Posted on 08/12/2022 4:48:43 PM PDT by ebb tide
St Peter's Square. It is now 7 a.m. and there are only a few people hurrying to their workplaces.
We enter the abandoned basilica. In a few months we have lost the intense activity that used to fill the many altars in the huge space with life. This was a sacred spectacle, unique in the world. It is no more.
Priests from all corners of the world, alone or accompanied by groups of the faithful, celebrated in all languages and rites. Now that is forbidden.
Altar boys, now banned from the Vatican, and employees of the basilica gathered to attend to the hundreds, reportedly as many as five hundred, who celebrated by the papal altar and the tomb of Peter.
We do not believe that this harmed anyone, but it seems that all this was not "conciliar" and was therefore abolished by decree.
Ping
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