Liturgical Grumbling

As many of my readers know, I am a heel-clicker who salutes authority. Therefore, the form of the mass that is used by the Supreme Pontiff is the one that I prefer and the one, barring serious cultural handicap (Eastern heritage, for instance), that you should to. Since it is a continutation of the prior form of the mass, I give a slight nod to the older missal.

So you could say that I have my feet in both camps, although my Right foot is in the camp of the Latin mass, sung in Latin, according to its ordinary form (not, however, the vernacular nastiness with guitars and pianas and all that crap, which, as it is an abuse of the best, is worse than the most Eastern of the Eastern rites). Now, I certainly have nothing against Easterners being Eastern, really. What I am against are Westerners who go East. Those people should just grow up.

East is East.
West is West.
All must submit to the Pope.

But, when I read the comments posted here, as suggested by Mr. Culbreath, it makes my Right foot inch over to the 1962 side of the line.

First: anyone who used the word "elitist" is an idiot.

Second: I like not being scandalized by having women crawling all over the sanctuary. It is one of those things that the Greeks get. Women have their sphere, and it is a broad and wonderful one, and it can even overlap in some areas with that of men. I don't have objections to them being doctors, I don't have objections to them being artists, in theory, although there are very few women who get even close. I don't like the idea of a woman President, but if the Republicans put that Mormon turd up for the office, I will vote for the monotheist candidate who can best defeat him, and that might be Hillary. But I do have objections to them playing at Priestcraft, and the best way to nip that nonsense in the bud is to simply kick them out of the sanctuary altogether. I don't even like it when they go in there to do the cleaning and flower arranging, but it is not the end of the world. Lectrices are not the end of the world either, but I am glad that I don't have to listen to them. And Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist, when they become Ordinary, offend me no matter what their sex. But altar boys should be altar boys. Period. Many vocations come from the ranks of altar boys. Girls cannot become priests, never will be able to become priests, and should not be encouraged in that direction. The idea of ordaining women is the single most evil notion to gain currency in the last century. While neo-Pagan Nazism was bad, it was not as bad a blow at the one thing that eternally matters: the Sacraments. Satan's triumph over the Englisch was made much longer by enticing the Anglitics into "ordaining" women. It virtually ensures that a segment of the Sect of England will remain forever in Satan's grasp, even when the rest leave the fold for Truer Pastures. And the rot starts with the wimpy priests who open up altar service to one and all, regardless of sex. Keep the girls out of it. If we had to have altar girls at our mass, that would be it. 1962 missal and never look back. I am not so keen on male nurses either, by the way. It is just creepy.

Third: Just as we must credit the reforms and their abuses for the superb quality of most of the Extraordinary Form masses today, we must credit those Extraordinary Form masses for keeping pressure on the reform of the reform. I would not have thought this a few years ago, but I would not be surprised to see the novus ordo eventually scrapped as a failed experiment. If it isn't, it will be made more robust to the abuses of the liturgical whores who abuse it. Either way, I am fine with it. I will click my heels and will salute and be happy. But without the pressure and example of the Extraordinary Form the loudest voice would be those daft old biddies in those blue outfits, sashaying around the church with incense bowls.

You know, I think there are whole levels of Hell full of middle aged and older women dancing around with incence bowls.