+Cupcake (a/k/a Cupich) is making life miserable for the St John Cantius priests.
Reports are (not yet confirmed) that new priests in that Order will NOT BE ALLOWED to celebrate Mass in the Usus Antiquior, although priests already there will continue. Obviously, after 10 years or so, the Old Rite celebrations will vanish at that location.
Sad. St John Cantius is a marvelous church, attracts a large crowd every week, and also has a terrific Sacred Music program to go along with its Mass.
It's possible that +Cupcake will leave office and his successor will not be a Mean Girl.
Then there is this:
ReplyDeleteArchbishop Cordileone Discusses Future of Latin Mass Restrictions, Calling for ‘Easier Access’
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/archbishop-cordileone-calls-for-easier-access-to-tlm
“I think with some precautions, we can allow a greater access to the Mass and maintain unity within the Church,” Archbishop Cordileone said….
…..“The SSPX consecrations manifest “a growing lack of trust that has been simmering for a very long time,” Archbishop Cordileone said….
….“Let us pray that an ardent effort toward sincere and honest dialogue will soon start up, and that easier access to the traditional form of the Mass will be available to our people, so they will not feel as if they are constrained to seek spiritual nourishment outside of the family in union with Rome,” he said in the July 10 statement….
“We look at the younger generation — they all love the tradition,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “They love the more classical way that the Church worships, the traditional Mass, what we call the traditional Mass, the form of the Mass before it was changed after the Second Vatican Council.”
“But even the order of the Mass as we have now done in a more traditional way with the priest ad orientem, and the sacred music, and great solemnity, and reverence: Theyʼre desiring this deep tradition. It takes them to a very deep place,” he said.
“This is unstoppable. Itʼs whatʼs drawing young people in and will continue to do so.”
Then there is this:
ReplyDeleteFr. Schmidberger gives some clear explanations about the papacy, its institution by Jesus Christ, its purpose and history, some examples on how the post-conciliar popes should continue to be respected, as well as philosophical arguments against the error of sedevacantism.
https://sspx.org/en/papacy-some-clear-thoughts-30437
Go behind me, Satan! Thou art a scandal unto Me because thou savours are not the things that are of God but the things that are of men” (v. 23).
ReplyDeleteIsn’t it surprising, very surprising, that Jesus calls the first pope a Satan?
Fr. Schmidberger finally wrote:
ReplyDelete...Let us not be discouraged or be of little faith seeing the passion of the Church, but let us neither have illusion about the state of things. The overcoming of the crises of the Church depends much also on each of us, it must be surmounted in ourselves first. We must persevere in our battle like Gedeon who fought a large army with only 300 courageous men, or like the Maccabees where one father with his five sons restored the religious order in Israel, or like Gregory VII who died in exile with these words on his lips: “I have loved justice and I have hated injustice; that is why I die in exile.” He himself did not see the fruits of his courageous action, but later on his reform bore its fruits and granted full freedom to the Church.
Virgo fidelis ora pro nobis—Virgin most faithful, pray for us.