With this Pope the buck has never appeared on his desk, let alone stopped there. Even for him, however, this about face so swiftly is extreme.
Update: The gang who couldn’t shoot straight:
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Donald, is this saying that after Francis banned the Latin liturgy, that he is now reinstating it? I am just a bit confused.
Must be those collection baskets were starting to show up empty in Rome? Why would any true leader stop the one legitimate growing element in a Church that is struggling to maintain it’s centuries old position as church after church is being emptied and sold off?
https://twitter.com/CatholicSat/status/1505150206207311878
I would be as happy as could be were this an actual reversal of any part of T.C. This could, however, just be sloppy work by the curial office that puts things in writing, as it’s part of an order assigning oversight of the EF to the dicastery for “evangelization”, which under this regime is a word nearly bereft of actual meaning.
Easy: Feeling the heat..
He’s 85. Age costs you in lucidity.
“Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.”
— G.K. Chesterton, “The Everlasting Man”
Speaking of liturgy… We attended a local “liberal” (whatever that means) parish yesterday which is actual supposed to be our geographical parish.
I need some advice.
Yesterday instead of the Proper Readings for 3rd Sunday in Lent, the longer Samaritan Woman Readings were read. That’s fine, except that the Gospel was read as a narrative by the priest, deacon and lector, with singing intermixed with music by the choir. My understanding is that only the Passion of the Lord is supposed to be Read this way (without the choir). Am I wrong to point out that this was not legit? It seemed more like a Play Production, then Gospel.
Good grief, it seems the more no concepts of sin are preached, the more “innovative” clergy try to be in order to appear relevant.
It’s like the Wild West out there, as long as there’s no Latin.
Dear David WS, Re: “play production”-If its me-me-me focused theater, and not the Mass, more people will die spiritually, i.e. if unrepentant, they will go to the eternal hell that J Bergoglio, his minions, and his puppet masters have convinced them does not exist. [more details: https://the-american-catholic.com/2022/01/31/novus-ordo-theater-no-mass-no-worship/%5D. If you see this as the demonic plan to kill people spiritually, it all makes wicked sense. Guy, Texas
See,
I think it’s 50-50 deliberate vs. oversight.
We’ll know quickly, as apostolic constitutions are, in the regular run of business, as high as it gets in papal proclamations.
If it is a slap back at Roche and the rest of the wrecking crew, I’m delighted. Seeing apparatchiks getting embarrassed is always a salutary development.
Google Translate helped me come up with the name “Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments”. Article 93 reads: “The Dicastery deals with the regulation and discipline of the sacred liturgy as regards the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.” That’s not its only function, and the extraordinary form was permissible before the publication of this document, so I don’t know if it constitutes a change.
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Thanks Guy. Since I typed the above I’ve been in contact with my Deacon and he’s assured me it won’t happen again. He has the priest on board.
On a soft note. Be cautious. No one can judge the state of one’s soul. And it’s a very dangerous ground to tread, as I never get tired of thinking and saying.. “no one is in hell unless he truly deserves to be there.” There are people in hell. And God is Happy. It’s best left to Him. It can only be left to Him.