13/05/08 07:37 Filed in:
TRADITIONAL
CATHOLICISM
From
Timesonline:
"Religion may well be in decline among European
youth but it is by no means dead. This weekend
about 6,000 young Catholics will set off on a
75-mile walk from Paris to Chartres Cathedral —
and as they walk they will all be praying and
singing in Latin."
"This weekend’s annual three-day pilgrimage through
northern France, which is in its 26th year,
illustrates the appeal that the Tridentine Mass has
for some young Catholics disenchanted with what they
say is the lack of mystery, beauty and sacredness in
the revised Mass.
Gregory Flash, 28, an investment banker from London,
explains why he is taking part in the pilgrimage for
the second year running: “The pilgrimage is a time of
prayer, penance and fellowship. It’s great to be
surrounded by thousands of Catholics around the same
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20/04/08 22:16 Filed in:
Tridentine
Latin Mass
"[B]ecause of its
richness, beauty, elevation, nobility and ceremonial
solemnity, because of its sense of the sacred and
reverential, because of its sense of mystery, its
greater precision and rigor -- thereby offering more
security and protection against abuses, without
leaving space for ambiguities, for the liberty,
creativity, adaptations, reductions and
manipulations, as Pope John Paul II lamented in the
encyclical "Ecclesia de Eucharistia" -- and being for
us the best liturgical expression of the Eucharistic
dogmas and solid spiritual nourishment, it is one of
the treasures of Catholic liturgy, with which we
express our love and our communion with the holy
Church."
-- Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan of Brazil, on the
Latin Mass quoted by Zenit.
Tags: latin mass, mass, catholicism, CATHOLIC