tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20881105794307147442024-03-10T15:07:30.157+01:00Pro Tridentina (Malta)For the promotion and dissemination of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass in the Archdiocese of Malta and the Diocese of Gozo, as endorsed by the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI (2007) and in the Instruction Universae Ecclesiae (2011). We adhere to the traditional Catholic motto: We are what you once were. We believe what you once believed. We worship as you once worshipped. If you were right then, we are right now. If we are wrong now, you were wrong then.Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.comBlogger411125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-92157855367742415582024-03-10T15:05:00.005+01:002024-03-10T15:06:57.796+01:00Remember the Fatima message!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaO1GlAXGx4AlRa5Hht9Po1AKkMUyAaQBmM8jTl_xGSLcc_Mo2wa2AkSPJYSPQsgAp3U9ukRobFPYPzAIu-1bArfItnmSt-QNvIty0TQJk8Vq9bxYsEyKn5Iuapvq1YtMQplG3hBCqqDi4IuIRLor_b7V8zBvwEFpl4WmUt3Y0781E41fO0Y3ekHfl_70/s750/iStock-962107752.jpg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaO1GlAXGx4AlRa5Hht9Po1AKkMUyAaQBmM8jTl_xGSLcc_Mo2wa2AkSPJYSPQsgAp3U9ukRobFPYPzAIu-1bArfItnmSt-QNvIty0TQJk8Vq9bxYsEyKn5Iuapvq1YtMQplG3hBCqqDi4IuIRLor_b7V8zBvwEFpl4WmUt3Y0781E41fO0Y3ekHfl_70/w425-h283/iStock-962107752.jpg.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">The message of Our Lady of Fatima can be summed up in the following:</span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1. Our Lady came to warn the world that if people do not stop offending God another, worse war than the First World War (fighting was still going on in 1917, the year of the apparitions) will start. It did, the Second World War took place between 1939 and 1945. And it seems likely that we're on the eve of a more devastating World War (see further in points 6 and 8).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2. She asked for repentance and praying of the Rosary. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Our Lady showed Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta hell when she outstretched the palms of her hands downwards. She said that most people go to hell because of the sins of the flesh which should be totally understandable given what godless age we live in where flesh dominates the actions of men. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. She indicated that God wishes to save sinners by consecration to Her Immaculate Heart.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(<i>In later years Sister Lucia emphasized to Father Fuentes that Satan is engaged in a great battle with the Holy Virgin where one side will be victorious and other defeated. Everyone must choose sides, either with God or with Satan. Remember Revelation 12 which speaks of the great red dragon i.e. Satan waging war with the woman i.e. Our Lady</i>).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;">5. She came to warn that Satan will succeed to reach up to the top of the Catholic Church's hierarchy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;">6. She asked for consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart to prevent Russia spreading atheistic communism throughout the world, fomenting wars and causing persecutions including within the Church and annihilating nations. The consecration was not done as required so Russia did spread her errors throughout the world. She also said that God will use Russia as an instrument of punishment for the sins of mankind. She said that Russia will be a scourge of the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;">7. She asked for reparation to Her Immaculate Heart to be done on the first 5 Saturdays for the ingratitude of men. What ingratitude is she speaking of? Towards her as Our Heavenly Mother who intercedes on our behalf to mitigate punishments and to appease God’s wrath. Reparation also for the blasphemies against her. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(<i>In later years, Lucia specifically asked the Lord Jesus why was His Mother with 7 thorns around Her Immaculate Heart. He replied that these represent the 7 blasphemies against Her as a person including Her Immaculate Conception, Her perpetual virginity and all the dogmas concerning Her person</i>).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;">8. She said that in the end Her Immaculate Heart will triumph. After all the cataclysm, Her Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Era of Peace will begin and as many Catholic Saints have prophesied Russia will be converted, i.e. the Russian Orthodox Church will submit itself to the Roman Catholic Church. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;">9. She also asked that we should always be willing to perform acts of sacrifice in reparation for sins. That constitutes crosses and sufferings that God would send our way. When we accept them, we mitigate the effects of sins upon the world. It should be done in the spirit of humility and self-denial.</div></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">May all be given the grace to see Fatima in its true light which it deserves to be seen in and understood.</span></div><p></p>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-55398693246559317962024-02-18T14:25:00.001+01:002024-02-18T14:27:43.098+01:00Quotes to reflect upon (25)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_2z_5rNpphRLvOTLKwGja-l-VnqnmyeVJi0XUkhDZRUTvHHsYEkNBrZHQvRBHbYu0a9NEsEHH8CXHiRb8n342WUPfOWj5vxkuDX126ivK0cmAaQedgz7kFTPSlF9AF64w1adQZcje_lnTaDWEgPPoMIeHduxxwphPzS0oapeiHWVgcIdK14gtV8AWOc/s439/822643p13706EDNMain14427John-XXIII_300.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_2z_5rNpphRLvOTLKwGja-l-VnqnmyeVJi0XUkhDZRUTvHHsYEkNBrZHQvRBHbYu0a9NEsEHH8CXHiRb8n342WUPfOWj5vxkuDX126ivK0cmAaQedgz7kFTPSlF9AF64w1adQZcje_lnTaDWEgPPoMIeHduxxwphPzS0oapeiHWVgcIdK14gtV8AWOc/s320/822643p13706EDNMain14427John-XXIII_300.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #fff9ee; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We are conscious today that many, many centuries of blindness have cloaked our eyes so that we can no longer see the beauty of Your Chosen People nor recognize in their faces the features of our privileged brethren. </span></i></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: #fff9ee; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We realize that the mark of Cain stands upon our foreheads. Across the centuries our brother Abel has lain in the blood we drew, or shed tears we caused by forgetting Your love. </span></i></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: #fff9ee; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Forgive us the curse we falsely attached to their name as Jews. Forgive us for crucifying You a second time in the flesh. For we know not what we did.</span></i></blockquote><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">These phrases are taken directly from </span>the fake 'prayer' that former Jesuit priest Malachi Martin published in the American Jewish Committee publication, <i>Commentary</i>, in January 1965.<span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Malachi alsot attributed this fake prayer to Pope John XXIII and claimed that Pope John XXIII intended for the 'prayer' to be recited in all of the churches of the world.</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"> It is worrying that this fake prayer has been recited in many churches throughout the world, even regularly in some areas such as in Poland and the USA.</span></div></span></span>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-66349507879721299662024-02-05T12:57:00.006+01:002024-02-05T12:57:59.098+01:00Nitolbu għall-Provinċja Karmelitana Maltija<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8fLYuhAYng3iRb_eTAaBIEvWXcIcMmdjd6fRROPrYUGXFbIIQEAuV_HFAVgJir0f0gJ_SbMkw_w5HM8xDBPJjE_DrvWAH8kisF0FIpHjDTbsbt4qkJrk8I5ZUmqQoZ8MSC_LZgDWjxRBaveZewH8KouuM-aVeOUYdvBgAzKQmaxhviJy7G-RTdWa_6Yc/s720/424617805_853562726813716_5804586701513262355_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8fLYuhAYng3iRb_eTAaBIEvWXcIcMmdjd6fRROPrYUGXFbIIQEAuV_HFAVgJir0f0gJ_SbMkw_w5HM8xDBPJjE_DrvWAH8kisF0FIpHjDTbsbt4qkJrk8I5ZUmqQoZ8MSC_LZgDWjxRBaveZewH8KouuM-aVeOUYdvBgAzKQmaxhviJy7G-RTdWa_6Yc/w554-h375/424617805_853562726813716_5804586701513262355_n.jpg" width="554" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-87513682223689072062024-02-05T10:39:00.006+01:002024-02-05T10:59:12.129+01:00A church to be turned into a mosque?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14s8fKg5rLdSh59O1u9hbzvo3cguts9ef0zzhvapwAv_Hj__7MDsW3QLSSVeHfuWOTChkN-s5RYiu56W56gGk_IVXjpFg-rwwb7jU0nBk6pbwu8L8Evm2PDNgMKiRdGTsSt4c321Rj-OufpUe62pn9i3cL-8r6kc85x-N-GEHGqRuB3twnemwiomYStw/s1620/Parish_Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Mount_Carmel_(Fgura)_37.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1620" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14s8fKg5rLdSh59O1u9hbzvo3cguts9ef0zzhvapwAv_Hj__7MDsW3QLSSVeHfuWOTChkN-s5RYiu56W56gGk_IVXjpFg-rwwb7jU0nBk6pbwu8L8Evm2PDNgMKiRdGTsSt4c321Rj-OufpUe62pn9i3cL-8r6kc85x-N-GEHGqRuB3twnemwiomYStw/w386-h257/Parish_Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Mount_Carmel_(Fgura)_37.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to traditional Catholic sites, apparently American, the Archdiocese of Malta is considering the selling of one of the Carmelite churches that are expected to pass from the Carmelite Order to the Archdiocese. It is rumoured that it will be sold for usage as a mosque.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fgura appears to be one of the churches that the Provincial Chapter of the Maltese Carmelite Province is considering to release. Hopefully, such drastic measures will not be put in place, considering also that Fgura is just one parish. </span><a data-ved="2ahUKEwj6g9GQ85OEAxU1gP0HHQuxCckQFnoECBEQAQ" href="https://church.mt/provincial-chapter-of-the-maltese-carmelite-province/" jsname="UWckNb" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://church.mt/provincial-chapter-of-the-maltese-carmelite-province/&ved=2ahUKEwj6g9GQ85OEAxU1gP0HHQuxCckQFnoECBEQAQ" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); background-color: white; color: #1a0dab; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As <i>Pro Tridentina</i> (Malta) we're not informed whether the above websites are correct or not. But, as Maltese Catholics, it's important that clarifications are made.