However, the Bishops supporters, and the Government people, urged, "Cannot you stop that Mass of yours?"
"Oh, no, we need our daily Mass". "Please, if you would, just STOP THAT MASS!"
(traditional Catholic ping list -- freepmail if you want off or on)
Latest update:
Correspondence from Fr. Blute, August 16, 2004:
...The critical juncture is over. The Bishop bought a judgement from the High Court, in Madras, and obtained rights over the keys of the church, came with police, and entered. We and all the people fled away. With great solemnity, the Bishop celebrated Mass in the very place hallowed by the Tridentine Mass days before: to an empty church.
There were 40 local people, and about the same brought by the Bishop in a bus. The normal crowd is 3000!! The people are themselves asking to set up a tent on borrowed land, and have the Latin Mass within 2 weeks.
The people of Punnai nagar, especially, are bracing for the next onslaught, because they have also rejected the government of the Bishop Leon Dharmaraj (means "Lion King of Virtue" the old women laugh and say Leon
Adarmaraj---"Lion king of vice"). Recall that St. Peter says "your adversary the Devil as a roaring Leon goes about
seeking whom he may devour.") So keep praying for us; there is a harvest to be gathered for tradition, and whether it yield 40, 60, or 100 fold depends on our prayers.
Fr. Blute
This is the mentality of the modernists. They hate and fear the Mass because it undermines their agenda.
Under the jurisdiction of the local bishop. That is Canon Law.
That same Canon Law does not allow laymen to hire and fire priests, nor to disobey the local bishop.
I'd certainly favor more control of local churches by the laity. But, in a civil dispute such as this, governments will defer to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and that is the local bishop.
Sounds just like many of the USCCB bishops.