My heart goes out to people who are constrained either to attend Sunday Masses at parishes where weird stuff goes on or have to drive great distances. My heart is broken for people whose shepherds deny them their Christian dignity by condoning and even promoting the indignities they must endure in liturgical worship in their churches.
Consider the statement in the cruel Traditionis custodes:
Art. 1. The liturgical books promulgated by Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II, are the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.
Now consider this.
Today is the 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time in Barrington, IL at St. Anne‘s, of the largest parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Rather, at St. Anne’s it’s the 3rd Sunday of the Season of Creation.
I don’t remember that in the Roman Rite.
Some facts about St. Anne’s.
The site says they have 3500 families. This week’s Bulletin says that last week there were 1287 people who attended Mass in person or viewed. They took in about $32K last week but that’s $5K under budget.
The parish’s self-description includes:
A commitment to a Post Vatican II vision of Church, to life long faith formation, vibrant worship, servant discipleship, strengthening our spiritual growth and a just and generous outreach to the poor and broken – are all areas in which we focus our energies.
I see in the Bulletin that they have a Faithjustice Committee.
Confessions once a week at 9:30-10:00 am on Saturday. Clearly not a priority.
They have their own music composer who has a new “Mass of the Beloved”. HERE There you can hear the Alleluia, Holy Holy Holy, etc., with the sheet music. It’s awful, but amplification will make sure everyone hears it one way or another.
Their bulletin for this week HERE. My emphases:
From the Bulletin this week:
Human Concerns
Forgiveness…
Today we celebrate the Third Sunday of the Season of Creation. Matthew’s
gospel answers two questions: How often must we forgive someone who
seeks forgiveness? What will happen if we don’t?
Jesus could not be clearer: We must forgive not 7 times, but 77 times—
a metaphor in his time and culture for a number without limit. Every time
they ask forgiveness sincerely, we must give it from our hearts. If we do not
forgive each other when we have been forgiven so much by God, we will
lose God’s forgiveness.
To recognize how precious God’s forgiveness for the misuse of the gifts of
creation is, we need to be conscious of how precious and sacred those gifts
are.
As we have grown in consciousness of God’s gifts in creation and of our
destructive use and abuse of them, we have experienced God’s patience,
mercy, and call to conversion in our lives—a conversion to Gospel
nonviolence and what Pope Francis has called an integral ecological
conversion.
The Season of Creation asks: How can we express and live out our gratitude
for God’s patient forgiveness to us personally? As a community? How can
that gratitude call forth in us patience and forgiveness for those “behind us”
in this journey? For those resisting our denying the cry of the poor and the
cry of the Earth?
We pray that we may take up our prophetic responsibility in this time
of crisis to speak God’s Truth to each other and to call each other into
non-violent ways of living within creation wisely, sustainably, justly, and
reverently.
Remembering that the Novus Ordo is the “unique expression”, I cannot find in my copy – yes, I have one – the Season of Creation.
So, I looked it up.
The adventure began.
I found various protestant sites including a Lutheran site: Lutherans Restoring Creation with a sermon by Leah for their Third Sunday of the Year (Storm Sunday) HERE. There is Church of England site HERE. It links to Eco Church!
This was more helpful and four Sundays in September. A site called seasonofcreation.com which includes celebrating Earth as a sacred planet and confessing our sins again and empathizing with groaning creation. My favorite: “Proclaim the good news that the risen Jesus is the cosmic Christ who fills and renews all creation.” On their home page they push the “Global Catholic Climate Movement”. Their pages says Season of Creation is endorsed by the Web of Creation Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. I went there but didn’t immediately find much. Also, searching on “3rd Sunday of the Season of Creation” I found a video from today 17 Sept ’23 of a church service at St. James Anglican Church in Kingston, Ontario. HERE And interesting moment at 7:45. There is a deaconette in the background making a sign of the something or other. Note the pendant on the celebrant. They use more Latin than most Novus Ordo places. Nice chalice in the background. Watching bits and pieces, it looks rather like the Novus Ordo, as a matter of fact. The Church of England site was helpful. HERE
This is the period in the annual church calendar, from 1st September to 4th October, dedicated to God as Creator and Sustainer of all life.