</span></p><br />Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-69245241438690483962024-01-26T13:18:00.001+01:002024-01-26T13:29:11.183+01:00Biblical Concept of Time by Prof. Goswin N. M. Habets<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhE06APJQUVTPFTwyX5UMFhFxbEjATUWL4iFZc6bIWrAtcS-9JOUdMMSRFMq-rBZM5aXugES0cYR316CwE_ocByj1-sXayplL-taSCqVt51C6btVI3skM5jJNQLY3PvQhBz78KHVqBaE792Df0gRJ2AuftzQQjCBvdlFBFE3pU9E1CqBWUCVirB_N4j" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="800" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhE06APJQUVTPFTwyX5UMFhFxbEjATUWL4iFZc6bIWrAtcS-9JOUdMMSRFMq-rBZM5aXugES0cYR316CwE_ocByj1-sXayplL-taSCqVt51C6btVI3skM5jJNQLY3PvQhBz78KHVqBaE792Df0gRJ2AuftzQQjCBvdlFBFE3pU9E1CqBWUCVirB_N4j=w237-h356" width="237" /></a></div><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span class="tr" face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #444444; display: block; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I. The Hebrew Concept of Time and History</span></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A. Israel had a concept of time very different from ours.</span></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Western concept of time and history cannot be applied adequately to Israel.</span></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">1. Our concept is linear: past - present - future</span></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Western concept is also absolute and abstract.</span></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This is an <i>a priori</i> to every event; there is already time before the events.</span></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We can put any events on the time line.</span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Israel’s concept of time was not linear, absolute, abstract. No word exists in the Bible to express this. Some examples follow:</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"></span></p><ul><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Jer. 50:16 time of harvest</span></li><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Jer. 8:15 time of healing</span></li><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Gen. 38:27, Mic. 5:2 time of giving birth</span></li><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Gen. 29:7 time to gather animals</span></li><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Ruth 2:14 time of a meal</span></li><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Ps. 1:3 time for giving fruit</span></li><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Ps. 104:27 time to give food</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">‘<i>et</i> = “time” - not a line, but <i>punctum temporis</i>, a point of time that is a determinate moment, a period of time. </span><span style="background-color: white;">It is relative, always in connection with other words which always indicate an event. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The event is not possible without its time; time is not without its event. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Time in Israel is not abstract, but concrete. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Time is identified with its content. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Time is never empty time, but concrete, filled time.</span></div><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">'<i>yom</i> = “day” - from dawn to sunset (as distinct from '<i>laylah</i>, “night”); unity of the calendar; same value as ‘<i>et</i>.</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"></span></p><ul><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Gen. 2:4 day in sense of occasion, event of creation</span></li><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Dt. 4:32 day that God created man on the earth</span></li><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Dt. 9:7 the day when you came from Egypt - the occasion of Exodus.</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">This coincidence of time and event was not only valid for events of nature, but also for all human events, even internal movements of the soul.</span></div><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"></span></p><ul><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Qoheleth 3:1-8 time imposed on every circumstance. Every event is determined by the time assigned to this event.</span></li><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Ps. 31:16 “My times are in Your hands.”</span></li></ul><p></p><p></p><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Western concept of time is eschatological. Humanity is directed toward a final fulfillment.</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"></span></p><ul><li><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Gen. 8:22 “all the times of the earth.”</span></li></ul><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Contrasts - two contrary concepts indicate totality. Succession of times rhythmic - cyclical vision of time. This conception of cyclical, anti-eschatological time of Archaic Yahwism did not remain so. Israel gradually elaborated an eschatological concept of time. The point of departure was the Feasts: Sabbath, Passover, Unleavened Bread, In gathering.</span><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="background-color: white;">Passover: pastoral origin; rite practiced by nomadic or semi-nomadic shepherds.</span></li><li>Sacrifice of first fruits of the flock. Rite known before stay in Egypt.</li><li>Unleavened Bread: feast of sedentary people, Canaanite origin; an agricultural feast.</li><li>Periodic cycle of nature; beginning of Spring. Thanksgiving.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;">The Hebrew Concept of Time and History Summary</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Western Biblical</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">1. Linear <i>Punctum temporis</i></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Absolute Relative</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Abstract Concrete</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">2. Eschatological Non-eschatological in Archaic Yahwism</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Cyclical (Gen. 8:22)</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">(Feasts) Linear</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Eschatological (Dt. 16:1)</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">Passover given historical meaning: journey of Exodus a definitive journey.</span></div><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Ex. 23:15 Feast of Unleavened Bread: symbolized Birth of People of Israel.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><b><u>Passover and Unleavened Bread joined</u></b></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">a. Chronological coincidence:</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Nomads (1st full moon of Spring);</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Unleavened Bread - (1st Gathering of grain)</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">b. Eating Unleavened Bread part of both rites.</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">c. Symbolism: strictly related</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Passover - 1st event of Exodus</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Unleavened Bread - Last event</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><br /></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Together - whole event</span><br style="line-height: 40px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">Israel’s Feasts:</span></div><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Gilgal - conquest of the Promised Land</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Schechem - Covenant on Sinai</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Feast of Booths - Providence in the desert</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Passover - Exodus celebrated in families</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Bethel - Patriarchs</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Israel recognized these events as successive, as a “becoming” as history that was intelligible. Gestalt: each part takes its significance from being in relation with each other part and the whole.</span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><u>Short biography</u></b>: Born in the Netherlands in 1938, Fr. Goswin N.M. Habets became lecturer (<i>professore incaricato</i>) of Biblical theology within the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical <i>Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum</i> (APRA) in 1977. He was highly esteemed by his students. </span><span style="font-family: times;">One of his most interesting courses was the one on prophets.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">For decades, Fr. Goswin would go to the back entrance of the sacristy at 07:00 to celebrate Mass on the Altar of St. Pius X in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. The Dutch priest travelled a lot and Malta was one of his favourite places. Here he had several friends, including former altar boys who had served at St. Peter's Basilica over the years.</span></span><span class="tr" style="display: block;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">When he fell ill, Fr. Goswin asked a young American priest if he would be able to keep the Altar of St. Pius X “<i>warm</i>” for him. Afterwards, one morning, Fr. Goswin came by the sacristy to ask the sacristan and some of the senior altar servers to be ready for the American priest with vestments and cruets as soon as he entered — the trick that the more experienced priests in and around the Vatican had perfected.</span></p><p class="uk-text-justify uk-nbfc uk-margin" style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin: 15px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;"></span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="tr" style="display: block;">Fr. Goswin died on 7 March 2005. A few
hours after his death, a person who had
attended his lectures stated that, after
teaching the Old Testament throughout
his life, Fr. Goswin was now ready to be examined
