tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post7284013659410707665..comments2024-03-14T06:43:39.590+00:00Comments on LMS Chairman: The lay apostolate: what do we need?Latin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-59080215179347470762013-02-16T11:04:26.834+00:002013-02-16T11:04:26.834+00:00Why not take over something established? A good qu...Why not take over something established? A good question. It is sad to see venerable institutions go to the wall. Nevertheless, there are a number of reasons against it.<br /><br />1. I don't like entryism. Why should the old guard of some semi-moribund organisation be displaced by a bunch of people interested not in their ideas and traditions, but in their network, prestige, and bank account?<br /><br />2. The resources of these sorts of groups are not, in general, worth having. A mailing list of people in their 70s and £2.50 in the bank. They haven't done anything for twenty years so no one has heard of them. Their official aims and procedures would hamper anything new, as would their staff and memberships.<br /><br />3. What we need is something explicitly identified with the Traditional Mass, because this is the only thing which is able to provide the sense of common identity and purpose for members. This is impossible with these old groups, the existing members would never stand for it.Joseph Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-19193582184010784062013-02-16T09:54:08.454+00:002013-02-16T09:54:08.454+00:00I think this analysis is right. A lay organisation...I think this analysis is right. A lay organisation, which can fill the same role for the laity as the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy does for priests, is much needed. Is it necessary to create such a body de novo, however? Why not take over something like the Newman Association. I would guess it is pretty much moribund, with an elderly membership. Orthodox 'circles' could be established and affliated to the national association, and in the not to distant future come to dominate it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com