Visiting clergy from the Society of Saint Peter the Apostle, (FSSP) from St. Francis DeSales in Atlanta, celebrate the Pentecost Sunday Mass at the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Augusta, Georgia’s oldest Catholic Church building. The parish goes back to 1810 but the new church was begun in 1857 and consecrated in 1863 at the height of the Civil War, aka, the War Between the States. Even during slavery, slaves were baptized and attended Mass in the parish and helped to build the new church. It was an extremely odd integration to say the least, but integration nonetheless. Freemen, even prior to the abolishment of slavery, also worshipped there.
Clairvoyant as I am, when we renovated this church in the mid 1990’s, we repositioned both the reredos and altar to make it possible to celebrate Mass either ad orientem or toward the nave. In fact, pioneer that I was, in the late 1990’s or early 2000’s well before Summorum Pontificum and the election of Pope Benediction, our choir sang some difficult settings of the Mass in Latin and while still the ordinary form, I celebrated those Masses (which were at a special time) ad orientem at this historic altar.
Looking at the altar from the nave, it appears to be attached to the reredos but it isn’t. There is plenteous room behind it to celebrate Mass facing the nave.
In the mid 90’s when we fully renovated and restored the church, I dreamed that the revised Mass would be celebrated ad orientem, but never dreamt that the older Mass would return.
These are stunning photos and the lead altar boys stole the show!
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Wonderful news to wake up to!
Well bad news, according to Rorate Caeli news from Messa in Latino in Italy, Pope Francis is about to end Pope Benedict's Moto Propio "Summorum Pontificum"!!! We all knew this was coming just had no idea when. This means we will be going back to "asking" our Bishops for the RIGHT to have a TLM in our parish!!
Rorate Caeli has a more sober update to that post. I would recommend that Rorate Caeli not report gossip and doing so in a way to stir up disobedience and bad will in Holy Mother Church. It is best to wait and see and not put an ugly spin on everything this pope does as so many faux or neo-traditionalists do. They have no idea what Traditionalism actually is especially the pre-Vatican II version which I support.
Indeed so nice to see the F.S.S.P. in your former parish and thank you for saying "war between the states" as a Southerner from Oklahoma YES we consider ourselves Southerners NOT Midwesterners we are in the South and our accents and food show this!! We are blessed to have the F.S.S.P. in Tulsa, however I must drive almost 2 hours North to attend the TLM at Most Precious Blood Church. P.S. "War of Northern aggression" is also preferred.
Father, with all due respect, for decades it has been the words and deeds of left leaning, liberal Catholic bishops towards traditional Catholics that has stirred up what you call "disobedience and bad will" - but others might call sadness and frustration - in the Church.
Taylor Marshall has some brilliant insights re this whole matter.
Revoking Summorum Pontificum would show how illiberal and scared the leadership in Rome has become
Taylor Marshall is wonderful and I know the Bishops and liberals can't stand him or I might say are "afraid" of him because he tells the truth and they cannot control him, or his promotion of the TLM.
Father, I like when you compare the new photos and then showing them in B&W it looks just the 1950's before that "Council".
Taylor Marshall is not a reliable source.
Dr. Jeff Mirius, not a bishop and hardly a "liberal," wrote a devastating review of Marshall's book "Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within."
A Portion: "I mentioned the profound lack of understanding of the complexity of the issues which such writers seem so easily to diagnose as good or evil, while attributing the evil to a plot. In the pages of Infiltration we find profound misunderstandings and gross oversimplifications of just about everything. I will offer just five examples:
The Papal States: Marshall regards the loss of the Papal States as the beginning of the end for the Church, never recognizing the ways in which the possession of territory interfered with the Church’s mission, so much so that many—including the great convert Blessed John Henry Newman (who is expected to be canonized later this year)—were convinced that the Papal States ought to be given up for the good of the Church. Yet somehow the territorial claims of the Pope, which did not exist for the first 700 years of Church history and were based at least in part on a forgery called the Donation of Constantine, are regarded by the author as central to the Catholic presence in the world."
Full review here: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/infiltration-idiots-guide-to-problems-church/
The founding managing Editor of "Where Peter Is" writes of Marshall:
"Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of well-meaning, committed Catholics in our parishes and communities are being led toward schism by Taylor Marshall and others like him. I worry that our bishops haven’t a clue about the depth and the scope of this problem. It’s not only growing exponentially in the parishes, but also among priests and seminarians."
https://wherepeteris.com/the-inanity-of-ctrl-f-criticism/
Taylor Marshall leading us into schism???? Oh no no no no its the Bishops by not teaching the Roman Catholic for the past 50 years.
Several "traditionalists" have noted a plethora of mistakes contained within Taylor Marshall's "Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within."
For example:
The following, courtesy of Rorate Caeli, is from a review of Taylor Marshall"s book in question:
"...it also contains a striking degree of superficiality, errors of fact, as well as underlying assumptions."
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Novus Ordo Watch trashed Taylor Marshall's book in question:
"What has been marketed by the publisher as a “carefully documented book” and by the author himself as his “greatest literary accomplishment” is in actual fact an embarrassingly sloppy work based on slap-dash research.
"For the most part, documentation is non-existent, and where it does exist, it is often inaccurate or incomplete."
Again, the above folks are "traditionalists." They have trashed Taylor Marshall's book Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Cardinal Müller:
"I am personally convinced that Pope Francis is doing everything possible to oppose the phenomenon of abuse against minors and to foster a new spirituality among priests who must act with the heart of Christ and do what is good for all people, above all for children and young people."
Hey Mark Thomas,
Will you finally please answer what Pope Francis did to discipline the Vatican clerics involved in a cocaine fueled gay orgy? You really need to come to grips with this.
Hey, you, who are obsessed with the "Cocaine Fueled Gay Orgy" - I count eleven times you've brought it up in unrelated threads - what's that got to do with Taylor Marshall's obvious weaknesses, especially those pointed out by "traditionalists?"
I love the fact that receiving communion at the altar rail is now an option at all of the Masses at Most Holy Trinity.
30327 says your former Augusta parish is beautiful and classic, but unfortunate that there simply were not enough Catholics in downtown Augusta to support that parish and, not many blocks to the north, at Greene and 13th, Sacred Heart. I guess the establishment of St. Marys on the Hill during World War 1 helped lead to the slow demise of Sacred Heart.
There is indeed a plot to infiltrate the Church from within but it’s coming from de facto schismatic groups like Taylor Marshall, funded by opaque right wing sources.
We want our Church back - purge the Church of lunatics like him!
30327, Before the levies were built, Augusta was plagued with floods and in 1916 there was a massive, massive fire downtown that destroyed many businesses on Broad Street and hundreds of homes. That caused many to move to the Hill area not far from downtown. That is why St. Mary’s was built and the moving continued unabated well into the 1950’s and beyond. When I was pastor of MHT, we only had about 200 families, mostly black who lived downtown and in the poorer neighborhoods. But we had a total of 1,300 families who came from all over Augusta, Martinez, North Augusta, Aiken and Evans and beyond!
UK Priest,
Most of the lunatics in the Church in the US are found on the left side of the aisle - ever hear of the National "Catholic" Reporter? And they have a far bigger megaphone than Father Altman
I agree with alot of what "Novus Ordo Watch" says, however they are still sedevacantists and cannot support them in the least.
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