What a day!
A day to read the Rorate blog, which has an important piece by a Fr Ferguson. His point, amusingly and cogently made, is that "Pomposity cannot abide ridicule". This is what my blog has always practised! We have inherited this perception from figures like the Revd Dr Geoffrey Kirk, RIP, whose writings, first in our Anglican context and later in the Bergoglian context, operated precisely on the principle of laughing at the bullies and the heretics. Rideat nunc cum Angelis in caelis.
Don't let them worry you! Laugh at them! If you want a good example of pompous and risible fatuity, read yesterday's "Address to the Curia". He's still going on about 'Clericalism'! He still thinks he's humble! He is providing you with your Big Christmass Laugh!!
Also in today's Rorate, a fine letter, fizzing with righteous anger, from the Founding Prior of the Traditionalist Dominicans. He points out that, back in the era of Ecclesia Dei, the Holy See gave its word to certain communities about the preservation of their rites and their spiritualitiues. PF has no right to play fast and loose with solemnly given undertakings. "Obedience" does not oblige the sort of craven obsequiousness which PF thinks he has the right to demand. He's only the pope.
Fr de Blignieres is dead right. I also entered into full communion via a scheme which guaranteed me the use of the Roman Rite (which at that moment had received the watertight papal clarification that it [already] existed in two licit Forms) and, additionally, (what was to be) the Divine Worship Missal. No-one on earth has the right to deprive me of the use of the Old Mass, and I require no permission ("in principle", as Benedict XVI put it) from anybody to use it. Furthermore, the logic deployed by PF and his Roche to attack the Old Mass ("Unity and Communion require Uniformity") excludes also the Divine Worship Missal (not to mention the "Uniate" rites). This has not yet been spelled out by the Bergoglianicals, but I do not see how, logically, they can avoid this conclusion (even though the DWM was issued by PF's own authority). No edicts from the Vatican will alter my attitude to the DWM.
PF is only the pope. He should read the teaching of Joseph Ratzinger in The Spirit of the Liturgy.
Finally ... still with Rorate ... they have published a superb article by a senior and experienced parish priest in the English 'Mainstream' Church, Fr Puginopolitanus.
Please!! Don't let all this essential reading get lost in the Christmas rush!!
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Fr Hunwicke no doubt refers to this article, by Fr Christopher Basden, Parish Priest of Ramsgate, England:
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2021/12/what-is-behind-papal-strangulation-of.html
"Unity does not require uniformity" is precisely the point I was trying to make here: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/12/18/opinion-let-a-thousand-rites-bloom-and-flourish/
Thank you Fr. Hunwicke, I will go read Rorate after I say this. Thank you for defending truth and your consoling words. I think you are right, there is something so pathological in these people, something so incompatible with humor, that they detest being mocked more than anything. Satan must be humorless, truly, because people who are acting according to his spirit are often the same. Their humor is forced, like the nervous smiles on the faces of North Koreans. We have seen all the "joy faces" that have been so insisted on by this papacy. The merry laughing, the loud cavorts, but they seem contrived, and they have always seemed contrived. So yes, we should mock them and laugh at them as often as possible, (luckily they give us all plenty of material to work with). God bless you, Fr. Hunwicke! Merry Christmas!
Father, I have a 1962 Latin/French missal published by Le Barroux. Cardinal Ratzinger wrote an introduction for this edition. In light of the Roach’s tiresome comments yesterday about the new crime of “promoting” the usus antiquior and undermining Vatican II, here is what Cardinal Ratzinger had to say:
“This liturgy, which Pope John Paul II has kindly granted to all those who are attached to it, is an integral part of ‘the richness that the diversity of charisms and traditions of spirituality and apostolate represents for the Church.’”
“I therefore hope that this new edition will meet the expectations of these faithful and help them to participate actively in the celebration of Holy Mass. In this way it will contribute in its own way to the liturgical renewal called for by the Second Vatican Council and will highlight ‘the beauty of unity in variety.’”
Dear Father. I think you'll like this poem
https://wmbriggs.com/post/38518/
A most Blessed and peaceful Christmastide to you and yours and thank you for all of your great posts.
Pax tecum
I've just skim read Joseph Shaw's "strangulation" piece. It's deeply flawed. The problems began before the Council. I've not read Dave Wemhoff's magisterial work (his lectures and available) but I have read "Who Paid The Piper" by Frances Stonor Saunders, Inter Mirifica and have seen Fellini's Dionysian spin on the era, "La Dolce Vita" a couple of times. Traddies really need to smarten up on the subject. One only needs to examine the ongoing obsession with The Beatles to gain a valuable insight. Three lapsed Catholics from Liverpool found fame in occupied West Germany during the 1950's dressed as Americans and singing Rock'n Roll standards. Why?
Technically, the Beatles in Germany were both an American-style rock and roll band, and several kinds of UK folk/oldtime music band. Of course, it can be argued that because rock and roll is essentially rhythm and blues, rock is also primarily a folk/oldtime music genre.
Tinyurl.com/traditionalmass Volume 1 of 2 is an enlightening book regarding The Mass of the Roman Rite: ITS ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT (Missarum Sollemnia). This is the replica of the 1951 translation explaining the traditional Eucharistic celebration through the ages by Joseph Jungmann
fr Christopher Basden requests you back up your statement that my article "What is behind the papal strangulation of the Old Mass" is deeply flawed.It is not meant to be exhaustive. It is what I have personally lived through since I memorised the Judica back in 1963 learning how to serve Mass on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Tell me what is flawed please!
fr Christopher Basden requests you back up your statement that my article "What is behind the papal strangulation of the Old Mass" is deeply flawed.It is not meant to be exhaustive. It is what I have personally lived through since I memorised the Judica back in 1963 learning how to serve Mass on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Tell me what is flawed please!
Gregory DiPippo has pricked PF's pretensions wonderfully with a portrait of Louis XIV on which is superimposed 'La synodalite* c'est moi.'
*Apologies to any francophone readers for the lack of an acute accent, but if there is a way of typing one in a comment box I am yet to find it.
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