The priest at the beginning of the video I post below mirrors in some ways, not all, my own experience with Summorum Pontificum in 2007.
My bishop at the time wasn’t as organized or intentional as Bishop Jugis in Charlotte at the time, but he did give priests a green light to celebrate theTLM if they could handle the Latin and learn the ceremonies and poll the parish to see how many would be interested.
My own experience was not to have a weekly Sunday TLM, but only monthly and at a time that did not disturb those who appreciated the Ordinary Mass at the time they traditionally went.
I did add a weekly Low TLM at 5 pm on Tuesdays to help me to allow the TLM to get into my blood.
Eventually we had TLMs for special Holy Day Masses in addition to the Ordinary Form and always made clear that it was a TLM not to catch anyone off-guard.
There was no divisiveness about the TLM at St. Joseph Church in Macon from 2007 to the time of TC.
Most of my parishioners who went to the TLM also appreciated and loved the Ordinary Form. No one was demanding a weekly Sunday TLM or complaining about the way we celebrated the Ordinary Form as we tried to celebrate it well with dignity and reverence.
What Pope Francis did to TLM communities and bishops who zealously implemented TC, even the Johnny-come-lately Bishop of Charlotte is a mortal sin against charity, against Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. There’s no other way to say it.
I appreciate this video and I feel for those laity, so young, so strong in their faith, grappling with a dictatorial and authoritarian crackdown. Pope Benedict liberated these Catholics; Pope Francis (RIP) and bishops zealously and uncaringly implementing TC have oppressed them and needlessly so!
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