"I fear a continual decline (absent some VERY bright spots, such as the FSSP) and I wonder if we aren't modern Laodicea."
The decline is scary but now it seems more like an attack and I don't have the FSSP nearby(oh, to hear and see and partake in a Latin Mass again...I'd probably cry) but at least I can claim Philadelphia instead of Laodicea as my Diocese so I'm more inclined to sing O Come O Come Emmanuel. Everyone thought our biggest future problem would be the lack of priests.
Philadelphia instead of Laodicea as my Diocese lol.. I like that
I used to drive 90 miles one way to St Robert Bellarmine in Miami for the Indult. But, my wife converted - finally - and she prefers the normative mass and so, like a fearful husband, I try to make her happy.
She has agreed to put a part of our tithe to the FSSP and in a way my money tends to be more an act of pure charity as I am unable to derive any direct (well, excluding the prayers they offer for our family)benefit.
But, my heart is with the 1962 Roman Missal