[…]
The theme for the Season of Creation 2023 is Let Justice and Peace Flow.
So this is integrated into the Anglican calendar. I wonder: in the Catholic Ordinariate calendars is there a Season of Creation?
But wait, there’s more. Scrolling to the bottom of the site called seasonofcreation.com you find this. My circles added. Click for larger. Live links at the page itself. HERE
Pray As You Go is a Jesuit thing. Circled at the tope are Vatican Dicasteries. Integral Human Development and Communications. Integral Development has a section on Ecology. Guess what you find there? “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation 2023 “Let Justice and Peace Flow”. Remember that phrase.
That’s a lot of Catholic sites. Live links. There must be more to this.
Sure enough. USCCB, a CNS story:
Laudato Si’ 2.0: Pope announces new document ahead of ‘Season of Creation’
Details are trickling out about a new papal document on the environment as the Catholic Church prepares to join other Christians in celebrating the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation Sept. 1 and the beginning of the “Season of Creation,” which goes through the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Ahead of the ecumenical celebrations of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation Sept. 1 and the monthlong “Season of Creation,” Pope Francis said he is writing a follow-up document to his 2015 encyclical on the environment.
[…]
In the pope’s message for the Season of Creation, released in May, Pope Francis called for “an end to the senseless war against creation.”
[…]
I should have paid more attention to the Curia calendar. I should have read the Fishwrap more often. HERE
“Pope’s message for the Season of Creation”. I had missed that. Signed 13 May. 1 September 2023 was the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
Dear brothers and sisters!
“Let Justice and Peace Flow” is the theme of this year’s ecumenical Season of Creation, inspired by the words of the prophet Amos: “Let justice flow on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (5:24).
[…]
In this Season of Creation, as followers of Christ on our shared synodal journey, let us live, work and pray that our common home will teem with life once again.
At Fishwrap I learned: “Orthodox Christians have been marking the Season of Creation for decades.” Also, “just months after publishing his 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis formally added the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation to the Catholic calendar as an annual day of prayer.”
I really haven’t been paying attention, I guess.
There’s more.
Again at Fishwrap in 2016:
Liturgical emphasis
Another way to breathe life into the encyclical would be formally adding a season for creation in the liturgical year, according to one Australian priest.
Columban Fr. Charles Rue has proposed doing just that, viewing it as “one way to structurally help implement the vision of Pope Francis given in his encyclical Laudato Si’,” he wrote in a proposal paper that has circulated among faith-based environmental circles. A fellow Columban, Fr. Sean McDonagh, has made a similar endorsement of inserting creation care deeper into the spiritual and liturgical lives of Catholics.
Rue added that a new liturgical season focused on creation “would help believers face the 21st century ecological challenge” in a way that recognizes its magnitude.
“Church communities would be in a better position to dialogue with people of other churches and faiths, scientists and people of good will about earth as our common home, leading to new commitments as congregations and individuals,” he said.
Insua said the development of a liturgical season of creation would be a big step toward embedding Laudato Si’ into the mindset and lives of Catholics. For now, Harper of GreenFaith said seeing the day of prayer eventually raise to the significance of other notable days within the religious calendar would be a major step forward in ingraining environmental concern with faith.
“What I’d love to see is the day of prayer for creation assume some of that dignity and the ability to provoke the kind of introspection and change in life,” he said.
Three times there… a new liturgical season. Why?
“…a major step forward in ingraining environmental concern with faith.”
This is LEX ORANDI – LEX CREDENDI.
We are our rites.
The way we pray has a reciprocal relationship with what we believe. Change the one, and the other will inevitably change.
Thanks to St. Anne’s in Barrington in the Archdiocese of Chicago and their Season of Creation Sunday Mass, I’ve learned all sorts of things.
I guess that “environmental concern” is now part of the “unique expression of the LEX ORANDI of the Roman Rite”.
I must ask: Have you run into this in your own parishes?
Let’s see St. Anne’s in Barrington in action.