on the New Testament. </span></span></p>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-82963005291829760842024-01-11T07:53:00.001+01:002024-01-11T07:53:32.307+01:00FIUV's Reactions to Fiducia supplicans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGHhZ_kko4bq6H2MB0p5mH6zo3zIRblZrtUcOIEsJb8hk3S9MO6rGj-JRF1MibaPJietvNtXTZCSFkTFPlRCtWAsBu-FYOB5c5noS2yxsxewSK4RQ0-npukO9kgm-WgVHwWca2g_REnpP-P7YDN4pNX5JQoKq1UK9htVmLo6tXsjEZFKnqLethvgEn1O8/s400/fKyTuCBP_400x400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGHhZ_kko4bq6H2MB0p5mH6zo3zIRblZrtUcOIEsJb8hk3S9MO6rGj-JRF1MibaPJietvNtXTZCSFkTFPlRCtWAsBu-FYOB5c5noS2yxsxewSK4RQ0-npukO9kgm-WgVHwWca2g_REnpP-P7YDN4pNX5JQoKq1UK9htVmLo6tXsjEZFKnqLethvgEn1O8/s320/fKyTuCBP_400x400.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Dr. Joseph Shaw, FIUV President</div><p><br /></p><table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full combo-right table-1 middle" id="" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-align: left; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px; text-align: center;"><div class="module caption combo-right" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-1 text-container"><h1 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://madmimi.com/p/4701681">From the President: Pope Francis risks his authority over the blessing of irregular unions</a></span></h1><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">In this second President’s Bulletin I wish to consider international reactions to Pope Francis’ recent document, issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, on the blessing of irregular unions (same sex unions, illicit second marriages, and so on). I considered the meaning and intentions of the document in a message to supporters of the Latin Mass Society, <a href="https://madmimi.com/p/31d7581?pact=100382-178317086-12671118330-89ae0914b5a85a2492beb51490e0c0e9d3a96f91" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. Links to documents quoted below can be found <a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/2023/12/reactions-to-fiducia-supplicans.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><h2 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Positive reactions</h2><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The President of the German Bishops’ conference has welcomed the document, though his lay counterparts on the Catholic Central Committee see it only as a positive step. It is difficult to imagine what next step could be taken which is not explicitly ruled out by the document itself, but they tell us that 'to be Catholic in these times means to expect change.'</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The celebrity American homosexual priest James Martin SJ reacted by posting a photo of him blessing a same-sex couple.</p><h2 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Neutral reactions</h2><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Some conservative bishops in Europe and America have issued statements that welcome the document but emphasise its limitations rather than any new possibilities.</p><h2 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Negative reactions from liberals</h2><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">A homosexual lapsed Catholic writer in the left wing secular British newspaper <em>The Guardian</em> was in no way mollified by the document. 'That’s not a blessing, it’s an insult.'</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Former Irish President Mary MacAleese said it was 'nowhere near enough', but nevertheless 'a massive climbdown by Pope Francis and the DDF.'</p><h2 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Negative Reactions from Bishops’ Conferences</h2><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">What is most striking is the reaction of Bishops’ Conferences. A refusal to countenance the blessing of irregular unions has now been expressed by the bishops of Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Malawi, Zambia, Cameroon and Nigeria. I will try to keep my collection of their comments <a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/2023/12/reactions-to-fiducia-supplicans.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a> up to date, as more statements are being published by the hour.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Similar is the statement of the English Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, a conservative grouping with sister organisations in Australia and the USA.</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full text table-3 middle" id="" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-align: left; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td id="" style="padding: 0px 30px 20px; text-align: left;"><div class="module text" dir="ltr"><span class="module-3 text-container"><h2 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 530px;">Comment</h2><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">With <em>Fidudia supplicans</em> Pope Francis generated many positive headlines from the liberal Catholic and secular Western press, and reassured German liberals that he was still willing to advance their agenda, balancing recent <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/interview/exclusive-archbishop-fernandez-warns-against-bishops-who-think-they-can-judge-doctrine-of-the-holy-father" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">statements</a> which seemed to go against them. As the dust has settled, however, things have become more complicated.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Conservative Western bishops instinctively avoid making statements on homosexuality and divorce, because of the attitude of the secular press and so many among of their own flocks. It is no surprise, therefore, that they have reacted to this latest document as they have.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">African bishops, by contrast, are very aware of the danger of public scandal on this issue. The bishops of Kazakhstan and Ukraine, again, are mindful of the attitude of Russian Orthodox believers, and of Vladimir Putin’s periodic attempts to present himself as the champion of authentic Christian values.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">Pope Francis and his advisers may have thought that a concession to sexual libertinism that is more symbolic than real would be an easy victory, but this ignores the non-Western perspective.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">The net result is that is that Pope Francis' authority being questioned as never before, with opposition coming from a new quarter: not Americans or liturgical traditionalists, but the 'peripheries', above all Africa.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;">We must ask the Christ Child, whose coming into the world we are soon to celebrate, to maintain in all our bishops His purity of heart, and to hold them steady to the injunction of St Paul: <em>nolite conformari huic sæculo</em>: ‘Be not conformed to this world’ (Romans 12:2).</p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="full image table-4 middle" id="" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none; clear: both; color: black; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 590px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" id="" style="padding: 0px 30px;"><div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-707357125602055622023-12-20T15:06:00.004+01:002023-12-20T15:08:09.496+01:00Gozo - For everyone except for the Latin Mass <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #333333; font-family: Trola, serif;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7DeNx1Ht6wNrR-rYZcWcAfb3mA_wBHfAulSKlcvPSgyK7cFWEqDTR6dM53HFuLXkFGm1KvC60RsPxg_QT6ZFK4ICfI1WULzyuVdSmdxRwQAUC2_HXtpRarPoRoSLDuo5JAfshzJHngGFBS1HlKgv7uRq2pvrbVlQqyjcjw2vYSPaIhFEcaEOk-cgCc10/s1327/st-Pauls.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="1327" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7DeNx1Ht6wNrR-rYZcWcAfb3mA_wBHfAulSKlcvPSgyK7cFWEqDTR6dM53HFuLXkFGm1KvC60RsPxg_QT6ZFK4ICfI1WULzyuVdSmdxRwQAUC2_HXtpRarPoRoSLDuo5JAfshzJHngGFBS1HlKgv7uRq2pvrbVlQqyjcjw2vYSPaIhFEcaEOk-cgCc10/s320/st-Pauls.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">According to <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb;"><a href="https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/new-chancellor-st-paul-pro-cathedral.1073388">Fr David Wright</a> (the new Anglican Chancellor at St. Paul’s Pro Cathedral in Valletta)</span><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb;">: </span></div></span><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Relationships between the Anglican and Catholic communities in the Maltese islands are strong and cordial, with both denominations joining other Christian groups in the ecumenical group known as Christians Together in Malta. Another example of this warm friendship is that the Gozo Anglican congregation worship in the chapel of the Sacred Heart Seminary in Rabat.”</span></span></blockquote><p data-mrf-recirculation="Article body inline links" style="background-color: #fbfbfb; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.56; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>The Gozo Diocese, then under <a href="https://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/2020/10/bishop-mario-grech-lest-we-forget.html">Bishop (now Cardinal) Mario Grech</a>, has also made available the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">chapel dedicated to Our Lady of </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Lourdes</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> (that stands on a promontory overlooking </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Mġarr</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> Harbour)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">to the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; text-align: left;"> </span>Italian community for the past eight years. Here, <i>Novus Ordo</i> Mass in Italian is celebrated at the chapel on Sundays and feasts of obligation at 10:00, while catechism lessons for those receiving the First Holy Communion and Confirmation are also held at the chapel. In addition, the community organises social and cultural activities for Italian residents.