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From CNA:
A diocese in the Netherlands says it will no longer offer Mass every Sunday in its parishes.
Instead, the Diocese of Roermond, in the country’s south, informed parishes in a letter of moving toward offering Mass only every other week.
Due to a shortage of priests and to save on energy costs, the diocese said it was abandoning its previous rule of offering at least one Sunday service in every parish.
“In addition, in some places, so few people participate in the Eucharist that it is much more motivating to bring together believers from different parishes in one joint eucharistic celebration,” Vicar General René Maessen wrote in the letter, dated August 2022.
“Financial arguments can also play a role in the consideration of no longer offering a Eucharist every week, but for example, once every two weeks,” the diocese wrote on its website.
These included in particular the high cost of gas and electricity. “Although financial reasons should never be the main item in pastoral affairs, they cannot be disregarded either,” Maessen said.
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Check out Archdiocese of Cincinnati “Beacons of Light”. That is what they are doing. Re: the previous post it seems likely that some parishes will be sold and the congregations combined in the next few years.
Father McDonald, in regard to your "Spirit of Vatican II" reference:
As Pope Benedict XVI declared:
"I would now like to add yet a third point: there was the Council of the Fathers – the real Council – but there was also the Council of the media. It was almost a Council apart, and the world perceived the Council through the latter, through the media.
"Thus, the Council that reached the people with immediate effect was that of the media, not that of the Fathers."
"We know that this Council of the media was accessible to everyone. Therefore, this was the dominant one, the more effective one, and it created so many disasters, so many problems, so much suffering: seminaries closed, convents closed, banal liturgy … and the real Council had difficulty establishing itself and taking shape; the virtual Council was stronger than the real Council."
"But the real force of the Council was present and, slowly but surely, established itself more and more and became the true force which is also the true reform, the true renewal of the Church.
"It seems to me that, 50 years after the Council, we see that this virtual Council is broken, is lost, and there now appears the true Council with all its spiritual force."
"And it is our task, especially in this Year of Faith, on the basis of this Year of Faith, to work so that the true Council, with its power of the Holy Spirit, be accomplished and the Church be truly renewed."
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As Pope Benedict XVI made clear, the authentic Vatican II has, and will continue, to renew the Church.
Pope Benedict XVI also made clear that the (Latin) Church will move forward with the Holy Mass of Pope Saint Paul VI as Her primary Mass. He has insisted that the authentic liturgical renewal has enriched the Roman Liturgy.
As Pope Benedict XVI assured us, the Church's great spiritual renewal is found within the authentic Council, as well as authentic liturgical renewal (the authentic Holy Mass of Pope Saint Paul VI).
That is where the tremendous holy renewing power of the Holy Ghost resides.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas,
Back on Planet Earth, if you bothered to read the article, you would discover that only 4% of Catholics there go to Sunday Mass, the Novus Ordo, which you keep insisting is so wonderful and is packing them in. In a sane world, bishops might say, well we tried this for 60 years, perhaps we should try something radical like the TLM. It seems a lot of young Catholics are attracted to it, although we do our best to ignore this inconvenient fact.
Mark Thomas,
Since you reside in Religious Fairyland, I assume you reside in a Political Fairlyland. Here is an opposing viewpoint to everything is swell in Biden's America where Obama says are better off today then they were when Biden took office:
"Obama's statement is very revealing of the Democrat/Progressive/Elite mindset; the suffering inflicted on the 'lower classes' by their policies; skyrocketing inflation, unfettered illegal immigration, rampant crime, insane energy prices, etc. etc. etc. aren't a bug, they're a feature so to their mind the country is better off.
Impoverishing the lower classes while enriching themselves and their crony donor class sponsors is what they're all about. They don't give a flying rip about hard working American taxpayers. Biden calling Trump Republicans Fascists while his administration coordinates with corporate media to suppress free speech is particularly rich. Whoever writes this stuff needs to look up the meaning of the word and if they have a shred of intellectual honesty (lol, if they did they wouldn't be in the position,) come to the obvious conclusion that this isn't them, it's us.
The LA Times editorial board had a piece today declaring California needs to do more to combat climate change. On a day their Governor is pleading with citizens to set their thermostats to 78 and warning of rolling blackouts. What do you bet every single member of the LA Times editorial board has a gas powered backup generator for their home (which likely have a carbon footprint at least 10 times that of the average American.) Our leftist elites aren't just hypocrites, they're evil."
TJM, the President is correct if for no other reason than we are two years closer to the end of his administration.
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