Today, the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time which is the 3rd Sunday of the Season of Creation.
Worship Aid HERE for PDF. VIDEO HERE (links are hard to find) Their Vimeo page is a mess. Click that video and the first thing you see is:
Try it. They are completely on board.
4:00 Music starts. Be warned. Also, Father strolls in. The tune is by their composer.
8:00 “Lord have mercy”. No, really. Lord, have mercy on us.
9:30: No Gloria, straight into the Collect, which isn’t in any book I have.
God most high, you are slow to and rich in compassion. Keep alive in us the memory of your mercy that our anger may be calmed and our resentment dispelled. May we discover the forgiveness promised to those who forgive and become a people rich in mercy.
So, I looked it up. I found a site called The Peanut Gallery with this exact text for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 13 Sept 2020. This is connected to the Anglican Church in North America. I’m sensing a theme.
Remember, the Novus Ordo is the “unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.” The LEX ORANDI of the Roman Rite.
Did that sound like the Roman Rite to you? I guess it is.
10:20 Invitation to children grades k-4 to gather in the big empty space in front stage and between the sideways facing pews. Piano keys are tickled. You get a good look at the layout of the church. The empty space is between the platform where the altar is and the platform where the ambo is, deeply and impressively symbolizing the equality of the two. This, by the way, is the embodiment of the sheer crap we were deluged with in seminary in the 80s’.
Is this the Roman Rite? It must be.
23:15 homily
45:00 end of “Hosanna in the highest” and start of Eucharistic Prayer. It begins: “You are indeed loving and forgiving, o Lord, the source of all goodness and grace. Make holy therefore…”. Eventually you figure out that it is Eucharistic Prayer II. He ad libs and edits here and there. He did not screw around with the consecration.
51:30 Lead up to the Sign of peace.
1:04:00 Closing hymn was from Gather #829. Let There Be Peace on Earth. What else?
The priest celebrant strikes you are a genuinely nice guy. His ars celebrandi exemplifies the pressure on priests that the Novus Ordo and versus populum celebration inevitably exerts.
So, dear readers, again I remind you that TC says that the Novus Ordo is the “unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.”
The integration of the Care of Creation material into Sunday worship… this is now part of the LEX ORANDI of the Roman Rite?
Asking for a friend.
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ugh. i suspect i’m going to have nightmares tonight and i only listened to maybe 10 minutes. on the bright side, they aren’t exactly packing ’em in.
the contrast with the Mass i attended today is stunning.
shortly after i entered full communion in 2001 i wrote a parody of that opening dreck “Change the rules this time, they don’t seem right to me. Change the rules this time, like we want them to be. We are the people who do just what we choose, so this time change the rules.”
Look at all those empty pews. Meanwhile, standing room only with babies crying at the catacomb TLMs.
Which Pope said this?
“I wish to reflect today upon the relationship between the Creator and ourselves as guardians of his creation. In so doing I also wish to offer my support to leaders of governments and international agencies who soon will meet at the United Nations to discuss the urgent issue of climate change.”
Yeesh…I am the same age as most of the band. Clearly, I went the wrong way in singing chant and Latin. The 1970s called…they want their church back.
I couldn’t make it past the first 20 seconds of their gathering song. Between the flat vocals, the drummer with no groove (drum sets just don’t work in a Mass setting. You need to be free to have groove when you play, which you can’t do at Mass.)
I don’t understand this church’s architecture.
Thank you for this – I recently ran into Church of England stuff about the “Season of Creation” and wondered who had cooked this up, when, with what ‘formalities’! “Orthodox Christians have been marking the Season of Creation for decades” – is this, then, something cooked up by the unhappy Bartholomew? I remember an Orthodox priest showing me, with bewilderment, some official nonsensical ‘green’ writing by him sometime in the early 2000s – but do not recall any ‘Season of Creation’ reference, then – nor has the OrthodoxWiki as of a minute or so ago any results for this as search term…
Happily – Providentially? – I have just been reading an English translation (Anglican) of seven letters of St. Anthony the Great (as Wikipedia calls him!) and (thanks to New Advent) a Protestant translation of St. Athanasius’s Vita (though I now see there is a 1950 translation of the latter with Imprimatur by Dr. Robert T. Meyer, scanned in the Internet Archive – for those who participate in ‘Texts to Borrow’ – and a 1995 TAN Books reprint of Dom. J.B. McLaughlin’s 1924 translation, also with Imprimatur), and highly recommend both for his expositions on creation and what is “natural” for us.
