Posted on 06/29/2016 1:58:45 PM PDT by marshmallow
BRUSSELS, June 28, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The Primate of Belgium, who has been in office less than a year, has closed down, for dubious reasons, a priestly fraternity that had been blessed with many vocations.
At the end of last year, Jozef De Kesel was named the archbishop of Belgium's main See, Mechelen-Brussels, the successor of the traditionally-minded Archbishop André Léonard. While his predecessor was outspoken concerning pro-life issues and attacks on human sexuality, De Kesel promotes a church "not closed within herself" and that gives "reverence to homosexual people."
Now De Kesel has taken yet another step towards the "liberalization" of his diocese, by closing down a priestly fraternity established by his predecessor. Archbishop Léonard founded the so-called "Fraternité des Saints Apôtres/Broederschap van de Heilige Apostelen", or "Fraternity of the Holy Apostles", which was a public association of the clerical faithful, of diocesan right. Léonard entrusted the education of priests to the Fraternity and gave them two parishes in Brussels.
The founding of a fraternity seems strange for a bishop - being the highest in command in his own diocese, with all its resources - but it shows one more time just how many obstacles a conservative bishop must overcome. As in many dioceses in German-speaking countries, the alleged absence of priests due to plummeting vocations is often used as a justification for establishing or strengthening "lay-structures," including "liturgies of the word" with the distribution of communion, or the implementation of all kinds of extraordinary offices, replacing priests and in effect making them superfluous. In many parishes in the north of Germany or in the countryside, no Masses are accessible to those without a car, or who are too old to travel; they are bound to participate in a pseudo-liturgy, led by laity.
Instead of fighting the recurring external..........
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“Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” - Jesus
Spiritual saboteur.
The Primate of Belgium is a homosexual pretender.
Presumably Pope the Dope approved his appointment.
The only legitimate priestly fraternity existing within the new religion (whose CEO is headquartered in the Vatican), is the Priestly Order of Saint Peter.
The priests are only in certain select cities that the presiding bishop out of the goodness of his Novus Ordo heart will allow. They say only the Traditional Tridentine Mass and are often contemptuous of the new religion in their homilies. The priests have been thoroughly schooled in the tenets and rubrics of the traditional Church and are Latin scholars.
I know that translations from other languages don’t always carry the meaning through correctly, not just in terms of the specific word chosen but nuances of local or professional usage; however, it seems to me that the only “reverence” that is acceptable to homosexuals is one where Christians cease from actual reverence for God’s Word, giving fidelity to it up (and, not incidentally, ultimately to Him as well) that we may please them.
Unrepentant PERSONS may be given some common measure of respect without approving of their sin, and it may be possible that this is the “reverence” here being talked about. This is possible for Christians in part because Christians are told to leave wrath to The Lord, and not to take it upon ourselves to individually do something about those we consider to be displeasing to God (as, for example, Muslims are commanded to do). If this is what the new boy meant than no foul.
But let me state once against that THAT is not a kind of respect that many homosexuals will find acceptable: they want acceptance of both themselves and their sin as well, for many define who they are as a function of that sin, making it the vital aspect of their whole sense of self. The “reverence” they want is, to be blunt, of the sort that may be summarized by this radical alteration of the old hymn...
Just as I am,
I’m changing not,
How dare you say my soul’s got spots,
I feel I’m okay and that should be enough,
Don’t ask me to come except just as I am!
IOW: the “reverence” of homosexuals that is acceptable to the homosexual community is for Christians to depart from the truth so that they feel no pressure to repent, for that seems to make them feel bad ... poor widdle waifs....
If anything more than the former “reverence”, and even a bit like the latter, was indicated by the new bishop ... WATCH OUT!
Maybe even “run away”. Scripture doesn’t tell us to remove ourselves from the world but from a so-called “brother” who lives or teaches error? Well, that’s a whole other can of worms....
May I suggest that you add the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest to your list of good Orders?
I haven’t heard of CtK order. Quick Wikipedia shows they do like the traditional Mass, but are they as anti-Vatican II?
On a side note, fssp grew out of the St plus x split. I’ve got an uncle who’s a priest with the order.
SOMETIMES, when I am driving in the city or on the freeway, I come across someone who SEEMS to be out to kill him/herself...and me too.
At those times I would LOVE to see the cop or highway patrol.
Only ONCE in my life was there a cop when I needed one...and it was HILARIOUS. But, that's another story.
The ordinations next week will bring the number of Canons to over 100 worldwide. All of their ordinations are done by Raymond Cardinal Burke.
I attend a parish which may be closed. We are considering asking an order outside the diocese to take over the church; I have seen this done successfully here: http://stgregoryvabeach.org/
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