Worshipers, pay attention, the priest up front leading you along is not only a priest, he's a "presider." Read about that here . . .
Plus observations on a typical sermon, the whole thing ending on a happy note for Latin mass lovers . . .
The “presider” — the most curious and revealing sample of Novus Order terminology, removing the priest from his unique role — is explained by Catholic Answers:
Presider and celebrant are synonyms for the person who offers the Mass. . . . Presider is a newer term that generally indicates that the priest takes the lead in offering the Mass.
Celebrant is of older vintage and connotes [says without saying] that the priest is the person who primarily celebrates the Mass. [Not unique?]
In recent times presider has become preferred by some as a means of indicating that the congregation should take an active role in the liturgy, proper to their status as laity. Either term is correct.
And by Busted Halo, which makes no bones about it:
In the Mass, the entire gathered assembly celebrates together with the priest (or prayer leader). Since the whole community celebrates together, the term “celebrant” is not the best way to describe the role of the priest in the Mass, because it sets the role of the priest against the role of the rest of the assembly. [Ouch]
Some liturgical texts use the term “priest-celebrant” which indicates the special role of the priest within the celebrating community. However, the term “presider” best describes the role of the priest in the Mass.
A presider is someone who is called forth from the community to be a leader of prayer and to be a representative of Christ within the gathered church community. While all celebrate the sacraments together, we must have a leader, someone who will guide us deeper into the mysteries of Christ.
Which, sad to say, captures the spirit and theology of the post-Vatican 2 mass.
On the other side of the great divide among Catholic worshipers:
Recently purchased and just started reading Heresy of the Formlessness, which has:
Page 6: The old mass was celebrated in secret, as “originally intended." An ordained “porter” was to guard the entrance so no unbaptized got in.
"Important to stretch children and make them deal with things that are yet beyond them."
Page 7: Reference to the altar as a "magnetic field" . . . where the priest is "doing . . . his work"
The centrality of sacrifice. It's what priest does at the altar . . .. from which "every trace of subjectivity has been eliminated."
Page 9: Basil the Great: "Liturgy was revelation," in a class with Scripture. Thus liturgy "should never be interfered with." Not till Paul VI was this done. (Sacrilegiously?) In this he "acted as a tyrant."
"I shut my eyes to this attack on the divine liturgy."
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"We are called to love,” said the preacher.
Who was ever too blase for love?
He delivered the don't-worry message. "It's all right, don't worry." Telling us to trust him, delivering pulpit therapy. "People need it," he said, referring to love.
"You know," he says, not as filler but so as to connect, as to say he knows us, is one of us. If we only want a buddy not a sweetheart, we got one here.
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Meanwhile, on a happier note, there’s a Traditional Latin Mass story out of Cleveland, where a new TLM shrine shows that growth of TLM remains unstoppable, Even Under Traditionis. That latter being Francis’ draconian edict of severe restriction, Traditionis custodes of July, 2021.
In Cleveland, what?
Per decrees issued on July 28, [Bishop Edward Malesic] merged St. Elizabeth of Hungary with another parish, St. Emeric, designating St. Emeric as the parish church.
That allowed him to designate historic St. Elizabeth as a diocesan shine "for the promotion of the Christian heritage of the Hungarian people as well as for divine worship according to the liturgical books in use prior to the reform of 1970.
This will allow those attached to the traditional form of the Mass and other sacraments in Cleveland Diocese to continue to be provided for by the Church.
Nice going, Bishop Malesic, answering the question, when is a parish church not a church, where Latin masses are barred? When it’s a shrine, where they aren’t.