How gay!
There are many things I’d rather do then go to St. Anne’s on a Sunday. Swimming in the Hudson Bay in Churchill Manitoba in late January while wearing a suit of raw red meat in Polar Bear infested waters is one of those things I’d prefer to do.
In this regard. I thank my Mother and Father for driving us to the Old Mass since the late 80’s. I have five siblings and we all openly and knowingly acknowledge that we would have all left the Church years ago.
How we pray is how we believe and I’m eternally grateful for the good Priests in our lives. Fr Lloyd Ryan, Fr. Robert Ryan and the Toronto Oratory kept this family Catholic.
The older I get, the more this statement rings true. How we pray is how we believe. Thank you Mom and Dad for believing.
It’s been said that the more a big-city mayor talks about immigration, foreign policy and global warming, the more you can be sure there are potholes in the streets, crime is soaring and the garbage isn’t being picked up.
It’s all news to me and I would say my local parish is a fairly typical, middle-of-the-road modern scenario. The sincere and kindly PP routinely calls the Mass a ‘eucharistic celebration’, or ‘gathering at the eucharistic table’, and almost never uses anything other than EP2. This morning there was mention in the ‘bidding prayers’ (always more like announcements and lectures than actual prayers) of preparation for a Holy Year in 2025. The newsletter informed us that said preparation will focus first on studying the four key Constitutions of Vatican II – The Liturgy, The Word of God, The Church, The Church In The World. Well, implementing a few things that Sacrosanctum Concilium actually says would be a step in the right direction, si that could be interesting. But there’s no mention of ‘The Season If Care For Creation’. The neighbouring parish, which is usually up with the latest trends, does mention a special open-air Mass to mark it, but their newsletter still refers to this Sunday as being ‘in Ordinary Time’, so they seem to be viewing it as a bit of an add-on rather than an integral part if the liturgical calendar.
Thank you Father for this instructive post on the Season of Creation. When I first heard this phrase some weeks ago, immediately sprang into consciousness the words:
“We had joy, we had fun,
We had seasons in the sun.”
Misere.
Funny how the mind works as one gets old.
Thankfully in the UK Ordinariate this Sunday has still been the 15th after Trinity with ne’er a mention of Season of Creation.
I think this topic was sufficiently encompassed in the first page or two of the Book of Genesis.
Fascinating. Research well done, Father. Reminds me, in many ways, of some of the research I have done. Reminds me of the occult as well.
I wonder how often you checked St. Anne’s in Barrington to reeeaally make sure it was actually a Catholic Church! Yikes, our times.
Also noted on their website is the Presider schedule for the weekend. It actually says in the “About Us” section, they have a “commitment to a POST-Vatican II vision of the church”. Not the PRE-Vatican II church, the one that was around for 1500+ years, no, only the POST.
Their collection is astonishing. It is shocking, but maybe this pagan put-on tickles the ears of many Catholics and is what they want to hear. It is very hard to comprehend why that would be.
Fortunately I hadn’t heard of any of this crap till tonight. Seems scandalous and quite heretical if you ask me. Potentially even leading to schismatic in the future.
Thankfully none of this has been going on in my diocese as far as I have heard. I hope it dies out as quickly as it started: on the drop of a dime.
Meanwhile, while the modernist Catholics do their 3rd Sunday of the Season of Creation, I’ll be sticking with my fellow traditional Catholics at Tridentine Masses commemorating the XVI Sunday After Pentecost. (I do not mean that in a sedevancantist way either, for the record… just a normal trad Catholic way.)
Structural sin applied to ecology; so what makes one culpable? Where are the boundaries and what do you have to do before you are no longer a part? When do you know that you’ve done enough?
