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I may have an unconventional view of over-correctness. For me, examples would include displays of knowledge that confuse instead of enlighten. In the performing arts there is a saying: Consider your audience. In music it's helpful to apply the saying when planning a concert program. The performer will want to program music the listener will enjoy, or at least be interested in. The same is useful when trying to decide how much or how little to say on a topic. When it comes to political correctness and historic authenticity it still applies. In order to get the point across, the listener needs to be receptive. Often it is not what is said, but how it is said that makes all the difference. If the delivery fails, might it be viewed as over-correctness, instead of what was really intended? Being human sure can be complicated. 
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Thank you again, Father, you always seem to post articles that I need to read! I shared this with some Latins I know who were driving me crazy by quoting Canon law and other such stuff to argue that the Novus Ordo Mass was "offensive to God", based on something written at the Council of Trent, no less!
I too am guilty of it at times, but it's nice to be reminded. This should go with the Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican.
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Originally posted by Father Gregory:
The Disease of 'Over-Correctness'
by Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)
To be "Orthodox but not Christian" is a state that has a particular name in Christian language: it means to be a Pharisee, to be so bogged down in the letter of the Church's laws that one loses the spirit that gives them life, the spirit of true Christianity. [ . . . ] Vladimir Soloviev, in his Short Story of Antichrist, ingeniously suggests that Antichrist, in order to attract Orthodox conservatives, will open a museum of all Christian antiquities. Perhaps the very images of Antichrist himself (Apoc. 13:14) will be in good Byzantine style -- this should be a sobering thought for us.
In His great lover for us all,
+Fr. Gregory Thank you, Father. This will be of real use for me. --John
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