Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling. Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. (Psalm 2)
Watch video, then ask the below question…
(Hat tip to CathCaveman for vid)
Could you imagine any of the fellas below doing anything like that? Or any other Catholic Priest from the Apostles – to mid-20th century AD?
Pope St. Pius X (while Bishop of Mantua) : “A priest must bring his every action, every step, every habit into harmony with the sublimity of his vocation. The priest who at the altar celebrates eternal mysteries, assumes, as it were, a divine form; this he must not relinquish when he descends from the High Mount and departs from the Temple of the Lord. Wherever he is, or in whatever work he engages, he must never cease to be a priest, accompanied by the dignity, gravity and decorum of a priest. He must, therefore, be holy; he must be saintly, so that his words and work express his love, impress his authority, and command respect. Exterior dignity is more powerful than eloquent words…. On the other hand, if he forgets the dignity of his character, if he does not show in his exterior comportment more gravity than seculars, he incurs the displeasure of those very people who applaud his levity but are not slow to despise both him and what he stands for.”
Hallowedground 
Could you imagine any of the fellas below doing anything like that? Or any other Catholic Priest from the Apostles – to mid-20th century AD?
Of course not. And, Christ be praised, the reasons for our blessed incomprehension despite our fallen nature, are found precisely in the mystery of truth perfectly embodied in the ancient Roman Mass, reasons as well indeed laid bare in the deformed rite of 1967. This is not a matter of sacramental validity. It is a matter, if I may, of deeper things, things inseparable from the whole, things beyond appearances, however sincerely appearances will play a part in our sensible natures as human beings. It is, I believe, a question of truth, which is to say, of godliness. No other explanation argues fully enough. Cavil, as they will, on and on about the inevitability of the new, the incomprehensibility of the old, the urgent need to forge a reconciliation of each with the other; apologists for the new order will seek in vain to find the synthesis they seek, even with good hearts, because their argument begins and ends with a perception of both the inevitable virtue of the new and the eclipse of the ancient. Pius X’s pontificate was in large part dedicated to these very questions, a holy programme indeed not without singular meaning in our own time.
I saw this vid 2 years ago for the first time and it instantly made this priest rank pretty high on the list of thinks I want to shake until they wake up. Un-(insert sailor talk here)-believable!
And Thomas is right: It is a matter of deepest things.
Did he mention the priest retired years back? It’s a very old video.
I had not idea it was old until Leo brought it up.
I…I…I…………..WHAT THE CRAP!!!!