Well these people dominate the parish, and as I mentioned before, they've made the mass as irreverent as possible. I can barely focus at mass there. The parish I'm moving to is much better, much more reverent, and both my previous priest and my current priest make gestures that point back to the Tridentine mass.
Offer it up is my advice.
How much more didn't Christ suffer for our sake at the Calvary?
Besides parishes aren't static, they change. All of the sudden you're left with a totally new priest for better or worse and he may turn the liberalism of your parish upside down in few weeks.
If you ran of now how can you be sure that the demons won't follow you along the way?
You got to ask yourself, will there ever be a parish that suits your highly selective and perhaps even self righteous needs and demands in terms of piety and radical traditionalism?
Any church and any congregation will have weed alongside the flowers that is its theological foundation.
Today's flaws will be gone tomorrow only to be succeeded by new and other ones and this will be the time of events until Christ's 2nd coming.
You can't outrun humanity nor yourself. We must never forget the factor of the sin and fallibility within our very nature.
How can we ever be sure that we've got everything right?
Don't we need and gain alot from being humble enough to be self-critical at times?
The Catholic faith has doctrine and dogmas, but have I understood them correctly, as they were indeed intended?
I can never say yes without having doubt cause I can't go past the human fallible and sinful point of view that is indeed the rule I'm living under in this world.
(To do so would be to put God into my neat little box, forcing him to conform into my desires and obey my pride and unsustained claims of authority.
By engaging in this kind of thinking the "I got it all figured out approach on theology and God himself" I'm in fact committing the gravest of all sins, that of placing oneself above God. The original sin.)
This is the reason we as individuals don't interpret scripture but the church does through the holy spirit.
We can make mistakes cause our eyes are sick, the church cannot.
Beware your sick eye and pray for others who's seemingly far away as in undermining Christ and the gospels instead of judging them cause we know how Christ feels about judging one another.
Please see through your pride and think though what I wrote here and decide for yourself if I'm onto something or not.
Your life in Christ, how is its fruit currently?
Is this OCD helping others to Christ which is our goal (hence the great commission)?
Do you thrive in the Lord ?
Are you salt and light in the world?
