Thank you for considering the matter. I come to this way of thinking as a result of a range of influences and attitudes I have found in the teaching and practice of the Church and the Lives of the Saints. A short 🧵

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1. Sacrosanctum Concilium 10: 'the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows.' Liturgia est culmen ad quod actio Ecclesiae tendit et simul fons unde omnis eius virtus emanat.

Future generations will be astonished at the lack of hygiene in the distribution of the Orecious Blood at Communion. Catholics in the past would have been shocked as well. 1/

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The post V2 legislation specifies ‘small’ and ‘homogenous’ congregations. This is routinely ignored, but would mitigate the chance of cross-infection. 2/

The ludicrous Mike Lewis @mfjlewis tries to tar me by association with ‘radical’ conservative Catholics. He can’t summon up a single quote of mine to hang an accusation on, however, and fails to notice that I have never written for the Remnant 1/ wherepeteris.com/traditionalist… and stopped contributing to the New Liturgical Movement more than ten years ago. Not that it makes any difference. My writings can also be found in the moderate conservative @CatholicHerald the now defunct centrist Universe and the progressive @The_Tablet and Pray Tell. 2/

If there is anything we should have learned from the pontificate of Pope Francis, it is that insults directed at whole categories of people - clergy, large families, whatever - are not medicinal. They only create grief, bitterness and paranoia. 1/ Over the years I have defended ‘trad’ women against the accusation that they look as if they have ‘escaped from an Amish farm’ lmschairman.org/2014/06/tracey… 2/