It is almost midnight and I watching the last day of the US Championship. I need to make a sloppy post.
Figure it out. You know what I mean.
Happy Feast of St. Raphael.
Pontifical Vespers as part of the Summorum Pilgrimage tonight at San Lorenzo in Lucina (fascinating church). Small but jammed. It is here because something else was going on in the Pantheon and the rector here is the rector of both. Ergo…
My view during Vespers. Look at that beautiful Guido Reni altar piece! It’s ain’t Trinità, but it is special.
I watched for a few minutes the audience for the Jubilee of “Walking Together”. I felt my IQ dropping and blood pressure rising, so I went to something more soothing. Let’s leave that.
The company I keep.
A nice chat with Msgr. Bux tonight!
Walking home.
I’ve been working on a post, fisk…. Zisk… of the sermon of the Rector of the Basilica in Chattanooga to the faithful who have had the guts stomped out of the them by their bishop.
I’ve kept it in the queue, examining my conscience. He deserves napalm.
I’ll keep looking at it. Even after a couple of days, I’m still angry.
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A couple of years ago my wife and I considered moving to a smaller city about a 40 minute drive from the Basilica of Peter and Paul in Chattanooga. I am now glad that I got cold feet about the move.
But in December 2023 I called the office of that church to ask the priest what he thought the then bishop was going to do. I could only speak to a woman in the office. What she told me was that if and when the hammer came he planned to do what was in this recent letter. Roman canon in Latin with all the bells and whistles including Gregorian Chant to make it as much like the VO as possible.
I think it is interesting that all or nearly all these evil acts have been done by Bishops new to the dioceses.
There has to be a quid pro quo somewhere.
We had an old pastor who did something similar right after TC came out. He defecated in a bowl and told people to call it chocolate. We had already left for an Easter Catholic parish at that time, having seen the writing on the wall. The Church is a body, each member with its own function. The laity are very well positioned to be the backbone in times like this
I find ProfessorCover’s comment interesting. In work, there always seemed to be two particular types of managers: those that came in and observed their team for a period of time before making any changes and those that just started making changes immediately. The opinion of my fellow team members was that the first type was generally a good manager while the “impatient” type was generally a bad manager. I guess the bishops are the same.
Pray for the people under impatient bishops.
“There has to be a quid pro quo somewhere”.
ProfessorCover, I’d say it appears to be so. My own (former) bishop was charged by Rome with the administration of a diocese where its bishop had been removed, presumably for being too friendly to tradition. After dismantling the various TLMs there, our bishop then abruptly suppressed the Vetus Ordo Masses in his own diocese, excepting one still held in the parish hall of a church in a small town— and it is understood this remaining Mass is on the chopping block. One TLM in a remote parish hall is left in a diocese of 700,000 Catholics…
In the closing months of the Francis pontificate our former bishop was appointed to an archdiocese where his predecessor had a red hat, and I absolutely expect he too will be made a Cardinal in an upcoming consistory. Meanwhile, he was replaced in our diocese by a bishop who had shut down a TLM in his own diocese just four days before he left there to become our new bishop.
So yes, it appears that if a bishop isn’t squeamish about abruptly crushing TLMs and dismissing the legitimate needs of a portion of his flock, he can expect advancement up the episcopal ladder. Inevitably we shall see fewer red and violet hats on men who view TLM-going Catholics as anything other than an inconvenient impediment to their own advancement.
I’ve got the popcorn ready for the next Zisk.
Sed contra, per Wikipedia: Zisk (born February 6, 1949) is an American former professional baseball player, coach and scout. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder and designated hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners. A two-time All-Star player, Zisk was named the American League’s 1981 Comeback Player of the Year.[1] He was the first position player in major league history to sign a 10-year contract.
I’m glad they had the TLM at St Peter’s but must admit, the few bones they’ve thrown us mean little to me so long as TC isn’t rescinded.