</span></p><p data-mrf-recirculation="Article body inline links" style="background-color: #fbfbfb; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.56; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What a pity that the same is not applied by the Gozo Diocese to Tridentine Roman Catholics. Different requests for Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite since 2007 were met with silence or refusals. </span></p><p></p>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-37200522829544971222023-10-30T07:13:00.003+01:002023-10-30T07:14:20.199+01:00A life for Christ the King: Archbishop Lefebvre<p> </p><h1 class="page-title" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 6.6rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.12121; margin: 3.4rem 0px 4.9rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7D8TCmIzP_0ufSytRG7yKLhwS81o6KL3XB-3wpixHjNkYQ_98L-8Lqds69dT001xLoPlmEE0KUSX8RRIFA7OnWkpBIK3mU5_0RAQBNdT2xGwK0cPDGMA1GftZiSCLoa5Gk57QoB13UbLgToVBPB7gtERWKTmOsGLHwmxoh0kjB-jBKvRD4UY0DFiR" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="263" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7D8TCmIzP_0ufSytRG7yKLhwS81o6KL3XB-3wpixHjNkYQ_98L-8Lqds69dT001xLoPlmEE0KUSX8RRIFA7OnWkpBIK3mU5_0RAQBNdT2xGwK0cPDGMA1GftZiSCLoa5Gk57QoB13UbLgToVBPB7gtERWKTmOsGLHwmxoh0kjB-jBKvRD4UY0DFiR" width="169" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">First published in the October 2011 issue of </span><a class="jquery-once-1-processed" href="http://angeluspress.org/The-Angelus" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Angelus</em> magazine</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 3.4rem; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 3.4rem; text-align: left;">Archbishop Lefebvre: A Life for Christ the King</span></div></h1><article class="l-content-page content-page" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><section class="content-page__text" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 3.8rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Archbishop Lefebvre always linked the priesthood to the social reign of our Lord Jesus Christ: the one is source of the other; the other spontaneously flows from the first.</p><h4 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I. At the French
Seminary in Rome</h4><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the Via Santa Chiara, where he trained for the priesthood from 1923 to 1929, Fr. Lefebvre learned from Fr. Henri Le Floch, the Father Superior of the house, not to separate what should be joined: the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and His social reign, a priest’s doctrine and his piety, and also the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the social reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the teaching of the popes in their encyclicals.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius X, and Pius XI are the masters, and also Cardinal Pie, Louis Veuillot, and so on. But the Fathers of the seminary were also well-beloved masters to whom they listened.</p><h4 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fr. Le Floch</h4><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to Archbishop Lefebvre:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fr. Le Floch made us enter into and live the history of the Church, this fight that the perverse powers take to our Lord. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We were mobilized against this dreadful liberalism</em>, against the Revolution and the forces of evil which were trying to overcome the Church, the reign of our Lord, the Catholic States, and the whole of Christianity."[1]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This conflict imposed a personal choice on every seminarian: "<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We had to choose: we had to leave the seminary if we didn’t agree, or else join in the fight</em>." But taking up the fight meant taking it up for one’s whole life: "<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I think that our whole life as priests<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—</em>or as bishops<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—</em>has been marked by this fight against liberalis</em>m."[2]</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But how does the priesthood fit into this essentially political combat?</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the French Seminary, the seminarians had to read or had read to them the writings of Godefroid Kurth [<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Origins of Modern Civilization</em>, 1912] to make them consider how</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the mystical Body of Christ transformed the pagan society of imperial Rome and prepared the growing movement that recognized the plans for society of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Priest and King";</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the seminarians also learned through the writings of Fr. Deschamps [in his book <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Secret Societies and Society</em>] that</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">revolutions caused the exclusion of Christ the King from government with the final goal of eliminating the Mass and the supernatural life of Christ the sovereign High Priest."[3]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fr. (and later Cardinal) Billot’s <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">De Ecclesia</em> made them grasp “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the sense of the royalty of Christ and the horror of liberalism</em>.” Through the works of Cardinal Pie they learned</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the full meaning of ‘thy kingdom come,’ namely, that Our Lord’s kingdom must come not only in individual souls and in heaven, but also on earth by the submission of States and nations to His rule. The dethroning of God on earth is a crime to which we must never resign ourselves" (Fr. Fahey).[4]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[Fr. Fahey was a seminarian in Rome 12 years before Marcel Lefebvre. He attended the same seminary, which was also under Fr. Le Floch’s direction.] “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pius IX’s <a href="https://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/syllabus-condemned-errors-2397" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Syllabus</a> and the encyclicals of the last four popes</em>,” said Fahey, “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">have been the principal object of my meditations on the royalty of Christ and its relation to the priesthood</em>.”[5]</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What a surprising meditation subject for a young seminarian: joining the highest spirituality with the submission of the temporal order to Christ. For Marcel Lefebvre’s teachers, there was no divorce between individual life and political action in the broadest sense. So-called “Catholic” liberalism separates what should remain united.</p><h4 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fr. Voegtli</h4><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was also at the French Seminary in Rome that Fr. Marc Voegtli, C.S.Sp., a professor at Santa Chiara, commented on Pius XI’s encyclical <a href="https://sspx.org/en/quas-primas-encyclical-pope-pius-xi-1925" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quas Primas</em></a> of December 11, 1925, on the social kingship of Jesus Christ. Before his enthusiastic young audience he set forth the political program of the Catholic Church by the action of the Catholic priest. We’ll explain at the end of this talk the political program in which the priest is engaged.</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The testimony of Fr. Voegtli’s students is unanimous: His teaching was simple, he spoke only of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King…. He taught the integrity of the priesthood, the priesthood taken to its logical conclusion: the sacrifice of the priest [Keep that idea in mind] for the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Everything was judged in that light. '<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My dear friends</em>,' the Father would say, '<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you must preach Our Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart!</em>'"</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A collective testimony signed by twelve seminarians declares:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Through him [Fr. Voegtli] we learned to see our Lord Jesus Christ, the King, as the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">center </em>of everything, the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">answer </em>to all questions, our <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">food</em>, our <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">thought</em>, our <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">life</em>, everything…. That is what he wanted to impress upon us: that will remain!"[6]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And remain it did, as we shall see. Marcel Lefebvre was one of those who had an unforgettable memory of Fr. Voegtli’s conferences. You may be thinking, "<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s get to his actions during the Council and after!</em>" Yes, but it is essential to understand the mainspring of his action!</p><h4 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The mainspring of Archbishop Lefebvre’s fight for Christ the King:
a testimony</h4><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He essentially gave his own testimony to the fact: 50 years [after the 12 seminarians’ testimony] one of Fr. Voegtli’s rare faithful disciples, Marcel Lefebvre, also bore witness to the indelible impression produced by Fr. Voegtli’s “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">talks, which were very simple, taking the words of Scripture, showing who Our Lord Jesus Christ was…. That remained with us for life</em>!”[7]</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It even became the subject of the seminarian’s meditation:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We shall never have sufficiently meditated on, or sought to understand, what Our Lord Jesus Christ is…. He should <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rule </em>our thinking, He makes us <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">holy</em>. He is also our <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Creator </em>since nothing whatsoever was made without the Word, and therefore without Our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Word. So we must only <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">think </em>about and <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">contemplate </em>Our Lord Jesus Christ. And<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> that transforms one’s life!</em>"[8]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What a striking remark. For Marcel Lefebvre, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">belief in the divinit</em>y of our Lord Jesus Christ and consequently His right alone to reign meant personally dedicating himself to the fight. This he did, like many of his confreres, at Rome before the Confession of St. Peter. There he made a private vow of doctrinal and militant <a href="https://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/romanitas-essential-catholic-culture-2724" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“Romanity.”</a> The account of the Fr. Berto suggests that making such a vow was normal and went without saying. The seminarian promised “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to be constantly on crusade</em>” (Archbishop Lefebvre).[9]</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn’t know <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">when </em>or <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">where </em>or in <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">what troubled, tragic circumstances</em> of the Church it would be that he would have to enter the arena and himself write a page of that Church history that he was shown under the light of Christ the King, but he knew that he would have to <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">join in</em> the battle.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Second Vatican Council was to be the providential moment for Archbishop Lefebvre, the moment when he felt himself pushed to intervene in fidelity to the promise he had made as a seminarian at Rome long before.</p><h4 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">II. Herald of Christ the King</h4><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During the Council, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre became the head of the resistance against false religious freedom in the name of Christ the King. During the presentation of two rival drafts on religious freedom, one by Cardinal Bea and one by Cardinal Ottaviani, at the last meeting of the Central Preparatory Commission in June 1962, he gave his opinion.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">About the liberal schema of Cardinal Bea, he said:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Religious Liberty: <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">non placet</em>… since it is based on false principles solemnly condemned by the sovereign pontiffs, for example Pius IX, who calls this error "<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">delirium</em>" (<a href="https://sspx.org/en/media/books/sources-catholic-dogma-denzinger-12315" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Denzinger</em></a> 1690)…. The schema on religious liberty does not preach Christ and therefore seems false…."</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">About the Catholic schema of Cardinal Ottaviani, he said:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘On the Church’: <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">placet</em>. However, the exposition of the fundamental principles could be done with more reference to Christ the King as in the encyclical <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quas Primas</em>…. Our Council could have as its aim to preach Christ to all men, and to state that it belongs to the Catholic Church alone to be the true preacher of Christ who is the salvation and life of individuals, families, professional associations, and of other civil bodies.</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…The Theological Commission’s schema expounds the authentic doctrine but does so like a thesis; it does not sufficiently show the aim of this doctrine which is nothing other than the reign of Christ…. From the point of view of Christ as source of salvation and life, all the fundamental truths could be expounded as they say “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">pastorally</em>,” and in this way the errors of secularism, naturalism, and materialism, etc., would be excluded."[10]</p> </blockquote><h4 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">III. Theological adversary
of the secular state</h4><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Declaration on Religious Freedom promulgated by the Council on December 7, 1965, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dignitatis Humanae</em>, seems to assert that the State must recognize the Catholic religion as the one true one (DH 1), but at the same time it teaches the “natural” freedom of the adherents of false cults to practice their beliefs publicly (DH 6). This contradiction became more problematic after the Council from the way the Holy See required its application by States that were still officially Catholic: the article in their constitutions professing the Catholic religion as the State religion had to be expunged.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, while passing through Colombia, South America, soon after the suppression of the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Catholic religion</em>” as “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that of the nation</em>,” Archbishop Lefebvre remarked that “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the speech of the president of the Republic is more Catholic than the Nuncio’s</em>.” The Archbishop was indignant that Ireland had agreed to replace the expression “the special position of the holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church as guardian of the faith professed by the great majority of its citizens,” with “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the homage of public worship</em>” given by the State “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to Almighty God</em>.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Italy, Article 1 of the Lateran Accords of February 11, 1929, read:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Italy recognizes and reaffirms the principle expressed by Article 1 of the Statute of the Realm of March 4, 1848, by which the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion is the only religion of the State."[11]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1984, to the consternation of Archbishop Lefebvre, the new concordat between the Holy See and Italy only recognized that “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the principles of Catholicism constitute part of the historical patrimony of the Italian people</em>.” In 1977 [7 years before the 1984 concordat], Cardinal Giovanni Colombo, the Archbishop of Milan, had declared: <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"o stato non puo essere che laico.<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—</em></em>The State can only be secular. He explained:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Church does not ask for privileges, but for genuine freedom…. In the current historical development of society, a confessional State is not possible: not only a confessional Christian State, but also a confessional Marxist atheistic State or a confessional radical bourgeois State. We are calling for a State that does not embrace any particular ideology, that does not impose the dogmas of any culture, and that does not identify with any party. Otherwise, very many of its citizens, because of their religious or ideological or partisan choices, would be compelled to feel like strangers in their own land."[12]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In terms that are insulting to the Church of Christ thus put on a par with ideologies, parties, and cultures, the Cardinal could not better express the current interpretation given to <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dignitatis Humanae</em> as propounding the agnostic and indifferentist State. The State’s pledge of allegiance to Jesus Christ, God Incarnate and the one true God, would amount to uncharitableness, contempt for human dignity, and unfair discrimination.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Archbishop Lefebvre spoke out against these liberal platitudes in an interview with the three cardinals who questioned him in 1975. “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The goal of the secularization of the Stat</em>e,” he said, “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is nothing other than the goal of the devil, who is behind Freemasonry: the destruction of the Catholic Church by affording all the false religions freedom of speech and by forbidding the State to work for the social kingship of our Lord Jesus Christ</em>.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The archbishop explained what he meant: First of all, the recognition of Christ by the State is not a <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">privilege</em>; it is the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">right </em>of the Man-God and Redeemer of the human race. On the other hand, “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How many Catholics are still able to recognize that the work of our Lord’s Redemption must also be accomplished through civil society?</em>” And yet this is so, for “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">everything was made for our Lord Jesus Christ</em>,” as St. Paul teaches (Col. 1:16).[13]</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Man has but one ultimate goal: eternal salvation. The Church works directly toward this goal, but the State should also work towards it, although indirectly, for civil society is also a creature of our Lord Jesus Christ.[14] Consequently, as St. Pius X teaches, the State has as its “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ultimate object …man’s eternal happiness after this short life shall have run its cours</em>e.”[15]</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This… is founded on the dogmatic reason and on the experience of the conversion of numerous nations subsequent to the conversion of their rulers: for example, Clovis, Ethelbert, and so on. This fact prompted St. Alphonsus Liguori to declare: “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If I convert a king, I do more for the Catholic cause than hundreds of missionaries</em>.