Red Sox Fan & Yankees Fan In Intellectual Conversation

Rather, the Good Man inquired about The Traditional Latin Mass, now celebrated on all Lenten Sundays & Easter Sunday at 9:00AM, @ The St. John's Cemetery Chapel, at Metropolitan Avenue & 80th Street, Middle Village, Queens, an Indult Mass, permitted by the RC Diocese of Brooklyn:

He explained that the Magic term, "Hokus Pokus", was taken from "Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum", as certain Non-Believers in The Eucharist, used to charge the Catholic Church with performing Magic. According to Mother Angelica, on "Mother Angelica Live" on EWTN some years ago, certain of The Protestant "Reformers", believed that The Eucharist was nothing more than "Hokus Pokus", especially Ulrich Zwingli, who believed that The Eucharist is a mere Symbolic Eating & that The Homily was Most-Important(Zwingli was a Definite Forerunner of Today's Televangelists).Zwingli was also the Forerunner of The Puritan Movement In England, giving Rise to Lord Protector Ollie Cromwell in England;

The Good Man was taught by The Jesuits @ Brooklyn Preparatory School in Crown Heights Brooklyn, when the Jesuits, always The Intellectuals of The Church, were The Church's Staunchest Defenders of The Faith, as the man studied Latin for 4 Years & in university, Latin & Greek, so to him, he has an interest in the Traditional Mass;

Today's Jesuits may be another matter, altogether;

If only one's Faith In God was as strong as one's allegiance to a Major League Sports Franchise, this World would be a much-better place;

Pax Vobiscum;

Michael