I think I will get more photos soon, but here are three. I still can’t believe that I am forced to celebrate this abysmal form of the Mass, that Catholics actually thought for centuries upon centuries, was sacred. Thank God, we enlightened post Vatican II Catholics, for the past 50 years or so, know that what was once sacred no longer is. Plop, Plop, fizz, fizz, O what a relief that is!
I love the enlightenment!
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Bishop Parkes just put the limit to his career.
Father McDonald,
Nice (and brave of) Bishop Parkes to show. Hopefully he will move away from the branch manager type of bishop and exercise his full ministry without fear.
Strange that the bishops abandoned the TLM when there is no evidence of any widespread demand from the laity for either the “reforms” or the Novus Ordo. I guess if “listening and accompanying” had been de rigueur then the bishops would have listened, no?
Love your tongue in cheekiness, Fr. McDonald! 😉
Hey, y'all! Everything's going to be OK!! I just noticed that the dude with the thurible was wearing Birkenstocks. And it's on the Masthead as of now (27 FEB 2023). That's like an antidote to traditionalsim with a bit of restorationism thrown in. Rome will think this was a farce.
>WHEW< We're safe.
Father McDonald,
This is a pretty good summary of the anti-TLM loons:
"Any person, even those less intellectually endowed, is capable of understanding that the crusade waged against the ancient rite, from Traditionis Custodes to the recent Rescriptum, is nothing more than a desire for revenge, a blind fury full of animosity. It is a matter of simple observation: the Catholic Church finds itself almost bloodless, with bishops hailing homosexuality, 'pampered' priests abusing nuns and being protected by the highest echelons, convents forcibly closed, churches and seminaries increasingly empty, Catholics fleeing the Church.
Excluding Poland, in Western countries at least weekly attendance at Mass is well below 50%: shamefully, Italy home to the Vatican is at 34%, but still makes a good impression compared to Spain (27%), Austria (17%), Germany (14%), and the two tailenders, France and the Netherlands, where not even one in ten Catholics goes to Sunday Mass.
In this scenario, the Dicastery of Divine Worship thinks it’s a good idea to waste time and resources on lambasting those who do go to Mass, but to a rite that is not consonant to them. In any company, the Prefect of the aforementioned Dicastery, Msgr Arthur Roche, would have been fired on the spot: not only incapable of revitalising the market, but also incompetent enough to sterilise the few healthy branches that exist."
Pope Francis and his Roche make it very difficult to remain, but this curse, too shall pass
Father McDonald,
And this is the clincher:
"A behaviour that reveals the false rhetoric that has now become the rule in Rome: it is said that everyone must find a place in the Church, but not the 'Tridentines'; there is talk of valuing the laity, but not those who attend the traditional Mass; there is a scramble to show how much families and children are appreciated and loved, but only those who go to the 'new Mass' or perhaps do not even set foot in church. No welcome, no mercy, no listening to those who are called "indietristas" (‘backward-looking’) every week; towards those at the Latin Mass there seems to be only one command: "re-educate them. By hook or by crook. Synodality seems to be in fashion, but 'they' have but one right: that of suffering in silence”, 'Dickès concludes.
There seems to be a peculiar version of the parable of the prodigal son in Rome, where the father chases away the eldest son because he is tired of having him stay with him all the time."
Stupid and hypocritical is no way to go through life.
We can thank our 20th Century Popes, in particular, Venerable Pius XII, for having insisted upon the radical overhaul of the Roman Liturgy.
From there, just prior to, as well as during Vatican II, we can also thank such powerful Churchmen as Joseph Ratzinger for having promoted the notion that the Roman Liturgy had required radical liturgical reform.
"Traditional" Catholics have insisted that the Latin Church Faithful had neither insisted upon, nor desired, the liturgical reform that, for example, Pope Venerable Pius XII, Monsignor Bugnini, and Joseph Ratzinger, had shoved (supposedly) down the Faithful's throats.
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In 1948 A.D, Pope Venerable Pius XII had tapped Monsignor Bugnini to lead the charge in that direction.
Last November, New Liturgical Movement had presented "the first-ever English translation of Bugnini’s programmatic 1949 article in Ephemerides Liturgicae outlining the plan for a total overhaul of the Church’s liturgical worship."
There was not any hiding of the fact that "that which had been sacred for centuries" was on its last legs as the Latin Church's primary Mass.
Even if the Latin Church Faithful had not desired (supposedly) the Roman Liturgy's dramatic, overhaul, Father Joseph Ratzinger, for example, had insisted that that is what the Faithful would receive.
Father Ratzinger insisted that TLM was in horrific condition...had been "fossilized" for centuries...had consigned the Latin Church Faithful to "silent spectator" status...
...that it was imperative to continue Pope Venerable Pius XII's/Monsignor Bugnini's radical overhaul of the Roman Liturgy.
But we will blame Pope Francis for having, during the 1950s, and 1960s, shoved (supposedly) down the Faithful's throats a radical liturgical reform that was unnecessary, and destructive, according to "traditionalists."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas,
We are blaming Pope Francis for declaring war on the TLM and some of the Church’s most faithful Catholics underscoring his hypocrisy about “listening and accompanying” So knock off your idiotic and factually false rants.
Mark Thomas,
And your next post should be apologizing to Father McDonald for lying about his statement.
"Traditional" Catholics have long insisted that the liturgical reform, launched in earnest by Pope Venerable Pius XII, was unnecessary, and neither requested, nor accepted, by the majority of the Faithful.
Even worse, the radical liturgical reform in question was poisonous spiritually (supposedly)...and had unleashed supposed massive chaos and destruction upon the Church.
If the laity neither requested, nor desired, the radical liturgical reform in question, then the following is mind-boggling:
-- How on earth could Pope Venerable Pius XII have misread in such dramatic fashion the Latin Church Faithful?
-- How on earth could Monsignor Bugnini have misread the Latin Church Faithful in such dramatic fashion?
-- How on earth could Joseph Ratzinger, who, during the 1950s, and 1960s, had called for the radical liturgical reform's continuation, have misread the Latin Church Faithful in such dramatic fashion?
Or, had the above-mentioned Churchmen, as well as additional like-minded Churchmen, not misread the Latin Churchmen?
Had Pope Pius XII, Monsignor Bugnini, Joseph Ratzinger, etc, determined that the laity, like it or not, would receive radical liturgical reforms?
Our holy Popes, of course, made the final decisions in regard to having enacted liturgical reforms that they had desired...and had determined were of the Holy Ghost.
The following questions are of monumental importance:
-- Is the collective assessment of the liturgical reform offered by "traditional" Catholics correct? That is, speaking spiritually, has the liturgical reform, enacted/validated by our Holy Popes, from Venerable Pius XII to Francis, poisoned the Church?
-- Or, is said assessment bizarre/preposterous?
-- Do "traditional" (or, any Catholic) Catholics possess the authority to reject the liturgical reform?
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas,
You lied about Father McDonald so there is no point in reading your other untruthful posts
Father McDonald,
If you go over to Father Z today he has charts which show men entering the seminary and being ordained have gone down ieach year during this pontificate. One bishop said Pope Francis is not inspiring vocations. Can you imagine that!
Mark Thomas,
It is wrong to lie about a priest. Confession is definitely in order!
Mark Thomas still cannot bring himself to apologize to our genial host
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