Posted on 08/21/2023 3:36:08 PM PDT by ebb tide
A recent piece at the SSPX site deals with the “vertiginous” drop in priestly vocations in France, in particular, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. The figures they used are from the French bishops conference and other non-SSPX sources.
The numbers are dreadful, even for a pessimist.
The results will be disastrous, given the present madness about synodality (“walking together-ity”).
This vertiginous drop in the number of ecclesiastics leads to abuses that the next synod on synodality is very likely not to sanction, and perhaps even to condone. To compensate for the lack of priests in Switzerland, they will not hesitate to call on lay people. In La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana on June 16, 2023, Luisella Scrosati notes that in the canton of Basel, it is now usual for lay people to exercise priestly functions: they preach; they preside over a liturgy of the Word which completely replaces the Mass; and they baptize and celebrate marriages.
Pray for vocations.
I once preached a Forty Hours Devotion. WE NEED FORTY HOURS!
I said that Forty Hours was instituted to beg God to avert disasters from the Church and society. In that particular Forty Hours I preached about the disaster on the horizon from the lack of vocations to the priesthood and that that should be our focus during those days of Exposition, prayer, and litaniac procession.
On the other hand, groups using the traditional liturgical books, faithful to the Church’s teachings ( = “We are our rites!”) are growing and their seminaries are full.
Ping
Thanks to VaticanII and Francis.
What normal young man would want to enter the Feminary?
When the trumpet is uncertain, who will gird for battle?
Mark
Maybe young Seminarians realize Francis is changing things, it won’t be long and he may try to rewrite the Ten Commandments.
Holy Spirit, cleanse Your Church.
I pray tge Holy Spirit removes Bergoglio soon.
*the Holy
God bless the seminarians going in now...they are like the Jesuits of OLD...walking into the bullets for Christ, head tilted down in humility to Christ and determination, like our WW1 solders going over the no mans land.
God protect them by making them FIGHTERS!
Traditionally minded men are flushed out of seminaries in faor ov homosexuals and those with “modern “views so many that of what new priests emerge are trendy modernist Catholics and not into that Doctrine stuff.
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