The above vision occurred 199 years ago.
Posted on 07/18/2021 12:29:49 PM PDT by ebb tide
The demolition of the little that still survives that is Catholic by the bishops and priests marks the the Church’s Descent into the Tomb, Archbishop Viganò writes on AldoMariaValli.it (July 14).
He explains that God wills that the Church imitate Christ in everything, even in his Passion. Therefore, her terrible death rattle is for Viganò the necessary premise of her resurrection because with this “Redemption is brought to completion.”
We participate in the work of the Redemption not passively but as active protagonists, Viganò explains, “It is in this that we may say that we are a priestly people.”
Therefore, in the face of the bishops’ apostasy and the Church’s agony, we cannot be truly pessimistic, Viganò stresses.
He recalls that the priests were the first who wanted to kill Christ, “so it is not surprising that in the moment of the Church's Passion it is precisely they who mock what their blind soul no longer understands.”
The above vision occurred 199 years ago.
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Peter Kwasniewski 7/18/21
Our Latin High Mass was absolutely PACKED this morning. And I heard the other Masses were fuller than usual, too.
How about in your neck of the woods?
As I said in one of my interviews on D-Day, this pope and his cronies are delusional if they think they will be able to rip the love of sacred tradition out of the hearts of the faithful who have discovered it. In point of fact, the more they try, the more incandescent this love will glow.
And no amount whatsoever of adding smells and bells to the Novus Ordo — the impossible dream of “fixing” the Novus Ordo, which every pope for fifty years has said should happen, and which has never happened in any serious way — will change this fact one bit. Because it is not fundamentally about smells and bells. It is about the traditional liturgy in its total integrity on every level, which breathes a timeless air and effortlessly leads us into the presence of God just by being what it is, no tinkering or salvaging needed.
THAT’S why the church was packed this morning at all three Masses.
And... “the dawn chorus,” consisting of a remarkable number of babies, was letting its collective voice be heard in no uncertain terms: we are the future of the Church.
Is Vigano saying we’re certainly defeated?
No. Nor was Christ defeated.
Attendance at my TLM this morning was way up, too, as acquaintances and families I hadn’t seen in months showed. Seems Bergoglio shook some folks out of their complacency. Fr had a good sermon explaining that no one of us including the pope owns the treasures of the Church, and the bishop has our back, so we’ll keep doing what we’re doing. And if there comes a time when we’re forced out, we’ll carry on in some other way as best we can, and after all isn’t that the way of the cross that the apostles and martyrs eventually faced?
Just like in the USA, the Church’s breakdown is from within.
I was a pre-teen when I served at Latin Mass(6a.m) and I was a graduate student in engineering when I still did the same.(9a.m) Same prayers, same intensity. VAT II was a traumatic experience
Yes, I remember serving as an altar boy at Mass and responding to the priest in Latin before V2. Christmas midnight Mass and delivering the Washington Post at 5 am.
I remember serving at the midnight High Mass for the installation of a Trappist abbot.
As a kid I volunteered serving at funeral and wedding Masses because of the monetary tips I received at each Event.
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