by Mali Farnsworth

Created on: March 20, 2009   Last Updated: March 21, 2009

The Church Prays as the Church Believes.

Never was there a time when this statement could be more true.

The modern Catholic Church prays, yes, but she prays to what, and in a multiplicity of ways, to what she no longer understands. This is sadly evidenced in the myriad inculturation/ dumbing-down exercises resulting in clown masses, magic show messes, leotard dancers, gingerbread man hosts, pagan altar offerings, priests sitting in lounge chairs during what should be the holy sacrifice while encouraging the faithful to 'dress according to their belief'.

Is it any wonder that there is no outward unity in Holy Mother Church anymore?

Is anyone shocked or disappointed at a cut-off jeans, tank-topped, flip-flop wearing Faithful?

It used to be the newcomer was given leeway out of charity for not knowing better, for not understanding that Our Lord God in all His dignity is present at Holy Mass. Absolutely. Clothes do not make the man, not when it comes to someone happening into Holy Mother Church for the first time or even the second or third.

But don't delude yourself. Either 75% of the congregation is a first-timer catechumen, or else, thanks an emasculated priesthood too afraid to put anybody off, nobody in the pews is taught Who or What they are coming to worship at Holy Mass... and it isn't our 'right' to be individuals, folks.

Like it or not, we come to Holy Mass to worship God. Not the other way around.

Prior to the highly debatable theology, pushed through under the name of Vatican II reform, Holy Mother Church did pray as she believed. Or rather, she prayed as she was supposed to believe, as one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, worshipping a single Truth. That is God, Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Some may balk, The term 'Catholic' means universal.

Yes, indeed, the Catholic Church is Universal. She rejects no one: Samaritan, Greek, Jew, Moslem, Hindi, or even the modern pagan bent on the notion that creation rises and falls in deference to his sense-of-self.

She does reject error, however for Holy Mother Church is just that - a Mother, our mother. She doesn't reject us, oh no, but she doesn't, or rather shouldn't, accept willfully weak faith in her Divine Son, unrepentant sin, or the stubborn adherence to bad or erroneous habits which weaken the Faith and scandalize the world, the same world we should be trying to lead to Christ.

What mother, after all, would let her child play Russian Roulette just because, aw gee, the little guy was so attached

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