A PLEA FOR FULL LIBERTY FOR THE LATIN MASS

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Enough of the futile attempts to cancel the Traditional Latin Mass!

"Their homilies are so different from what we get here! They're food for the soul!"  Mass had just concluded at a certain Hawke's Bay church today and a parishioner was telling a reader of this blog about the St Anthony SSPX Whanganui live-streamed traditional Latin Mass (TLM) he'd discovered only 3 weeks ago. https://nz.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=E210NZ0G0&p=st+anthony%27s+wanganui+live-stream+mass

To avoid embarrassment to its priests, that HB church will not be named. Because even though humiliation is good for the soul (St Teresa of Avila), and so should be cherished, as Novus Ordo priests they may not know that quite as well as the St Anthony's TLM priests know it and teach it. 

A little chapel in the same parish which is very under-used is being eyed up by the local TLM community who because of the restrictions placed on the Latin Mass - especially on the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) - are compelled to celebrate their Eucharist, and hear their excellent sermons, in a private garage. The parish priest in whose city the little chapel is located is happy to allow the Latin Mass there - but won't have the SSPX. 

Given the fuss that his parishioners kicked up over moving two statues closer to the altar in his Freemason-inspired church, that's not surprising. Neither is the fact that said parishioners kicked up a fuss. They know only the Novus Ordo and its sadly impoverished Mass texts, which over the course of time since its introduction in 1969, have inspired sadly impoverished homilies in its priests. They are so poorly catechised that liturgically and spiritually speaking N O Massgoers don't know which way is up.

They and their parish priest may well believe the Society of St Pius X is in schism. It is not. The SSPX is a whipping boy for the Novus Ordo Francis Church because it shows up the latter as a sham and a disaster. Because it maintains the doctrine and liturgy taught and practised by the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church for millennia, its success and growth (its fruits) prove that the fabricated Francis Church is quite simply non-Catholic. 

The saintly Bishop Athanasius Schneider, made an Apostolic Visitor to the Society by the Holy See, came away convinced that their state of irregular communion with the Church is a problem that ROME NEEDS TO FIX. But what's the betting that while this problematic pontificate persists, Rome won't. 

“To my knowledge," said Bishop Schneider, "there are no weighty reasons in order to deny the clergy and faithful of the SSPX the official canonical recognition, meanwhile they should be accepted as they are. … When the SSPX believes, worship and conducts a moral life as it was demanded and recognized by the Supreme Magisterium and was observed universally in the Church during a centuries long period and when the SSPX recognizes the legitimacy of the Pope and the diocesan bishops and prays for them publicly and recognizes also the validity of the sacraments according to the editio typica of the new liturgical books, this should suffice for a canonical recognition of the SSPX on behalf of the Holy See.”https://onepeterfive.com/1p5-podcast-episode-18-bishop-schneider-and-the-sspx/

Bishop Schneider said that in 2015. He also said that if the Vatican kept up its attitude towards the Society it was in danger of losing credibility. And now in 2024 the whole world - except for the globalists and heretics who get invited to the Vatican - can see it's lost it. Literally lost the plot.  

Thousands of particles of the Host show why the N O Communion in the hand must be banned 

All of the above is by way of preamble to a heartfelt plea for full liberty for the traditional liturgy by French layman and Managing Director of Renaissance Catholique, Paris, Jean-Pierre Maugendre.

Being a Catholic in 2024 is no easy endeavor. The West is undergoing a massive de-Christianization, so much so that Catholicism appears to be vanishing from the public sphere. Elsewhere, the number of Christians being persecuted for their faith is on the rise.

What’s more, the Church has been struck by an internal crisis that manifests itself in a decline in religious practice, a downswing in priestly and religious vocations, a decrease in sacramental practice, and even a growing dissension between priests, bishops and cardinals which, until very recently, was utterly unthinkable.

Yet, among all the things that can contribute to the internal revival of the Church and to the renewal of her missionary zeal, there is, above all, the worthy and reverent celebration of her liturgy, which can be greatly fostered thanks to the example and the presence of the traditional Roman liturgy.

Despite all the attempts that have been made to suppress it, especially during the present pontificate, it lives on, continuing to spread and to sanctify the Christian people who are blessed to be able to benefit from it. It bears abundant fruits of piety, as well as an increase of vocations and of conversions. It attracts young people and is the fount of many flourishing works, especially in schools, and is accompanied by a solid catechesis.

 

 

No one can deny that it is a vector for the preservation and transmission of the faith and religious practice in the midst of a waning of religious belief and a dwindling number of believers.

This Mass, due to its venerable antiquity, can boast of having sanctified countless souls over the centuries. Among other vital forces still active in the Church, this form of liturgical life stands out because of the stability given to it by an uninterrupted lex orandi.

Certainly, some places of worship have been granted, or rather tolerated, where this liturgy can be celebrated, but too often what has been given by one hand is taken back by the other, without, however, ever managing to make it vanish.

Since the massive decline during the period immediately following the Second Vatican Council, every attempt has been made on numerous occasions to revive religious practice, to increase the number of priestly and religious vocations, and to preserve the faith of the Christian people. Everything, except letting the people experience the traditional liturgy, by giving the Tridentine liturgy a fair chance.

Today, however, common sense urgently demands that all the vital forces in the Church be allowed to live and prosper, and in particular the one which enjoys a right dating back to over a millennium.

Let there be no mistake: the present appeal is not a petition to obtain a new tolerance as in 1984 and 1988, nor even a restoration of the status granted in 2007 by the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, which, recognizing in principle a right, has in fact been reduced to a regime of meagerly granted permissions.

As lay people, it is not for us to pass judgment on the Second Vatican Council, its continuity or discontinuity with the previous teaching of the Church, the merits, or not, of the reforms that resulted from it, and so on. On the other hand, it is necessary to defend and transmit the means that Providence has employed to enable a growing number of Catholics to preserve the faith, to grow in it, or to discover it. The traditional liturgy plays an essential role in this process, thanks to its transcendence, its beauty, its timelessness and its doctrinal certainty.

 

For this reason, we simply ask, for the sake of the true freedom of the children of God in the Church, that the full freedom of the traditional liturgy, with the free use of all its liturgical books, be granted, so that, without hindrance, in the Latin rite, all the faithful may benefit from it and all clerics may celebrate it.

This appeal is not a petition to be signed, but a message to be disseminated, possibly to be taken up again in any form that may seem appropriate, and to be brought and explained to the cardinals, bishops and prelates of the universal Church.

Jean-Pierre Maugendre, Managing Director of Renaissance Catholique, Paris, France International Campaign for the Total Freedom of the Traditional Liturgy - OnePeterFive

 

Eternal Shepherd, graciously guide Thy flock, and through blessed Cletus, Thy Martyr and Supreme Pontiff, whom Thou didst appoint Pastor of The universal Church, keep it under Thy continual protection.

- Collect, Memorial