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Thank you for this post Dr. Blosser! This is an extremely helpful and useful article.
God bless,
Matthew Hood
Is the SSPX right about the liturgy?
Following their exchange in July, author Moyra Doorly and Aidan Nichols discuss the merits of post-Vatican II liturgical reform
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/.../
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The Catholic Herald
30 October 2009
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Antiquarianism is a strategy for transforming liturgy from authentic worship, in which Catholics prostrate themselves before God as He re-presents the sacrifice of Calvary in their midst, to gnostic symbology, in which the initiated must explain, or demonstrate through their actions, the subtext of that sacrifice. As in a college classroom, where the focus all too often shifts from the text under study to the deconstruction and rehabilitation of that text by the performing high priest of explication, antiquarianism allows the focus to shift from equal participation in the spiritual confrontation which is actually taking place, to a performance in which communitarian high priests and ministers dispense knowledge to the ignorant, who must adapt their patterns of worship accordingly.
What begins in gnostic explication inevitably ends in post-modern relativity, just as what began with Luther ended in the Howard Johnson’s of protestantism, with its 40,000+ flavors. We’ve seen this inevitability demonstrated for five decades in the auto-degeneration of Pope Montini’s Mass.
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