Top Ten: What's In & What's Out (or should be)



In no particular order:

Out: Ordinary Time
In: Epiphanytide and Trinitytide

Out: the displaced tabernacle
In: the central tabernacle located on the altar

Out: Mass versus populum
In: Mass ad orientem

Out: Catholics In Name Only
In: QTBGL Catholics (Quietly Totally Believing God's Law)

Out: cartoonish images
In: mosaics and traditional icons

Out: cardboard movable altars (tables)
In: fixed altars with relics of the saints embedded in the mensa

Out: Centering Prayer
In: Lectio Divina

Out: praise and worship "music"
In: Palestrina, English and Latin plainchant, Latin and English sacred polyphony

Out: politically correct language
In: hieratic English

Out: modernist architecture
In: neo-gothic and gothic renewal architecture

Out: progressivism
In: Tradition

Out: liturgical dance and talkshow liturgies
In: Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

Out: noisy liturgies
In: silence

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