According to three senior Church officials close to the Eucharistic pilgrimage, the Chicago archdiocese has told organizers of the Eucharistic pilgrimage that, while pilgrims may travel through the archdiocese during their processional walk to Indianapolis, they are expected to reserve the Eucharist in a ciborium, rather than process with the Eucharist exposed in a monstrance, as the pilgrimage will do in other areas of the country.
A source with knowledge of the pilgrimage planning said that when pilgrims traverse through Chicago in the summer of 2024, the archdiocese will conduct a Mass at Holy Name Cathedral, followed by a Eucharistic procession led by Cardinal Cupich — but that the Eucharist will otherwise be expected to be reserved as pilgrims travel.
“He told them they could go through Chicago, but they couldn’t expose the Blessed Sacrament while they were walking. That seemed to be the compromise that they got about coming at all,” according to one senior Church official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.
Go here to read the rest. Cupich is a typical Leftist masquerading as a member of the Catholic clergy. He hates and fears traditional Catholicism, which means Catholicism which recalls that the Church was not invented in 1965. Time for active disobedience. When the clergy actively betray Christ the Catholic Laity have a duty, not a right, to obey Christ.
If they could walk around Chicago, they should. Even better would to circle it seven times with seven trumpets and maybe Cupich’s high place would fall.
Chicago? Perhaps it best to bring an exorcist to lead the procession?
I went to Mass in a suburban Chicago parish on Saturday for a wedding. The tabernacle was hidden and there was a giant banner of the gayest looking Christ ever dominating the altar. The priest was actively working on his stand up routine in the form of his homily, but I have to admit he did have comedic timing. What he didn’t have was a reverence for the Eucharist as there were lots of non-Catholics present and some went up and received. It would have been an easy and obvious thing for him to mention beforehand, but he didn’t. Sunday I attended Mass in downtown Chicago at a beautiful old church and again they hid the tabernacle. This time the priest, who also thought he was funny, wasn’t. And everyone, except my family, stood through the entire consecration. But, the priest did helpfully explain to us that everyone “gets forgiven” because Christ died and rose. So, my takeaway, besides the fact that Chicago seems to be a Catholic desert, is to conclude that no one should care what Cupich says because we all get forgiven. So, just do whatever you want anyway, even if the Cardinal forbids it. We’ll all just be forgiven in the end.
Time for active disobedience. Absolutely. What’s he afraid of by having the Blessed Sacrament exposed? A good holy priest lives for occasions of bringing the Holy Eucharist to the Faithful.
Still trying to figure out what the lame excuse is for not allowing Our Lord to be exposed in procession. It’s not like there’s risk of Him being left alone when He’s being carried.
Unfortunate that an exorcism requires permission of the local bishop.
MikeS: “Still trying to figure out what the lame excuse is for not allowing Our Lord to be exposed in procession.”
Probably the same lame excuse he used as Bishop of, IIRC, Sioux Falls, SD, when he ordered the only TLM parish in the diocese to lock its doors DURING HOLY WEEK, because it was “divisive” to have two different rites celebrated for the Triduum. No word since then on his views of Eastern Catholic liturgies.
This mockery of the Mass is allowed to continue week after week at St. Sabina while he forbids the TLM.
https://twitter.com/johnamonaco/status/1647273897002246145
He needs to hear “no.”
When they do things like this, the answer is “no.”
He doesn’t get to impersonate a Catholic shepherd for 90 minutes and then tell everybody else “back under the bushel basket.” He’s supposed to be our servant, not a Party Secretary in a mitre.
The condescension for devotion gives the game away. Cupich and the gang in power not only won’t let you have the TLM, they won’t let you have anything that reminds you of it. Hence the vanishing rarity of Latin NOs (anyone know of a single one anywhere?), denial of ad orientem, and the functional deletion of the Roman Canon.
So naturally, they have to attack the devotions which are rooted in the older Mass(es), too.
My thought about their arguments for Eucharistic “education” is that it’s more pushing on the failure rope. The vast majority of Catholics who bother to show up weekly experience what should be most of Cupich’s dream world: a vastly-simplified Latin rite Mass, a spanking-new liturgical calendar shorn of things like the Feast of the Precious Blood, vernacular from beginning to end, ad populum, modern hymnody and missalettes which unfailingly emphasize the horizontal. His party has won the day, but that’s not enough: only root-and-branch extirpation of the remnants of the Before Time will satisfy them. The only reason they even condescend to say “I’m sure it’s nice for some folks” is that there is still a living memory of such, and that really chaps their nethers. Just so you know what the endgame really is here.
