With all respect to his eminence, he does not seem to understand that while many are initially attracted to the old Mass's grandeur and outward respect, most who attend it do so out of love and attachment to the form of the Mass, the prayers etc. I remember serving Mass for months, s "solemn" Pauline Mass with Latin and polyphony, every week at one of the English Oratories but could never quite get past the fact that the prayers fell short of the old Mass's (the collects, reading cycle, offertory etc).
With all respect to his eminence, he does not seem to understand that while many are initially attracted to the old Mass's grandeur and outward respect, most who attend it do so out of love and attachment to the form of the Mass, the prayers etc. I remember serving Mass for months, s "solemn" Pauline Mass with Latin and polyphony, every week at one of the English Oratories but could never quite get past the fact that the prayers fell short of the old Mass's (the collects, reading cycle, offertory etc).
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