A "Soft" Liturgy?

I have come across, or heard someone refer to, this story a number of times. No one seems to know the exact name of the Cardinal, but here it is. Back in the late 1960's after having seen a demonstration of the first edition of the Novus Ordo, a specific Catholic Cardinal is supposed to have said, "If that is the Rite you are using, it won't be long before all the men leave the Church and all you see are just women and children in Sunday Mass."

Even if it is not a true story, it has some merit to the point. A well structured liturgy, attention to reverence, and keeping the words above a fourth grade reading level are things that automatically attract and encourage masculinity. Effeminate men are happy with a childish and modernist liturgy; traditional men are drawn to that which is orderly and well formed. It is why so many men appreciate the military even if they never actually join it (like myself).

This is not to say that women do not appreciate a good and well ordered liturgy (just come to St. George and see!). What it is referring to is that the Novus Ordo generally does have a "soft" and (overly) "gentle" atmosphere to it. Add in an effeminate priest and you have the perfect mix for things to degenerate into that which drives strong and masculine men away. I am not the only one to see this; and many others besides the above named Cardinal have pointed this out.

Could this be the reason why out of all the priests who have fallen into sexual sins, the ones who are sodomites largely come from the most modernized Novus Ordo parishes and dioceses and never the ones who attempt to practice the Novus Ordo with diligence and attention to detail? Rarely (if at all) do you find a Latin Mass or Ordinariate Priest who gets caught committing a sexual sin of sodomy. Furthermore, we also find a large percentage of men (though, admittedly, not all) that abdicate their roles as leaders in the home, and are also happy and comfortable with the most contemporized and wishy-washy Novus Ordo around.

As has been said before: "We are our Rites". In other words, we will live our lives according to the nature of our liturgical practices. If our rite of the Mass encourages softness and pop culture, our souls will follow suit. If our rite of the Mass encourages reverence, orderliness, and a good soldier's practice of the faith, then our men (and our women!) will follow suit and be faithful in these things as well.