Posted on 11/30/2020 4:16:45 PM PST by ebb tide
More than one hundred faithful assisted at an open air Mass next to Clermont Cathedral, France, on the Place of the Victory.
The Mass was officially declared a "demonstration" by the Catholic French group Civitas and was offered by a Capuchin of Morgon, a community close to the Society of Saint Pius X.
France presently has strict Covid-19-limits for public worship, but not for demonstrations.
Ping
Wish I could have been there. Meanwhile, it appears our local Latin Masses have ended permanently ðŸ˜
Where are you at that TLM has been shut down? I won’t say where I am because I don’t want to get anyone in trouble, but I’d hazard to guess that the Latin Mass I attended yesterday was one of the best attended in my entire diocese.
Awesome! Wish I was there.
Maybe this will inspire courage in our local churches.
Viva Cristo Rey
It was not a matter of bad intent or discrimination against traditionalists; just that the celebrating priests (brothers) are very old — long since “retired” — and I think covid was the straw that broke the camel’s back for them. They were having to drive from out of town and the whole thing was just too much.
That’s a shame, and that how my diocese was a decade ago. Now, there’s a supportive bishop and a growing cohort of young and middle-aged priests who do celebrate it. I do worry though about all our priests. Unless things rapidly turn around, I’m afraid that we’re going to see a lot of priests quitting over the next few years. My gut feeling is that the American branch of the Catholic Church is heading for a sort of near-term wipeout due to a perfect storm of Pope Francis’ idiocy, covid and a general drift into irrelevancy.
New COVID-19 cases have dropped to nothing in France and is falling fast all over Europe.
New cases in the US have been lower for the last 3 days than a week ago. (ignoring Thanksgiving)
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