When I tried to fit myself into a few of the caricatures of the Catholic Tribes in American put together by Michael Warren Davis and Damian Thompson
I somehow fell flat in the middle of nowhere. However, I know that
there are American Catholics that think like I do since I know many of
them personally, and perhaps, if I put this out there, I will find more
of them.
A few years ago I wrote about a group of people that I called “Hipster Traditionalists”—people
who love the Traditional Latin Mass, also known as the Extraordinary
Form of the Roman Rite, but don’t quite fit in with other
traditionalists. These days I think that the title Modern Traditionalist
is a better fit.
A Modern Traditionalist is a lover of all things traditional, not out
of a nostalgia for things pre-1965, but out of a real love of the
beauty preserved in it. For them it is not just a preference, but the
realization that the older liturgy is more beautiful and profound...
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NCRegister: Is Your Family Vocation Active or Contempletive?
“Bless our families, bless our children. Choose from our homes those needed for your work.”
I knelt with my family at the Vigil of All Saints and prayed the Archdiocesan Prayer for Vocations of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul. We pray this prayer at every Mass at my parish, but that evening as my son was dressed as a priest-saint and my daughters dressed as saints who were religious sisters in preparation for the All Saints party, I hoped that God would choose all those from my home to do his work.
Perhaps it is a bold request and hope to desire my family to be like that of Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, who dreamt of and gave all of their children into religious life. Yet, I only think of it because I have felt that these saints are kindred spirits to my family, especially in the importance they placed on a prayerful, God centered family life that was separate from the influences of secular society. I also feel bold in hoping for it because of the sacramental graces of marriage, which can transform all of our human efforts into something better...
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I knelt with my family at the Vigil of All Saints and prayed the Archdiocesan Prayer for Vocations of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul. We pray this prayer at every Mass at my parish, but that evening as my son was dressed as a priest-saint and my daughters dressed as saints who were religious sisters in preparation for the All Saints party, I hoped that God would choose all those from my home to do his work.
Perhaps it is a bold request and hope to desire my family to be like that of Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, who dreamt of and gave all of their children into religious life. Yet, I only think of it because I have felt that these saints are kindred spirits to my family, especially in the importance they placed on a prayerful, God centered family life that was separate from the influences of secular society. I also feel bold in hoping for it because of the sacramental graces of marriage, which can transform all of our human efforts into something better...
Read the rest at the National Catholic Register...