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+ JMJ So the exhortation has been published and is not as bad as feared, but perhaps it remains bad. I have collected a number of articles from Rorate. Time allowing I'll search more and form my own opinion. P^3 BREAKING — On the Amazon Synod document, let’s remain positive Rorate-Caeli: On the Amazon Synod Document, let's remain positive Rorate has learned that, at the current state of the text, Catholics should remain positive regarding the most controversial points of the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Querida Amazonia”, to be published tomorrow. We cannot say anything, unfortunately, but we refer readers to the first paragraph of this post we published last week: La Fede Quotidiana  has learned of an important fact relating to the coming papal document on the subject of the Amazon. And this fact, unless modified at the last moment, contradicts what has been recently reported concerning a text in which  ‘ a yes ’  is given to  viri pr

+ JMJ I really hope that it is still ok to repost information from Rorate-Caeli ... as this is a topic of great importance and I really want to have it handy as a reference! A key aspect that is missing in the Novus Ordo Missae is ... frankly ... reverence.  This is apparent in the Ordo itself but is glaringly obvious to Traditional Catholics in the music that is 'sung' at the various flavours of the Novus Ordo Missae. Frankly, the lack of reverence in the design of the music renders it banal and a torture to hear.  I find it particularly imbalanced in its sentimentality.  What it is missing is the awe that is due to God.  It is that awe that I find generally missing throughout the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council. ... not to mention the hard teachings on Hell, Damnation and ... Sin. P^3 Courtesy of Rorate-Caeli I am pleased to publish here at Rorate Caeli the full text and video of the lecture I gave on Gregorian chant as the supreme