Editorial: What fruits will come from the Year of the Eucharist?

Dici ^ | October 2004

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 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

October 23 to November 6 2004 • DICI 102 •

Editorial: What fruits will come from the Year of the Eucharist? The Year of the Eucharist opened on October 17 and will conclude with the Synod of Bishops in Rome in October 2005. To the American journalist from The Latin Mass magazine (see DICI number 101) who asked him what he expected from this synod dedicated to the Eucharist, Bishop Bernard Fellay responded: “Provided they use good means, provided the faithful and priests are reoriented toward what is the heart of the Church and what ought to be the heart of the life of every Catholic, this synod could be the starting point of a true renewal of the Catholic Church”. But he immediately added: “I don’t think this is possible without a terrible and dramatic spiritual conflict”. This can be the providential occasion of a renewal of the Church, and both the priests and the faithful attached to the traditional Mass will be able to associate themselves to it by a more fervent devotion and a true missionary desire to extend the worship due to the Most Blessed Sacrament. But this renewal will not happen without a fight. Unfortunately, this reality seems absent from all the official declarations that have greeted the opening of the Year of the Eucharist. There has been no calling into question of the liturgical reform emanating from the Second Vatican Council, no review of what’s happened over the last forty years. The facts are there, but the Roman authorities do not want to recognize them as the effects of a disastrous reform. They are facts without cause ; one might as well call them evils without remedy. FROM ROME • The opening of the Year of the Eucharist • Declaration to the bishops of New Zealand against secularization • Warning against laxity in declarations of nullity of marriage • The causes of saints THE CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD • France: Worrying deficits in several dioceses • Spain: Bill on homosexual “marriage” • Europe: Cal Ratzinger opposed to Turkey’s entry into European Union • Portugal: New ambassador to the Holy See • In Brief NEWS FROM TRADITION • France: 3rd session of the international symposium of theology Click here to download the pdf file of DICI 102.

News of the Church
	The opening of the Year of the Eucharist The 44th apostolic letter of Pope John-Paul II was presented to the public on October 8. Entitled Mane Nobiscum Domine, this document of 32 pages sets the tone of the Year of the Eucharist, which opened with the international Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico from October 10 to 17, 2004...
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	Declaration to the bishops of New Zealand against the secularization of society On September 13, John Paul II asked the bishops of New Zealand, on their ad limina visit, to fight against “the effects of an unrestrained secularism” which is affecting many countries...
	> to continue
	Spain: Bill on homosexual “marriage” Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the pontifical council for the family, has condemned the bill which would authorize homosexual “marriage” in Spain...
	> to continue
updated : 23/10/2004

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[Land of the Irish]

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[Grey Ghost II]

What fruits will come from the Year of the Eucharist?

Probably prunes.

[Land of the Irish]

Probably prunes...and a couple of road apples.

[AskStPhilomena]

Many of the "fruits" who'll be leading this so-called "new evangelization" are a couple of bananas short of a fruit salad.

[Unam Sanctam]

The Pope declare a year of the Eucharist, an act that cannot possible be deemed unorthodox, but yet you three of course see fit to make ffun of it. By their fruits they will know them indeed -- your knee-jerk trashing of the Pope even when there is no cause to do so suggests that your anti-Catholic movement is not of God.

[Grey Ghost II]

The Pope declare a year of the Eucharist, an act that cannot possible be deemed unorthodox,

I don't operate in a vacuum. I have to take everything he has said and done over the last 25 years. The Catholic Church is hardly recognizable anymore. It's mutated into what APPEARS to be a grotesque monster that has led astray million of souls.

I can't get all excited about this.

[bonaventura]

your knee-jerk trashing of the Pope even when there is no cause to do so suggests that your anti-Catholic movement is not of God.

I read through the thread, and I have yet to see anyone trash the pope. In fact, I didn't even see anyone mention the pope. There have been threads in the past that head south pretty quickly and get into ad hominem attacks, but that has not happened here. I hadn't even seen anyone claim that the year of the Eucharist is unorthodox, as you said. In fact, it is even praised by Bishop Fellay as an opportunity for true renewal.

Perhaps you should re-evaluate your own attack, remembering that charity thinketh no evil.

[Unam Sanctam]

What fruits will come from the Year of the Eucharist?

Probably prunes.

Probably prunes...and a couple of road apples.

Many of the "fruits" who'll be leading this so-called "new evangelization" are a couple of bananas short of a fruit salad.

If this isn't mocking and trashing the Pope's initiative, I don't know what it. It certainly does not show any good faith towards the Holy Father.

[latae sententiae]

As previously posted, the Pope has called on all parishes to study the Novus Ordo liturgy in detail, and has strongly urged the clergy to fully comply with the liturgical law.

If this is accomplished, perhaps the number of outrages will be reduced.

a) Is this being accomplished in your Novus Ordo parish?

b) Is it being accomplished in any Novus Ordo parish that you know of?

c) If the answers to a & b are "no," how is it possible, by your own standards and definitions, for said parishes to not become bands of pope-bashing disobedient schismatics?

[Maximilian]

Or perhaps they'll just stay in their darkened rooms making fruit jokes.

Like this one? "In my last New Mass parish, the rectory had more fruits than Carmen Miranda's hat!"

But seriously folks, when they filed the restraining order against our pastor, I figured out where the phrase "forbidden fruit" comes from.

But all kidding aside, if there were any more fruits in our diocese, we could wrap it up in cellophane and send it as a Christmas present.

But as far as staying in darkened rooms goes, I prefer to believe, "It is better to light a single scented candle, and some Goddess incense, and prance around the sanctuary looking like Martha Graham, than to curse the darkness."

Just put an incense bowl in her hand, and she'll be all ready for some "liturgical dance."

[Maximilian]

By their fruits they will know them indeed

Yes indeed. Here are the fruits by which you shall know the New Mass church:

Bishop Ryan, resigned, but living in a house purchased with diocesan money, still performing confirmations, and back in the news this week when a domestic altercation occurred between him and male sleep-over guest. [If ever a photo just screamed "pervert," or "fruit" as the case may be, it has to be this one.]

As for any "fruits" of the "year of the Eucharist," I'll believe them when I see them. There has been some new initiative every year, and every year things get worse.

Although I have to admit that the Holy Year of 2000 did bring me special graces. It began by shocking and scandalizing me when I saw the pope let the Archdruid of Canterbury open the special door to inaugurate the Holy Year. By the time 12 months had gone by, I had put the New Mass behind me and was fully traditional.

[latae sententiae]

Even if my parish doesn't implement the directive, it would be at worst disobedient.

Actually, it would'nt even be anywhere close to disobedience, since, like everything else coming out of Modernist Rome, it's just a suggestion. If someone encourages you to do something, and you blow it off completely, what else can the suggester do besides shrug his shoulders & get on with his life?

Relax. Your party ain't over yet.

[latae sententiae]

In my last New Mass parish, the rectory had more fruits than Carmen Miranda's hat!



Watch eet, Meester. Joo knock jus one banana from offa my head, I weel make joo flat like dee pancake!