Posted on 07/16/2021 8:20:43 AM PDT by ebb tide
The long-rumored Motu Proprio of Francis the Infelicitous restricting the Traditional Latin Mass was finally issued and it doesn’t disappoint – that is, if you’re like me and welcome anything that makes it more difficult for the sincerely blind to deny the reality that Jorge Bergoglio, far from being Holy Father, is an enemy of the Catholic faith.
Here, I will get straight to the highlights. I’ll have more to say on smaller details later.
Without even surfing the web for headlines, I’m rather ceratain that the big story as reported by most in Catholic media will be Francis abrogates Summorum Pontificum!
Indeed, he has:
Art. 8. Previous norms, instructions, permissions, and customs that do not conform to the provisions of the present Motu Proprio are abrogated.
As expected, however, the Devil is in the details (as well as in the Vatican). The real story here is that Jorge Bergoglio is “abrogating” (to the extent that a non-Catholic posing as a pope can do anything) the Traditional Roman Rite itself. Yes, you read that correctly:
Art. 1. The liturgical books promulgated by Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II, are the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.
Pay close attention: unique expression…
According to the “pope” of the counterfeit church, there is only one form of the Roman Rite – the earthbound, man-centered, Novus Ordo.
So, what does that make the Mass of Ages?
It makes it not the Roman Rite. From this point forward in the conciliar church, it’s not even an “Extraordinary Form” of the Roman Rite, rather, it’s no rite of that church at all.
That’s called abrogation, folks.
Even so, there will be many deniers of the obvious. Let’s consider some of their objections.
But he never says, I hereby abrogate the Latin Mass!
I genuinely pity the poor fool who seeks shelter in this childish excuse. The Evil One and his minions don’t operate that way. The Devil is a liar and a deceiver, cunning at maneuvering in the shadows to avoid discovery, poisoning the naive in unexpected ways.
Even so, in his letter to bishops accompanying the Motu Proprio, Bergoglio states:
I take comfort in this decision from the fact that, after the Council of Trent, St. Pius V also abrogated all the rites that could not claim a proven antiquity, establishing for the whole Latin Church a single Missale Romanum.
Again, pay close attention: “also abrogated all the rites.” In other words: My predecessor abrogated certain rites. I’m abrogating just one, the Traditional Roman Rite!
Still, the deniers will object:
But he will still allow it to be celebrated even if restricted!
OK, but exactly what is “it”? Answer: Not the Roman Rite but rather the former Roman Rite that is presently abrogated.
You see, for Bergoglio, this is like granting highly restricted, temporary permission for the faithful to participate in any non-Catholic rite.
This is the same guy who welcomed Pachamama idol worship into the Vatican! Does anyone really think that limited tolerance of the TLM until such time as it is fully banished from the dioceses bothers him? Of course not, it’s something he’ll put up with, but only for a time. His letter to the bishops makes this clear:
…those who are rooted in the previous form of celebration and need to return in due time to the Roman Rite promulgated by Saints Paul VI and John Paul II. [Emphasis added]
You know the drill, pay attention: need to return… It’s not optional.
Sure, the pseudo-trads and neo-cons will initially express outrage at the death of Summorum Pontificum, followed by concern for the future, followed by hope for the future, followed by pep talks about how the faithful must soldier on in spite of these persecutions that Christ is allowing at the hands of His Vicar. What a mystery!
In short, many of them will shuck and jive their rear ends off in order to deny the plain reality of the matter: The man that they call “Pope Francis” has just officially abrogated the Traditional Latin Mass from the conciliar church over which he rules.
The reason they will twist themselves into knots denying this reality is because to acknowledge it is to acknowledge some difficult truths. For instance, how often has it been said “the TLM was never abrogated!” as if this supported the preposterous notion that the conciliar counterfeit church really is the one true Church of Christ, in spite of its corrupt faith and morals.
But there’s an even bigger, more uncomfortable truth staring the deniers in the face, if only they would open their eyes.
Any putative pope that would move to abrogate the Mass of Ages cannot be but an antipope. It’s time to acknowledge reality: Jorge Bergoglio isn’t a Catholic of any rank, much less is he the Vicar of Christ.
What planet is all of this from? Not even sure what I just read.
Made sense to me, but I'm weird.
So the Latin Mass goes underground as in the early days of Christianity. Doesn’t he know he can’t stop God?
I pray for an actual Catholic to become the next Pope & hope he will prayerfully abrogate everything this anti-Pope has implemented!!!
The perennial Roman Rite, the free use of which was granted by Pope St. Pius V in perpetuity, has been reduced to “the previous form of celebration” to be discarded at will and thrown into the trash.
No, this will not stand. It may go down as one of the biggest papal blunders in history. The Traditional Mass and the Faith which it expresses will only grow while the Novus Ordo parishes wither on the vine.
Unfortunately, this is how schisms begin.
Perhaps a Catholic background helps? I have none. LOL.
I clicked on this by mistake thinking somehow it had to do with getting rid of the current loon who is pope and replacing him with someone or something else.
Now, not only do I not understand what I just read, I don’t care.
This is why the Congregationalist model is the appropriate for all churches. No church should answer to anyone other than God in his Trinitarion revelation through scripture and their own congregation.
Also precisely the model of authority that gave us the Unitarian Universalists.
“God speaks Latin.” My high school Latin teacher, circa 1983.
QFT
How can he do that? He’s still in the hospital.
He’s been released and has come back firing away.
Really, show me a different model from scripture. Paul refused to build on another’s foundation.
The word of God is spoken in many languages.
The meaning of the Word of God never changes - it is immutable and eternal truth.
The Latin Mass is also eternal and largely immutable and eternal because it is based on a long dead language which is resistant to the kind of innovation and change that Frankie wants to impose on the church.
Abrogating the Latin Mass is central to instituting the innovations and changes Frankie wants to impose upon The Church.
If he gets his way, by the time Frankie is done with his fundamental change of the Catholic Church, people will search for Jesus but they will search in vain because he will be nowhere to be found.
He says clearly in a couple of places that he appointed overseers (Gk “episkopoi,” from which we get the English word “bishop”) in every town. That’s not a congregational model of church authority, but an episcopal one.
That translates into elder. Each church should be governed by a plurality of it’s elders - just as the Church in Rome was originally.
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