Posted on 07/23/2021 1:53:23 PM PDT by ebb tide
“A week ago, on this day, and at this hour, an atomic bomb fell on the Church. I have felt physically unwell for most of the time since then - a visceral reaction to this wound that has been inflicted on us.
“A priest is never more so than when he stands at the altar and offers the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and for the past thirty-one years since my ordination that experience for me has been overwhelmingly enlightened by the Church’s ancient liturgical forms. To be told that this is undesirable, or that the provision of this liturgy is a remedial concession for those who are yet to find their way to the true Roman Rite is both crass and cruel.
“In addition to the importance of the liturgical character of my almost sixty years in the Church, my academic and scholarly contribution has majorly been in the realm of the translation of Latin liturgical texts, a task which I would never been able to undertake without the formation, and continual sustainance of the older forms of the liturgy.
“Suddenly, all this is called into question, and I find myself somewhat like a person under a death sentence, awaiting news of when his sentence will be carried out. Both the diocese of my incardination and the diocese of my current residence and work are yet to concede what recent legislation suggests is the necessary permission for what former legislation had established as an indisputed right.
“Please pray for me, and the many like me, whose continuation in the active ministry of the priesthood has now been rendered contingent upon these decisions. We wish to continue to serve the Church we love, nourished and sustained by that liturgy which of its nature must be ever old, ever new.”
- Monsignor Andrew Wadsworth
Monsignor Wadsworth is a priest of the Oratorian community at Saint Thomas the Apostle Church in Washington and is executive director of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL)
Ping
I have great sympathy for Msgr Wadsworth, but I’m not sure if these threats are the right approach. Bergoglio and his minions would like nothing better than for all the good, trad-leaning priests to retire and go away.
A sensible approach would be to put no obstacles to the Latin Mass, and let those who want it celebrate it.
But bergoglio is not sensible.
If you are well into your 80’s, there may be a point in husbanding remaining strength and mentoring a few disciples.
I would not question this decision myself.
What is needed is a new warrior Pope Michael ( inspired by St. Michael the Archangel). A Pope that would with firmness and purpose purge all the homosexuals from the clergy. A Pope who would fearlessly abolish mandatory celibacy and allow normal healthy heterosexuals to become priests and lead a complete life. A new Pope in the politically incorrect mode of Pope Julius II is badly needed to fight evil.
Priests literally crawled through Hell to offer the Sacrifice of the Mass to troops on Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and many other islands of the Pacific not to mention the overland trek through Europe that was the assault on the Third Reich. STFU Francisco.
Nor is he merciful.
My theory is that the writer doesn’t care, and that the OP doesn’t care either, and thus you’re allowed to go with any interpretation you like. Here are some choices.
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TLM Two-Level Maintenance
TLM The Lyrical Maze (band)
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TLM The Liquid Muse
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TLM Transition Line Model
TLM Two-Layer Method
TLM Technical Lead/Manager
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TLM Target Locator Module
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TLM Third Leg Material
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You have my prayers, Monsignor!
Most people are unaware that the Jesuits were the primary proponents of Liberaton Theology in Latin America, and in South America in particular it was the Argentine Jesuits. And Bergoglio is an Argentine Jesuit. Its overall leader was James Francis Carney of Chicago who spent ten years in Central America. It was written of Carney (Malachi Martin), “...the dialectic of struggle [at the heart of Liberation Theology] was to overcome the ‘sin’ of conservatism that is the peculiar sin of the Roman Catholic Church.” Carney himself wrote, “A dogmatic anticommunist Christian is not a real Christian.”
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