Turned Around: Replying to the Most Common Objections Against the Traditional Latin Mass

In this often surprising book, Dr. Kwasniewski takes nine objections Catholics make to the traditional Latin Mass, and turns them around in a jiu jitsu fashion: ;You are right-but you dont realize how right you are!;To the objection that ;the priest has his back to me. I cant engage with him,; he replies: ;Yes, he does, and no, you cant-thats exactly how it should be, and heres why.; Or ;at Mass the priest is doing everything and Im just watching him;: ;Yes, he alone does everything in his proper priestly way, and that makes it possible for you to do everything in the way proper to you.; Or: ;Its all fancy, like a royal court, which doesnt fit with a democratic society like ours;: ;Thats right, because we are in a royal court, the most royal and most courtly of all, and we have left democracy far behind.;And so with six additional objections, having to do with:the use of Latinkneeling to receive Communion on the tonguerepetition in prayers, gestures, and readingsthe ;limits; of the one-year lectionaryfixed rituals governed by strict rubricsthe importance of not understanding everything, even after long exposure has opened one door after the next.By turning the tables around, Dr. Kwasniewski helps us to savor the Holy Spirits wisdom in forming over the centuries this venerable rite for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass-the way that countless saints prayed the Mass day in and day out-and shows how we, too, stand to gain from its peculiar non-modern, even anti-modern features. Ultimately this tradition guides us to deeper conversion: the turning-around to God that is the most important of all conversions.Dr. Kwasniewskis Turned Around: Replying to Common Objections Against the Traditional Latin Mass transforms challenges into gateways, perplexities into fresh insights, brick walls into garden paths. See why it is exactly the paradoxical and countercultural aspects of the Latin Mass that powerfully draw increasing numbers of the faithful, young and old, to this mysterious and luminous rite of divine worship.