This is the FSSP in a gathering in 2006:
Posted on 01/17/2008 12:11:34 PM PST by Pyro7480
I was sent these by e-mail from a reader
This is the FSSP in a gathering in 2006:
This is the 2008 General Congregation of Jesuits in Rome:
Catholic ping!
I don’t get it. What’s different about the gatherings, aside from the Jesuits not wearing the black robes, and there being one black woman up front in their picture?
(No insult intended, I’m seriously curious. I’m Protestant and don’t even know who the FSSP are.)
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I think the one you think is a black woman is really an East Asian man: Malaysian, maybe, or Bengali.
The FSSP is a traditionalist, Latin-using order, while the Jesuits symbolically represent Modernity.
Ack! You’re right, TC, I’m embarassed at misidentifying that man. And I’m on a nice 19” LCD monitor at work, not my piece of junk at home, so I can’t use that as an excuse!
Thanks for the info.
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The Jesuits, on the other hand, show their "progressivist" tendencies by dressing in ordinary clothing and are older.
No problem. My first thought was, “Who’s that lady?” too :-).
Not quite. At a business meeting most, if not all, of the attendees would be in suits and ties. I don't see a single necktie, let alone a clerical collar on anybody in that photo.
Jesuits = Society of Jesus, an order of priests founded in the 16th century, once outstanding for their loyalty to the Pope, but recently ---meh--- not so much. They're mostly old, not a cross in sight nor any other symbol of the clerical state, and they look like the Rotary Club ("Not that there's anything wrong with that.")
It reminds me of a picture I saw of Fr. Hans Kung chatting with some lady at the World Council of Churches. He looked like a bank manager or Creflo Dollar or something; and she, of course, was in clericals. Thanks for asking.
Besides the dress difference, the age difference is really striking.
Look at all the orthodox orders and they are all well represented by the young.FSSP, LOC, etc. all have a ton of young preists and young seminarians and those that are further from Rome have a bunch of old soon to be has beens.
I wish the Jesuits would return to their founder’s vision, it would be great for the church.
My goodness, what a contrast! I’m surprised that there isn’t anyone in the Jesuits who fells that clerics should wear clerical garb. Surely there are some good Jesuits out there, some Cardinal Dulles, Father Fessio, Mitch Pacwa Jesuits?
We have an F.S.S.P. parish here. They are great! When Summorum Pontificum was coming out, their rector did what my husband calls the "Travelling Latin Mass Medicine Show" . . . at the Archbishop's invitation, he brought his altar servers, deacons and Schola to various parishes and the Cathedral, just to show the younger faithful what a Latin Mass looks like.
They seem to have been interested, because the crowds kept increasing. The Mass at the Cathedral was S.Rp
I meant to say S.R.O. and my keyboard slipped . . . < g >
That's not a woman.
That's part of the problem.
Even if that person was female, we should paraphrase Frank Sinatra and say: That was no lady, that was a Jesuit.
LOL! Always a pleasure to cross paths with you, BlackElk!
The closest FSSP parish to me is Chesapeake, VA (Norfolk, VA) which is about 180 miles or so southeast of where I live in Arlington (DC Metro area). I’ve contributed regularly to them. While I still like the parish I’ve been attending since 9/2003, I miss the wonderful Irish dreadnought pastor who brought me into the Church. I’d love to have an FSSP chapel/parish in Arlington or Fairfax counties in VA.
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