I am very happy that you gentlemen were able to attend Mother Angelica's funeral. For many of us in the 1980s who thought that we just might be the last traditional Catholics swimming against the "spirit of Vatican II", she gave us a sense that we were actually part of a community. It is easy to forget just how isolated many of us believed ourselves to be. When our thoroughly modernized priests said things like, "Our Church is only 25 years old" (something I actually heard at a retreat in 1989), we had no authoritative Catechism that we could use to point out those errors. Mother Angelica gave us the information that we needed to hang on to the beauty of the Faith.
I am very happy that you gentlemen were able to attend Mother Angelica's funeral. For many of us in the 1980s who thought that we just might be the last traditional Catholics swimming against the "spirit of Vatican II", she gave us a sense that we were actually part of a community. It is easy to forget just how isolated many of us believed ourselves to be. When our thoroughly modernized priests said things like, "Our Church is only 25 years old" (something I actually heard at a retreat in 1989), we had no authoritative Catechism that we could use to point out those errors. Mother Angelica gave us the information that we needed to hang on to the beauty of the Faith.
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