Oh, Claud, thank you so much for this window into the Latin tradition. It is almost wiped out. I share your hope and prayers that attempts to destroy it will fail. I still don’t fully grasp what the liberals are so “offended” by when it comes to these ancient rites and Mass.
There are such good signs everywhere on the horizon—and most of the bad signs come from 60s retreads who are (unfortunately) in control in most of the chancery offices but are steadly losing their grip.
I have a very dear priest friend who has experienced persecution because of his attachment to Latin tradition; he and most other traditionalists back in the 1990s and early 2000s were ardent admirers of a certain Cardinal Ratzinger. Ratzinger was one of the few Cardinals, by the way, who actually offered the Old Mass publicly in recent years and spoke out continually in favor of it. But my friend thought that the new mentality was so entrenched that it was impossible that he become Pope. The election of Benedict XVI sent shock waves throughout the Catholic world...causing progressives to shudder in horror and traditionalists to gasp in shocked ecstasy. It might not have been apparent to those who were watching from the outside and did not know him as well as we did, but traditionalists were stunned that the person who was their biggest champion within the halls of the Vatican was now Pope.
And young priests...God bless them...they are such a holy, pro-traditional bunch. Traditional orders of nuns are growing by leaps and bounds and don’t even have room for the applicants that are trying to get in. The progressive orders are aging, dying out, and not attracting any vocations whatever.