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I’m informed that the bishop of Camden will suppress the faithful who desire to worship God via the Traditional Latin Mass as of next Sunday (last Mass).
More on that as it develops.
What the heck is going on?
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Good Lord, Father.
Does this mean he’s going to crush Mater Ecclesiae?
The FSSP Chaplaincy in Arlington is not great news. If anything, it signals that Bishop Burbidge has absolutely no plans to reverse or lift any of the restrictions he’s enforced against the TLM communities in his diocese, and the FSSP are just being brought in to shore things up as we head into the foreseeable future. So, just to offer the full context:
-Bishop Burbidge has completely suppressed the TLM at 13 locations.
-He kicked 5 of the remaining 8 out of the parish church buildings and into school gyms and parish halls (which the faithful had to renovate at their own expense)
-Of the remaining 3 locations still in church buildings, he’s forced them to randomly cancel one of their Sunday Masses ever month
-He’s ordered the priests offering the TLM to, so far as I understand, violate the 1962 Rubrics by only chanting the Epistle and Gospel in English
-He’s forbid any diocesan priests from doing any baptisms or marriages in the Traditional Rite.
-He enforced, for years, the proscription of publishing any Latin Mass times in local parish bulletins (I know my own pastor received a call from the Chancery when a Mass time was accidentally included in an insert in a bulletin)
-He only allows the faithful to have baptisms and marriages in the Traditional Rite if they can find an FSSP priest witch which they have a long-standing relationship, and that FSSP priest has to write a letter to the bishop explaining the nature of that long-standing relationship before the bishop will give permission for the baptism or marriage to proceed.
-He’s completely forbid Confirmation and (in a truly uncharitable move) Extreme Unction in the Traditional Rite within the borders of his diocese
-If one of the laity seek to get Confirmation outside his diocese, he requires the faithful to have their pastor write him a letter requesting Confirmation at another location and then everyone must wait for the bishop’s approval
And now, on the positive side:
-Many years after these restrictions have been in place he’s allowing two FSSP priests to enter the diocese to apparently roam around like Caine from Kung Fu, offering baptism and/or marriage and perhaps saying Mass (in pre-approved locations, of course).
So, yeah, as one who lives in this diocese I can’t say that I’m jumping for joy.
It’s all in the plan. I’ve… umm… ‘modified’ some more Virgil for the occasion:
“Sic placitum. Veniet lustris latentibus aetas
Cum domus Benedicti synodum clarosque modernos
Servitio premet ac victis dominabitur Rhenis”
Oh no! It should say “Labentibus”, with a “B.”
Proh dolor!
The Camden Diocese has only one Traditional Latin Mass in a regular parish and that is at St Gianna Beretta Molla parish in Northfield at the eastern end of the Diocese. As of the end of this month with the retirement of our pastor after ten years of providing a TLM, Mater Ecclesia will become the sole location for the TLM in the Diocese. Our Bishop has rejected all pleas for mercy and charity from our retiring pastor, our dedicated altar servers, and congregation to allow our TLM to continue. He has refused to attend our TLM or even to meet with us to discuss his edict in person. Instead, our pastor was forced to publicly read the Bishop’s letter at last Sunday’s TLM and at next Sunday’s TLM. The letter was, not surprising, laced with the expected empty jargon about his pastoral concern for us etc., but he also criticized our retiring pastor for inappropriately “publicizing” the TLM by listing it in the Parish bulletin in the schedule of Masses. Our TLM is one of the most well attended Masses in the Parish and, not surprisingly, has many more young families with children, but apparently that doesn’t matter or perhaps that’s the real problem.
There’s also the Bishop of Owensboro, KY, who has thrown his mitre into the TC ring and suppressed his Diocese’s one Traditional Mass.
Not to beat a dead Horse how come XI of China can appoint “catholic “ Bishops. Vatican say nothing. SSPX justified in consecrating Bishops POPE says NO!