I share with your pain of the loss of Tradition most specially of our liturgy. To me, it feels like being “orphaned.” It is indeed disorienting.
Just as being physically orphaned we miss the comfort, things we enjoy, the security of their presence; and without being truly prepared for it.
Maybe despite the intentions
of the people who engineered these changes, they only considered the externals corporate aspects of the liturgy. It now appears they were more interested in making a name for themselves, for the innovation
they had introduced, than for the growth and welfare of the laity.
The statistically supported mass exodus of priests and religious and/or decline of vocations after the introduction of these changes is proof enough that these changes did not enhanced the spiritual aspects they had envisioned to effect for everyone. The number of people who left the Church for being disillusioned by these changes.
It is a fact that by our human nature, we learn, absorb, and enjoy the physical realities through our senses into our soul. Hence being deprived of the things that sustain us spiritually is distressing.
We do have to take into consideration that we are not limited by our senses, although these are the natural
entry points of connecting and expessing ourselves, our spirit get it source not from
the physical world but from
the spiritual world. In my experience, there are things that came to my knowledge by “inspiration.” I believe those who see visions or apparitions do not see by their physical eyes. If it is by physical eyes then, all those who were with the visionaries could have seen what they saw. This is something nobody can impart to anyone but God alone.
We do mourn the loss of our Traditional practices. Just as we mourn the loss of our loved ones. Just as the Apostles mourned the death of Jesus, God did not leave them orphaned, instead God give them eventually his Holy Spirit to each one of them.
Compared to the physical limitation of Jesus’ physical presence in the company of the Apostles, His Spirit is now with each one of them everywhere they are!
As the Holy Spirit was with the Appstles, he is also with us. Let us believe that nobody and no one can limit, thwart, or curtail the presence and power of Holy Spirit in His Church.
I share with your pain of the loss of Tradition most specially of our liturgy. To me, it feels like being “orphaned.” It is indeed disorienting.
Just as being physically orphaned we miss the comfort, things we enjoy, the security of their presence; and without being truly prepared for it.
Maybe despite the intentions
of the people who engineered these changes, they only considered the externals corporate aspects of the liturgy. It now appears they were more interested in making a name for themselves, for the innovation
they had introduced, than for the growth and welfare of the laity.
The statistically supported mass exodus of priests and religious and/or decline of vocations after the introduction of these changes is proof enough that these changes did not enhanced the spiritual aspects they had envisioned to effect for everyone. The number of people who left the Church for being disillusioned by these changes.
It is a fact that by our human nature, we learn, absorb, and enjoy the physical realities through our senses into our soul. Hence being deprived of the things that sustain us spiritually is distressing.
We do have to take into consideration that we are not limited by our senses, although these are the natural
entry points of connecting and expessing ourselves, our spirit get it source not from
the physical world but from
the spiritual world. In my experience, there are things that came to my knowledge by “inspiration.” I believe those who see visions or apparitions do not see by their physical eyes. If it is by physical eyes then, all those who were with the visionaries could have seen what they saw. This is something nobody can impart to anyone but God alone.
We do mourn the loss of our Traditional practices. Just as we mourn the loss of our loved ones. Just as the Apostles mourned the death of Jesus, God did not leave them orphaned, instead God give them eventually his Holy Spirit to each one of them.
Compared to the physical limitation of Jesus’ physical presence in the company of the Apostles, His Spirit is now with each one of them everywhere they are!
As the Holy Spirit was with the Appstles, he is also with us. Let us believe that nobody and no one can limit, thwart, or curtail the presence and power of Holy Spirit in His Church.