"The Lil' Licit Liturgy" was a Worship Hack by an epicene ecclesiastic
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ABS has received some email correspondence from his liturgical scholar friend, Professor Herman NuDix of Continuity College in Rome, Italy.
Dear Amateur Brain Surgeon. I suppose you are still banging away on your thesis like The Duke * of Dullard that you are because you think doing that action will result in you gaining admission to the inner sanctum of Intellectual Modernists in Rome but that is just a fake door of fake worship leading to a rapidly descending staircase teeming with bat guano and felt banners.
Ok, I know that a thesis is not like a door but maybe it is more like a drum or hobby horse or something but, dammit, I've got a major hangover...
Look, I know you are quite keen on what you call Liturgical Tradition and I know you think that when Pope Paul VI crammed the Lil' Licit Liturgy down your throat and forbade you to worship like did your Father and his Father and his Father etc etc etc etc that was a mistake but I remind you that Pope Paul VI has been Canonised, and so, whatever...
Now, just because some epicene ecclesiastic, some of us used to call him Eddie and others called him Edie, used a Worship Hack, that does not mean any rupture in Tradition because when one creates a novelty that does not mean that novelty is wrong or even novel because within the realm of novelty there are both elements of continuity and novel elements; that is to say, there are both positive and negative aspects of the novel newness of our fresh new pentecost in this community of love during this springtime because fish gotta fly and birds gotta swim as Teilhard de Chardin might have said when he was huffing paint or whatever'n'hell he was doing.
The important thing for me in all of this captious controversy is to be able to maintain an irenic - not to say ironic - idea of these captious controversies so I can continue to be invited to lavish dinner parties with Cardinals and Bishops where I get to eat foie gras, sausages made from Geese, and slosh down fantastic wines made from The Barolo Grape and what not.
You must remember that time is greater than space, or maybe it is space that is greater than time, but, whatever...
The important thing is for you to take all of these novelties with a serene sense of equanimity no matter how novel or insane an idea is because obedience.
So, yes, in answer to your question, it can be said that some epicene academic developed a Worship Hack so as to save us from all of that Latin and sign-of-the-crossing, and genuflecting, incense, and propitiation this and impetration that, Capiche?
ABS has received some email correspondence from his liturgical scholar friend, Professor Herman NuDix of Continuity College in Rome, Italy.
Dear Amateur Brain Surgeon. I suppose you are still banging away on your thesis like The Duke * of Dullard that you are because you think doing that action will result in you gaining admission to the inner sanctum of Intellectual Modernists in Rome but that is just a fake door of fake worship leading to a rapidly descending staircase teeming with bat guano and felt banners.
Ok, I know that a thesis is not like a door but maybe it is more like a drum or hobby horse or something but, dammit, I've got a major hangover...
Look, I know you are quite keen on what you call Liturgical Tradition and I know you think that when Pope Paul VI crammed the Lil' Licit Liturgy down your throat and forbade you to worship like did your Father and his Father and his Father etc etc etc etc that was a mistake but I remind you that Pope Paul VI has been Canonised, and so, whatever...
Now, just because some epicene ecclesiastic, some of us used to call him Eddie and others called him Edie, used a Worship Hack, that does not mean any rupture in Tradition because when one creates a novelty that does not mean that novelty is wrong or even novel because within the realm of novelty there are both elements of continuity and novel elements; that is to say, there are both positive and negative aspects of the novel newness of our fresh new pentecost in this community of love during this springtime because fish gotta fly and birds gotta swim as Teilhard de Chardin might have said when he was huffing paint or whatever'n'hell he was doing.
The important thing for me in all of this captious controversy is to be able to maintain an irenic - not to say ironic - idea of these captious controversies so I can continue to be invited to lavish dinner parties with Cardinals and Bishops where I get to eat foie gras, sausages made from Geese, and slosh down fantastic wines made from The Barolo Grape and what not.
You must remember that time is greater than space, or maybe it is space that is greater than time, but, whatever...
The important thing is for you to take all of these novelties with a serene sense of equanimity no matter how novel or insane an idea is because obedience.
So, yes, in answer to your question, it can be said that some epicene academic developed a Worship Hack so as to save us from all of that Latin and sign-of-the-crossing, and genuflecting, incense, and propitiation this and impetration that, Capiche?
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