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Just completely ignore this guy. If they kowtow to this childish request, they themselves are cowards and insulting our Lord. He cannot stop them. Just do it.
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Pope Francis makes an interesting point.
In his traditional address to the Roman Curia, Pope Francis focused on conversion and on the need for “vigilance.” “We are in greater danger than all others, because we are beset by the ‘elegant demon’.” “Some of our failings, also as a Church, are a forceful summons to put Christ back at the centre.” ‘Besides the violence of arms, there is also verbal violence, psychological violence, the violence of the abuse of power.”
We should pray for Cupich’s conversion.
He should be thrilled to put Christ front and center. Cupich Spirit is opposite of Mundelein’s Spirit from a hundred years ago. The later had hosted a Eurchristic Congress where additional rail tracks were laid down to usher the faithful out to the events that raised Christ high in the public arena. The former is not allowing Jesus to be exposed while they are walking through the diocese. [?]
His eloquent demon is getting the better of him.
Cupich is not Catholic…imho.
https://udayton.edu/blogs/marianlibrary/2021-09-20-eucharistic-congress-1926.php
I’d be interested to hear someone from the Chicago chancery try to give a coherent explanation for Cupich’s demand.
As best as I can tell from the linked news article, Cardinal Cupich dislikes Adoration because our encounter with Christ shouldn’t be something we experience individually, but rather it should be in the context of our community— that is, at Mass.
Frankly, that’s stupid.
If, as His Eminence suggests, adoring and contemplating Our Lord in
His Real Presence outside of a Mass somehow detracts from our necessary mindfulness of the communal dimension of our faith—- then it seems to me that following his “logic” Cupich should also decree that the Catholics of the Chicago Archdiocese should also refrain from any private reading of scripture outside of a Mass. After all, adoring and contemplating Our Lord outside of Mass is bad and undermines our community somehow…
Why doesn’t the guy just admit he doesn’t like Adoration, can’t explain why, and—despite his boss Francis’ tirades about ‘clericalism’— he’s going to decree that his subjects in his Archdiocese cannot have what Catholics elsewhere can have because He Says So.
Dale, You’re right Cupich needs to hear “ No”, but that’s almost surely not going to happen. The priesthood and diaconate today isn’t full of men who would say “no”. It’s been engineered to be limp by bishops who don’t believe in being firm themselves or ordaining men who are firm.
Everyone’s free-forming because it has been some time since people have encountered such antagonism to the faith emanating from bishops.
“If, as His Eminence suggests, adoring and contemplating Our Lord in His Real Presence outside of a Mass somehow detracts from our necessary mindfulness of the communal dimension of our faith”
That’s more or less the same argument that was used back in the ’70s to justify moving the tabernacle out of the sanctuary and into side chapels — the notion that it would “distract” from the action taking place during the Mass. Seems the Cardinal must be stuck in a 1970s time warp.
Cupich is another “useful idiot” for Francis
@Philip- thanks for that link- Cardinal George Mundelein what a leader. Can you imagine a Bishop or Cardinal doing this today? I can’t, sadly. The bureaucratic excuses would be in the thousands. Not to mention the utter outrage from the Media. But you never know, God has His ways…
We have exposition of the Blessed Sacrament which is traditionally held the first Friday of every month. Some Parishes do it more often. That is for the purpose of individuals to be united with Our Lord on a deeper and personal level. That’s the purpose of the Exposition. That is universal in every Church on earth. The Exposition is honouring Our Lord “outside of a Mass Conmunity”- so what a convoluted excuse from Cupich and his diocese. Cupich thinks he is the centre of the earth.
Cupich should be running, falling over himself to bring the Blessed Sacrament to the people. Running. He needs to be reminded of his vows and that he is but a servant for Christ and the Church here on earth. Not the centre of it.
Cupich’s declaration is not really meant for us. It’s meant to stake out a line in the sand for any clergy who might be tempted to proceed with the monstrance. The third rail of “obedience” has been electrified and none will cross it.