Can I just say something?

I've head the expression "Novus Ordo priest" more than once. Folks, a priest of the Roman Rite of the Latin Church may celebrate either the ordinary or extraordinary forms/uses of that Rite. The character impressed by the sacrament of Order is the same.
See, my concern is a denial of the reality of Holy Orders as defined by the Council of Trent. If it becomes just an experiential reality about men who do certain kinds of external rituals, this is not what Catholics believe Orders is.
Trent defined clearly that Orders confers sacred powers on certain men, which they simply have henceforth. Those powers are used licitly in accordance with further ritual laws, but they don't derive ontologically from the experiences that arise from those rituals.
If "kinds" of priesthood equates to "kinds" of subjective experience, that's modernism because it reduces the ontological reality of the sacrament to religious sentiment. This is my concern.
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