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To: donbosco74
If I could offer you some tea or hot chocolate, we could talk this over.

Either would be fine. I like both.

So first they deprive the faithful of the True Mass, and now they try to convince you that even though the basis of the Faith, the foundation, has been extracted, the legal structure that was built upon it is still operational and is now working to protect the transplanted foundation. And you're buying it.

I'm not, believe me. I know that Quo Primum guarantees the right of every priest to say the Traditional Mass. The celebret idea was merely a way to get around the stranglehold the modernists have in the diocesan establishment. If Rome won't affirm Quo Primum, what are our other choices here is America? While I have no problem attending an independent chapel, others who are more rules oriented or fearful do. The celebrets offer some reassurance to those individuals, imo.

47 posted on 02/22/2005 9:16:17 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

Oh. Okay.

Will that be "with" or "without?" It's raining right now and a spot of tea would hit the spot, no? Milk first? Mind if I pour out?

All right. Now that we're settled in, I would like to thank you for your gentle accomodation. Seeing those kinds of the faithful all around me, it is reasonable to not criticize them for their need. This comes from one who knows what it's like to be criticized for not doing that of which others presume one is capable, when in fact one is not, much to one's chagrin. Regarding the Faith, I was there myself a mere 5 or 6 years ago. Only by the workings of grace the likes of which I had not thought would ever come to me, was I dragged kicking and screaming into the embrace of Tradition, where I quickly settled down, but not too much, as you might be able to tell. I think Our Lady must have thought of me as a "problem child" at best.

But it is into her shadow to be protected by her mantle that I dare to fly, and I hope I don't shake things up too much.

How could I ignore the sensitivities of others who might already be there, but need some kind of reassurance? Okay, so long as it comes to good. But remember this: the day that the celebret is used to persecute those little ones that today take comfort in its reassurance, I will be the first one to cry "wolf!"

Unless, of course I'm busy having High Tea with you on the Internet and someone else beats me to it!


48 posted on 02/22/2005 9:48:21 PM PST by donbosco74 ("Men and devils make war on me in this great city." (Paris) --St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort)
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