News is out that the TLM at St. Cecilia’s in Brooklyn will be suppressed on 12 October. Rorate has the bare bones HERE.
However, as I understand things the Institute may/will get an additional location.
This could be an instance of a window slamming shut but a door opening in another part of the house. And if true, that the Institute will get another place, that would mean “full service” as it were, not just Mass.
I think this is a developing story and we should watch it carefully and calmly. For the time being.
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Dear Father, with your fiction-writing skills I’ll bet you could make a novel out of this: the whole suppress-the-Latin-Mass thing being a part of the Vatican/China deal. Or maybe just a side plot. Or even Father Tommy having a bad dream.
No matter how we look at it, it is a bad dream.
I hope we wake up soon.
I hope some OTHER people WAKE UP soon, too!
The community that was suppressed only offered a 2 pm Low Mass on Sundays. I was told it’s pretty small, and I’ve heard the priests who celebrated it are commuting from other parts of the Diocese.
On the other hand, the other TLM community in the Diocese, St. Josaphat’s, offers Sung Mass, Feast Days, and Holy Week. That parish will be given to the ICKSP in October.
Unfortunately, St. Josaphat’s is in Queens, and is pretty hard to access from Brooklyn by public transportation, so people who want the TLM living in that Borough would have to commute to Holy Innocents in Manhattan, if they haven’t been doing so already.
Some have been riding the train so long they just off at the next SSPX station. I’m very close. The train still goes past the ICRSS station so my family tends to get off at that station.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more to this story, as you say. Bp. Brennan was our bishop in Columbus until he was moved to Brooklyn, and I never got the impression he was the heavy-handed type on this issue. Around the time that TC was issued, I was told by a young priest (who celebrated the TLM privately) that Brennan had given basically every priest in the diocese permission to celebrate the TLM privately. Whether he thought they needed permission or not is a separate question, but he at least didn’t take issue with priests celebrating the TLM who wanted to.