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Suffering with a cognitive liturgical dissonance

Peter Kwasniewski received this message from a young man, without any baggage or preconceived ideas -- just someone "telling it like it is" (published on facebook): "I have been suffering with a …More
Peter Kwasniewski received this message from a young man, without any baggage or preconceived ideas -- just someone "telling it like it is" (published on facebook):
"I have been suffering with a cognitive liturgical dissonance for about 18 months. Praying the Divine Office and observing the 1962 calendar, then going to the Novus Ordo, or switching back and forth between 'forms,' is jarring. No amount of bells-and-smells, Gregorian chant, etc., changes the mentally draining, linear verbiage and poor theology in the NO.
"In college, I learned firsthand how incongruent chant and polyphony are with the NO. I always feel like I'm checking off boxes of separate musical performances. When I do music for the Old Mass, it feels much more natural, since that music grew out of the liturgy. It's like tending to a carefully woven fabric made by hand.
"Additionally, I believe I have discerned a call to religious life. If I really do have the vocation, then I attribute my discernment to the Old Mass.…More
Dr Bobus
If so, he should consider joining the FSSP or Clear Creek
Ultraviolet
Dr. Bobus has the right of it. This young man is looking at a long hard seven years worth of study with the former. The priests formed however, are second to none.