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Archbishop Lefebvre also held the supernatural and traditional position of the Church on Christ the King—namely, that the State should be an instrument in the work of Redemption. He is not far from taking as his own the program of his brother in religion and co-alumnus of Santa Chiara, Denis Fahey: since the reign of Christ must be established by the cross (“<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Regnavit a ligno Deus</em>” we sing in the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vexilla Regis</em>):</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In order to favor union with Christ as Priest in Holy Mass, God wants the world organized under Christ as King."[16]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From this it follows that:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At Holy Mass all the members of Christ express their determination to work for the integral establishment of the rights of God and of Christ the King over the world."[17]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More briefly, Archbishop Lefebvre would often say: “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the expression of the kingship of our Lord Jesus Christ</em>.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the French Seminary in Rome, Fr. Marc Voegtli, following the teaching of Fr. Deschamps, taught the young Marcel Lefebvre the liberal, <a class="jquery-once-1-processed" href="http://angeluspress.org/Mystery-Of-Freemasonry-Unveiled?filter_name=freemasonry" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Freemasonic agenda</a> in three points:</p><ol style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 2.5rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The banishment of Christ the King from government by the secularization of the State;</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eliminating the Mass which would result from the persecution of the Church by legal means, and ultimately the secularization of the Church itself, the supreme plot of initiated Masons; in order</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">finally to suppress the grace of Jesus Christ High Priest in souls—the very secularization of Catholic souls. All of this happened after the Second Vatican Council…</li></ol><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What Archbishop Lefebvre did is reverse this satanic program in order to come up with the Catholic program, which is that of the Society of St. Pius X, also in three points:</p><ol style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 2.5rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Restore to the faithful the Mass—<a href="https://sspx.org/en/theology-and-spirituality-mass" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the true Mass, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass</a>—which is the source and expression of the reign of Jesus Christ.</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By the grace of the Mass, form an elite of faithful Catholics living in the state of grace; and</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">through the work of this elite in public institutions—not just in ecclesiastical organizations, but also in openly Catholic civil organizations—re-crown our Lord Jesus Christ in society: “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Omnia instaurare in Christo<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—</em>Establish all things in Christ</em>,” according to the motto of St. Pius X.</li></ol><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the program Archbishop Lefebvre tried to explain to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Benedict XVI, in a meeting they had in Rome on July 14, 1987:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eminence… you are working to dechristianize society and the Church, and we are working to Christianize them. For us, our Lord Jesus Christ is everything, He is our life. The Church is our Lord Jesus Christ; the priest is another Christ; the Mass is the triumph of Jesus Christ on the cross; in our seminaries everything tends towards the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. But You! You are doing the opposite: you have just wanted to prove to me that our Lord Jesus Christ cannot, and must not, reign over society.</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For us, our Lord Jesus Christ is everything!"[18]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See also these related books:</p><ul style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 2.5rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="jquery-once-1-processed" href="http://angeluspress.org/Books/Social-Doctrine/Relation-Church-State" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Relation of Church and State</a></li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="jquery-once-1-processed" href="http://angeluspress.org/Books/Social-Doctrine/Duties-Catholic-State" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Duties of the Catholic State</a></li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="jquery-once-1-processed" href="http://angeluspress.org/Books/Social-Doctrine/Kingship-Christ" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Kingship of Christ and Organized Naturalism</a></li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="jquery-once-1-processed" href="http://angeluspress.org/Books/Social-Doctrine/The-Greatest-Catholic-President-Garcia-Moreno-of-Ecuador" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Greatest Catholic President: Garcia Moreno of Ecuador</a></li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="jquery-once-1-processed" href="http://angeluspress.org/Books/Social-Doctrine/the-framework-of-a-christian-state" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Framework of a Christian State</a></li></ul><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(114, 114, 115); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 0.1rem 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 0.1rem; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Footnotes</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, <a href="https://sspx.org/en/media/books/marcel-lefebvre-biography-2052" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcel Lefebvre: The Biography</em></a>, pp. 36-7.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ibid</em>.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 Fr. Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp., “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apologia pro Vita Mea</em>,” 1950 (reprinted in <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catholic Family News</em>, April & May 1997), quoted in Tissier, Marcel Lefebvre, p. 37.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4 <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ibid</em>.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5 <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ibid</em>., pp. 37-8.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6 Tissier, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcel Lefebvre</em>, pp. 43-4.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7 <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ibid</em>., p. 44.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ibid</em>.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9 Archbishop Lefebvre, <a href="https://sspx.org/en/media/books/little-story-my-long-life-2053" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Little Story of My Long Life</em></a> [ref. to French edition], p. 28.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 Tissier de Mallerais, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcel Lefebvre</em>, p. 285.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11 A.A.S. 21 (1929), pp. 290 seq.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12 Quoted from <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">L’Osservatore Romano</em>, translated from the Italian and published by “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ya</em>” on July 14, 1977, and reprinted in the bulletin of the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CICES</em>, No. 210, March 15, 1977, under the byline of Andre Laforge.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13 Spiritual Conference, Econe, September 23, 1977, relating the conference of Archbishop Lefebvre at Rome at Princess Palaviccini’s in June 1977. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cf</em>. <a href="https://sspx.org/en/media/books/they-have-uncrowned-him-2040" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They Have Uncrowned Him</em></a>, p. 101 [ref. to French edition].</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14 It is a creature of God because the social nature of man is God’s creation.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15 St. Pius X, encyclical <a class="jquery-once-1-processed" href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_x/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_11021906_vehementer-nos_en.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vehementer Nos</em></a> condemning the Law of Separation of Church and State in France, February 11, 1906.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">16 Rev. Fr. Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp., <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society</em>, pp. 114-5.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17 <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ibid</em>.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18 Tissier de Mallerais, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcel Lefebvr</em>e, p. 548.