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70 minutes away from the past and future



It is about a 70 minute drive for ABS to get to the past and the future, The Real Mass. That is only a little over an hour's drive to cross over the rupture of the Lil' Licit Liturgy and arrive back in the reality of solid orthodoxy - The Real Mass.

While he was going to the Lil' Licit Liturgy, ABS would arrive early and prepare to assist at the Lord's Supper Service by saying his prayers and he would have to try and ignore the men and women  around him who spoke openly and loudly about Uncle Lou;  Pope Uncle Lou, he had a colonoscopy and they found polyps or, I was talking with Becky yesterday and she told me about this fantastic sale they are having at Joannes' Fabrics...but, ABS would try not to become too irked because the Lil' Licit Liturgy teaches the pew dwellers that this is a convivial community celebration centered on them and so, naturally, the chatter prior to the Lord's Supper is to be expected - after all, it's not like the local library where adults are expected to be respectful of others; others such as God.


ABS arrives early for The Real Mass and as he prepares to assist at it, he is delighted to hear the tiny schola at practice..

and then during the solemn celebration of the Real Mass in this modest out-of-the-way Chapel, ABS rediscovers the lost world of our past and our future for if the One True Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church is to survive - and it will - it will be owing to The Real Mass: