........then surely we can accommodate the SSPX!
Don't get me wrong (especially any members of the Ordinariate flock who may have strayed to this blog inadvertently) - I believe that the moves made by the Holy Father have been both welcome and wise and it is a matter of some considerable joy that we are now "one".
But, for heaven's sake, if we can accommodate vicars and laity from the Anglican faith, we must surely be able to reach an agreement with our own?
After all, is the Society's stance so very different from the one that many thousands of Catholics made in the wake of Vatican II?
To "leave" the modern Mass and only attend the "Mass of all Time?"
Is the Society totally divorced from the martyrs of England and Wales who gave their lives for the sake of the Latin Mass (in essence?)
It is not the SSPX that has drifted so much as the modern Church.
It is the Church that is out of step and the Holy Father is working hard to bring it into line, hampered, as always, by the Vaticanistas who have a somewhat different agenda.
While there is continuing opposition to the Latin Mass by the Bishops they appear to have no difficulty in sliding the Syro-Malabar rite under our noses, or providing Mass in Tagalog or Mandarin......so one must wonder whether their motives are for good or for evil.
I have no doubt that it's the latter.
Prayers are needed to bring this negotiation process to a clean and successful conclusion.
Don't get me wrong (especially any members of the Ordinariate flock who may have strayed to this blog inadvertently) - I believe that the moves made by the Holy Father have been both welcome and wise and it is a matter of some considerable joy that we are now "one".
But, for heaven's sake, if we can accommodate vicars and laity from the Anglican faith, we must surely be able to reach an agreement with our own?
After all, is the Society's stance so very different from the one that many thousands of Catholics made in the wake of Vatican II?
To "leave" the modern Mass and only attend the "Mass of all Time?"
Is the Society totally divorced from the martyrs of England and Wales who gave their lives for the sake of the Latin Mass (in essence?)
It is not the SSPX that has drifted so much as the modern Church.
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| Just who is out of step in this picture. The officer or the troops behind? |
It is the Church that is out of step and the Holy Father is working hard to bring it into line, hampered, as always, by the Vaticanistas who have a somewhat different agenda.
While there is continuing opposition to the Latin Mass by the Bishops they appear to have no difficulty in sliding the Syro-Malabar rite under our noses, or providing Mass in Tagalog or Mandarin......so one must wonder whether their motives are for good or for evil.
I have no doubt that it's the latter.
Prayers are needed to bring this negotiation process to a clean and successful conclusion.
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