</p></section></article><div class="block block-print-ui" id="block-print-ui-print-links" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(223, 223, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 0.1rem 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; margin: 5rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="content" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; font-size: 11px; justify-content: flex-end; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="print_html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; flex: 0 0 auto; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div></div>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-60301233309054290332023-09-27T11:35:00.002+02:002023-09-27T11:37:24.306+02:00Traditionis custodes & Desiderio desideravi - the soon-to-be abolished Tridentine Mass in Malta<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg87bQ76CvmzRWGCA-t3rEzmpavFRuRkgusaAJJOzh58IS7XKwzUoT4CDvJ25RLzZ8uZRksh6gwi6dp56wzoOJGBntFEILV6dcV3kri6uOoLAcurItSztbJABUp7w6vI9QZcq0rNfxEv8dKTsaYkO1lwCoaZBkxQZwiSo8q8DMgUTy2EJHG14C9E6Pb" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Crimson Pro", "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 18px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="600" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg87bQ76CvmzRWGCA-t3rEzmpavFRuRkgusaAJJOzh58IS7XKwzUoT4CDvJ25RLzZ8uZRksh6gwi6dp56wzoOJGBntFEILV6dcV3kri6uOoLAcurItSztbJABUp7w6vI9QZcq0rNfxEv8dKTsaYkO1lwCoaZBkxQZwiSo8q8DMgUTy2EJHG14C9E6Pb=w312-h327" width="312" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; text-align: left;">With the death of Benedict XVI at the end of 2022, it became known how painful it was for the late Pope t</span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">he publication of <i><a href="https://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/p/traditionis-custodes.html">Traditionis custodes</a></i> (</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">16 July 2021) as well as</span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: left;"><i>Desiderio desideravi</i> (29 June 2022). In the latter document, Pope Francis called on Catholics to overcome forms of aestheticism that appreciate only outward formality or allow sloppiness in liturgy, noting that “<i>a celebration that does not evangelize is not authentic</i>.”</span></span></div><p></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Pope’s Apostolic Letter reaffirms the importance of ecclesial communion around the <i>Novus Ordo Missae </i>to the detriment of other valid Catholic rites. Below are some pertinent points from it:</span></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Recalling the importance of Vatican II’s constitution <span style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: all; transition-timing-function: ease-in;"><a href="https://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/p/sacrosanctum.html"><i>Sacrosanctum Concilium</i></a></span><a href="https://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/p/sacrosanctum.html"> </a> the Pope adds, ”<i>I want the beauty of the Christian celebration and its necessary consequences for the life of the Church not to be spoiled by a superficial and foreshortened understanding of its value or, worse yet, by its being exploited in service of some ideological vision, no matter what the hue</i>” (16).</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">After warning against “<i>spiritual worldliness</i>” and the Gnosticism and neo-Pelagianism that fuel it, Pope Francis explains that “<i>Participating in the Eucharistic sacrifice is not our own achievement, as if because of it we could boast before God or before our brothers and sisters</i>” and that “<i>the Liturgy has nothing to do with an ascetical moralism. It is the gift of the Paschal Mystery of the Lord which, received with docility, makes our life new. The cenacle is not entered except through the power of attraction of his desire to eat the Passover with us</i>” (20).</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To heal from spiritual worldliness, we need to rediscover the beauty of the liturgy, but this rediscovery “<i>is not the search for a ritual aesthetic which is content by only a careful exterior observance of a rite or is satisfied by a scrupulous observance of the rubrics. Obviously, what I am saying here does not wish in any way to approve the opposite attitude, which confuses simplicity with a careless banality, or what is essential with an ignorant superficiality, or the concreteness of ritual action with an exasperating practical functionalism</i>” (22).</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">He writes that “<i>it would be trivial to read the tensions, unfortunately present around the celebration, as a simple divergence between different tastes concerning a particular ritual form. The problematic is primarily ecclesiological</i>.” (31) </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Pope points out he does not see how it is possible to say that one recognizes the validity of the Council, and at the same time not accept the liturgical reform born out of <i>Sacrosanctum Concilium</i><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #444444; line-height: inherit; text-align: left;">.</em></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“<i>A liturgical-sapiential plan of studies in the theological formation of seminaries would certainly have positive effects in pastoral action. There is no aspect of ecclesial life that does not find its summit and its source in the Liturgy. More than being the result of elaborate programs, a comprehensive, organic, and integrated pastoral practice is the consequence of placing the Sunday Eucharist, the foundation of communion, at the centre of the life of the community. The theological understanding of the Liturgy does not in any way permit that these words be understood to mean to reduce everything to the aspect of worship. A celebration that does not evangelize is not authentic, just as a proclamation that does not lead to an encounter with the risen Lord in the celebration is not authentic. And then both of these, without the testimony of charity, are like sounding a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal</i>” (37).</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“<i>Among the ritual acts that belong to the whole assembly, silence occupies a place of absolute importance</i>” which “<i>moves to sorrow for sin and the desire for conversion. It awakens a readiness to hear the Word and awakens prayer. It disposes us to adore the Body and Blood of Christ</i>” (52).</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Pope Francis asks “<i>all bishops, priests, and deacons, the formators in seminaries, the instructors in theological faculties and schools of theology, and all catechists to help the holy people of God to draw from what is the first wellspring of Christian spirituality</i>,” reaffirming what is established in <i>Traditionis custodes</i><span face=""Open Sans", FontAwesome, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #444444;">so </span>that “<i>the Church may lift up, in the variety of so many languages, one and the same prayer capable of expressing her unity</i>,” and this single prayer is the Roman Rite that resulted from the conciliar reform and was established by the saintly pontiffs Paul VI and John Paul II.</span></span> </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Let us recall that in an interview a couple of days after Benedict XVI's death, <span>Archbishop Gänswein admitted the following:</span></span></li></ul><article aria-label="Document restricting the Latin Mass “broke Pope Benedict’s heart” says Archbishop Gänswein" class="post-66333 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-articles category-featured tag-archbishop-ganswein-pope-emeritus tag-missale-vetustum tag-pope-benedict-xvi tag-traditionis-custodes-motu-proprio entry" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 60px;"><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Interviewer:</span></span><span> So, Pope Benedict’s lifting of restrictions on celebrating the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite according to the 1962 Missal did not last as long as he intended. As Pope Emeritus, he was around to see the promulgation of Pope Francis’ <i>motu proprio</i> </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Traditionis Custodes</em><span>. Was he disappointed?</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Archbishop Gänswein:</span></span> It hit him pretty hard. I believe it broke Pope Benedict’s heart to read the new <i>motu proprio</i>, because his intention had been to help those who simply found a home in the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Missale Vetustum </em>— to find inner peace, to find liturgical peace — in order to draw them away from Marcel Lefebvre. And if you think about how many centuries the old Mass was the source of spiritual life and nourishment for many people <span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">including many saints</span></span>, it’s impossible to imagine that it no longer has anything to offer. And let’s not forget that many young people — who were born long after the Second Vatican Council, and who don’t really grasp all the drama surrounding that council — that these young people, knowing the new Mass, have nevertheless found a spiritual home, a spiritual treasure in the old Mass as well. To take this treasure away from people … well, I can’t say that I’m comfortable with that.</span></p><p style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: "Crimson Pro", "EB Garamond", serif; font-size: 18px;"></p></div></article>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-20127380940382370872023-09-27T08:24:00.000+02:002023-09-27T08:24:01.247+02:00Liturgical parody<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbwQVm1mQ4AR4EZUJxoysoai545-Fr0CeSXjS2XG5lioGyc8Bn2Hhkg2n2XkgIfu4Mc3QvPTBd_COoH8-rwlGbuuPz1Zs34Vs6qxLfZKSZbF9oKhYdvsV4GIZIUWhZm7rPX6RCfgkn1BUCTuDn110Fs5R6fWgdcc57CRTIwaqIPipaKx9t80nrWALEUFo/s333/250px-St_Francis_church_Hamrun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbwQVm1mQ4AR4EZUJxoysoai545-Fr0CeSXjS2XG5lioGyc8Bn2Hhkg2n2XkgIfu4Mc3QvPTBd_COoH8-rwlGbuuPz1Zs34Vs6qxLfZKSZbF9oKhYdvsV4GIZIUWhZm7rPX6RCfgkn1BUCTuDn110Fs5R6fWgdcc57CRTIwaqIPipaKx9t80nrWALEUFo/s320/250px-St_Francis_church_Hamrun.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A symphatiser of <i>Pro Tridentina</i> (Malta) sent the below photo taken inside the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Villambrosa, Ħamrun. This is the latest example of how the liturgy in Malta is being ridiculed. One assumes that this was acceptable to the Archdiocese of Malta. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifF6GCXZtWpKj7Aou9Sa9xk1bK0WDe4zlOdcbBtW2Vvn_8qk3tIfygqV2gZfbpFLSrPwrIH8FsfKfGJmMFN7MCoAGEyPYlYMqs5H-309mokWVYdZvIZsKXH_nUB-6ns9ivKEyTEoRfLZmKlakK9LP4ytV6OwhDk-nRMGXDbeFDNj09xnssDDf1DObgmig/s1080/376807117_3565574617034097_3884588560164825218_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifF6GCXZtWpKj7Aou9Sa9xk1bK0WDe4zlOdcbBtW2Vvn_8qk3tIfygqV2gZfbpFLSrPwrIH8FsfKfGJmMFN7MCoAGEyPYlYMqs5H-309mokWVYdZvIZsKXH_nUB-6ns9ivKEyTEoRfLZmKlakK9LP4ytV6OwhDk-nRMGXDbeFDNj09xnssDDf1DObgmig/w442-h294/376807117_3565574617034097_3884588560164825218_n.