If It Quacks Like A Duck, Waddles Like A Duck...
Before you go nuts on me, read all the way through

Many years ago when I was still in my 'ute (did you say "ute"?), I once attended an Episcopalian worship service. I couldn't help but think to myself "this sure is a lot like a Catholic Mass!". Keep in mind I'm a 'Child of Vatican II'.

Anyhow, it wasn't until I started attending The Traditional Latin Mass that I came to the realization that it isn't the Episcopalians who are so much like us, it's us (Novus Ordo) who are so much like them.

In the past I've posted on how the New Mass (Mass of Paul VI) has adopted many of the changes made by the heretics during the Protestant Revolt of the Middle Ages.

I know that many of you reading this, if you absolutely had to be categorized, would refer to yourselves as Conservative Novus Ordo.

More than likely you regard Mass to be the Unbloody Sacrifice of Christ at Calvary and not as a community group hug/sing along. You're hard core anti-abortion. You adhere to all 7 Sacraments, etc, etc. As far as you're concerned, you sincerely do attempt to be a "good Catholic", in spite of the rampant heresy and scandal that has infected The Church even at it's highest places.

But I ask you to consider this; Do you still adhere to Protestant (or Protestant inspired) practices?

Communion in the hand is okay, as long as it's treated with reverence and respect, right? Countless popes, Saints and Doctors of The Church have spoken out against such for centuries and centuries. Are they all of a sudden wrong? Look at it this way... if Christ came down from the clouds right now, how would you greet him, on your knees in reverence and respect... or standing with a handshake?

Is frequent Confession really needed? After all, I'm a good person. God knows I am. Let's cut through the nonsense... the founders of Protestantism detested the Sacrament of Confession. Few will argue that there aren't flat out heretics in positions of power in The Church. For 40 years they've been prodding the Faithful into looking upon Confession as irrelevant. Something that we should only practice during Lent. Want the honchos to wake up and realize that we DEMAND a return to Catholicism? Go to Confession.

Mass in English, Spanish, German, Mongolian, Swahili, an African Click dialect, etc, is perfectly fine as long as the rubrics in the GIRM are adhered to and the Mass is said reverently. No way. Here's why; live languages present day are just that... live. The language evolves, words change meanings. Do we really want to play fast and loose with The Consecration? Bill Clinton once argued about the meaning of the word "is". And people took him seriously. Words change meaning in live languages. And when it comes to Mass, that's a dangerous thing. Look at it like this, would you feed your family at a restaurant that has a 70% health code rating... or one that is 100%? Both are legal and legit... right?

Possibly a better analogy would be if a doctor told a mother to give her newborn milk. The mother instead gives water with just a touch of milk. Watered down milk certainly won't kill the child, but it sure won't give all the nourishment the baby needs.

Before anyone gets all uber-pissed at me, know that I do consider the New Mass to be valid. I even attend one here locally from time to time (it's 70 miles round trip to the only Novus Ordo parish around where we have a Catholic priest who actually conducts himself and preaches like a Catholic priest! And the closest Latin Mass is about 230 miles round trip). But anyhow, the New Mass most certainly is valid, the problem is, it's so wide open for the possibility for scandal, abuse and error.

For some strange reason, I keep thinking about that 70% health code restaurant and the watered down milk for the baby.