Word: rite
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...Matters of Rite and Wrong
Thousands of Catholics still mourn the disappearance of the old Latin Tridentine Mass. (In fact, it is still celebrated - illicitly - by a few rebel priests, like Father Gommar De Pauw of Westbury, N.Y.) Some Catholics find the new rite too cluttered with movement, hymns and communal prayers. "I feel a little bit lost," says Mrs. Theodora Nardi, 53, of Manchester, N.H. "I miss the time for silent prayer. Now you jump and sing...
...virtue of the new rite of worship is its flexibility. Priests now celebrate the Eucharist in homes, offices and hotels for small groups, as well as in churches. This freedom has allowed innovative clergymen to extend their ministry in intriguing new ways. St. Louis parish in Miami offers a Mass that uses young people in adult capacities-reading the Epistle and Gospel, acting as ushers, leading the music. In East Los Angeles, priests from Our Lady of Solitude parish celebrate Mass in the area's housing projects for members of barrio gangs who are fearful of crossing another gang...
Catholics are still adjusting to another reform, the "new" rite of penance, renamed the sacrament of reconciliation, which was put into effect in most U.S. parishes this past Lenten season. It is now a longer process often involving face-to-face easy-chair conversation between penitent and priest (TIME, March 15), although those who prefer it can retain the anonymity of the old screened confessional. Says Lee Roach, 41, a Delta Air Lines pilot and usher at St. Jude's parish in Sandy Springs, Ga.: "We're encouraged to examine our motives. Now, when you go to confession...
Little Generals. Intended as a rite of purification, the Cultural Revolution soon becomes a naked power struggle. The issues that concern Mao are lost in sectarian hostilities. Student extremists -the so-called "little generals"-organize combat teams that go at each other in factories and institutes. They skirmish with catapults, battering rams and sometimes submachine guns, until a despairing Mao asks, "Who could have foreseen this kind of fighting?" and prepares to let the army restore order. Even then, as the authors indicate, irony is not played out. Parvenu ultraleftists are branded "counterrevolutionary," and the rightists are restored to power...