Friday in Ordinary 6, or Whit Friday

You all know that I think Ordinary time is a cop out. Well, old style breviary came to the rescue today. It's Ember Friday in Pentecost. Now just because I linked Universalis.com to Ordinary does mean I dislike the site, you know perfectly well that I'm a post Vat. II kind of guy. I have to admit, though, Friday in sixth week of Ordinary time just hasn't got a lick of style about it. That's probably why so many people left the Catholic Church, not because of the loss of Latin, but because of the sense of style, of identity.

Anytime I worship at a Catholic Church that is not the Abbey of Gethsemani, I remember just how terribly tacky catholic worship can be. In the local Proto-Cathedral they rush through the service like it's a race, and the priest who can finish first is the winner. They can say the Our Father start to finish without taking a breath -- the whole congregation! Are they that desperate to get out of there? Do they go to church only because they have to? And as for music, someone plays vaguely New Age religious tunes on the piano as prelude to Mass.

That's why when it came time for me to convert I just couldn't face RCIA, I couldn't imagine having to spend a year in that type of environment. It's not just here, it's rampant! No wonder so many people are yearning for the Latin Mass. That is, until they get a taste of it and see that it's just a big ol' show, kinda like Broadway mixed in the Ballet. In my opinion it's about the most affected, and effeminate thing I've ever seen.

Where is the mystery? Mystery? What mystery? Let's rush through it and get out, that's the theme. God help anyone who might hold up the communion line! Or the priest who might want to preach longer than five minutes.

But when it comes to Abortion! Katey bar the door! They are ready to go all out and spend the night and all day praying loudly for the end of Abortion, or of gays. But get us out of Mass in time so we can be big, loud, CATHOLICS.

How about this? Shut up about abortion. Shut up about Gays. Look to your own soul, if you can still find it after 1000 rushed Masses where no one gets a moment to sit, or pray.