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Green shoots
from Saint Mary Magdalen by Fr Ray Blake

I see so many good things happening in the Church in this country today major things like:

The Pope’s visit to the UK

Beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman

Visit of the Relics of St Therese

The new English translation of the Missal

Announcement of Bishop Longley’s move to Birmingham

Ordination of Bishop Moth as Bishop for the Forces

Archbishop Vincent Nichols’ appointment to Westminster

Then there are little things, like the quality of so many of those who have been ordained recently, the type of young man that is going to the seminary nowadays, as well as the teaching staff of our seminaries.

There is the growing enthusiasm for prayer, the rise in Eucharistic Devotion, in a more deeply prayerful liturgy, the interest in prayers like the Rosary. There are other things like the way the boys at Westminster Cathedral have started receiving Holy Communion, kneeling and on the tongue and the return to the use of the High Altar there. The increase in the celebration of the TLM, which signifies the hermeneutic of continuity.
Another little thing, the Bishop’s Conference have just published online, Jubilate Deo the basic chant of the Church it is just a little thing but it wouldn’t have happened a couple of years ago.
Then there are the rumours of a new motu proprio coming shortly which deepen a more prayerful liturgy and a stronger Catholic identity.

I know it is easy to “rain on the parade” and to find negative things or to criticise but I would interested to hear of what you consider to be positive, good things, happening in the Church today.

http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com/2009/10/green-shoots.html

VII as I have stated before is not the problem. It is what happened and what was done in the name of the council that was and is the problem.

I was directly answering one of his assertions, that the anger stems from fear. And one of his questions, as to why is all this discussion about Liturgy so prevalent?

Also I do not dispute that things may have been bad with many Priests not taking their vocation seriously and giving bad Liturgies however let us not forget that back then there was always a continuous renewal as far as Priests were concerned as there was no shortage of vocations. Now you have bad or heterodox Priests but you are stuck with them for lack of replacements.

Another thing history will show is that orthodoxy so often resides in between two heresies, one reacting to the other. Arianism reacted to Sabellianism, Monophysitism to Nestorianism. And today, we have sedevacantist types reacting to modernism so violently that they put themselves out of the church in the other direction. The lesson here is when we work to repair liturgical abuses or whatever God calls us to do, do it with humility and prudence (the charioteer of all virtues).

The Second Vatican Council simply re-stated that which the Church holds true. However those that are moved by the so called “spirit” saw it as an opportunity to change the Church. Others as a call to make it more Protestant friendly, now weather there intentions were good or bad is not important for only God knows their hearts. However the damage that was made in many cases ended in rupture from Tradition, confusion in Church teaching and even out right heretical thought.

There are parts of VII that need to be clarified so abuses can stop. Bishops act too softly in many of these issues and in the extreme Bishops tend to be part of the problem. It is almost like a cult of niceness is charge of the Church.

Most conservative Catholic bloggers are liturgy-first bloggers.

Ergo, you’re slamming liturgical traditionalists (i.e., conservative Catholic bloggers) as “angry.”