"Happy (old-calendar) feast of the Little Flower!"
This kind greeting hits a tender spot in me. Having converted during college, I spent forty years in novus ordo pews, and internalised the calendar entirely--feasting and fasting around the year (little left of the latter, I know, but I was all in). Now having embraced the TLM, I admit to constant disorientation with the different feast days. One can reserve all moral judgements and still be constantly frustrated that the Church doesn't celebrate as one. I hustled to Mass on the first of October (despite traveling) only to realise I had the "wrong" day for Thérèse, although Catholics worldwide were fêting her online.
Perhaps this is small potatoes, but I am deeply sad that the disparate calendars create one more twist of the knife in this liturgical shambles.
Yes, I agree, and have experienced this many times in my life.
That's what you get for allowing a "trio of maniacs" to rewrite the liturgical calendar (to use the colorful description of Louis Bouyer, who was a participant in the Consilium).
As Gregory DiPippo has pointed out, St. Therese herself would have celebrated the feast of St. Remigius on October 1st, and he was HUGE for France because his baptism of Clovis inaugurated the Christianization of the Franks.
Thank you Dr. K. Great article. Yes Pope Francis, may he rest in peace, was the lowest of bars, and a danger for all of us, is to interpret benign, anything other than autocratic Bergolian oppression. I don't think it's too early to acknowledge that Pope Leo is far more clement in his demeanour yet a product of the Council's new springtime. It's too painful to index the already growing list of troubling instances under his watch, but acknowledge them we must, and not fall into the trap of blind optimism that many well-meaning folk did in the first few years of the Pope Francis era. We also need to be hyper-vigilant of being mollified by scraps thrown from the table of the Holy See. We can all thank Francis for at least providing clarity on the modernist project, enabling a growing resistance which remains wholly open to reconciliation yet willing to remain steadfastly loyal and fight tooth and nail for orthodoxy.
"Happy (old-calendar) feast of the Little Flower!"
This kind greeting hits a tender spot in me. Having converted during college, I spent forty years in novus ordo pews, and internalised the calendar entirely--feasting and fasting around the year (little left of the latter, I know, but I was all in). Now having embraced the TLM, I admit to constant disorientation with the different feast days. One can reserve all moral judgements and still be constantly frustrated that the Church doesn't celebrate as one. I hustled to Mass on the first of October (despite traveling) only to realise I had the "wrong" day for Thérèse, although Catholics worldwide were fêting her online.
Perhaps this is small potatoes, but I am deeply sad that the disparate calendars create one more twist of the knife in this liturgical shambles.
Yes, I agree, and have experienced this many times in my life.
That's what you get for allowing a "trio of maniacs" to rewrite the liturgical calendar (to use the colorful description of Louis Bouyer, who was a participant in the Consilium).
As Gregory DiPippo has pointed out, St. Therese herself would have celebrated the feast of St. Remigius on October 1st, and he was HUGE for France because his baptism of Clovis inaugurated the Christianization of the Franks.
Thank you Dr. K. Great article. Yes Pope Francis, may he rest in peace, was the lowest of bars, and a danger for all of us, is to interpret benign, anything other than autocratic Bergolian oppression. I don't think it's too early to acknowledge that Pope Leo is far more clement in his demeanour yet a product of the Council's new springtime. It's too painful to index the already growing list of troubling instances under his watch, but acknowledge them we must, and not fall into the trap of blind optimism that many well-meaning folk did in the first few years of the Pope Francis era. We also need to be hyper-vigilant of being mollified by scraps thrown from the table of the Holy See. We can all thank Francis for at least providing clarity on the modernist project, enabling a growing resistance which remains wholly open to reconciliation yet willing to remain steadfastly loyal and fight tooth and nail for orthodoxy.