CANCELLING TRADITION, INSULTING CATHOLICS

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'Traditionis custodes. Guardians of the Tradition', is the title Jorge Mario Bergoglio gives to his motu proprio issued yesterday.

Pardon me? Is this a joke, Your Holiness? Your intention is clearly not to guard tradition but to cancel it - and to insult its adherents, including Our Blessed Mother. 

Once again, Bergoglio is leading the Church up the garden path, ever deeper into the darkness of error.

The same day Pope Benedict XVI announced his abdication, lightning struck the Vatican twice.

The sheer quantity of evidence, and the diversity of the confluent evidence sets, is now so utterly overwhelming that I believe that a person, fully informed of the dataset, would have to engage in the willful suspension of disbelief to continue to acknowledge Bergoglio as Roman Pontiff.

That was the highly-regarded blogger, Ann Barnhardt, writing in 2016.  What overwhelming evidence Bergoglio has provided since then - crowned with his evil edict yesterday on the feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel. What further abuse may his flock look forward to?

Almighty God was on to it, sending lightning on St Peter's the day Pope Benedict announced his resignation, and He was on to it today. Did any of you Novus Ordo Massgoers notice the readings at Mass this morning?

"Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord."

"Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the pastors that feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold I will visit upon you for the evil of your doings, saith the Lord."

"And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, out of all the lands into which I have cast them out: and I will make them return to their own fields, and they shall increase and be multiplied." 

Bergoglio, pretender to the Seat of Peter, you have been warned! The word of the Lord has spoken. Neither you nor your minions can have thought or reflected on the Novus Ordo readings for today, the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B - the Sunday following your bound-to-be infamous motu proprio.

By contrast, the texts for the traditional Latin Mass for today (Eighth Sunday after Pentecost and never mind the A B C rigmarole of the Novus Ordo) are full of hope and consolation. 

"We have received Thy mercy, O God, in the midst of Thy temple; according to Thy name, O God, so also is Thy praise unto the ends of the earth." 

"Be Thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of refuge, to save me. In Thee, O God, have I hoped: O Lord, let me never be confounded."

"Thou wilt save the humble people, O Lord, and wilt bring down the eyes of the proud; for who is God but Thou, O Lord?"

And just for good measure, the TLM Gospel for today was the "Parable of the unjust steward, reminding us of our duties, for we are the children of light, who must not be outdone by the children of this world in zeal."

Whose side is God on, then? What could be clearer than the comparison of those readings for the N O and the TLM today?  

Church Militant says that 'Pope Francis abrogated Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's historic decree on the the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) Friday morning" (that's right, the Feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel), sending seismic shock waves across the Catholic Church.'

Surely it won't be just Latin Massgoers, but most fairminded Novus Ordo Massgoers, who will believe that Pope Francis (sic) has no right to abrogate a predecessor's decree which was founded on traditional Church doctrine.

Bergoglio cites "the distorted use' of this faculty. What 'distorted use', Your Holiness? Do we have to read the whole of your typically longwinded Apostolic WhatYouMay to find out?

At least Bergoglio admits to 'almost unbearable distortions' in celebrating the new missal. Absolutely unbearable distortions, Your Holiness, as attested not only by the many walk-outs worldwide but the many more no-shows, worldwide. 

Intelligent people simply cannot bear the horrible songs, the priest's little chats and jokes, the off-handed treatment afforded Almighty God present in the Eucharist, and in New Zealand the Maorification of the POF and responses.

Dr. Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales told Church Militant that Traditionis Custodes "does not address the foundational claim of SP that the older missal 'has never been abrogated' and that, for this reason, priests do not need permission to celebrate it." 

"If this is true ... then the provisions of this motu proprio look legally shaky," Shaw stressed. "It is simply staggering that, in the context of the great fruits of SP (Summorum Pontificum), the Holy Father should create a situation where ... bishops are essentially invited to close it down.

Any New Zealander wanting to observe the fruits of the Traditional Latin Mass should attend at St  Anthony's Wanganui (SSPX) with its school and its bookshop, its Dominican Sisters and pews full of families complete with babies. 

St Anthony's Wanganui - a procession in progress?

It seems to be that the banning of the TLM from parish churches is simply unworkable," the Oxford philosopher observed. 

The bishops are to ensure that groups already celebrating the TLM "do not deny the validity and the legitimacy of the liturgical reform dictated by Vatican Council II and the Magisterium of the supreme pontiffs." 

Ah. The bishops will send in the thought police. Just as well that in New Zealand, Mass Murderess Jacinda Ardern is getting us smiling zombies used to the idea of putting up and shutting up rather than getting banged up for 'hate speech'. 

The bishops are to ensure that groups already celebrating the TLM "do not deny the validity and the legitimacy of the liturgical reform dictated by Vatican Council II and the Magisterium of the supreme pontiffs." 

The libs don't like ladies wearing veils

Francis warns bishops "to take care not to authorize the establishment of new groups" and instructs that the TLM will have biblical readings "proclaimed in the vernacular language using translations of the Sacred Scripture approved for liturgical use by the respective episcopal conferences."

Oh my God (and for once, OMG is truly a prayer). Imagine the 'translations of the Sacred Scripture' approved by the NZCBC, with te reo inflicted in excruciating Pakeha accents on congregations where Maori are typically nowhere to be seen.

Societies dedicated to the celebration of the TLM like the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) will be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies for Apostolic Life.

This congregation has recently become notorious for suppressing contemplative orders and forcing them to leave their cloisters for initial and ongoing formation.

 

"By their fruits you shall know them": the reverence of TLM acolytes is a joy to behold

The responses reveal a situation that preoccupies and saddens me and persuades me of the need to intervene," Francis wrote, defending his decree, and pointing out that the pastoral concerns of his predecessors in liberalizing the TLM were "seriously disregarded." 

These magnanimous gestures were "exploited to widen the gaps, reinforce the divergences and encourage disagreements that injure the Church, block her path, and expose her to the peril of division," the pontiff complained. 

And there were we, poor fools, thinking all along that it was you, Your Holiness, who were injuring the Church and exposing her to the peril of division. Now we understand that black is white and you are right and we the faithful are wrong, and so say all of us or the bishop will cancel our Mass. 

In the June issue of The Traditionalist, Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò wrote: "It is disturbing as well as scandalous that in the face of the good that the Tridentine Mass brings to the Church, there are those who want to ban it or limit its celebration." 

"Abusing the apostolic authority and the power of the Holy Keys for a purpose opposed to that for which they were instituted by the Lord represents an unheard-of offense against the Majesty of God and a sin for which he will have to answer to the One whose vicar he is," the Vatican whistleblower wrote in a stinging indictment of Pope Francis. 

Predicting the abrogation of SP, Viganò pleaded with faithful Catholics to "prepare to descend into the catacombs".https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/francis-abrogates-benedicts-latin-mass-decree

"Thou wilt save the humble people, O Lord, and wilt bring down the eyes of the proud; for who is God but Thou, O Lord?"