Posted on 07/29/2022 5:18:41 PM PDT by ebb tide
July 29, 2022
On July 16, 2021, Pope Francis published Traditionis Custodes, an apostolic letter issued motu proprio, by which he created new norms on the use of the Mass celebrated according to the Missal of 1962 (often referred to as the Traditional Latin Mass, the Extraordinary Form, and the usus antiquior). This was preceded by an international assessment and consultation of bishops regarding the application of motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. Following that consultation, the Holy Father established several directives aimed at providing ecclesial communion and unity with regard to the celebration of the Mass.
Upon receiving Traditionis Custodes and the subsequently released Responsa ad Dubia, Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of the Diocese of Arlington, convened a group of pastors in the Diocese whose parishes offer the Traditional Latin Mass, as well as experts in the liturgy and canon law, to study the motu proprio and to discern how it may be best implemented in the Diocese. This group offered recommendations to Bishop Burbidge. Consequent to these recommendations, Bishop Burbidge is now publishing an instruction that ensures regional availability of the Traditional Latin Mass in the Diocese of Arlington.
Since the publication of Traditionis Custodes, Bishop Burbidge has consistently emphasized two points. First, the Diocese of Arlington will be obedient to the Holy Father's directives, working toward unity in our use of liturgical rites. Second, the diocesan instruction related to Traditionis Custodes would be sensitive to those who attend the Traditional Latin Mass. This has been evidenced by Bishop Burbidge submitting a request for dispensation from Traditionis Custodes to the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Consequently, three parishes were granted permission to continue celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in their parish churches for a term of two years.
In total, eight of the 21 current locations throughout the Diocese of Arlington will have the Traditional Latin Mass available for the approximately 2.5% of local, Mass-attending Catholics who prefer this liturgical form.
The Traditional Latin Mass will continue to be celebrated in the following locations in the Diocese of Arlington:
The promulgation of Traditionis Custodes recalls for all of us, Christ's faithful, the Second Vatican Council's teaching found in the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium: “Liturgical services are not private functions, but are celebrations of the Church, which is the 'sacrament of unity,' namely, the holy people united and ordered under their bishops” (No. 26). For this reason, we ask the Holy Spirit to increase his gifts of unity and peace within the universal Church and within our local church. Let us pray with ever greater fervor that God Our Father will be pleased to grant her peace, and guard, unite and govern her throughout the whole world.
The policy, linked below, will take effect on September 8, 2022, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Read and download the Policy for the Implementation of Traditionis Custodes in the Diocese of Arlington by clicking the button below (PDF).
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Christendom College, my alma mater, has just raised a lot of money for her new chapel. The Traditional Mass had been celebrated in the college chapel frequently, and hundreds on campus attend. I do not see that chapel on the list. Also, no provision is being made for the refugees from Washington, DC.
Christendom has been a veritable factory for Arlington priests. The college is owed more.
Not at all. Bishop Burbidge is a good and holy man, who was our ordinary when we lived in the Raleigh diocese . I am sure he is doing everything, short of open disobedience to the pope, to preserve the TLM for his diocese.
Do you not think open disobedience is demanded to unjust laws? Burbidge may be a tad better than the apostate, Gregory, across the river; but cutting Traditional Latin Masses down from 21 to 8 is not charitable, nor pastoral.
I find it ironic that all these Frankenbishops prohibit all Latin Mass during the Triduum. That's when all the lax Catholics make their once-a-year presence and maybe again at Christmas.
I will give Burbidge a thumbs up for prohibiting Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion in his archdiocese, unlike his fat, racist peer across the Potomac.
These restrictions will only lead to bitterness and division, not unity.
I am sure he is doing everything, short of open disobedience to the pope, to preserve the TLM for his diocese.
That would be my read. The five-non parish Church venues aid in “justifying” the three parish Church venues by claiming necessity and showing a great deal of good will in attempting to fulfill the letter of the law as much as possible while still accommodating the faithful.
From what I can tell, having been in the Diocese about 10 months, Burbidge is a decent man, and his priests are allowed to play theologically hard (as they should) — including at the Diocese’s Cathedral in Arlington.
Arlington and Lincoln have a long-standing organic culture that has not been disrupted in a way that cannot be said of any other dioceses in the U.S., Canada, or probably anywhere else in the 1st world.
Maybe because it’s not open yet? Perhaps when ot opens Burbridge will allow it.
Yes, he is and he is one of few Bishops that agreed with Corlieane (sp?) who called put Nancy Pelosi regarding her abortion stance and taking communion.
It is. We’ll see what happens.
“These restrictions will only lead to bitterness and division, not unity.”
Indeed. That’s what they want. This is Bergoglio’s war on traditionalists and conservatives. He wants to drive us out of the Church, as he and his minions see us as bulwark against their reforms which seek to remake Catholicism in the image of liberal protestantism.
I have to say, based on what’s happened in past few months in Chicago, D.C., VA, Savannah, etc., they appear to be winning. We on the trad side need to step up their game and push back harder than we’ve been pushing because the lay-low-and-hope-they-leave-us-alone approach is starting to fail. Big time.
Perhaps if the Chelsea Academy site proves too small during the school year, this can be used to justify moving it to the old Christendom Chapel.
Opting to use sites that aren’t also used on a daily basis for the OF is much in keeping with the spirit fo what Rome wants, and moving from one such site to another such site once things are in place would be easily enough to do.
Immediately giving Christendom access to the EF on Sundays might be thought to be too direct-—move it in on Sundays a few weeks into the school year, and then, after a month or too, some weekdays, then after a few more months, all days during the school year, with a cut back over the first summer.
Much better to win incrementally than be forcibly retired (unless one has decided to fight forced retirement, which at this point would be equivalent of a Fort Sumter moment).
I have to say, based on what’s happened in past few months in Chicago, D.C., VA, Savannah, etc., they appear to be winning. We on the trad side need to step up their game and push back harder than we’ve been pushing because the lay-low-and-hope-they-leave-us-alone approach is starting to fail. Big time.
This is a battle for hearts. Seizing the visible without winning hearts is the equivalent of removing obstacles on the streets of Stalingrad without clearing the adjoining houses. It looks like a momentary win, but if anything it merely serves to irritate the natives and cause them to be slightly amazed at the general incompetence of what is perceived as the lackeys of the other side.
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