tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post2178093500576091018..comments2024-03-26T12:56:54.350+00:00Comments on LMS Chairman: Shakespeare on the Traditional MassLatin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-10164296422647578522017-12-19T01:23:06.612+00:002017-12-19T01:23:06.612+00:00". . . . only to find the Mass oddly flat and...". . . . only to find the Mass oddly flat and disappointing - cluttered and banal . . . . " The true reality of the Mass in the usual parish Novus Ordo church is hidden beneath noise and clamour and cheap raiment. So sad. But Satan smiles as the faithful leave.<br />Ignatius, Cornwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06682463477631323674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-83299058454486384872017-12-18T11:33:39.245+00:002017-12-18T11:33:39.245+00:00Yes that is absolutely right. I've explored th...Yes that is absolutely right. I've explored this idea also in the context of the New Age.Joseph Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-45697129336459466362017-12-17T04:12:21.419+00:002017-12-17T04:12:21.419+00:00It may be a touch risqué for this blog, so apologi...It may be a touch risqué for this blog, so apologies in advance, but there's a passage from DH Lawrence's 'Women in Love' which always make me think of the TLM:<br /><br />'Ursula was with Birkin, she had just come into life, here in the high snow, against the stars. What had she to do with parents and antecedents? She knew herself new and unbegotten, she had no father, no mother, no anterior connections, she was herself pure and silvery, she belonged only to the oneness with Birkin, a oneness that struck deeper notes, sounding into the heart of the universe, the heart of reality, where she had never existed before.'<br /><br />It's isn't Ursula's conclusions which are important here so much as her for longing for an encounter with what's Real and True - 'the heart of reality', 'the heart of the universe', somewhere 'she had never existed before.'<br /><br />People today, very much including myself, are searching frantically for this level of meaning and connection. But the culture we're surrounded by militates actively against the very existence of such categories. <br /><br />A person (I've known many over the years) might them turn to the Church, only to find the Mass oddly flat and disappointing - cluttered and banal - not what they hoped for or needed. <br /><br />What they need, in short, is the TLM. In its silence, historical resonance, and single-pointed focus, it creates a space where that encounter with the Real - an encounter which, as Dr. Shaw says, is both intimate and majestic - can take place. Not with a human lover a la Birkin, but the One who stands above and beyond the Self and its emotional hall of mirrors, offering absolution, peace, and that great Love which we all crave and which Dante claimed moved the Sun and all the other stars.John Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13951246561259007162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-89021232065018086312017-12-16T19:38:34.456+00:002017-12-16T19:38:34.456+00:00Great writing indeed Joseph.Yes we have it -The Tr...Great writing indeed Joseph.Yes we have it -The Traditional Latin Mass in all its beauty.Let us pray that it grows great again and is instrumental in converting Heathen England again!!philipjohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16128964006463059159noreply@blogger.com