The sun rose behind clouds at 06:52. I hope we will have clear skies when it sets at 16:56.
The Ave Maria should ring in its 17:15 cycle and the Vatican calendar has still got it wrong. I double checked: 4-20 November @17:15, 20 Nov- 28 Dec 17:00.
In the Novus Ordo it is the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time and it is the 5th resumed Sunday after Epiphany in the Vetus. It is the Novus Feast of St. Leo the Great (+461).
There are 52 days left in this calendar year.
The 1st Sunday of Advent is 1 December. Whew! Tempus fugit.
Thank you, Lord, for this day.
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Lunch with The Great Roman. One of the most honorable men I’ve ever known. I say that on the birthday of the Marine Corps.
In churchy news….
Once again we see what “pastoral concern” means to some. Bp. Joe Vasquez, the Administrator of the Diocese of Tyler, TX, which was where Bp. Strickland was before he was so ungraciously sacked, has cancelled the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass at the diocesan cathedral and other churches, segregating those people into a single place where the FSSP serves. I learned of this first via a blistering Tweet/X from Fr. Mawdsley HERE. Now that I check around, others have this too such as Diane Montagna and Raymond Arroyo and Michael Matt, etc. In fact, it is all over the place and there is not a lot of joy.
Rorate reminds us that this happen ONE YEAR after Rome sacked Bp. Strickland. (Actually one year less one day, Strickland was sacked on the Feast of St. Martin, 11 Nov.)
Still, the proximity is telling.
Meanwhile,…
Cardinal Sarah: “Banning or suspending the Extraordinary Form can only be inspired by the devil. I am of the opinion of Benedict XVI. What was holy and sacred yesterday cannot be condemned to disappear today. What harm does the Traditional Mass cause? What harm? pic.twitter.com/5njLcvKZDN
— Sanoj Thomas (@Sanothomas) November 9, 2024
Differing view points.
An allegory (what you don’t see in this depiction, are the rats chewing the ropes and eating the stores).
Allegorical depiction of the Church as a ship, marvelled at and fought against by people from outside, filled with the great Communion of Saints. The mast is the cross of Jesus Christ, at the top the symbol of the pelican feeding its little ones with its own blood. On the keel is… pic.twitter.com/AyRq1T9RJr
— Vir Desideriorum (@VirDesideriorum) November 9, 2024
‘The Holy Mother Church didn’t begin 50 years ago with Vatican II’
Cardinal Arinze speaks out on the new restrictions against the Latin Mass pic.twitter.com/2vBEFAJYee
— Sanoj Thomas (@Sanothomas) November 9, 2024
Something I sent as Provincial to our Sisters today in the USA province:
Glory be to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Today’s office of readings had a beautiful passage, “Come to him a living stone, rejected by men but approved, nonetheless, and precious in God’s eyes.”
I… pic.twitter.com/LG26DUbj8b— Sr. Mary Joseph Calore, SSCJ (@sscjusa) November 10, 2024
The bellls… May they be heard in Tyler.
WE ARE SO BACK
The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris rang out this morning for the first time today since 2019’s fire
The Cathedral reopens with Mass on December 8th pic.twitter.com/roQS22b0t7
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) November 8, 2024
strong>Hey Fathers! How about a clerical Guayabera shirt?
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I pray things are working out for you in Rome, Father.
As for the chess problem:
1. Qa6 leaves Black with just two options, neither of them good.
If Black plays 1. . . . Ka1, then 2. Nc3 disc ch is mate.
And if Black plays 1. . . . Kc2, then 2. Qd3 is mate.
Wow! Good on Fr. Mawdsley! Tellin’ it like it is!
@ Fr.Z: Can you discuss the history and theology of the Pope “sacking” a bishop? I mean, I know that there were cases of old where a heretic bishop had to be removed, or a bishop who was apostate or schismatic. The pope’s power is “universal”, it extends over the whole church, not just his diocese. But at the same time, the first bishops were all made bishops by Christ himself, not by Christ appointing Peter and then Peter choosing men to represent him locally. So (as I understand it), a bishop’s authority to rule a diocese is not a delegation from the pope :any more than the pope’s power to rule the Church comes from the consistory of cardinals that elects him: in both cases, the people choosing who takes the office is not the pathway by which the authority passes to the new bishop. When a pope puts a bishop under a trial where he can answer specific charges of a very grave nature, if the charges are established to be true, that would seem to give grounds for removal. But when a pope simply removes a bishop without specific charges, trial, or even any public reason given, apparently because he doesn’t like how the bishop was ruling, how can this be a right use of the papal power in relation to his brother bishops?
