tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post3765934997160073706..comments2024-03-12T07:54:08.013+00:00Comments on Offerimus Tibi Domine: Synod 2020. Archdiocese of Liverpool.Fr Simon Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375804232895565241noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-83491453010908214762018-11-05T13:14:17.477+00:002018-11-05T13:14:17.477+00:00I an 1964 as well, Joanna. Thanks for your comment...I an 1964 as well, Joanna. Thanks for your comment.<br />Fr Simon Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05375804232895565241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-68630722317051936112018-11-05T13:01:01.418+00:002018-11-05T13:01:01.418+00:00Having read this letter, it strikes me that it is ...Having read this letter, it strikes me that it is not really about what youth want, but what many, many people over 25 also want. So many of my generation and after (I was born in 1964) have walked away from the felt banners, vacuous hymns and empty catechesis introduced in the 1960's. Many of us who still hold on, despair at the mundane, noise-filled liturgies that seem ever more the norm. If you dare to suggest revision, you are condemned (not too strong a word, in my experience) as a traditionalist and told "no one else wants that", but the fact is that outside the church are thousands of lapsed Catholics who evidently don't want what is now on offer. Perhaps, they DO want "that". Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that Vatican II was implemented at a shallow, political level and bore very few spiritual fruits because that was not how it was interpreted. Vatican II calls us to an ever deeper faith and relationship with Christ, but, as these young people say, there is little in the average parish, in terms of liturgy or teaching, to help people fulfil this calling. Many people I know, both adolescent and older, have not left the Church because it is irrelevant or politically incorrect, they have left it because it feels empty of meaning. Welcoming these days, seems to mean walking into Mass as into a bazaar, amid loud conversations and greetings, participation seems to mean jumping around the aisle at the Sign of Peace and any silence for prayer is filled with strident hymn singing. I wonder why people have despaired and left?Joanna Francescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04129263225442222415noreply@blogger.com