'BISHOP STEVE', FR SCANNELL, YOU CAN'T STOP PEOPLE ATTENDING MASS!

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Ardern as a baby doll but whose grip is she in really?

Lockdown. Déjà vu. Yes, we've been here before - so last Sunday, why were Catholics all over the country left all dressed up with no Mass to go to?

Ardern and Bloomfield waited till 8 p m Saturday to blow their wicked whistle, and the Catholic Church went pear-shaped. Again. 

Why?

Where were the contingency plans laid by the NZ Bishops' Conference in cooperation with the dioceses after the last lockdown? Apparently no such plans were made.

"Most parishes will be quite unprepared for Masses with Level 2 protocols," lamented 'Bishop Steve' (more appropriately, Bishop Stephen Lowe) of the Diocese of Hamilton.

Excuse me, but why were they 'unprepared'? Because their bishop didn't prepare their priests.

Any commercial operation would have fine-tuned its protocols after the first lockdown to be prepared for the next. And the NZ Conference of Bishops should have caught on by now to Ardern's sense of timing in regard to the Sabbath Day - i.e. give those Christians as little warning as possible.

'If parishes are unable to offer Mass according to the Level 2 protocols Mass should be cancelled.'

Oh, look, our clergy have just rolled over. At the 'kind' request of a mass murderess. That language may seem extreme, but it's a fact that nearly a year ago Ardern's Government legislated the killing of an untold number of unborn infants.

Next thing, our bishops and priests will be sitting up and begging. It's well past time for the faithful laity to RESIST. "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty" (Thomas Jefferson).

'Those parishes that are able to offer Mass must strictly adhere to the protocols for Alert level 2':

Why? Catholics surely strictly adhere to the protocols of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church which state that we must attend Mass on Sunday, not to the petty protocols of Ardern and Bloomfield.

'In the light of the circumstances, Bishop Steve gives a dispensation from attendance at Sunday Mass this weekend.'

A bishop may dispense his people from disciplinary laws whenever he judges that it contributes to their spiritual wellbeing. Just how exactly, Bishop Lowe, does cancelling Sunday Eucharist - the "source, centre and summit of the Catholic faith - and withholding the Bread of Life contribute to your flock's spiritual wellbeing?

The Marists in Napier, in the Palmerston North Diocese, made the same, truly pathetic, response. At least Bishop Lowe communicated via facebook at 10 p m Saturday night. Napier parishioners got a text on Sunday morning. That is to say, obviously, that parishioners with cellphones got a text. Those who didn't might have had the misfortune to see Ardern & Bloomfield laying down the law on telly, or on the radio, otherwise they might have turned up to Mass, only to find that Mass in all three churches - St Patrick's, St Mary's and St Thomas More - had all been pulled.

Father Barry Scannell SM, Parish Priest, is a man with organisational skills that were equal to the daunting task of the reconstruction of St Mary of the Angels in Wellington. Can he not organise his Marist priests into celebrating Masses to accommodate as many multiples of 100 as were necessary?

Marists model their lives on Mary, the Blessed Mother of Jesus. The Immaculate Heart of Mary is one with the Sacred Heart of her Son. Our Lord took His sacred humanity from the flesh and blood of his Blessed Mother; Christ's Heart is taken from her Heart. At Calvary, the perfect hearts of Jesus and Mary were united for the salvation of mankind. They are still united,in the Eucharist. 

Ergo, a Marist priest who models his life on Mary wishes to be united with her and Jesus her Son in the Mass and the Blessed Sacrament. 

So just what does such a priest do, on a Sunday morning when his superior has cancelled Masses? What does his superior do? What does a diocesan priest do when his bishop has cancelled Mass? What does his bishop do? Do they just not say Mass, even though because every priest is ordained to say Mass, he ought to do so every day? Or do they celebrate Mass on their own, in an empty church? Or do they let in a few friends or rellies on the quiet?

A priest says Mass alone in St Peter's - and you or I could have joined him

The allowance fo a priest to say Mass alone "for a just and reasonable cause", found in the current canon 906, was never, ever in a million years meant to suggest that priests could celebrate Mass alone because they barred the faithful from attending Mass, when they were right there in the vicinity and wished devoutly to be present at the celebration!  

... Only a very few exceptions to the law (requiring the presence at least of someone who could make the responses) were allowed, and one of them is directly relevant to the issue at hand: "In a time of pestilence, when it isn't easy at all to find someone who can fulfill the role of server, and otherwise a priest might have to refrain for a significant period of time from celebrating Mass".

... The Congregation was declaring that the law at the time, which said a priest could not celebrate Mass without at least one other person present, was to be observed - unless another person couldn't be found because everybody was ill. Put differently, if even one person could be found "in a time of pestilence" who could be present at the Mass, there was no need for any exception to the rule, because of course any Catholic who wanted to attend the Mass could do so!

...You cannot forbid people to come to church to attend Mass! A diocese or a parish which asserts that "public worship has been cancelled" is effectively saying no Masses are being celebrated at all - because every Mass constitutes public worship. And if it claims that "Masses are being celebrated, they're just being said privately" ... well, that statement makes absolutely no theological sense whatsoever.

... It is likewise nonsensical to claim, as many clergy are doing, that "when you watch a Mass via live streaming, it's the same as being present".  As any 3 year-old child can tell you, talking to Daddy by phone or Skype is definitely not the same as talking to Daddy in person!

The Catholic faithful do not need advanced degrees in theology or canon law to know that there is indeed a fundamental, essential difference, and they are being deprived of their right to Mass and the sacraments. This is not rocket science.

If the virus really is causing significant problems in your region of the world,

... which it isn't, 26 deaths is not a significant problem, it's Ardern who's the significant problem  

... it's only common sense to take appropriate precautions at church, such as sitting far apart; but in the nearly 2000-year history of the Catholic Church, no physical illness has ever theologically or canonically superseded the faithful's spiritual welbeing. 

https://canonlawmadeeasy.com/2020/04/16/cancel-public-mass-private-mass-instead/

Dear 'Bishop Steve' and Cardinal 'Call Me John' Dew and the rest, please NB. It's our spiritual wellbeing that is your concern, not a physical illness. 

We are being hornswaggled, people! What the bishops are dishing out is propaganda, exactly as Ardern has admitted she does herself. We are being deceived, derided and denied our right to attend Holy Mass and receive Holy Communion - and on the tongue if we refuse to risk profanation of the Blessed Sacrament by receiving in the hand.

Remember that we here on earth are the Church Militant, and we are to fight for the faith and for Jesus Christ, and that the Church Triumphant in heaven - all the saints - are interceding for us.

We must rise up and tell our priests and prelates that "we ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29) and insist on obeying God's commandment to keep the sabbath day holy.

"Keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death" 

                                                                                                                        - Exodus 31:14

St Charles Borromeo giving Communion during the plague