Boring Habits

'The remedy for this is simple: the Traditional Latin Mass. The TLM will bring the correct liturgy, ... which will instil the love for the Mass, which will cause the attendance to increase.'

From Mundabor's Blog

Sugary, and not good for you.

I am informed that Church attendance plummeted, in Italy, from 20% to a mere 10%, in the few years since the “pandemic”.

Knowing my people, I am not surprised. Knowing the state of the actual clergy, I am even less so.

You don’t need to be an expert in sociology to know that In Italy – as, I think, in many other Countries – Catholicism had, very often, been reduced to mere varnish. You go to church because it’s what your parents did; in many a small city, because it’s what “you do”, and want to be seen doing. But there isn’t much of Catholicism left in these churchgoers.

Many of them were, no doubt, of the “but” persuasion. They are catholic, “but”. Nor have they, in many cases, ever been properly instructed about what the Mass is, why they go there, and why it is more important that they should. Therefore, I think that the attendance would have slowly declined anyway.

As it is, these churchgoers have been told, in the most unmistakeable terms, by their own clergy, that mass is not necessary. As the months of the “pandemic” transformed into an attempt at normality, the same clergy was telling you to, for the love of God, stay away from church and “stay safe”; or they were giving one thousand signals of how unwelcome the faithful are: only so and so many people; please give precedence to families; please have your hated mask on at all times, and so on. Of course, families started to go out for a walk in the park on a Sunday instead of to mass and of course, they took other habits. The mildly boring homilies, the vaguely annoying songs, the trite, tired ritual of the insipid V II church are not so easily reinserted in one’s routine, when once people have been encouraged to ditch the practice.

But you see: the main problem is not that the priest tells you to stay away from the table, it’s that the table was unsatisfactory in the first place. The sugary drink that was offered, the tofu liturgy on your dish every Sunday was just not something you long to get back to!

The drop in attendance is the immediate result of the cowardly, worldly behaviour of the clergy. But this cowardly behaviour sacrificed a deeply compromised, dumbed-down, unsatisfactory, not nourishing Mass, and this is the main reason why the fare is being increasingly more widely refused, year after year and decade after decade.

The remedy for this is simple: the Traditional Latin Mass.

The TLM will bring the correct liturgy, which will bring the correct understanding, which will instill the love for the Mass, which will cause the attendance to increase.

It all hinges around the liturgy.

All the rest, even a “pandemic”, are merely incidentals.