtly offensive. I rarely get these, which makes it a shame when I do. Joee is indeed a good friend, who was my initial inspiration to start blogging, as a fellow medic and young Catholic. We are very much two sides of the same coin and I feel our blogs complement each other well. I sense I am being attacked about this friendship, having made it so plain in my last post.
ReplyDeleteYour prayers are much appreciated.