Is weekly Mass attendance an absolute? My local SSPX chapel is only twice per month.
Ugh, watching this gives me horrible flashbacks to my Novus Ordo days. Same badly sung cheesy music, same meet and greet opening, same army of self-important EMHCs, same casual way of receiving Holy Communion, same church-in-the-round design where we all have to look at each other. So uninspiring. This phase in the Church can’t go away fast enough for me.
‘Seripousness’ indeed. And they provide a very ‘seripous’ response, by the looks of things.
To answer Father’s question, which I suspect was not entirely serious, no, Creation Season never made it into the Ordinariate liturgy, thanks be to a merciful God. We just have Sundays after Trinity in September, barring the occasional feast day.
Ex St. Anne Church Bulletin:
>>…Jesus could not be clearer: We must forgive not 7 times, but 77 times—…<<
And all this time I thought it was 490 times (seven times seventy).
I'm really out of the loop!
— Guy
Well, it’s September, and that’s when the world was created according to the Jews. Not quite unfittingly, she who plays in the most dignified and justified manner played the part of “the creation”, which is was indeed a part of, when our Lord entered thereat was born in September.
However, the actual season of September is, in its first half, devoted to St. Job, thus, “the sighing of creation” as it were. Not unfittingly, we celebrate our Lady’s Sorrows. But then we culminate in celebrating the badass deed of St. Judith; which sounds rather logical, having celebrated a feast of our Lady’s Sorrows. In the meantime, we focus a bit on the journey of St. Tobias to find a) medicine for his blind father’s eyes and b) a wife, accompanied by an angel; and that’s rather logical in the month that is dedicated to the angels, culminates in the feast of St. Michael (though not St. Raphael) and as our said Lady is queen of the angels. It does fit rather neatly in between, as, say, the trip through Ithilien fits between the Dead Marshes and Mordor, if you allow the Lord of the Rings reference. And very occasionally, we even get St. Esther, who gave rise to the Jewish feast of Purim, which…
has a close cognate in…
the feast that we Christians celebrate in our actual season of Creation. For that is obviously Shrovetide, when the book of Genesis is read at Matins. And at that time, we celebrate Carnival; and a time where we really do celebrate the natural things of creation, wine, doughnuts and the like, though already dressing in the violet of penance, rather obviously is something fitting to a Season of Creation.
They want to worship the tree. Not Jesus who was nailed to the tree.
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If that parish has 3500 families, if 10% of them have an average of 2 children, that comes to 7700 people. If each makes his yearly confession as required by the precepts of the Church, then that means every Saturday there should be 148 people on average in line for that 30 minute confession slot. Somehow I’m guessing that is not the case.
Father- if something like this becomes the only option for a Catholic, does the obligation to attend Sunday Mass remain? This can’t be considered a licit Mass, can it?? I don’t think I could have stayed if I was visiting and needed to find a Sunday Mass.
Canon 214 comes to mind.
Also, I’m sure quite lost on these folks are the empty pews. They probably think they need to turn the knob on the POST VATICAN II amplifier up to 11
“If we just do MORE then people will come back.”
My brother and sister-in-law are parishioners at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Cary, Illinois. The parish has a new young pastor. In his welcoming letter he says, “God loves you and ALL THAT YOU NEED TO DO is let God love you.” (Emphasis mine). None of that scary talk about the Four Last Things. I never realized that all I have to do is let God love me. So easy! I guess that is an offshoot of universal salvation. Lord have mercy.
During the Responsorial Psalm yesterday, I struggled to listen and concentrate on the words of the psalm through the dreadful “tinkly folk music tune” accompanied by guittars. I’ve finally come to the conclusion that the psalm to be responsorial requires to be chanted in Gregorian Chant without the refrain.Yesterday confirmed this, as on Tuesday we welcomed back a priest who has been moved to another parish as Parish Priest (his first parish), to say farewell and best wishes, & had a man from the choir sing the psalm, he actually managed to murder it. Father went about 6 weeks ago, but noticed “Standards are slipping” as the Parish Priest is not as traditional as he is. We will miss him greatly.
