tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367405.post643214228710763434..comments2023-10-16T06:03:52.653-04:00Comments on Causa Nostrae Laetitiae: Bye bye, "Blowing in the Wind"Leticiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08170455690163831806noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367405.post-72133652250682953692007-11-20T14:18:00.000-05:002007-11-20T14:18:00.000-05:00I guess we are about the same age. Your post captu...I guess we are about the same age. Your post captures my feelings pretty well too. Except I also have this lingering negative sense of betrayal that I am trying hard to shake. I can't fathom why this was ripped out of our lives. My father sorrowed over the change in the liturgy for years. <BR/><BR/>The press usually sums up the difference as "Mass-in-the-vernacular-with-priest-facing-the-people" and no one is speaking to the significant differences in the prayers in certain parts of the Mass. The net effect of the ORdinary Form has been to shift perception away from the Holy Sacrifice and toward a celebratory Communion meal, and I don't think we have been well-served by a reduced sense of sin, and the reduced awareness of the enormous sacrifice of the Cross.<BR/><BR/>I certainly prefer the language, the music, the vestments and the general deportment of the people at the EF Mass, but in a few short weeks, the way it's shifted my attention in my relationship with God toward a truer awareness of His and my place in the grand scheme of things has been profound. <BR/><BR/>I wish there were some sort of Extraordinary Form study group or something where people could discuss this (other than on the blogs, of course)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com