From a reader on this 2nd Sunday of Lent. (Note: because of the blog migration Early Tuesday 2 March, comments posted after 0600 EST 11 UTC) will not migrate. That’ll give you time to “think before posting”.)
Wanted to pass this along, but it’s probably par for the course.
Our homily today at our TLM in ___ was Cardinal Sarah’s letter about the SSPX announcement. It felt like being gut punched listening to it.
We are having Mass in an old gymnasium, kneeling on a hard wood floor, folding chairs, etc. Every Mass a low Mass now. No sacraments available in traditional rite except Eucharist. Hearing Cardinal Sarah’s letter felt like being sucker punched. How much more do we need to endure just to attend Mass in the way my grandparents did?
I don’t know how much more I can personally endure being at a diocese TLM. It really feels like we are hated and unwanted. If anything Cardinal Sarah’s letter makes me want to attend at the SSPX. They only have chapels, but at least they WANT us. They preach about the day’s gospel and how to better ourselves. Not “obedience uber alles”.
I feel bishop Schneider’s letter is much more representative and comforting. Rome’s answer is to hope we all die off or go away. They say they don’t want a “split”, yet they do everything possible to bring that forth.
I pray for the SSPX every day. They, and the ICRSS and FSSP seem to be the only prelates in the church who actually care about people attached to tradition.
Sorry to complain, but I feel Cardinal Sarah’s letter does nothing but push people attached to tradition away from the church. It reads as mean spirited and “obedience above all”.
I hurt for all of you. It is hard to watch people suffer so needlessly.
It’s all so senseless.
Let us all pray to the Guardian Angels of the key figures in this dreadful stand off as well as to Mary, Queen of the Clergy, to intercede with her Divine Son, the High Priest, to open hearts and minds.
Holy Angels, defend us.
Mary, Queen of the Clergy, put your mantle over us and help your children.
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Totally agree with Cri de Coeur. There is no subsitute for that old time religion. We must polititely express ourselves to Pope Leo. Ask him to lift all restrictions on the TLM, fire Cdl. Fernandez, laicize him and put him out on the street. Fernandez just shut down a traditional Argentinian order, (not even TLM!) the Miles Christi. We are mad about this!! Also, Pope Leo needs to initiate an inquisition among the Roman curia looking for Freemasons and sodomites. Those men who are revealed need to be laicized and put out on the street. Millions should come to the Vatican and demand the ouster of Fernandez, and if Pope Leo does not, then we take action, and extract Fernandez, and throw him in the Tiber. Let that be a warning to Pope Leo! We are sick of the McCarrick Cabal ruling the Church. No money for Peter’s Pence either!
It is the enemy of souls that wants to suppress a valid Mass.
With the rather stark difference between +Bp. Schneider’s letter and +Card. Sarah’s letter, a few observations.
Let us first leave aside the Chinese question. The two situations are not similar. Let us also leave the Ukrainian consecrations of the 1980’s? alone. As they are dis-similar to the current situation.
For those who see Bishop Schneider’s letter as the solution, I caution that it is not. It opens the door to those who do not share the same love of tradition, to engage in the same tactic. I suspect those who are cheering on the SSPX would not be cheering on the Jesuits if they were engaging in the same.
Cardinal Sarah’s letter points to something that is unfortunate, but fundamentally important. Fidelity is sometimes painful. Remaining within means that sometimes we don’t get what we want. Sometimes, we’re reminded that we must trust in God’s Providence and pray for those in positions of authority.
It’s easy to self-segregate, to be around like-minded individuals, to avoid that which we don’t like. It is much harder to have to step outside of our comfort zone (spiritually and liturgically). It is also much harder when we are forced to, for no real reason at all.
Perhaps, this is a period of trial for the Church and her faithful.
It should be rightly difficult to imagine a Cardinal, a collaborator of the Pope, encouraging an action which breaks an ecclesial bond. (I’m not including the current Chinese or the Ukrainian situations of the 1980’s in this, as those are two very different situations with external political forces at work.)
I think Bishop Schnieder and Cardinal Sarah are coming from very different places by virtue of age, lived priesthood and place within the hierarchy.