As a young adult who was raised in a family that had little reverence for tradition, nonetheless Catholic tradition, I experience the truths you’ve conveyed here everyday.
Luckily, articles and books on the topic help me and many other young Catholics form our minds and hearts to love tradition, preserve it, and pass it on to our own children.
Maybe you'll address it in subsequent parts of this series, but I'd be curious to know how you'd square the development of unique practices in the Latin church that go against the weight of centuries of universal practice as complete anomalies, like withholding the chalice from the laity, or withholding the precious gifts from baptized infants and children (when, e.g., Augustine explicitly says that the whole reason infants are baptized is *precisely so that* they may receive the Body and Blood). What was it that managed to outweigh such weighty and universal matters to the effect of legitimizing these anomalies in only one ritual Church?
As a young adult who was raised in a family that had little reverence for tradition, nonetheless Catholic tradition, I experience the truths you’ve conveyed here everyday.
Luckily, articles and books on the topic help me and many other young Catholics form our minds and hearts to love tradition, preserve it, and pass it on to our own children.
Thanks Dr. K. !!
So well done.
Once you put it this way, it's all so reasonable and natural. It's the innovators who strain and fight against what seems right, what draws us.
Looking forward to the rest!
(I also appreciate that you read it -- I listened while making Sunday dinner!)
This looks to be a great series! Thanks Peter.
Sadly, such things are hidden from our "nondenominational" loved-ones.
Maybe you'll address it in subsequent parts of this series, but I'd be curious to know how you'd square the development of unique practices in the Latin church that go against the weight of centuries of universal practice as complete anomalies, like withholding the chalice from the laity, or withholding the precious gifts from baptized infants and children (when, e.g., Augustine explicitly says that the whole reason infants are baptized is *precisely so that* they may receive the Body and Blood). What was it that managed to outweigh such weighty and universal matters to the effect of legitimizing these anomalies in only one ritual Church?
Brilliant article. The Heresy of Formlessness book by Martin Mosebach also confirms these thoughts.
Also I think Confucius, in a dim pagan way also had a similar view.
Wow! Thank you, Dr. K.
I'm going to forward this to my own problematic, 'prodigal' son. Thanks to you, sir.