Posted on 10/24/2024 10:24:52 AM PDT by ebb tide
Here is a picture of children joyfully preparing for a Sung Latin Mass on Christmas 2022:
This represents the transmission of Catholic belief and culture that is so desperately needed- and lacking- in today's world (especially the West).
Now, the Vatican (specifically, Cardinals Roche and Viola) have ordered this beautiful liturgy- the one that sustained this Catholic community- cancelled.
Recently, Roche and Viola seem to have targeted TLMs celebrated at metropolitan cathedrals (such as the horrible cancellation of the TLM at St. Mary's Cathedral in Austin, TX), Metropolitan cathedrals, with their grandeur, are the types of beautiful churches that need a regular TLM the most. A regular TLM should be mandatory in these churches- not forcibly suppressed.
Francis has not met with Cardinal Roche since the 2023 rescript, and seems to have lost interest in the project of suppressing the Latin Mass. Yet Roche and Viola continue their misguided and self-defeating attempt to deprive the faithful of the Traditional Latin Mass. Fortunately, it is clearer than ever that they will fail in the attempt- but not before they bring spiritual suffering to many good Catholics. Let us pray for all those affected by this persecution, and for its swift reversal under the next pope.
Ping
God is permitting our punishment. Accept the pain and double down the repentence. The stigmata is given only to special saints, for the blessing of all. Maybe this is analogous. Our Church, our country, our western civilization is in need of purgation, repentence.
It never made any sense to me to ban one of the main aspects of the Mass that united all Catholics the world over, where one who doesn’t speak the local language can celebrate a Mass with everyone else in a language that they all understand. But then, divisiveness seems to be the order of the day with this socialist clown in the Vatican. Let’s make the world a modern Tower of Babel.
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