Posted on 12/26/2004 5:43:59 PM PST by csbyrnes84
If anyone was following the situation at St. Anthony's Latin Mass Chapel in West Orange a month ago, there have been some new developments recently. Fr. Perricone is still the Priest of the Chapel and he now has a second Priest, Fr. Gabriel, helping him.
Two important new developments at St. Anthony's are: 1. The auditorium is being renamed "Fr. Wickens Hall" 2. Archbishop Myers wrote a letter to the parishoners of St. Anthony's.
Here's what it says in the bulletin about the dedication of the hall.
-- In Memoriam Father Paul A. Wickens
On Saturday, January 15, 2005, at 10 AM Father Perricone will offer a Solemn High Requiem Mass in memory of Father Paul Wickens. After Mass the parishoners of Saint Anthony's are invited to a lunch in our auditorium to meet our new Pastor, Father John Perricone. Fr. Perricone will dedicate our auditorium as Father Wickens Hall. Please circle the 15th of January and we hope to see you there. --
How are things going with Fr. Murphy's mass in East Hanover? Are you guys still thinking of forming an independent chapel or will your efforts be combined with those of the SSPX?
If you are looking for property, you might want to consider St. John's Ukranian Catholic Church on Rt. 10 in Whippany. I think the property is still on the market, but it has a very high price tag at 1.5 mil.
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If it wasn't for that, this thread would make me really nervous.
nervous? Why?
Canonically irregular (i.e. "independent") churches, do that to me.
Msgr. Camille Perl's response:
Unfortunately, as you will understand, we have no way of controlling what is done with our letters by their recipients. Our letter of 27 September 2002, which was evidently cited in The Remnant and on various websites, was intended as a private communication dealing with the specific circumstances of the person who wrote to us. What was presented in the public forum is an abbreviated version of that letter which omits much of our pastoral counsel. Since a truncated form of this letter has now become public, we judge it appropriate to present the larger context of our response.
In a previous letter to the same correspondent we had already indicated the canonical status of the Society of St. Pius X which we will summarize briefly here.
1.) The priests of the Society of St. Pius X are validly ordained, but they are suspended from exercising their priestly functions. To the extent that they adhere to the schism of the late Archbishop Lefebvre, they are also excommunicated.
2.) Concretely this means that the Masses offered by these priests are valid, but illicit i.e., contrary to the law of the Church.
Points 1 and 3 in our letter of 27 September 2002 to this correspondent are accurately reported. His first question was "Can I fulfill my Sunday obligation by attending a Pius X Mass" and our response was:
"1. In the strict sense you may fulfill your Sunday obligation by attending a Mass celebrated by a priest of the Society of St. Pius X."
His second question was "Is it a sin for me to attend a Pius X Mass" and we responded stating:
"2. We have already told you that we cannot recommend your attendance at such a Mass and have explained the reason why. If your primary reason for attending were to manifest your desire to separate yourself from communion with the Roman Pontiff and those in communion with him, it would be a sin. If your intention is simply to participate in a Mass according to the 1962 Missal for the sake of devotion, this would not be a sin."
His third question was: "Is it a sin for me to contribute to the Sunday collection a Pius X Mass" to which we responded:
"3. It would seem that a modest contribution to the collection at Mass could be justified."
...The Catholic religion is no longer,
in their eyes, as it was in the eyes of our ancestors, the morally universal religion of cultured humanity. They have been shown the influence of race on the diffusion of the Gospel. They have been shown the good sides of other cults and beliefs. Our contemporaries find it hard to believe that the greater part of humanity is plunged in error, especially if they are ignorant that the Catholic religion teaches that the means of salvation are at the disposal of those who err in good faith. Hence they are inclined to overlook doctrinal divergencies in order to insist on a certain fundamental conformity of tendencies and of aspirations. Then again they are moved by sentiments of liberalism and moderation, which reduce the importance of formal religion, as they see in the various cults only private opinions which change with time and place, and which merit an equal respect from all.
n a previous letter to the same correspondent we had already indicated the canonical status of the Society of St. Pius X which we will summarize briefly here.
1.) The priests of the Society of St. Pius X are validly ordained, but they are suspended from exercising their priestly functions. To the extent that they adhere to the schism of the late Archbishop Lefebvre, they are also excommunicated.
2.) Concretely this means that the Masses offered by these priests are valid, but illicit i.e., contrary to the law of the Church.
EXACTLY.
What I said is the truth. Check your sources before you make any more libelous remarks.
http://www.unavoce.org/articles/2003/perl-011803.htm
What are you talking about? If Traditionalism is heresy, then the Church from 500AD until 1962 was heretical. Think about this for a second. Were all of those Bishops, Priests, Nun, Saints, and laymen heretical? Of course not.
From now on, please think before you post.
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