Yesterday there was an episcopal consecration… in Laredo, Texas.
Today there was also an episcopal consecration in Ecône, Switzerland.
They were alike in some ways. There were quite different in others.
You might have a look at both and consider the similarities and the differences.
Here is the video of the episcopal consecration in Ecône, Switzerland.
Here is the video of the episcopal consecration in Laredo, Texas.
A helpful person sent me a photo of what was sung at the Communion time in Laredo. In the video this is at about 2:43:00. Right click for larger.
I am no great musician but even I can recognise the greatness of “Tom Booth and Sarah Hart”; being equal in stature to Mozart, Haydn, Palestrina etc.
Even I can read that sheet music.
The disconnect is more jarring more and more each year.
Wow. One was beautiful, the other “meh”. Tradition creates beauty, which is what was seen in the SSPX consecrations. I’ve never been to a traditional one, but it is breathtaking to watch, especially the NUMBER of the faithful on the outside grass!
Contrast that with a NO consecration and my thoughts are “okay, it is valid, but….” there is something lacking. I’ve been to a couple bishop and AB consecrations and while they are “good” they aren’t memorable and don’t move me to a higher place.
I’ll remember watching the SSPX for quite a while. As we say in my part of the US, they do it right!
I am joyful when attending the Tridentine Mass that typically lasts about 85 min (much longer for special Masses!) rather than to be tortured with the N.O. music in a Mass that targets staying under 1hr.
Is this really music? The Feast Meant for Everyone sounds quite depressing.
If Christianity were to be adopted by the Borg then this is the music I would expect to hear..
Sarah Hart “The seeds of Sarah’s faith were planted during her childhood. She recalled, “I had the most beautiful hippie-dippy childhood in the 70s. Vatican II was new, and there was folk mass and community. I grew up in southeastern Ohio, and there were potlucks and people who gathered to sing and to pray, so I grew up a very free spirit in the church.”
https://thechristophersblog.org/2023/03/20/singer-songwriter-sarah-hart-on-amazing-grace-and-her-calling-to-put-beauty-into-the-world/
The difference between traditional church music and this modern church music is the “language”. One is coherent the other is jibberish….
This video explains it well (this is less about the movie than it is about music).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZeXtDXYEE
Catholicism changed (greatly improved) music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U48rk8u_yUA
The Feast Meant For Everyone … except “those people”
The irony that some critics are calling the SSPX protestant…
If the feast is meant for everyone, why do they make such a point of naming victim groups, and then insisting on the victims also being beggars, outcasts, blah blah blah?
It is not a song about Communion, or even about dignified food sharing in a banquet setting. It is saying that the feast is only for those who crawl and grovel enough, before the self-defined great and good, who are supposedly generous and giving.
If you are a member of the Body and discern the Body, you are a guest of Him and no other.
In the English version of his Vatican News post of “01 July 2026, 12:20”, “Lefebvrians consecrate four new bishops without a papal mandate”, Salvatore Cernuzio writes that they “consecrated four new bishops without a papal mandate. They did so even though the new bishops answered affirmatively to the liturgical question, ‘Habetis mandatum apostolicum?’ (‘Do you have the Apostolic Mandate?’)”
Watching the English livestream – and checking it now again as video recording – I heard – and now hear – the commentator saying from around 33:40 that the main consecrator “will ask if the Apostolic Mandate is present” and that since they had not received that “the consecrations will still proceed without that Pontifical Mandate but there will be read a text explaining the Society of St. Pius the Tenth thinks it necessary, considers it necessary to continue” (my transcription). At around 38:50, Bishop Fellay reads what I take to be a question in Latin which I am not confident to attempt to transcribe. Bishop de Galarreta (as far as I can tell) speaks what Mr. Cernuzio describes as the “question ‘Habetis mandatum apostolicum?'” whereupon follows someone reading in French what the commentator had described as “a text explaining”.
It is not clear to me what, if anything in fact, Mr. Cernuzio is referring to with “the new bishops answered affirmatively”.
Mr. Cernuzio further writes “According to Catholic canon law, carrying out such consecrations without a papal mandate incurs latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication.” Is this correct, and, if so, in exactly what sense? I.e., e.g., does this need to be followed with an explicit formal pronouncing of excommunication, whether by the Holy Father or persuasively in His Name?
I watched a little from Laredo (on this site, not live). Two words: Oh My!
My question about formal excommunication has now been answered (in Italian alone, strictly speaking, so far as I have seen or been able to discover), and I see that the FSSPX News site in its English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian forms now has “« Habetis mandatum apostolicum? » | Declaration read before the episcopal consecrations” with full text.