Posted on 07/27/2021 5:51:11 PM PDT by ebb tide
A third weekly demonstration in front of the Nunciature in Paris is planed on July 31, Paix-Liturgique.org writes.
The first demonstration with eight people took place on July 16 in presence of Father Claude Barthe. The second followed on July 24 with more than 50 people. Their message: "Freedom for the traditional Mass!”
The weekly events are organised by lay Catholics, “It is about letting our pastors know the smell of their sheep,” Christian Marquant told Paix-Liturgique.org.
The group believes that many things will be at stake in autumn and will react immediately to possible manoeuvres of the enemies of liturgical reconciliation, “We are ready, the so-called world of Catholic tradition will not be crushed.”
According to Marquant traditional priests will be the most vulnerable, and certain prelates in charge do not hide it: “The traditional seminaries will be the main target.”
Father Barthe's dream is that in the coming weeks similar protests will gather in other cities, “Imagine that in a few months' time, demonstrations like ours will take place in front of fifty nunciatures.”
Ping
The French will protest anything. So typical of their “rights” attitude is “freedom for the traditional mass.” Their enlightenment mentality governs their views. Something like “God lives in the traditional mass” or “Saints preserve the mass of the ages” or anything that hits on what the TLM is actually about. It’s not freedom.
You always perceive the worst in traditional Catholics.
Why is that?
A New Biography of Archbishop Lefebvre by Bp. Tissier de Mallerais June 27, 2021 If you want to learn more about Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who he was, why he took action and the enormous effect his actions [re the Laatin Mass} have had—this is the book you need to read.
For nearly two thousand years the Catholic Mass was said in the same manner everywhere in the western world, regardless of nation or nationality. But in the 20th century that ceased to be true. Profound changes that had begun far earlier culminated in the Second Vatican Council and the creation of a new theology, the effect of which was a new form of worship. Up until this point in history, few laymen had ever heard the story of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Fewer still knew that he was a missionary in the fields of Africa, Bishop of Dakar, Apostolic Delegate to West Africa, or even that he was appointed as the head of the international priestly order of the Holy Ghost Fathers. How he became known as a conservative leader and a voice for all those looking to oppose modernism was known by fewer still. ///
I am a traditional Catholic. I’m just a critical thinker.
That may be what you think, but you appear just to one full of criticism.
I would think you would also have problems with the French catholics in the War of the Vendee.
Thank-you. I’m aware of that biography and plan on reading it one day.
Perhaps, but were in an age where protesting overly authoritative structures seems warranted. IMO
There is a good question about what can be accomplished with it though.
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