On January 9 2019, Dr. Taylor Marshall. a proponent of Traditional Catholicism produced the following video Liturgical Abuse in the Novus Ordo Mass
The video was a dialogue with Dr. Marshall and Tim Gordon on the myriad of liturgical abuses in the Novus Ordo/Ordinary Form/Modern Mass.
I think Brad miss the main point of Taylor and Tim: that the Novus Ordo Mass is something you can't fix. It is flawed in its design. I don't think the solution is to wait until the old Novus Ordo people die out. Those old hippie women seem to hang on forever, and they have badly influenced a host of younger people.
Brad questioned whether they could just go in and replace the Novus Ordo priests with traditional priests, tear out the modern altars, and replace them with traditional altars? Well. that is exactly what has happened in the Archdiocese of Seattle. A parish in Tacoma was going to close down because they had no priest for it. The pastor of the growing FSSP parish in Seattle pointed out to Archbishop Sartain that they had plenty of priests coming out the the FSSP seminary.
The Archbishop agreed, and a FSSP priest was assigned. The modern altar was torn out, and replaced with a traditional altar with altar rail (in less than a month). A Church that had only about 10 people attending on a Sunday was immediately packed with people from the Seattle FSSP parish who lived in the Tacoma area, including a platoon of trained altar boys. Most of the previous parishioners there decided to stay as well, when they saw their dying parish suddenly alive again with young families.
Perhaps Brad missed some key points in their dialogue. The traditional seminaries are the ones that are full. The families in the traditional parishes are the ones having children. A family is considered small in the Seattle FSSP parish if they only have four children, as opposed to the Novus Ordo parishes families with their 1.2 children. The Seattle FSSP parish has over 70 altar boys. They send send more young men from our parish to the FSSP seminary than the entire diocese sends to the modern seminaries.
Across the nation, the FSSP and other traditional parishes are sitting on the periphery quietly growing in numbers. In a couple of generations, sheer numbers will turn the Extraordinary Form into the Ordinary.
