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and their puppy dogs too are on the way to Heaven and all those repressive ideas that predate the Age of Aquarius will have been swept away so that everyone everywhere will be part of one big happy family that may be semi-literate, but can do the Harlem Shuffle with the best of ‘em!

Will the once exalted culture of Christendom be relegated to history’s ash heap along with the Tridentine Liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church? The answer to that question will depend largely upon the efforts of the few truly Catholic institutions of higher learning that remain in operation and upon the efforts of individual families and perhaps concerned parishioners to ensure the survival of the cultural "gold vault" of Christendom that has been replaced by the fiat currency of "pop" everything. The post-Conciliar Catholic Church is committed to subsuming the high culture of old Christendom into a mass multi-culture that is centered on the mediocre rather than aimed at the apex of human refinement, but this tragic treachery of tradition need not be subscribed to by the Catholic family that still values excellence. Yes, "Joe Six-Pew" is every bit as much a member of the Mystical Body of Christ as the most learned and cultured Catholic, but that does not mean his intellectual limitations should be set as the standard for the Catholic community and its culture. Buy yourself a Book of Hours, gaze upon the work therein, then see if you can say with a straight face that a comic book can serve to exalt the spirit every bit as much as the medieval museum piece.

Raise high the banner of the culture of Catholicism as once it was! Buy yourself a Book of Hours or more than one. Buy it for yourself, for your family and for your friends. Learn the greatness of your heritage and respect it as your Church apparently no longer does.

Pray the hours and be at peace. ■