Spiritual Egalitarianism is Deadly

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 26, 2019

“It’s not going to be long now,” says the doctor, as you stand beside the bed of your loved one. “Shall I send for the head of the Liturgy Committee?”

Some years ago, on the island where we live during the summer, the bishop assigned a new priest and told him that his job was going to involve the closing of one or two of the four churches. I hate the closing of a church as much as I hate death. Or rather more, because for the place where people once worshiped, there is no promise of resurrection to new life. It is a blank, like a parking lot where a green field used to be.

But we were soon visited by a fellow layman in the know, inviting me also to be in the know, and to assist Wayne—as I will call him—in the novus ordo saeclorum. I didn’t want to be in the know. I didn’t share the layman’s odd jubilation at the consolidation of parishes. I also did not want to call the new priest Wayne, or even Father Wayne. I don’t need spiritual buddies. I do need an abbot, a real father. I don’t need democracy. I do need a hierarchy of humble authority and cheerful obedience. My soul needs it, as my body needs sunshine and fresh air….Read entire article, go to:  https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/spiritual-egalitarianism-is-deadly