Day's Links - 2015-01-20

The point that Louie Verrechio brings up in "No More Outdoor Mega-Masses" is one I have made a lot of times, although in private. First of all I don't see the obvious good that comes out of such large Masses. Surely, with "active participation" being the mantra of the Novus Ordo church, such absurdities cannot be condoned? Nobody who attends a Mass with so many other people can feel particularly participative.

My major issue with them though is that they foster a kind of irreverence that is hard to resist, what with people likely to go "even the Pope promotes it". This is primarily the case when dealing with distribution of Holy Communion, which surely cannot be done in a reverent way given the mindset of the people who arrange these things. Then there is the issue of attention being taken away from our LORD at the altar and onto the person of the Pope, even if the Pope is one who shuns publicity, as we had in Pope Benedict XVI.

I'll submit that if these Masses were planned and carried out in a different cultural and religious atmosphere, by prelates who believed in the Gospel and did not seek any attempt to undermine it and apologise for it, then it might function as the wake-up call to a dark world that its defendants claim it to be. Imagine seeing millions of Mass attendees kneeling in adoration and prayer! What an image that would be for an un-believing world, and for the luke-warm Catholics!

It will be a long time before we witness such a thing, not least because the Pope who leads the restoration of the Church is unlikely to be one to promote mega-Masses.

Somewhat concerned is the story about a daughter who is to get legally wed to her father. I do know know if this is a spoof or if it is real. Regardless, it is legal in the state where they intend to live so it is only a matter of time. In terms of principle though, once the door is opened on unnatural and perverse sexual unions of one kind, then those advocating such perversion lose any credibility in opposing other unnatural perversions. The devil is out, and it is hard to put him back in his cage. Fortunately those who promote these evils will be the ones to suffer most in terms of eternal consequences - hell is real after all - but unfortunately, there will be many victims along the way who have nothing to do with these evils - not least the children who will be forced to grow up in these wicked households.