Posted on 08/29/2026 8:00:32 AM PDT by ebb tide
By Mark Lambert via Twitter
This is genuinely encouraging news from the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. Bishop Evelio Menjívar has appointed Fr Timothy J. Grassi as Episcopal Delegate for Matters Concerning the Usus Antiquior explicitly “to foster greater unity among the Catholic faithful and provide for their various spiritual needs.”
Surely Traditiones Custodes is a dead letter?
Here is a bishop recognising that the spiritual needs of those who attend the Traditional Mass are real, that they belong within the life of the Church, and that pastoral care rather than suspicion is the proper response.
Surely this is the healthier Catholic instinct: not to manufacture division by suppressing what generations of Catholics regarded as sacred, but to seek unity by making room for legitimate differences within the Church’s own liturgical inheritance.
More of this, please.
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Looks like Synodality!
The demand is real
I am stunned. Shocked. Amazed.
Considering Bishop Menjívar’s background this the exact opposite of what I expected.
Thank you, Bp. Menjívar; may Our Lord continue to bless and protect you in your ministry!
Also, Fr. Grassi is an excellent choice for this work.
Waiting for the other shoe...
Nothing is new....just codified what is happening. First label it, then kill it.
Abortion will be avenged, we all must atone. Who better?
Wow!
But is it valid? Fr Tim was ordained under the Montinian rite by a bishop consecrated under the Montinian rite both highly dubious and likely invalid.
Bells and whistles but no Real Presence if that’s the case. Don’t underestimate the Masons, Modernists or Lucifer.
What is a Montinian?
making room for legitimate differences within the Church’s own liturgical inheritance.
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What the VC-II zealots never acknowledge is that since the very beginning the Universal (Catholic) Church has always had many Holy Mass liturgical forms and that is still true today. To confirm, check out Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites on Wikipedia. That Church history reveals that the entire attack by the Holy See upon the SSPX and all other Traditional Latin Mass communities is simply a continuation of the Satan directed VC-II conspiracy to destroy the Church.
Montini = heretical pope Paul VI
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