Regarding so-called “ecological sins”, two remarkable observations come to mind:
1) Looking back to Scripture, we can examine the doctrine of the Pharisees. In short, what we see is their establishment of sins only others could commit. They…themselves…were immune. There is nothing more “Pharisaical” than to establish a long list of activities that everyone engages in merely to live, activities which are then cited as rave evils, sins for all those except a certain elite class. Examples abound: airplane travel, use of buildings in which air conditioners are used, driving gas or diesel powered cars, etc. For the “masses”, these are sins which must be (but cannot be…because they are normal functions of life) atoned for, while at the same time these “sins” do not in any meaningful way impose guilt on a certain elite class, that class including climate activists who must travel all over the world, the ultra-rich who also must engage in all manner of activity apparently necessary to improve “the earth” (while polluting it far more than the normal “ecological sinner”). Such a grouping of elites apparently includes Francis himself along with his advisors and the vast army of secular consultants he relies on for doctrinal input.
2) Quite concisely, we see the doctrine of a favored theologian of Francis, that of the excommunicate heretic Martin Luther where we are all sinners who cannot be cleansed of our sin in this life and are simply subjected to an eternal decision of God in predestination. Thus, the incoherent amalgamation of, on one hand, the inability to avoid sin, be absolved from sin, or pursue a sinless life is an integral element in human existence while on the other the individual remains under the pall of ranting by Martin about that sinful nature. While we see very similar admonishment (ravings?) by Pope Francis, he seems to have reconciled (at least for himself) one rather troublesome aspect of Luther’s doctrine by simply applying predestination to all men, however sinful they may be.
And thus, “ecological sins” remain a talking point to force the masses to comply with the political and economic goals of a very, very thin slice of self-appointed elite overseers.
Pharisees, you might say.
As a minister of the Church of England, I can definitely state that there is no such thing (at any official level, e.g. in our authorised liturgical books etc.) as a “Season of Creation”. This appears to be someone flying a kite, that’s somehow got itself on to the C of E’s website, presumably because we’re all supposed to be obsessed with creationy/greeny/environmental things, but it has no official standing.
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I guess we Unitarian Universalists weren’t invited to the ecumenical party.
Messing around with the Collect is not permitted. This should be reported to the bishop.
What caught my eye in the shot of the website supporters, was not the ones you circled, but the small print of one not circled, World Council of Churches. I remember reading about them years ago as, you might say, the equivalent of one world government. Maybe I’m mistaken, but that name has a very familiar ring.
Whoever wrote the bulletin piece was obviously taught arithmetic by Fr Spadaro. When we saw the shot of the entrance I thought it looked just like a theatre, and it has a balcony, but I couldn’t bring myself to keep watching. I admit I escaped to the Ordinariate parish next door the last two Sundays because our Parish Priest was on holiday in Normandy and I knew we would get something whacky from the priests covering for him who are both thoroughly entrenched in the 1970s. But I’m pretty sure we didn’t get the ‘Season of Creation’, I think I would have heard about it.
Francophile remarks that the 1970s call. Indeed they do. Some of my fellow Baby Boomers may recall this 1974 hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tPcc1ftj8E
World Council of Churches.
I wrote about the World Council of Churches a few years ago, based on reading the analysis of the Romanian General Ion Pacepa, the highest official of the Soviet Bloc to defect to the West. I refer you to that post.
“Disinformation” and some notes about the World Council of Churches
The WCC was run by the KGB.
Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism by Ronald Rychlak and Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa.
I want to recommend it warmly.
US HERE – UK HERE
Gen. Pacepa, who ran intelligence for Romanian despot and Soviet thug Nicolae Ceaucescu, fled to the West when he was asked to start killing people. He is an expert on the Soviet technique of framing, disinformation, creating false narratives and history. The book exposes the Communist background of seemingly-benign organizations and explains the treatment received by Cardinals Stepinak, Mindszenty and Wysznski and, of course, Pius XII.
