Eucharistic Worship Or Cultural Display? - When Two Forms of Modernism Clash
Prologue: The Clash Between Modernist Clans What happens when two modernist clans in Nigeria meet head-on over what they consider as “Blessed Sacrament”? One wants dancing, drumming and bodily exuberance in the “Eucharistic” adoration , benediction and procession. The other objects with some reservations; but not because it has recovered the traditional Roman principle of Eucharistic reverence. In this we see a phase of the perpetual tension between the progressive versus the conservative wing of the modernist impostor church occupying Catholic buildings on the authentic expression of the so-called “spirit of Vatican II” “in the light of tradition”. No doubt, this is not by any means by accident. It gives a glimpse into the nature of the modernist impostor church as “a kingdom divided against itself”. From the standpoint of the traditional Catholic position defended here, the prior sacramental question is already settled: without a valid Catholic priesthood, which the mo...