CELEBRATING OURSELVES
When the Sacrifice became Celebration, when the churches were modernized and mucked up with kitsch, when the Sanctuary became a stage, when priests became performers, when sacred music developed into entertainment, when liturgical planners seized power; liturgical abuse became normative and universal.
"Saying Mass facing the people is the biggest single failing in most places today. I think it is more important even than the questions of language or music — vital as those both are. The modern practice has turned priests into social animators who must continually improvise, and impress their personalities upon their congregations. It is no criticism of them to say they are not up to it – no one is on a regular basis. This practice has also emphasized the congregation in a deadly way, so that the community and its concerns have begun to take the place of the sober Catholic presentation of the fallen nature of man, of suffering, of death, and of judgment. This focus on the congregation has in its turn prevented the splendor of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of the Lord from shining through the liturgy." Fr Jonathan Robinson The Mass and Modernity: Walking to Heaven Backwards
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Celebrating the young
Celebrating the old
Celebrating the camper
Celebrating the bishop
Celebrating the Bishop's girls
Celebrating the chief
Celebrating the blue
Celebrating the cowboy
Celebrating the parish picnic
Celebrating the biker - but what are they consecrating?
Celebrating the birds
Celebrating the beach
Celebrating the bike
Celebrating take five
Celebrating the foot
Celebrating the gym
Celebrating golf
Celebrating the teddy
Celebrating the shoes
Celebrating the laundry
Celebrating Molson Dry or is it the chickens?
Celebrating feminism
Celebrating the - what are they celebrating?
Celebrating the military
Celebrating the Clown
Celebrating the disco
Celebrating the laser light
Celebrating the floor mats
Celebrating the Wizard of Oz
Celebrating the "rainbow"
@Celebrating the Barney Love
Celebrating the bottled water (with "help")
Celebrating the horse god
