Strengthened with all might,
according to the power of his glory,
in all patience and longsuffering with joy,
giving thanks to God the Father,
who hath made us worthy to be
partakers of the lot of the saints in light:
who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
and hath translated us into the kingdom
of the Son of his love,
in whom we have redemption
through his blood, the remission of sins;
who is the image of the invisible God,
the Firstborn of every creature:
For in him were all things created
in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible,
whether thrones, or dominations,
or principalities, or powers:
all things were created by him and in him.
And he is before all,
and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the Church,
who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead;
that in all things he may hold the primacy:
because in him, it hath well pleased the Father,
that all fullness should dwell.
And through him to reconcile all things unto himself,
making peace through the blood of his Cross,
both as to the things that are on earth,
and the things that are in heaven.
~~The Traditional Mass Will Never Die~~
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The central crisis of the Church is the extremely high prevalence of homosexuality, active & widely present in the clergy.
Benedict XVI resigned because he was overwhelmed by it.
Every single "crisis" manufactured... 1/
...by Francis has been a smokescreen to avoid addressing this grave matter, that has destroyed the Church from the inside, transformed much of the hierarchy into a factory of blackmail,& made the Priesthood of the New Testament, in much of the West, seen as a "Gay Profession". 2/
From "communion to divorcees" to now this brutal attack on the Mass (caused in great measure by the immeasurable anger Francis and his minions felt against them because Trad-friendly and conservative Cardinals and bishops blocked "gay-friendly" texts in every Synod)... 3/
"People are passionate about what they love, sometimes to a fault, but for the majority, this is human and generally kept within a tolerable range of sparring and bluster rather than disgust and deep division. I fear the Pope is using a cannon to kill a fly."
"This is not the language of mercy. ... Pope Francis has seldom addressed any other group this harshly. To others such as unbelievers, dissenters and wayward politicians there is to be mercy, understanding and tolerance."
All 4 TLM Masses outside the Personal Parish of St John Henry Newman have been cancelled in the Archdiocese of Melbourne
At the diocese of Alexandria, Louisiana, all Latin Masses are no longer allowed.
Bishop Kemme (diocese of Wichita) is allowing one priest who serves the largest latin Mass community) to continue but has asked all other priests to refrain from saying the TLM.
"Who does he think he is?"-- a priest told us today.
That is not really relevant. What is relevant is *Who do they think WE are?*
They think, as liberals of the past, that we are sheepish conservative idiots - blindly following THEIR rules, while THEY trample on everything. 1/
They are expecting one reaction from us, and one only: "obedience". That is: "blind obedience".
Of course, THEY (the Modernists, currently in charge of the highest echelons of the hierarchy) don't care about obedience from THEIR side. 2/
No, no. THEIR lay faithful can contracept, and abort, and pay for abortions, and legislate for death and genocide and euthanasia. THEIR priests can "bless" adultery and sodomy. THEIR professors can teach all aberrations, from a "Queer" god to abortion as sacrament. 3/
#SummorumPontificum
We were asked by a prominent reporter to comment on the Francis document purportedly trying to do what a MUCH stronger pope in a MUCH stronger position (Paul VI) couldn't -- that is, abolish the Latin Mass. Here are our first thoughts.
Yes, it is huge.
It is the most stinging rebuke by a Pope against his predecessor in living memory -- there has never been anything like it. Remember that the document itself is just 14 years old, and that Benedict XVI is still alive.
Legally, it's a complete mess. Benedict had made clear in Summorum that it is basically impossible for an ancient rite to be simply abolished. Paul VI had never truly abolished it, it was implied, because he could not do it. And the commission of cardinals that advised John...