The Remnant reports:
The Remnant has independently confirmed that a Vatican document restricting Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum is backed by at least two Vatican cardinals, is in its third draft, and threatens to thwart the growth of the Traditional Latin Mass and other sacraments particularly among diocesan clergy.
Two senior members of the hierarchy confirmed May 31 that the document, first reported by Messainlatino.it on May 25, is currently under review at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
Go here to read the rest. In this Pontificate the wheat is ripped out so the weeds may flourish. Heckuva job Conclave of 2013, heckuva job.
Whoever would have thought, when I was wearing “knickers” and tie, to go to Catholic elementary school, that this great faith on earth would one day turn out to be as political as Washington DC.
Well, true that Christ had the high priest problem and….
With this pontificate I wouldn’t be surprised to see the yellow and white papal flag be substituted with the rainbow flag. The toppling of TLM would be in order for the Lavender Mafia.
One day Her Immaculate Heart will Triumph.
I trust that God’s timing will not disappoint. In the meantime we pray hard and give witness to a corrupt world. A world which has it’s tentacles inside our Holy Catholic Church.
Fear not. God has conquered the world.
The Latin rite is my favorite Mass.
It’s as close to adoring God as possible on this side of the veil.
It’s pride month for the children with identity crisis. You will see the hijacked rainbow and then I remember…God loves them and came to save them.
Our job isn’t easy. We must remind them of the true rainbow. It’s origin.
It’s promise. And the activity that brought about the flood.
Forgive us our sins Lord.
Keep us near your heart.
Help us help our erring brothers and sisters.
Restore your family on Earth.
May purity fly high and signs of disobedience be burned and never allowed to fly.
The rainbow flag is not something to be proud of.
The pontificates of Paul VI and (much more so) the current incumbent have pretty much wrecked the authority of the Holy See. Faithful Catholics will attend SSPX masses and off-the-books masses without a second thought.
Advice I’ve always taken is to “stay in the stream”. Even in the case of NFP -out of the world stream, but I also knew I was in the Stream.
What we have now is a sort of crippled Catholicism and all sorts of anomalies pop up in that case, left and right. The devil is having a field day.
Steve Skojec wrote this interesting catharsis on his blog: https://skojecfile.steveskojec.com/p/against-crippled-religion
He’s right. we are crippled at the moment but we all need to stay in the Stream, no matter how many obstacles the world, the flesh and the church’s clergy(!) put in our path.
For me staunch traditionalists and liberal priests are both thickets on either side of the Stream. I’m not saying the Latin Mass is bad, I’m saying stay in the Stream. Devils hide in the thickets. And I know it’s really really hard to find open clear water.
At the beginning of his accursed pontificate Francis deliberately destroyed a flourishing religious congregation, the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. That congregations’ crime was its attachment to the use of the Extraordinary Form, and for that it was driven into the ground.
It is appalling that this Pope and his thugs would rather see churches boarded up, seminaries empty, and a growing body of faithful denied the Sacraments— all to satisfy their inexplicable hatred for the Extraordinary Form.
We are all the FFI now.
So, I just came back from my 3rd daughters Holy Communion rehearsal (she receives the Sacrament this Sunday), and the new Parish priest spoke to the children receiving the Sacrament and told the children to not worry if they got it wrong upon coming up to receive the Eucharist for the first time, to relax and have a nice day (he told them- it’s ok if you forget to say Amen, or bow, or even drop it! Father said he will pick it up and eat it). I sat there stunned. I then whispered firmly in my daughters ear “whatever you do, you DO NOT drop the Eucharist). The Sacrament co-ordinator thanked the Priest and he left. She then went on to lecture the kids on the importance of reverence for the Host. She looked mightily annoyed. Our traditions and our reverence are being eroded.
My point is- what is so wrong with the Traditional Mass, or tradition or even reverence in our Mass for the Eucharist for that matter?!
How could any lover of God hate and try to eradicate any legitimate form of worship? This is nothing but a crisis of faith among today’s apostles. Fortunately, we have the true faith printed and preserved over two thousand years that will not, can not, be desecrated by hatred, novelty, or modern manipulations.
Everything holy is being attacked by the false church currently in power in the Vatican. Be it the FFI, the cloistered Carmelites, holy clergy, etc. So the holiness is being destroyed and the oneness is about to be with various synods, the apostolic is decimated due to the winking at various sins, and even the universal is suppressed with what has been done in China and the lack of missionaries these days.
My parish has had an EF Mass regularly even before Summorum Pontificum. Our EF Masses are my preferred way to make my obligation— but, like many of my fellow EF Mass attendees I help out at the Novus Ordo Masses; especially in summer, when it’s harder to find reliable lectors, altar boys, and ushers.
One Sunday several years ago, I was in the sacristy setting up to lector at a NO Mass. Turned out that all of our parish priests had obligations elsewhere at that time, so a priest from outside the parish was subbing for that Mass.
As we were getting ready, the priest asked me if it was usual for the celebrant to enter the sanctuary from the sacristy, or if we were to process up the aisle. I replied that we usually processed up the aisle, and added that entering from the sacristy was only usual when it was a traditional Latin Mass.
“Oh great! Just what we need— the “Traditional Latin Mass”! was the priest’s response, said with an eye roll and undisguised contempt. The man likely had no idea that several of the people in that sacristy were EF Mass regulars helping out. After a moment of shocked silence, we carried on, and the Mass went off without a hitch. As I recall, that priest’s homily was actually pretty good— but I’ve never seen him again since that day.
It was instructive to be reminded that there are Catholics— even Catholics who should know better, like that priest— who hate the Extraordinary Form and assume that everyone around them shares their contempt. Or perhaps they don’t care if their contempt is shared, because those who don’t share their hatred of the EF are themselves contemptible? It’s all so baffling, but there’s no denying that the prejudice is out there.