Persecution totally works. Just ask Diocletian.
It totally worked.
“Strickland was sacked on the Feast of St. Martin, 11 Nov.”
A very different type of “tearing the cloak in half” to be sure.
Regarding the message of Fr J Mawdsley to bp Vazquez.
I don’t think this is the kind of messages that we need.
If this is the kind of messages that people who attend the extraordinary form write, we better cancel it, the sooner the better.
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@Fr. Reader
The cruelty of the modern world is that it both demands that every man, woman, and child speak in the public forum, while at the same time robbing them of the education that makes eloquence possible.
These are the kinds of messages that most ordinary people write when they are attacked, regardless of liturgical preferences. Circumspection of speech requires either extraordinary holiness or extensive training. Of the latter most have been deprived. Of the prior, few attain: miracles notwithstanding, an altar-call does not constitute immediate holiness; those who attend the Vetus Ordo are not instantaneously uprooted from vice into virtue. But now they are uprooted from the soil which was nourishing them for the time, and cast upon the well-travelled, the hard packed, the banal gravel pathways from which they believed they had been rescued.
Fr. Mawdsle in a reply blamed the loss of his ministry on “ jewish organised covid tyranny and the jewish inspired Traditionis custodes” along with blaming both world wars on the Jews
Seems like a “nice” and not bitter at all….to avoid and not fall into calumny
I fear what happened in Tyler will happen in Boston. Cardinal O’Malley basically ignored TC and the TLM is currently offered at the Cathedral and three parishes. With the installation of new Archbishop Richard Henning on Halloween who knows what will happen? In his tenure as Bishop of Providence the TLM continued to be offered at the FSSP parish of Saint Mary daily and the diocesan parish of the Holy Ghost on Sunday. But he was only there a year.
If this is the kind of messages that people who attend the extraordinary form write, we better cancel it, the sooner the better.
Even if we accept a complaint that Fr. Mawdsley’s letter was unusually blunt, written in haste, and accusatory, your comment making him out to be representative not only of those who attend the Vetus Ordo, but representative because that Ordo is what makes these people think that way: if your comment had been directed at a minority race, it would be seen as pure bigotry. All the more so because you had a MUCH better examples of sentiments by people who love the Vetus Ordo up above: Cardinal Sarah, and Benedict XVI. Benedict declared that the old mass is forever holy and good. And Cardinal Sarah is just as blunt as Fr. Mawdsley, he says this kind of suppression is inspired by the devil. JPII was at Vatican II as a bishop, Benedict as a theology expert, I think we can trust their grasp of what the Council Fathers meant by Sacrosanctum Concilium more than Francis, who was still in school at the time.
@Fr. Reader
Not to pile on, (and as I have X/twitter blocked and cannot see anything), but if a dog is consistently beaten, should we not expect them to growl and bite?
Also, if we look to the Church Fathers, and even Our Lord Himself, they often have very sharp things to say about enemies of the faith. Meekness doesn’t mean being a doormat and righteous ignition is a virtue.
Besides, we can flip what you said around and suggest that what Bp Vazquez et. al. say is indicative of what is normative for NO, then the NO should be summarily suppressed as it leads to manifest lack of charity and and faith amongst its practitioners.
What is needed is charity. If the Church really is a field hospital, then her bishops need to treat the wounds of those in TLM communities, especially because their burns and broken bones were directly caused by the “spirit of VII” crowd. Charity won’t reign in the Church until the “spirit of VII” crowd leaves TLM alone and corrects the obvious differences in the NO that lead to such a lack of charity towards their brothers and faith in the divine mysteries.
TLM crowd might have some beaten dog syndrome, but that is not their fault. Some of them need healing, but they all definitely don’t need more beatings.
My understanding of Traditionis Custodes is still limited, but what I do know leads me to be…disinclined toward it. In light of Cardinal Sarah’s observation, I am moved to pray even harder for the protection and prompting of the Holy Spirit for the Holy Father, and for us all.
“Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.
“O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.”