In 1930, Gandhi led a 240 mile protest march to the Arabian sea to protest the British salt tax in India. People went to the sea to make salt, which was not legal. This gesture of non-violent disobedience gained momentum in spite of mass arrests. In one incident, soldiers fired into a crowd. Those who refused were arrested. In another, soldiers beat the unresisting protesters with with clubs. The sickening stories made the international press.
I read a story at LifeSite about a Novus Ordo confirmation Mass in the Diocese of Charlotte, where the local bishop intended to severely restrict the TLM, repress any traditional liturgical elements and signs, and ban altar rails. According to reports, 95% of the people present, starting with the confirmands, “marched with their knees” and knelt to receive Holy Communion, also from the bishop.
95% still receive on their knees in the diocese where the bishop banned altar rails! pic.twitter.com/fiNgH0CETa
— John-Henry Westen (@JhWesten) June 13, 2025
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NEW: Cardinal Burke says he has already spoken to Pope Leo XIV about future of Latin Mass.
“It is my hope that he will put an end to the persecution of the faithful in the Church who desire to worship God according to more ancient usage of Roman rite, this persecution from… pic.twitter.com/y2v0SSTnWG
— Michael Haynes ?? (@MLJHaynes) June 14, 2025
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That is a great image to keep in mind, Ghandi’s successful grassroots resistance to the British occupation of India.
Sorry, but when I saw the headline about the March to the Sea, I did not first think of Ghandi and salt, but rather another “March to the Sea” that took place a little to the south of the Carolinas in 1864.
General Sherman’s total destruction of the farms and villages of Georgia, from Atlanta to Savannah, has left a lingering distaste and disgust in the minds of Southerners to this day. It may be the mental image that many Tarheels have in mind when they think of how the Latin Mass community is being brought back into “unity” with the rest of the diocese.
This was a popular Civil War song in the North. It never caught on in the South:
https://youtu.be/sTgcY0mnkGs?feature=shared
amen: Don’t forget Xenophon!
“Θάλαττα! θάλαττα!”
John Henry Newman once opined that it was probably “thalassa,” the Ionic form, given that most of Xenophons soldiers weren’t Athenians.
And some opine it was actually something like what in Italian would be written down as “thalaccia”, and this sound was written with ss in some places and with tt in Athens…
I was at this Mass as my daughters were both being confirmed. I had a tear of joy in my eyes as I watched the young people of our parish and diocese kneel to receive our Lord.
Respectfully, the Bishop failed the first step of management when coming into a new role. He did not first observe. Instead he tried to ram through change. That never works well. I pray that the Lord guides him down the right path.