I realize that my pastoral neglect and lack of prudent judgment has caused great concern and offense to many in the Church. I have given my life as a priest to the Church of the Diocese of Orange and it causes me great pain to realize that my lapse in judgment could so easily transform a wonderful family tradition into something questionable and repugnant to people of good faith. From my heart I apologize to you and to the larger community of the faithful for my pastoral neglect. I await your counsel and assistance in determining an appropriate manner of making amends for this matter.Personally, I am grateful to Fr Fred and admire his sense of duty in defending the laity involved and accepting responsibility as pastor. Please remember him and his parish in your prayers.
Monday, 20 November 2006
Halloween Mass: priest apologises
Fr Fred Bailey, the priest who celebrated the Halloween Mass, has sent a letter ot Bishop Brown apologising for his lapse of judgement. You can read the full text of the letter at the Cafeteria is Closed post: Halloween Mass priest apologizes. The letter concludes:
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A layman named Steve Mahowald (who records and publishes videos of Tridentine Masses) uploaded a homemade two part documentary to YouTube which looks at various controversies surrounding the Novus Ordo Mass and the old Latin Mass.
He titled it "Reform or Revolt? The Mass of Paul VI"
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxx1ZRMpfk8
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzjN5Dbr0kA
It really fascinated me, and though I caught a few factual foibles or over-simplifications (based on my own reading), I felt at the end like he had shed some new light on the subject.
But I just don't know what to make of it all, and was wondering if other readers here would take a look. Is this something to share with friends and family (especially young persons) who are trying to understand the present situation with regard to Catholic liturgy, art, and architecture as found in many American parishes? Or is Mr. Mahowald painting an unfair picture of the liturgical reforms following Vatican II?
There were a few points where I was ready to judge him, or his presentation, as "rad-trad", but then he will pull the information into a context that seems to give a balanced view, even if he's obviously in favor of the TLM.
Since this blog seems sometimes to deal with Catholic liturgy and liturgical controversies, I thought commenters here might be especially interested in providing feedback on this video, which has my head spinning around a bit. Thanks, friends.
This same guy has also uploaded one his videos of a Tridentine Low Mass:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2RqEUhGnKw
I agree, Father.
People need to drop it now and let the Church handle it from here.
Wonderful. I am glad to read it and it seems sincere enough.
Too often we read about the bad news but never learn the follow up. Thank you for finding the link.
Father Fred certainly deserves our prayers and our respect for such a heartfelt apology. Good on him!
We need to be sure that none of our parishes allow Christmas trees to be set up. These are pagan symbols and need to be discouraged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr.../ Christmas_tree
Also, gift giving at Christmas time needs to stop. Origins of this tradition are pagan, as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ame...tmas_traditions
Things are just too out of control!
Our Lord needs to be restored to His rightful place!!!
YES!!!!
VERY good on him!
Dear Anonymous, it seems that those Wikipedia pages have been deleted. If you wrote them yourself, you will find that the people on Wikipedia will not allow articles that express a "Point of View". I know there are problems with this whole concept but it will probably be more helpful for you if you start a blog to express your opinions about Christmas traditions etc.
Throughout hisory, the Church has taken existing pagan traditions and "converted" them to a Christian use. Giving presents at Christmas can be a perfectly good thing and a way of helping families and friends to show their love. Of course, we need to try to keep this tradition within reasonable bounds and avoid the Feast Day becoming a celebration of greed. But it should be a Feast Day and one where we are joyfully celebrating Christ's birth, both in Church and at home afterwards. God bless.
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