Category Archives: 2-Experienced
Priest: Attacks against Carmelites of Philadelphia are ‘part of greater war against contemplative religious’
Make it part of an offensive against recognition of the supernatural?
Our commentator puts the case of the Carmel in Philadelphia in a larger context of the crisis in the Church which started with the Second Vatican Council, and he issues a sort of battle cry, calling Catholics to resistance.
Down with the sacred, up with the world we know and can do something about!
Cdl. Cupich bans Institute of Christ the King from saying public Masses, confessions in Chicago
ICKSP (Institute of Christ the King Soverign Priest) Clergy and faithful in adoration outside their Chicago church, July 31, 2022.
Keith Armato, a prominent Chicago Catholic layman involved with the Institute,
. . . had read the letter of Cardinal Cupich announcing the suspension of the ICKSP priests as of August 1 [and had] explained to LifeSite that the reason for this suspension is that the Institute could not, in their conscience, sign a document presented to them by Cupich.
In that document, which contains several points, the ICKSP priests were asked to sign that the Novus Ordo Mass is the only true expression of the Roman rite, thereby rejecting the traditional Roman rite.
Among other things, the priests were also asked to accept that they would have to ask the archbishop for permission to celebrate the traditional Latin Mass, and that this permission…
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Southern Maryland parish forbidden to offer traditional Latin Mass after investing in quarter million dollar renovation and decoration for the purpose
A way to show U.S. complainers who’s boss:
By means of draconian cruelty they have been officially forbidden to pray as they desire according to their Catholic patrimony in their own church. This compliments of the hierarchy that boasts of mercy, Synodality, compassion, seeking the margins, listening, accepting everyone, rejecting no one, diversity.
Lies.
FSSP says Pope Francis has issued decree confirming its use of 1962 liturgical books
Francis makes exception to his ban, keeping supporters of the ban off-balance just a little, lest any take him for granted.
Later: Sorry, did not identify FSSP, here identified as “the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a society of apostolic life which celebrates the Roman rite according to the liturgical books in force in 1962.”
The priestly fraternity was founded in July 1988 by 12 priests of the Society of St. Pius X, and several seminarians. The founders left the SSPX to establish the FSSP after the society’s leader, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, consecrated four bishops without the permission of St. John Paul II.
More:
There are currently about 340 priests and 180 seminarians in the FSSP. It has parishes and chapels in 147 dioceses in North America, Europe, Oceania, Nigeria, and Colombia.
More here about them and their history.
So It Begins: Chicago’s Fight for the Mass of the Ages
In case you missed this. Nothing in Trib or Sun-Times, however.
Bagpipes sounded on State Street, and a truck with flashing images of the Mass of the Ages rolled by. We stood shoulder to shoulder or knelt on the sidewalk and prayed the Rosary with Holy Name Cathedral looming large behind us. Men held signs aloft for the traffic to read: “Cardinal Cupich: Why are you punishing faithful Catholics?” It was the First Sunday of February.
And the citizens were restless.
Over two hundred of us gathered there. Men, women, even a few children (bundled up well against the cold). There were Chicago’s quintessential old Polish ladies in fur coats, and old men too, but the majority were millennials and gen-Zers. A mom in her third trimester walked about with an iPhone filming the livestream. A thirty-something dad led us through fifteen decades of the Rosary, interspersing the mysteries…
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Longtime promoter of Traditional Latin Mass in Europe “throws in the towel,” calling it “a waste of time”
“Denis Crouan, the French founder and president (since 1988 or so) of the organization Pro liturgia, which promotes “the Mass as Vatican II truly intended it”, with Latin, chant, ad orientem, etc.,” sounds off:
Asking present-day clergy to respect the liturgy of the Church is a waste of time: with an obstinacy often coupled with a profound lack of culture, those who occupy the places from which they are supposed to teach, go before, and lead the faithful – at all levels in the Church, from the pope to the simple parish priest – seem to want to systematically sabotage divine worship in a way that remains completely incomprehensible.
The pope?
That Pope Bergoglio is more interested in Luther and Pachamama than in the doctrine and morals of the Church is his choice: a choice that everyone is entitled to consider regrettable and more than risky.
The rest of it is here.
Chicago’s premiere Latin Mass parish toes the line
In accordance with the policy of His Eminence Cardinal Blase Cupich and the implementation of the motu proprio of His Holiness Pope Francis Traditionis Custodes within the Archdiocese of Chicago, there will be changes to the schedule of Masses at St John Cantius Church.
The first-Sunday rule:
Beginning on January 25, 2022, on the first Sunday of each month, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be celebrated in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Missal, both in Latin and English.
Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and Holy Week “unity” rule:
The Archdiocese also prescribes for us liturgical unity of prayer for Holy Mother Church’s major feasts of Christmas, Pentecost and Easter, including the Triduum.
The canons — priests, brothers, seminarians — will work harder than ever “to restore the sacred.”
The Canons Regular of St John Cantius are committed to serving the faithful within the Archdiocese of Chicago. We Canons will live more fully our charism, “the core of our apostolate”—our very purpose— to restore the sacred.
That’s it for now.
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In a largely upbeat, reassuring pulpit message to the congregation, Fr. Joshua Caswell, the church’s pastor, specified continued “praying ad orientem” (facing same direction as the people) and celebration of the Mass in both Latin and English, while following the above-mentioned scheduling.
At mass it’s here’s lookin’ at YOU, Father . . .
. . . unless he’s turned around the looking same way you are looking, at God incarnate in the tabernacle, or up to God in heaven above in a tried and true symbolic gesture — He’s everywhere, we know — God being the most important person in the room.
But no, it’s the mass of the faithful kneeling, standing, sitting together under the same room in His house, the mass of gazing on Father at the altar and what he does, hearing his voice (as prescribed) almost constantly, requiring (demanding) our attention. It’s his time to shine, whether he or we like it or not.
And He? Gets a lot of lip service, He does. Priest keeps things moving right along. Few empty (of words) moments.
Not good, not good, not good . . .
Cardinal Cupich having fun with pagan ritual?
The prelate offered a pagan blessing dotting paint onto the lion’s eyes, nose, mouth, ears and body while reciting the invocation:
“Good fortune upon your head, miraculous light glittering to your eyes, your ears capturing sounds from all directions. May the most favorable auspicious big fortune and great profit be to you throughout the whole year, from the beginning all the way to the end.”
He did versions of this ritual at St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church in 2016 and more recently at Carmel Catholic High, in Mundelein.
Cardinal Blase Cupich visited Carmel Catholic on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 to preside over an all-school Mass celebrating the Lunar New Year, a prominent liturgical custom in certain Asian countries. This Mass of Thanksgiving highlighted the cultural importance of family, service, and gratitude — above all, gratitude to God for the blessings we have received.
Meanwhile, he has strict requirements, in minute detail, for Latin-mass sayers beginning later in January, described at length at this Church Militant page.
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground 