Letters to the Editor Continued...

not the quintessential embodiment of the term Dumbed Down? Maybe if the proclamation was actually trumpeted through the trunk of an elephant people would get the joke being played on them every week. Our senses could protect us if we just had ears to actually hear the words found in such blatantly false responsorial statements. Could such chanting lead to a spiritual death? The words contradict what just took place on the table/altar. What will it take before people suspect that maybe, the real truth, the Mystery of Faith is being deliberately subverted?

As bad as teaching fairy tales to seminary students are prepared statements that mislead between a mystery of faith and "The Mystery of Faith". Yet some in the know still attend Masses containing such sophistry. Even those who really don’t know, will have serious culpability for not investing any time in order to find out, vincible ignorance. Most Catholics in the pews either don’t or won’t, rather than can’t, use critical thinking skills in order to understand. Will it be fatal for those that know, but continue simply because of mundane things like in following?

- The drive is too far - The time is not convenient -They will stand out from old acquaintances at the Novus Ordo - Their children are involved in sports on Sunday - Their children in involved in local parish activities - They don’t want to disrupt family harmony - Peer Pressure, e.g. Catholic school teachers or other diocesan employees How many have family members that frequent modern Masses because of any in the above? If all the people we know who deep down do know better, devoted themselves to proper liturgy there would be a dramatic increase in attendance at indult Masses, Fraternity Masses, Pius X Masses or Institute of Christ the King Masses. People that know the difference need to be reminded that with knowledge comes grave responsibility. "To whom much is given much is expected." Most of us can easier forgive those steeped in their weekly cognitive dissidence than brook delinquents hiding from the truth. Oh, but if only all those that simply choose to ignore the elephant had the trait most attributed to its image, memory.

Remember this? "This is the Challis of my blood of the new and eternal testament: THE MYSTERY OF FAITH. Which will be shed for you and for many for the remission of sins..."

William Price

Seeking Pilgrimage Partners

Dear Remnant Readers: Peace be with you! My name is Ron McCann. I’m the second oldest of a family of ten kids. Together, we have grown into a tightknit family in a small town in protestant Arkansas. We have been blest to attend the traditional Mass since I was ten and doubly blest that the FSSP has supplied our small community with strong priests. I have been homeschooled until attending Thomas Aquinas College in California where I have just finished the first semester of my junior year.

In addition to the studies at TAC, I serve the traditional Mass, participate in prolife works, and am a member of the Legion of Mary. These activities, as good as they are, do not help one’s spiritual life in the same way that a pilgrimage does.

I want to attend the pilgrimage chiefly for the penance that is intrinsic to it.

Beyond that, I expect that the people that I will speak to and the places that I will go will have a lasting effect on my spiritual life. In my better moments, however, I try to be mindful that it isn’t all about myself and the changes that I want to see in my life. On the long road from Paris to Chartres, I fearfully hope to get caught up in something so much greater than myself. The shrines, saints, and spires of the cathedrals that I hope to visit point to this greater something. They point to the Catholic Church of the past and they remind everyone how present the past is today.

By experiencing the Communion of Saints in this way, I wish to unite my life more firmly to the whole Mystical Body of Christ. As a student, my funds are limited. With my savings, I plan on covering travel costs to the best of my ability. Thank you for your support and prayers for me. I will be sure to keep all those in connection to the Remnant and their intentions in my prayers.

Dear Remnant Readers: My name is Dominic McFadden. I am 17 years old and I have 10 siblings. I am a senior enrolled in Seton home study. My three older siblings have gone on the pilgrimage to Chartres and have had lifechanging experiences. They have come back with great appreciation and deeper insight into their Catholic faith. My older brother, John, for example, who went on the pilgrimage, fell in love with the Latin Mass and is now a Benedictine monk in a monastery that only says the Latin Mass.

I especially want to make this trip in order to see for myself the beautiful sights and churches of holy Christendom, that I have heard so much about from my siblings. And most importantly, I hope to be deepened in my understanding of the Catholic Faith through making a pilgrimage to the places where the Catholic faith was once so alive.

I hope to attend Christendom College in the fall, and it would be so faithstrengthening to be able to pilgrimage to the places that I will be learning so much about during my college years. In the end I think that that this pilgrimage will do wonders for my spiritual life. Please consider supporting me on this journey of Faith, I will assuredly be praying for you every step of the way.

In Christ,

Dominic McFadden (with Brother John) Pax et Caritas Christi,

Ron McCann