Posted on 11/27/2023 3:40:08 PM PST by ebb tide
Dictator Pope Ping
More secrecy.
and of my not implementing the motu propoio Traditionis custodes
How sad.
Pope John Paul II allowed the TLM, and even set up the FSSP for that purpose: to train priests to celebrate it.
Pope Benedict XVI then lifted the excommunications of the SSPX and stated that the TLM was never abrogated.
Then along comes Pope Francis...
Bttt.
5.56mm
Wr wete told for years that God does not change and the Church was a solid place of refuge. Modernism is the ruination of not just the Church.
I am in this Diocese and had to go to our parish office today. I have been away for awhile and asked the clerk what the feeling is among the parishioners. She said sadness. And asked me to pray hard for this upstanding leader. While discussing this, she just looked at the floor while shaking her head side-by-side.
I have personally been at meetings with Bishop Strickland long ago when he was a priest in Tyler, TX., and I was a local prayer president at our church. He left one feel how holy he was in his vocation. This is beyond comprehension what happened to him.
Anyone who lived through that time would tell you the claim that the Latin Mass wasn't "abrogated" is utter nonsense at best, and a falsification of history at worst.
"In conclusion, we wish to give the force of law to all that we have set forth concerning the new Roman Missal. In promulgating the official edition of the Roman Missal, Our predecessor, St. Pius V, presented it as an instrument of liturgical unity and as a witness to the purity of the worship the Church. While leaving room in the new Missal, according to the order of the Second Vatican Council, "for legitimate variations and adaptations," we hope nevertheless that the Missal will be received by the faithful as an instrument which bears witness to and which affirms the common unity of all. Thus, in the great diversity of languages, one unique prayer will rise as an acceptable offering to our Father in heaven, through our High-Priest Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit. We order that the prescriptions of this Constitution go into effect November 30th of this year, the first Sunday of Advent. We wish that these Our decrees and prescriptions may be firm and effective now and in the future, notwithstanding, to the extent necessary, the apostolic constitutions and ordinances issued by Our predecessors, and other prescriptions, even those deserving particular mention and derogation." - Paul VI, Missale Romanum, 1969
Accordingly, no one whosoever is permitted to infringe or rashly contravene this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, direction, grant, indult, declaration, will, decree and prohibition. Should any person venture to do so, let him understand that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed Apostles Peterand Paul.
Pope St. Pius V, July 14, 1570.
The money quote: "This reflects a general principle in law: An equal does not have power over another equal. No pope who used perpetuity in his disciplinary decrees understood the term to mean that no future pope could ever amend or replace his legislation. And popes did in fact change some of the provisions of Quo Primum, even before Vatican II. In 1604, for instance, Pope Clement VIII issued new regulations for the Blessing at Mass, and in 1634 Pope Urban VIII changed the wording of the Missals rubrics and hymn texts."
And besides, for those who lived through the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Missae, they would tell you that the deprivation and removal of the Latin Mass from their parishes was far from "hogwash".
Whether Paul VI was beatified, canonized, or not (which is an entirely separate discussion, but TL;DR: canonizations are secondary objects of the Church’s infallibility with regards to her universal ecclesiastical laws; a true Pope is protected by the Holy Ghost from declaring someone as a saint [and therefore eligible for the veneration of the laity, and the general worship in the liturgy] who in fact isn’t
; thus, if Francis is the Pope, then his beatification and canonization of Paul VI is legitimate), that has nothing to do with the papal authority to revise the liturgy.
(Just to be clear, I don’t think either Paul VI or Francis are true Popes. However, papal authority with regards to revising the liturgy and canonizations is still unchanged; if Paul VI was a true Pope, his revision of the Mass was legitimate and lawfully promulgated. If Francis is a true Pope, his beatification and canonization of Paul VI is likewise legitimate.)
Unlike Montini, Pope St. Pius V did not suppress any Mass rites that were over 200 years-old.
So? Both cited the same authority when imposing obligations with regards to the liturgy. Both Quo Primum and Missale Missale Romanum utilized the same type of preceptive language: https://www.sodalitiumpianum.com/did-paul-vi-illegally-promulgate-the-new-mass/
The liturgy is a gift of the Holy Spirit; it is not the province of some liturgical minister or director or priest or bishop or Pope.
And what the Holy Spirit has given cannot be revoked by any human.
That the Pope has picked a fight with the Holy Spirit over the holy liturgy tells us all we need to know about said Pope.
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