That church is largely empty, and few children are present. Meanwhile, here in Waterbury Connecticut the ICKSP parish, St. Patrick Oratory 50 Charles St, is described as 3/4th full at last Sunday’s High Mass. You need to create a FREE account to read this uplifting news article: https://www.rep-am.com/localnews/2023/09/16/st-patricks-in-waterbury-flourishes-during-tumultuous-time/
WillP,
How many someones would definitely disagree with your saying “there is no such thing” while ostentatiously flying this particular kite with what sort of (im)plausible deniability? I have not watched the video, but it appears to be a video of Justin Welby, and, checking the ‘Diocese in Europe’ website I find – as boiler-plate variant of the ‘Church of England’ site’s post entitled “Creationtide or the Season of Creation” and beginning “This is the period in the annual church calendar, from 1st September to 4th October, dedicated to God as Creator and Sustainer of all life” – this: “From 1 September to 4 October, the annual Christian celebration known as Creationtide, or the Season of Creation, is set to unfold.” Presumably Robert Innes knows about this. And what would one find if one did the rounds of all ‘diocesan’ websites?
Imrahil,
Gregory DiPippo’s 24 October 2021 New Liturgical Movement article, “The Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel” notes “By the middle of the 19th century, his Mass and Office were usually included in Missals and Breviaries in the supplement ‘for certain places.’ […] Pope Benedict XV, who reigned from 1914 to 1922, took a particular interest in devotion to the Angels. […] In 1921, he added the feasts of Ss Gabriel and Raphael to the general Calendar” – so everyone would thereafter have the opportunity to celebrate his Feast during the next c. 47 years, and, of course, some still do. Allowing Lord of the Rings references, we note some special attention to 24 October in Rivendell after some eucatastrophic troubling of waters – like 25 March, perhaps a typological accent?
All of this reeks of New World Order. And you know where NWO ultimately comes from. Indeed, may the Lord have mercy on us…
There’s a parish 5 minutes from our house that’s so very, very similar. We go to a parish 20 minutes away that’s fairly traditional; architecture too.
I went to confession a few times at the close parish. Most of the time things were fine (although one priest said the prayers and absolution under his breath while I made my act of contrition). However, the pastor twice simply said, “I forgive you,” and that was that. And Mass? Oh my word. One priest added, rather than “and for many”, but, and shouted it, “and for the WHOLE WORLD.” He even broke the host before the fraction rite. This happened twice when I was forced to go due to time constraints….well no more. Don’t care what my schedule looks like, I won’t go there.
I should have written the Bishop about the confession experience….probably even the mass too, although I think it was still valid (the words of consecration were proper).
Oh, you think that Mass setting is bad? We did this “new” “hip” one at my parish for years, of the same genre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nvI3QgjrIc
This is a protestant mass in everything but name.
It is beyond awful.
Saints Peter and Paul Church (Wilmington, CA) has respectful N.O. masses, but they also have one Latin Mass on Sunday. Here is last week’s bulletin. Go direclty to page 5 and guess which one is the Latin Mass by donations…
https://container.parishesonline.com/bulletins/05/4015/20230924B.pdf
By the way, they’ve been told by the new Archbishop (who wears the same pectoral cross as Bergoglio) to shut down their Latin Mass -or- move it out of the Church – word is to be done by 2024 starts.
Eww. I have to admit I sometimes resent having to travel an hour for FSSP to sung Mass in a tent when there are multiple beautiful parishes that seat a thousand built in the 50s within 10-15 minutes. I try to remember that some people do double or triple that and count my blessings we don’t have the trials of the Nigerians. Our enemies are not Christian hating Boko Haram or the like… but many of our own canonical pastors and bishops.
Fortunately none of it is THAT bad, though it’s certainly banal with generally awful music but otherwise following the regular post 1970 calendar with a horde of extraordinary monsters and pantsuited lady lector substitutes.
So in the Archdiocese of Chicago modifying the church calendar and not using the prescribed collect are ok. But an ad orientem mass is strictly forbidden. I guess in a place where nothing happens in reaction to the goings on at St. Sabina this should not be expected.
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