Letters

New look Mass

Jessie Roger

Contents - Feb 2008 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Can Catholic schools recover their 'salt' - Michael Gilchrist Spe salvi: Benedict's second encyclical calls for a rediscovery of hope in Christ - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq - Babette Francis Technical school: Salesians continue to help post-tsunami Sri Lanka - Michael Lynch SDB Paganism: 'New Age' activities continue in Brisbane Archdiocese - Tim Pemble-Smith A remarkable father remembered - Maria Rankin How to reform Catholic education: get the world view right - Chris Hilder The need for solitude and reflection amid today's cacophony - Andrew Kania What the social reign of Christ means today - Bishop Peter Elliott Letters: Dissent - Frank White Letters: Natural Law - Fr Bernard McGrath Letters: New look Mass - Jessie Roger Letters: Virgin Birth - Eamonn and Pat Keane Letters: True Church - John Frey Letters: 'Schoolies' - Fr. M. Durham Letters: Poor communication - Don Gaffney Letters: Vatican II - Anthony Bono Letters: From India - Fr. A. Alex Prabhu Books: NO PLACE FOR GOD: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture - Tony Evans (reviewer) Books: WHEN MIGHT BECOMES HUMAN RIGHT:Essays on Democracy and the Crisis of Rationality - Tim Cannon (reviewer) Books: A YEARBOOK OF SEASONS AND CELEBRATIONS, by Joanna Bogle - Eric Hester (reviewer) Books: Books available from AD2000 and Freedom Publishing Reflection: Devotion to Our Lady: eclipse and revival - Br Barry Coldrey

The article by Dr Michael Apthorp (November AD2000) regarding liturgy abuses in the Brisbane area is very interesting.

May I invite Dr Apthorp to have an earful of what goes on further north here in Mackay.

I was at the very first Novus Ordo Mass celebrated in St Patrick's Church here almost 40 years ago. It had no resemblance to the social event that now happens every Sunday. Who authorised these changes?

A commentator stands at a microphone before Mass, welcomes everyone and asks all to welcome the persons sitting around them. That is followed by handshakes waves and spoken greetings.

The priest arrives in procession and then says 'Good Morning everybody' and the people say 'Good morning Father.'

During Mass there are assorted changes. For example, 'Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation' becomes 'We bless you, Lord'.

A priest recently told us not to be too rigid about observing the official liturgy. He always uses inclusive language and carefully avoids using the word 'man'.

JESSIE ROGER (Miss)
Mackay, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 21 No 1 (February 2008), p. 14