The cruel dictates of bishops and archbishops concerning the Vetus Ordo, now in these USA invoking the cover of “Rome said so”, have a …
… human face.
This is what our dear pastors don’t want to see.
Here is an example of the impact Wilton Gregory of Washington DC had on one community through his cruel decree.
From the blog of Fr. Kevin Cusick, who is well-known for columns in my old paper The Wanderer and other, comes a concrete instance of the collateral damage. To Father, and to all of the Vetus leaning out there who have had any sort of rocky way, I say, whatever may have been in the past we must now band together like never before.
Go HERE to the blog entry. If nothing other than a Memorare for him and these people, CLICK and shower their site with stats love to – at least – let you know you are there. Please? As a favor to me?
Southern Maryland parish forbidden to offer traditional Latin Mass after investing in quarter million dollar renovation and decoration for the purpose
Nightmare and heartbreak.
Parishioners of Saint Francis de Sales in Benedict, Maryland, devoted to the Church’s traditional worship, installed a new pine floor, painted altars and gradines, hung chandeliers and lamps, and painted a monumental mural. And more. After an extensive professional renovation and painting of the church’s entire 100-year-old plaster interior walls and ceiling.
All to give honor and glory to God for the salvation of souls through the most beautiful prayer of the traditional Latin Mass.
By means of draconian cruelty they have been officially forbidden to pray as they desire according to their Catholic patrimony in their own church. This compliments of the hierarchy that boasts of mercy, Synodality, compassion, seeking the margins, listening, accepting everyone, rejecting no one, diversity.
The parish offers a complete weekly schedule of traditional Masses with the exception of one novus ordo liturgy each Sunday so that no one feels excluded or marginalized.
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Beautiful? The FAITHFUL paid for that. Because they WANTED it. And they trusted.
I suspect the faithful of that place will never contribute to another monetary thing that the Archdiocese begs for. Concrete works of mercy, sure. That’s trads. Concrete support for the maintenance of the Church, sure. That’s trads, who tend to be quite generous, in my experience.
We MUST have the Vetus Ordo, especially now, when the barque of the Church in these USA has experienced a nearly catastrophic damage to its propulsion system. In the dangerous waters of today’s secular monstrosities, we need to be able to navigate through through the rocks and rapids or we will perish.
I am reminded of the moment in the movie The African Queen when Humphrey Bogart explains that they have to get the propeller working because, in order to steer the boat through the dangerous rapids, they have to go faster than the current. I would add that the propeller simultaneously roots the boat in the past while giving us the option of where to go in our future.
The Vetus Ordo is not the past. It is the future.
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While this is sad that people invested all this and cannot have their birthright the Mass of the Ages, they at least still have this beautiful church and I expect one day things will change and the TLM will return there. Even a Novus Ordo celebrated Ad Orientem and using the altar rails at this church would be better sadly than what many parishes experience.
@JonPatrick — But will the NO be said there Ad Orientem with the altar rails? If so, how long before that will be taken away? There are multiple parishes around where I live that are decorated like that but they have a big ol ugly table altar out front and the altar rails are never used.
The Mass that I have is the NO. I think they are targeting the parishes that have more of the external trapping of TLM precisely because it is demoralizing and they think the NO will be accepted if it wears TLM as a skin suit. Not to be crass, but it is a very similar tactic that I have seen in the Anglican liturgical wars — increase the “smells and bells” to get people to go along with changing theology then get rid of the smells and bells.
As someone who goes to the NO, there is something deeply offensive about this, as if the NO cannot be beautiful in its own right. In a way, it reminds me a lot of what is going on in entertainment where female characters can only be important and elevated if the male characters are suppressed, degenerated, or removed, and the female characters have the male characteristics transposed onto them. Tells me that they don’t actually think that highly of women. This stuff tells me that the powers that be don’t actually have confidence or believe in the NO.
This is why one of our former traditional priests told us not to invest significant money into a church interior design for the Latin Mass unless the property is owned by the Latin Mass apostolate. The Diocese can just take it away.
If they paid for the pine floor, can they take it out and sell it and tell the parish to put in its own flooring?
@JonPatrick agreed, thankfully this will aid their worship regardless of what Mass they say. And good on those parishioners for recognizing that it matters!
@JonPatrick…though they may have raised and spent the $$$ to refurbish their home, you can bet the factotums ‘downtown’ will waste no time in seizing the property and wreckovating it back to the banality it was before.
Never ascribe to stupidity what can be accounted to malice. And it is extremely evident that the incentives for those who will gleefully suppress what they know in their hearts is correct in order to garner the plaudits of the world arrayed against it comes not from on high.
Unbelievably cruel, yes. Grievous. I am so sorry.
Like a takeover from within: the Faithful restored the church and then thrown out so the disinterested could inhabit it.
The point is to dishearten and disgust the Faithful. This is no small war but one that has lasted from the days of Fyodor Dostoevsky and has now increased. This will continue and get unimaginably worse. Let us all brace ourselves.
Certain reverent activities can still be held there, now maybe more intensified and purposeful.
The only comfort I can offer is that God knows of this suffering, and predicted it beforehand throughout Scripture and in approved apparitions, such as Our Lady of Good Success [Quito 1400s], and Our Lady of Akita [in 1973]. Our Lady states that she can no longer hold back the punishing arm of Her Son.
That we should be privileged to live in such times is an undeserved grace. Saints longed to live through this, to earn a bigger crown than possible in any other era.
If Donors paid for this recently renovated Church for the purpose of celebrating the Old Rite perhaps a cause of action for fraud could be commenced. Consult with competent counsel regarding the possibility of suing the Archbishop in Maryland Courts. Complain to Maryland Attorney General re how your donation may have been obtained under false pretenses. Ask for a refund of your donations from the Ordinary. The faithful must attempt to hold these Bishops accountable. Think creatively , perhaps the Civil Law might hold a remedy. Experienced Maryland Attorneys should be contacted if any possible legal redress exists, it may not , but find out.if If the Laity don’t act quickly the Mass will be lost and forgotten.
It’s like all those stories you hear of altars, statues, icons, communion rails, etc being ripped out of the churches post VII. Those beautiful things were paid for by, in many cases, poor parishioners who have what they could to make their churches look beautiful. How horribly insulting to all those people who have the little money they had and to their descendants who don’t get to see the beauty. So very sad.
Auto correct. Gave money, not have.
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Those who contributed to the renovation should consider litigation against the AQ and the archdiocese
There’s a story from St. Louis de Montfort’s life that particularly expresses his passion … In the town of Pontchâteau, St. Louis inspired the peasants to build a huge monument to the Passion of Christ on a neighboring hill. For 15 months, hundreds of peasants volunteered their skills and labor to build it. When completed, it stood as a massive structure, a real labor of love, and on the day before it was supposed to be dedicated by the bishop, word got back to Louis that his enemies had convinced the government to destroy it. (They had lied to the authorities, saying that the structure was actually meant to be a fortress against the government.) When Louis received this disappointing news, he told the thousands of people who had gathered for the blessing ceremony, “We had hoped to build a Calvary here. Let us build it in our hearts. Blessed be God.” https://www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/mary-through-st-louis-de-montfort
So you suggest doing nothing and suffering in silence?
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