Would you ever consider engaging with so-called "benevacantists"? They seem to have an equally limited/unrealistic understanding of not only the papacy but the foundations of canon law.
A few years ago I found a used copy of Jean Gaillard and William Busch's 1954 commentary on Holy Week - Easter. I read it each day of Holy Week as the (short) chapters are broken down that way. It also has commentary on the Office of Tenebrae. Excerpt...
The palm ceremony is more than an edifying spectacle. It is the celebration of a mystery, it is a scared action on the part of the Christian community. The procession especially is a religious act which gives honor and glory to God, in which we give testimony to our faith, and in which, by the prayer of the Church, we obtain the graces of devotion corresponding to the mystery which is here symbolized.
Ebay has a couple of used copies and there is also a reprint available at Romanitas Press.
That was a great 125th anniversary article you included, Dr. K. St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, South Bend, is the parish I chose when I knew I had to leave my liberal denomination and Protestant ministry. The TLM was an unlikely “way home” for a Lutheran, but the Mass, low or high, richly rewarded my feeble attempts to pray along, and as the daily renewing of Christ’s saving sacrifice, it must be, and is “the most beautiful thing this side of heaven.”
The parish turnaround story, in which the TLM is crucial, is also recounted briefly on St. Stanislaus’ website. Bishop Rhoads’ decision is appreciated by a grateful community. This bishop shows, the priest and congregation show, that embracing tradition is FORWARD thinking and forward looking, not backward looking.
What’s that saying about youthfulness?
I can’t say enough in praise of our bishop, the congregation, and our wonderful priest, Monsignor Fritz, FSSP. Oh, and the March 25 celebration was glorious. Thanks for drawing attention to all of it.
On the return of the rails. What will the parishes of experiment do? The oval shaped or circular centres of participation? Install them as corrals, pens? This will look even odder. I'd say they will pass.
But it might at least get some thinking why it would look odd. And perhaps why Churches are traditionally designed around the demarcation between the nave and the chancel. No doubt that terminology is unheard of in our modern catholic community centres, but hope springs eternal.
Re: the sede thing, I am not one, though I wouldnt be totally shocked if I got to the next life and it turned out to have been the case, particularly on the benepapist issue, but something I havent seen in the discussion is Pope Paul IV’s papal bull “Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio”, which would seem to strengthen the sede position, or, if it is not binding on the discipline of that, then wouldve been using his teaching authority that not having a pope of the kind the sedes would probably like would lead to the abomination of desolation spoken of in Daniel, and all that accompanies it. Seems pretty literally damning either way. I would like to see some treatment of that, but I have never seen anything on it from that angle. I have asked a number of priests so far and they all have either laughed at my question (literally), or thought about it and been really silent and serious for a long time and said they had nothing really to say but would think about it. I read a lot of the apostolic digest, and it is pretty hard for me to discount the position of the sedes completely. If indeed they are wrong, as I suspect, then the situation is possibly even more dire in light of much if what the previous popes and saints have written on the subject. Though, I suppose less dire than thinking all the NO orders are invalid, that would truly be awful. I do not write all of this to argue with you or even to assert much, I have struggled with this question since before I even converted, and it has been a persistent question I have been unable to answer.
Summary on the Latin Mass part, which shows the future: "the Church’s small but young, ardent, Latin Mass loyalists.... 'This is a place where we more easily meet God.'” Go to a Traditionalist mass, then a NO Mass, and see which one is hardest to hear because of the crying babies.
Would you ever consider engaging with so-called "benevacantists"? They seem to have an equally limited/unrealistic understanding of not only the papacy but the foundations of canon law.
A few years ago I found a used copy of Jean Gaillard and William Busch's 1954 commentary on Holy Week - Easter. I read it each day of Holy Week as the (short) chapters are broken down that way. It also has commentary on the Office of Tenebrae. Excerpt...
The palm ceremony is more than an edifying spectacle. It is the celebration of a mystery, it is a scared action on the part of the Christian community. The procession especially is a religious act which gives honor and glory to God, in which we give testimony to our faith, and in which, by the prayer of the Church, we obtain the graces of devotion corresponding to the mystery which is here symbolized.
Ebay has a couple of used copies and there is also a reprint available at Romanitas Press.
That was a great 125th anniversary article you included, Dr. K. St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, South Bend, is the parish I chose when I knew I had to leave my liberal denomination and Protestant ministry. The TLM was an unlikely “way home” for a Lutheran, but the Mass, low or high, richly rewarded my feeble attempts to pray along, and as the daily renewing of Christ’s saving sacrifice, it must be, and is “the most beautiful thing this side of heaven.”
The parish turnaround story, in which the TLM is crucial, is also recounted briefly on St. Stanislaus’ website. Bishop Rhoads’ decision is appreciated by a grateful community. This bishop shows, the priest and congregation show, that embracing tradition is FORWARD thinking and forward looking, not backward looking.
What’s that saying about youthfulness?
I can’t say enough in praise of our bishop, the congregation, and our wonderful priest, Monsignor Fritz, FSSP. Oh, and the March 25 celebration was glorious. Thanks for drawing attention to all of it.
Soli deo gloria!
On the return of the rails. What will the parishes of experiment do? The oval shaped or circular centres of participation? Install them as corrals, pens? This will look even odder. I'd say they will pass.
But it might at least get some thinking why it would look odd. And perhaps why Churches are traditionally designed around the demarcation between the nave and the chancel. No doubt that terminology is unheard of in our modern catholic community centres, but hope springs eternal.
Re: the sede thing, I am not one, though I wouldnt be totally shocked if I got to the next life and it turned out to have been the case, particularly on the benepapist issue, but something I havent seen in the discussion is Pope Paul IV’s papal bull “Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio”, which would seem to strengthen the sede position, or, if it is not binding on the discipline of that, then wouldve been using his teaching authority that not having a pope of the kind the sedes would probably like would lead to the abomination of desolation spoken of in Daniel, and all that accompanies it. Seems pretty literally damning either way. I would like to see some treatment of that, but I have never seen anything on it from that angle. I have asked a number of priests so far and they all have either laughed at my question (literally), or thought about it and been really silent and serious for a long time and said they had nothing really to say but would think about it. I read a lot of the apostolic digest, and it is pretty hard for me to discount the position of the sedes completely. If indeed they are wrong, as I suspect, then the situation is possibly even more dire in light of much if what the previous popes and saints have written on the subject. Though, I suppose less dire than thinking all the NO orders are invalid, that would truly be awful. I do not write all of this to argue with you or even to assert much, I have struggled with this question since before I even converted, and it has been a persistent question I have been unable to answer.
Summary on the Latin Mass part, which shows the future: "the Church’s small but young, ardent, Latin Mass loyalists.... 'This is a place where we more easily meet God.'” Go to a Traditionalist mass, then a NO Mass, and see which one is hardest to hear because of the crying babies.
In other words, Vatican II and all that follows must be rejected as a whole. No half-measures are allowed.
Lol! Well said!
Thank you for the round up!
Thank you, Dr K. A blessed Holy Week ahead for you!