Snowy Novus Ordo Mass on Pennsylvania Turnpike: A Tragic Showcase of Liturgical Abuse!

March for Life Group Stranded in East Coast Storm, Celebrates Mass on Make-shift Snow Altar—

See how many abuses you can find:

1) Filthy, sweaty, stocking cap laying on the 'altar'.

2) No vestments - just albs and stoles.

-Which makes me wonder about those 'stole fees'.

3) No doubt Mass was celebrated in English.

1) No kneeling.

2) Hats on during Mass - even at the consecration.

3) Filthy snow pile altar - no evidence of corporal.

4) What are those cruets?!

1) Lay EMHC - properly deputized?

2) Communion standing, and in the hand - during a blizzard.  No thought

of fragments which would be undetectable in the snow.

3) Guitar in background - really?

1) Is that a woman priest with the sunglasses and camouflaged stole?

2) No kneeling - again.

Can you spot the others?


One can only imagine the cringe-worthy, banal music.

Shouldn't the Mass be, so to say, "super-earthly," separated from the secular world, in order to show in the world— the Kingdom of God? - Fr. Schmemann

What?




h/t ChurchPop
h/t Aleteia





Disclaimer:  I'm totally kidding with these 'criticisms' - I think it is a beautiful testimony of faith and devotion.