Rememeber… the TLM must be supressed, but THIS is okay!
From LifeSite:
(LifeSiteNews) — It has come to light that the bishop of Raleigh, North Carolina presided over a shamanistic “smudging” ceremony to celebrate St. Catherine “Kateri” Tekakwitha, who rejected her native Mohawk religion.
Pascua Taqui tribe member Richard Duran led the congregation of Holy Cross Catholic Church in Durham in a “smudging” ceremony in July, according to an archived page of North Carolina Catholics, a diocesan publication. Smudging is a shamanic ritual that involves burning herbs and resins to “cleanse” a space of negative energy and “brin(g) in good spirits,” according to a Native American site. The smoke is “shared with people as an act of prayer and spiritual connection,” NC Catholics reported.
“Father David Miller, who is chaplain to the Native American Catholic Community in the diocese and has ancestral ties to the Shawnee, Lenape and Cherokee tribes of his home state of Oklahoma, offered a traditional prayer in the four directions,” the report stated.
The prayer in the four directions is a pagan prayer traditionally understood to be directed to the Creator but also calls upon “spirits” associated with the North, South, East and West.
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Exorcists tell me that when you invoke a “spirit” with a name, you give authority to that demon to do thing.
But… try to kneel for Communion of Almighty GOD Incarnate… use a little lace… celebrate ad orientem as all our forebears did….
SSPX, necessity, more proof. I am not sure how anyone can really doubt the claim anymore but if you need more convincing. wait a few hours, and some bishop will do something stupid and dangerous. I am not a member of SSPX but they are near and dear to my heart and a large part of my own vocation story.