A METHODIST SERMON AT ST PATRICK'S NAPIER

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At the main Catholic church in the city of Napier yesterday, St Patrick's, the sermon was preached by a Methodist minister.

Yes, you read that correctly. Here's what 'Anonymous' (he/she obviously gets about a bit and is extremely opinionated) reports:

"You may be interested to know (well yes, I was) that we had a Methodist minister preach us the sermon yesterday at St. Patrick's. Apparently part of an ecumenical agreement made 30 years ago in Napier but only now reviving in "the sharing of pulpits" or some similar sounding thing.  

He talked long and boringly about nations and neighbourliness. Then he threw in that we can all share "in the breaking of bread and sharing of wine", with a nod towards the altar. 

The Mass was completely watered down (no organist, piss poor singing to piss poorly taped songs). 

In the newsletter Fr. Barry (Scannell, SM) was pleading  for us all to send our kids to Catholic schools. Why would we? They are pretty much the same as the others except they cost more! Just saying... 

P.S. Fr. Barry was preaching at another church. Anglican I think."

'Anonymous' was not highly edified. Highly mystified is what I'd like to say I am, but that would not be truthful.

Because this event seems the natural yet supernatural outcome of a couple of hundred years of Masonic infiltration of the Church and nearly one hundred years of Communist infiltration which had as its aim the downfall of the Mass. 

The spadework on top of those foundations was done by men like Mons Annibale Bugnini, the architect of the Novus Ordo (New Mass). Archbishop Lefebvre heard him say, when asked by the Benedictines' Superior General if Bugnini's "active participation" meant his order must discontinue private Masses, " We didn't think of that". 

And to another Superior General who objected to Bugnini's 15-minute Mass as "not respectful", Bugnini riposted, "We can always add something".

Archbishop Lefebvre was speechless. Later he managed to articulate something of his astonishment: "How could it be possible for this man to be entrusted with the entire reform of the Catholic Liturgy, the entire reform of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, of the sacraments, of the Breviary, and of all our prayers? Where are we going? Where is the Church going?"

Well, where the Church in New Zealand has arrived is the pitiful, disgraceful sell-out to heresy in the name of 'ecumenism' that my correspondent witnessed at St Patrick's Napier yesterday: a Protestant minister in the pulpit at Sunday Mass reducing the unbloody re-enactment of the Sacrifice of the Son of God on Calvary to 'breaking bread and sharing wine'.  

We could say that poor Rev Tony Franklin-Ross was utterly and totally out of his depth, but what could we say of the bishop who permits such a betrayal of our Lord? 

We'll probably never know if Bugnini was a Mason. Indeed, in a newish book, Annibale Bugnini: Reformer of the Liturgy, by Yves Chiron, Cardinal Stickler is quoted as saying, when asked if Bugnini were a Freemason and if that was the reason Pope Paul VI dismissed him, "No, it was something far worse." The mind boggles.

But we do know - if 'Anonymous' is correct - that this farcical 'pulpit-sharing' in Napier has been going on for thirty years, and that the bishop of Palmerston North Diocese thirty years ago was none other than +Peter Cullinane. It started on his watch; it would appear that we have him to thank for this adventure in spurious ecumenism.

I'm heartily sick and tired of 'ecumenism', the post-Vat2  idol which is twin to 'community'. Terrible twins, I say. 

True ecumenism is not cosying-up to the Protestants, the Jews or the Muslims, sharing pulpits and Advent wreaths and the 'Cross Walk' on Good Friday. Instead of dutifully turning up to these sad exercises in self-delusion ,and shoulder-tapping unwilling parishioners to do the same, Father should be sympathetically but clearly preaching, in his own church, on the elements of truth in these other religions while clearly explaining and rejecting their errors. 

As Pope Pius XI has stated, in Mortalium Animos, "The unity of Christians cannot be otherwise obtained than by securing the return of the separstated to the one true Church of CHrist, from which they unhappiy withdrew. To the one true Church of Christ, we say, that stands forth before all and that, by the will of its Founder, will remain forever the same as when he established for the salvation of all mankind."

It's what the SSPX priest told me in confession a couple of months ago: "You must leave your ecumenical group and explain why you are leaving, and invite them to become Catholics". 

The Good Thing which I hope and pray will come to pass in Napier as a result of the good Methodist minister's sermon and 'the piss-poor singing to piss-poor taped songs' is the realization for St Patrick's congregation of the treasure offered them a few blocks away, 5 p m every third Sunday of the month (4.30 p m for confessions) at Dunstall's Funeral Chapel: the Traditional Latin Mass* complete with cracker sermons.

And this Sunday is the third Sunday! Unfortunately I'll be in Melbourne - where I can attend the Latin Mass at St Colman's in Balaclava.

*Just be aware of the dress code for women: skirts to below the knee and veils (mantillas) or hats.