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Letter to the Editor: Ancient Mass Calls Younger Generation
Published: September 13, 2007
To the Editor:
Mr. Sterne questions whether his kids’ generation can possibly be drawn to the Latin Mass, which he compares to other high-culture productions (Letter to the Editor, The Georgia Bulletin, Sept. 6).
I am that generation. Yes, we are drawn. “O beauty, ever ancient, ever new.” Yes, trendy Masses are all around us, but the timeless beauty of the ancient Mass calls us. I am not afraid that those so drawn now have the choice.
Nothing implemented by the Second Vatican Council has ever been undone. Only changes implemented in the “spirit” of Vatican II have been turned back, changes that were never made by the council, but by those who wished to remake it in their own modernist image. The wind blown in by the Spirit continues to make wonderful, positive challenges in ecumenical dialogue, relevant changes that do not compromise eternal truths, and getting the lay people up out of the pews. Thank God for that Council and for our Holy Father’s faithful implementation of it. I thank Him, too, for this Pope who exhorts us to love one another (Deus Caritas Est), know and love Christ (Jesus of Nazareth), and is now becoming known as “the Green Pope” as he teaches us to be faithful stewards of creation. We have tried time and again to put him into a hard-right box, and he just doesn’t fit—because he is neither liberal nor conservative, modern nor antiquated, but Catholic. Ever ancient, ever new.
Joselyn Schutz, Alpharetta
