POPE FRANCIS CONCELEBRATES HOLY MASS WITHOUT PROPER LITURGICAL VESTMENTS, WEARING ONLY THE STREET CLOTHES OF A CLERIC, THE PAPAL SUTAN OR CASSOCK:
For those whose personalities like predictability and tradition, big T and little t, especially as it regards the liturgy of the Church, navigating through the post-Vatican II and Francis’ Church is a challenge, especially when pseudo psychology is used against them to ridicule and marginalize them by those in the clerical world who could be charged with the crime of practicing psychology without a license and Catholicism without charity.
John Nolan praises the Modern Vernacular Mass when it is celebrated in a traditional manner with Gregorian Chant and Polyphony.
Now that there is an official desire to stamp out the nearly 1,600 years of liturgical ethos culminating in the 1962 Roman Missal and ancillary liturgical books, it seems to me that traditional blogs, such as “The New Liturgical Movement” and even Fr.Z’s blog should shift to improving the dismal state of the Modern Vernacular Roman Missal. That should be the truly new liturgical movement of our day.
On Saturday, the ailing Pope Francis “presided” at Holy Mass at Rome’s Jesuit Jesu Church, a magnificent Jesuit church built on the premises of the Ancient Latin Mass but now retrofitted for the Modern Vernacular Mass. The disconnect of the two liturgies could not be more pronounced there looking at the dystopian new sanctuary with the old sanctuary and architecture as a back drop.
And Pope Francis brought his low papacy and desire for low liturgy to this Liturgy celebrating the 400th anniversary of the canonization of Saint Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits. He only presided but without any liturgical vestments. He wore the papal cassock he alway wears which is basically the street clothes of a cleric. He preached without a stole, seems to have concelebrated the Mass and offered the final blessing without even the priestly stole. That’s low Church and low liturgy and low papacy, the current new normal.
And progressive liturgists and priests will seize on this example to return us to 1960’s and 70’s style of liturgical ugliness and experimentation. It is a disaster to say the least.
But within the context of this liturgical corruption, there is a way out and it has to be with the Modern liturgical Books. Will those who prefer the older books, take up the challenge?
By contrast, Cardinal Krajewski in a war zone, properly vests himself for liturgical prayer. Could he be the next pope, God willing?
I have to say that the Mass isn’t horrible although eclectic. But it is annoying to me to see the pope forgo liturgical norms when a bishop presides at Mass without being the celebrant and preaches and offers the final blessing without the proper vesture. I don’t get it, except it is a statement to rigid liturgists about what the flexible should do and can get away with doing:
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To be honest, my darkest fear is of the pope renouncing Faith or ‘coming out’ as homosexual in his last days.
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Archbishop Guido Marini must be glad to be out of this circus!
We should thank Father K for his HUGE contribution to this thread
PF can continue to be a liturgical slob if he likes, but he won't be around much longer, so the younger clergy will be liberated from his dictates. I can't imagine the next pope being this much of a fool, unless your goal is to empty out Churches. And no cleric is still publicly questioning the failed OF, failing in the sense it does not convey a belief in the Real Presence to the majority of its attendees. That is the fundamental issue that needs to be dealt with
Father McDonald,
This is unrelated to this thread but I thought you should see it. It shoes the depravity to which the modern Democratic Party and its voters have sunk:
"This is what the bill says to me: A baby born alive, after an abortion or during a regular delivery, can be allowed to die within the first days of his or her life, possibly as long as 28 days, and no one will ever be charged with murder because, as the bill also states, “Nothing in this section shall be construed to confer personhood or any rights on the fetus.”
See the link: https://www.newsmax.com/frankpavone/infanticide-maryland/2022/03/10/id/1060546/
rcg: What you mention in and of itself isn't sinful. Being chaste avoids the sin brought by physical intimacy. That said, a public declaration of that sort would only be self serving.
To the post itself, as the standard-bearer for the liturgical life of the Church, the source and summit from which all else pours forth, this is disgraceful. I feel so sorry for Roman Catholics existing in a Church that has become such an embarrassment in so many ways. The sad part is for all their flexibility, the liturgical liberals seem to exist within their own echo chamber, all the while being mostly clueless regarding how dire things have become for those effected by their actions/inaction, and how irrelevant in totality the barc of Peter is becoming to those that aren't. With the situation in Ukraine threatening to extend into other countries, with the collapse of the faith in the west, with the collapse of the presbyterate, these tone-deaf "priests of God" are totally in their own self-serving, ideology-driven world.
What else to say here that hasn't been said before? Maybe PF's fasting goals for this lent have now extended to vestments similar to that stupid and pointless fasting from holy water, incense and candles done in so many places.
ByzRus, good point. My fear is not that the pope is a sinner but that he will deny God’s Law.
ByzRus,
Excellent, on point observations. Yes, they really are clueless. As I keep pointing out ad nauseum, when only 30 percent of OF attendees believe in the Real Presence, we have a problem, Houston. That problem does not exist with the EF, but yet the EF is the problem. At least for me, that is why the institutional Church is collapsing.
RCG, I am concerned about that too, that he will change doctrine that even VII did not do to suit his progressive ideology. He has been weak in reprimanding the outrageous progressive agenda in Germany while cracking down on traditionalists and ridiculing them. He truly wants a schism of some kind and may well get one which could well undermine his entire papacy as orthodoxy is restored by a future pope or ecumencouncil to address the Roos of the schism similar to the counter reformation.
Yet another example to demonstrate my point:
No one likes the Novus Ordo.
Even the pope himself doesn't like it's norms, so he ignores them.
Father Fox,
My biggest beef with the typical Novus Ordo is that it is failing to instill belief in the Real Presence. Maybe to some bishops and priests that is a feature, and not a bug. Archbishop Cranmer pretended while Henry VIII was alive to believe in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mas and look how that turned out.
I noticed that in the Gesu the butcher's block altar and the ambo both feature a prominent fissure extending from top to bottom. What does this signify? Schism, perhaps?
John Nolan,
Maybe God’s wrath?
Fissures are found widely in nature, so there's no need to invent any significance any more than we need to find a "significance" to diamonds that sparkle or silver that shines.
When selecting the marker for my late father's burial plot, one of the requirements of the cemetery was that the stone has at least one Christian symbol. Interesting that this block upon which mass is being celebrated seems to be immune from such a requirement. Perhaps this is representative of the curtain in the temple splitting in half?
Now for the snark segment: It's primitive, abstract, totally out of proportion relative to the space it is occupying, it makes a Yugo look charming etc.. How can this not confuse the faithful, you know, those simpletons that still need inspirational beauty and symbolism...the aesthetic? How is this noble and beautiful? How does that block enhance/enchant make otherworldly the action being witnessed by the simpleton faithful?
ByzRus,
Good point but so is the liturgy that is celebrated there. That liturgy is more suitable to a gymnasium or dancehall
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