[Catholic Caucus] No Eucharistic Revival without Restoration

Tradition and Sanity ^ | April 20, 2023 | Peter Kwasniewski

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[Catholic Caucus] No Eucharistic Revival without Restoration

The how-to manual has been written for a long, long time. But the ones in charge don't want to read it.

Dear Subscribers to “Tradition & Sanity”: I am overwhelmed by the support you’ve given me as I start this Substack. It knocked me off my feet. We went from scratch to 1,800 subscribers and counting. Many of you made pledges for the future (thank you!). I will pray for you; specifically, you will be my intention at the offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass every Thursday.

Speaking of which… after last week’s inaugural post, this week I deliberately turn my attention to the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar—the reason I chose Thursday as my main posting day.

The Catholic bishops of the United States, bless their souls, have staged undertaken what they charmingly call a “National Eucharistic Revival,” including as its culmination a “congress” with a $14 million price-tag (originally the figure $28 million was being batted around). If they or their appointed representatives had bothered to spend a bit of time and a few bucks standing outside TLM chapels around the country and quizzing the exiting faithful, or sent emails to a fairly random selection of traditionalist writers online, they could have discovered affordable secrets to a rapid-fire national revival, and saved themselves a great deal of money and PR effort.

What are these secrets? I am prepared to divulge them here, in the form of a handy chart prepared by my friend Jacob Bauer, who sings with me in the local schola.

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The important and obvious changes that could be made to the Novus Ordo will never be made as long as the Vatican II generation is still in charge, because that whole slate of rubrics to which the chart above points reminds these people of the dreaded “old Mass”—and from there to mean sisters wielding rulers and every other bugbear of the 1950s is but a tiny step.

Sad to say, for a certain type of bishop, Vatican II is more important than the Real Presence. The sign of this is that they will stop at nothing to shore up Vatican II, but they will not lift a finger to remedy the Novus Ordo’s grave, manifest, and stubborn defects when it comes to the veneration and distribution of the Most Blessed Sacrament.