Love for the Liturgy and Latin and the Lord

I call your attention to a post which talks about the trendy fashionista persona of the average traddie.

Nah, I'm yanking your (censer?) chain.

The writer says that a certain blogger says, a certain website in Czech says, a certain archbishop says, a certain pope says, that if the "younger generation" is attracted to the Extraordinary Form, it's probably just a "fashion" so "it is a matter that does not need that much attention," we can just wait the kids out with  "patience and kindness" till they kick their "addiction."

You know, to the "fashion."

Okay, a basket full of caveats, because of the second, third- fifth-hand nature of the report, and the fact that translation[s/] are involved, and you know how selective quoting can deceive....

But let's say the word "fashion" was used.

Really?
REALLY??!??@?#???

The passion for ephemera that has been the very hallmark of Catholic liturgy in the US for almost my entire life, the crass hawking of the latest, greatest of-the-moment sacchro-sacro-pop "ritual music," the liturgy committees settling on "themes" for Masses, the Rite of MakingItUpAsWeGoAlong at the parish of St Thewaywedoithere -- all that is signs of timelessness?

And singing a Latin chant out of my great-grandfather's Liber Usualis, in the same way as someone I don't know in a country to which I've never been sang it a millennium ago, while a priest celebrates a Mass essentially unchanged for centuries? THAT'S a "fashion"??????????

As my friend Inigo would say,

"I don' thin' that word means what you thin' it means."