What a day that was. I was still at the “Sabine Farm”, like Horace away from Rome’s summer heat. The days were bright and full of hope. A friend stopped in to share a bottle of “The Widow”. What a day.
Sincerely, I think all this madness will pass one way or another.
Today is the anniversary of the release of Summorum Pontificum, the saintly Pope Benedict XVI’s “emancipation proclamation” for those who desired what they ought to have had all along: freedom to use the Church’s traditional Roman Rite.
That endured – although hampered by those who hate those who love Tradition – until it was shut down, again an act of hatred of those who love Tradition, under the cruel document Traditionis custodes and subsequent incoherent burpings of dyspeptic micromanagement from what is now called the “Dicastery”.
Traditionis custodes is to Summorum Pontificum what Plessy v Ferguson was to the Emancipation Proclamation. If that trend holds, who shall issue the parallel to Brown v. Board?
They won’t win. Too much is at stake. Too many people are now involved with traditional sacred liturgical worship. Too many people hardly involved in anything are dropping away. Too much information is available on the internet.
So, it is going to end, someday. I foresee different possibilities.
First, Rex Novus In Aegypto doesn’t have to be bad. It can be good. Perhaps the next man elected to the See of Peter will be more compassionate.
Second, people will simply, in larger and larger numbers, ignore the cruelty and will take matters into their own hands without – NB – without malice or any sense of separation or schism from legitimate authority legitimately exercised. Home chapels and perhaps even purchased places, plenty of cancelled priests to help, lots of willing and happy hands, ready to build the ark and ready to turn it all back to normal when the storm ends.
Third, the Lord will return.
Fourth, in view of the Lord returning, there may be an extinction level cataclysmic event, such as a massive meteor that strikes the planet. Along the lines of this song sent by a priest friend this morning.
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This guy gets it with this song. I want to record it in SATB with Organ accompaniment.
https://youtu.be/hkTgYiMDRHY
First, I highly respect you. You have provided me comfort these past 10 years. Where I am at is I feel like we are being asked to accept that heresy is being promoted and embraced by the Roman Church, but we are not allowed to question whether Bergoglio is even the pope. The former seems logically much more dire than the latter. Yet that is what we are expected to embrace. I have come to believe Benedict and Ganswein. He clearly believed he retained a portion of the papal office thus making his full intent erroneous. He seems to have believed it was his and could never leave him. Ganswein even indicated it was different than Celestine. I take them at their word. Thus his resignation was invalid. Thus Bergoglio is not the pope. This appears to me to be less controversial than admit that heresy and error is promoted in the Roman church. I don’t see how it could be otherwise.
I think the next concave is likely to have a Newton’s 3rd Law flavor. Francis has seemed more interested in implementing his 1970s Jesuit ideology and accumulating personal power than in actually addressing Church problems.
IMHO, there will be a reaction to the past 10 years.
It is interesting, however, though painful, to see how many clerics favor various destructive policies in the Church but were pretending otherwise for so long. It is interesting what appears after turning over a rock. Further, the neo-con strategy of reform has shown itself to be a wasted effort.
josephaloisius says: his resignation was invalid. Thus Bergoglio is not the pope.
I understand your position and some very smart people I know hold to it. I think it is fair to take both Benedict XVI and Ganswein at their word about what Benedict XVI tried to do. Much turns on that, insofar as his resignation is concerned. However, his resignation is no longer an issue, now that he has died.
I did write about a possible solution to the questions of a Bergoglio Papacy HERE. BTW… in various languages when writing about Popes it is not unusual to write or speak of “Pope Montini” or “Pope Ratzinger” etc.
Now that Pope Ratzinger has died, there might be a solution about a Pope Bergoglio, even for those who are convinced that Benedict did NOT resign validly and that Bergoglio was not validly elected. It’s in my post.
My prediction. A truck driving man’s prediction. Next Conclave will give us Pope Ranjith.
Africa, the periphery cardinals, moderates as well as the conservative crowd will come to consensus on Malcolm Ranjith. Vatican diplomat with pastoral experience. A blend of third world charm and theological clarity. No pushover.
Ranjith my friends. Ranjith
Thank you, Father. Things do seem horrific now, and at times it’s hard to see how it will get better.
I have long since given up trying to understand if Pope Francis (and I do beleive he is Pope) means well, but has a low IQ and is scandalously manipulated by a cadre of radical left wing effeminate heirearchy better served at the UN. Or if he himself is worthy of Revelation and (literally) hell bent on destroying the precious deposit of faith placed under his stewardship. I don’t know. But at the least he has cast a clownish figure for himself and seems to enjoy cruel acts directed at those now more on the margin than any group worshiped by the lunatic left and majority of American bishops. But, their tower will too be destroyed, perhaps far sooner than the modern day residents of Shinar may think. In the meantime, stay brave! Stay close to what we know is true, and listen to Men like Father Z. Her immaculate heart WILL prevail.
“They won’t win. Too much is at stake. Too many people are now involved with traditional sacred liturgical worship. ”
Absolutely true. The “genie” has been let out of the bottle and cannot be put back in. The restoration will come . . . though I don’t know if I’ll live to see it. But it will come.
Father you mentioned using canceled priests. I imagine you have talked to some and consider yourself to be in a similar position. I have wanted to pursue recruiting a canceled priest for our desert wilderness but was told such priests won’t come without the local bishop’s permission. Is that accurate? My bishop certainly won’t give permission.
Here’s a bright spot. As long as he’s busy blessing homosexual couplings, he’s probably too busy to ban the Mass of the Ages. He’d squeeze it in, but you can’t have multiple attacks on the faith at one time, people may begin to connect the dots. It’s just not done, so look for some Feast Day in the fall for that. I think he favors Marian Feast days for these hate bombs, but I’m not positive, somebody fact check that please. As long as his innards hold out, I think we’re good. No fear, he seems to have a Rasputin-like grip on life, and he’s got George Soros’s spawn there to help pick out his successor via Ouija board or however it’s done these days. When that happens we can look for a Cardinal to come out on the loggia. If he smokes a cigar, nothing yet. If he lights up a Marlboro, habemus papem!
As much as I enjoy clever parodies, this one really bothers me. Though it may be a residual effect of having heard “Send Down the Fire” at mass in the Boston area the Sunday before 9-11, after which it was banned at that location for years, it strikes me as presumptuous to dare to call down global destruction, even in jest.
Kathy: I think a simple reading of Canon Law shows that those Masses would fulfil an obligation. However, I would be cautious before endorsing it across the beard. From what monastery is this priest “retired”? Does one “retire” from a monastery? There are some weirdos out there. Individual circumstances make a difference.