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Facebook</div><br /><p></p>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-64045960086553336222023-07-14T11:08:00.004+02:002023-07-14T11:14:17.041+02:00Practical suggestions for traditional Catholics<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzF2Z5iBJEIWV8TsbtG3LZicVdGlRQCURQtc4GYGqf-PGQPrz4afafFEJ4-9raqwGvmUnICvsp3ClcTvECBxTKdC-RAKDTETmsp2UMZ80eFshSfyqwyHrp3CIwfeNeCbf_GRdFweyRYlssI8TJYoFYmdYMuu4DrJ0cask33xn_TGI1Q9P7lL74olrJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzF2Z5iBJEIWV8TsbtG3LZicVdGlRQCURQtc4GYGqf-PGQPrz4afafFEJ4-9raqwGvmUnICvsp3ClcTvECBxTKdC-RAKDTETmsp2UMZ80eFshSfyqwyHrp3CIwfeNeCbf_GRdFweyRYlssI8TJYoFYmdYMuu4DrJ0cask33xn_TGI1Q9P7lL74olrJ=w344-h344" width="344" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This Blog has the following suggestions for those traditional Catholics who find themselves without access to traditional celebrations of the Tridentine Mass or after its suppression following Pope Francis' </span><a href="https://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/p/traditionis-custodes.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Traditionis custodes</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">: </span></span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">establish a lay-led community which focuses on the celebration of the traditional chanted Divine Office. <i>Pro Tridentina</i> (Malta) is exploring this possibility.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If you do not have a sympathetic Bishop or priest, rent or purchase a retail space or church and renovate it, adding iconography and seats for antiphonal singing. <i>Pro Tridentina</i> (Malta) is currently conducting a study to establish which places can be used to further expand the Tridentine Mass in Malta, and especially in Gozo which remains without this Mass.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Celebrate at least Vespers and Matins on the Lord’s Day, and other services throughout the day or week. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Offer catechetical teachings for adults, teens and children. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Then find a parish that offers the most traditional <i>Novus Ordo</i> liturgy you can find and attend the Mass. This is becoming more of a challenge in Malta and Gozo.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Be sure to engage in the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If possible, affiliate with a tradition-minded Tertiary or Lay Associate group. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Find a priest or deacon who can help serve as a spiritual director, even from a distance.</span></li></ul></div></div>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-77379452798406571612023-07-13T11:02:00.004+02:002023-07-13T11:02:48.357+02:00Ephesus Prayer to Our Lady<p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVgq3osaLNuz7vNTYUhQUanwTWW7MRJ7FaOqF1CeD75isiR2j1pC6kif91HK2_RaisDl06KQjlJbuRE5xjfZI7LpQaLg5V6r1OFnvwC5-6e9rO9bjV7ZBNpMfgsCCMQPaHJPD40JuENQYmJHHWR539CUGFFuJSJ-fiW00SH1POTc57jdjDz_CyDEOMXI/s600/theotokos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVgq3osaLNuz7vNTYUhQUanwTWW7MRJ7FaOqF1CeD75isiR2j1pC6kif91HK2_RaisDl06KQjlJbuRE5xjfZI7LpQaLg5V6r1OFnvwC5-6e9rO9bjV7ZBNpMfgsCCMQPaHJPD40JuENQYmJHHWR539CUGFFuJSJ-fiW00SH1POTc57jdjDz_CyDEOMXI/w415-h311/theotokos.jpg" width="415" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon;">SALVE a nobis, Deipara Maria, venerandus totius orbis thesaurus, lampas inextinguibilis, corona virginitatis, sceptrum rectae doctrinae, templum indissolubile, locus eius qui loco capi non potest, mater et virgo, per quam is benedictus in sanctis Evangeliis nominatur, qui venit in nomine </span><span style="color: maroon;">Domini</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">.</span></p>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-16436789627617017222023-02-12T11:24:00.007+01:002023-02-12T11:26:14.687+01:00FIUV Appeal concerning the Traditional Mass<p> <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBk9M2fwUNt-R4UlKWh2nRSrlh4ycPXcXim9WprH4ZdKyrQf3-7a2Uvzuk3y_MjJ4Kp3Kvm1poNlyFU8VgsIXJfI-jM1P75swHvbusQYZmIW_2KcPKW5MO00l3Aw9bZ20jLQvQM3km65D0909i2eq5g5L-V1dvjw7y0d40EuHSKyFP1wsbRqzaNZDx/s275/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBk9M2fwUNt-R4UlKWh2nRSrlh4ycPXcXim9WprH4ZdKyrQf3-7a2Uvzuk3y_MjJ4Kp3Kvm1poNlyFU8VgsIXJfI-jM1P75swHvbusQYZmIW_2KcPKW5MO00l3Aw9bZ20jLQvQM3km65D0909i2eq5g5L-V1dvjw7y0d40EuHSKyFP1wsbRqzaNZDx/w212-h319/download.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br /><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Appeal for prayers and penances </span></b><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">for the Liberty of the Traditional Mass in Lent</span></b><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">From Una Voce International and others</span></p><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Una Voce International and other organisations, groups and individuals concerned with the Traditional Latin Mass would like to appeal to all Catholics of good will to offer prayers and penances during the season of Lent, particularly for the intention: <b>the liberty of the Traditional Mass.</b></div></span><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We do not know how credible rumours of further documents from the Holy See on this subject may be, but the rumours themselves point to a situation of doubt, conflict, and apprehension, which is severely harmful to the mission of the Church. We appeal to our Lord, through His Blessed Mother, to restore to all Catholics the right and opportunity to worship according to the Church’s own venerable liturgical traditions, in perfect unity with the Holy Father and the bishops of the whole Church.</span></div>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-26809336296746428322022-12-31T11:09:00.010+01:002024-01-12T07:42:17.192+01:00Breaking: Pope emeritus Benedict XVI dies at 95<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIC4iwIQaDHGJ76bk3sIbzLURtk17PworLAAMGhiHSwLCOTMbaVaqZtgb-gAeoeSnJV4gKYwUQjxjggKkKz1xiihmalYXlIOziLm3HREigDiBwcYYHpKbVHcWlhS6phF5xW4nkVmVTNRvATDO60T8dwJnjb6-GP2wfHRMnt5pmX3mNUoMOG-x9xwwiLo/s1200/2168.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIC4iwIQaDHGJ76bk3sIbzLURtk17PworLAAMGhiHSwLCOTMbaVaqZtgb-gAeoeSnJV4gKYwUQjxjggKkKz1xiihmalYXlIOziLm3HREigDiBwcYYHpKbVHcWlhS6phF5xW4nkVmVTNRvATDO60T8dwJnjb6-GP2wfHRMnt5pmX3mNUoMOG-x9xwwiLo/s320/2168.webp" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><b><br />Benedict XVI, one of the world’s foremost theologians and the first pope to retire in almost 600 years, died on Dec. 31 at the age of 95. </b></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><b>(adapted from The Pillar)</b></span></p><div class="c-topper" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: var(--space-32); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: var(--space-40); 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box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Share via EmailBenedict XVI, one of the world’s foremost theologians and the first pope to retire in almost 600 years, died Saturday at the age of 95.</span></a></li></ul></div></div></div><article class="c-post post featured" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; margin: 0px auto; max-width: var(--content-width); padding: 0 var(--grid-margin);"><div class="c-content" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Dec. 31 statement from the Holy See press office said: “With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican. Further information will be provided as soon as possible.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Benedict XVI helped to shape the Catholic Church’s trajectory long before he was elected to the papacy, first as a young theological adviser at the Second Vatican Council and then as head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Benedict influenced generations of Catholics with his writings, including his 1968 book “Introduction to Christianity,” his treatise “The Spirit of the Liturgy,” and his trilogy “Jesus of Nazareth,” composed while he was pope.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He reflected deeply on the tensions between secular modernity and the Church, introducing phrases such as “the dictatorship of relativism” into Catholic discourse and popularizing the concept of Catholics serving as a “creative minority” within secularized societies.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As pope from 2005 to 2013, he led the Church’s response to the clerical abuse crisis, dismissing hundreds of perpetrators from the clerical state. But he later personally asked forgiveness from abuse survivors amid criticism of his handling of cases as archbishop of Munich, southern Germany, from 1977 to 1982.</span></p><h3 id="awaiting-easter" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: var(--font-size-scale-5); font-weight: var(--font-weight-semibold); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-5); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Awaiting Easter</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: calc(var(--content-flow)/ 2); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He was born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in Marktl am Inn, a village in the German state of Bavaria. In his 1998 memoir <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Milestones</em>, he noted that he emerged into the world on Holy Saturday.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I have always been filled with thanksgiving for having had my life immersed in this way in the Easter mystery, since this could only be a sign of blessing,” he wrote. “To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: We are still awaiting Easter; we are still not standing in the full light, but walking toward it in full trust.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He was the third child after his sister Maria and brother Georg, who went on to become a priest and conductor of the renowned Regensburger Domspatzen choir. His mother was a cook and his father a police officer who was disciplined after criticizing the Nazis.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An intellectually precocious child who disliked school sports, he entered a minor seminary in 1939, at the age of 12. That year, German youngsters were legally required to join the Hitler Youth. He was enrolled but avoided attending meetings of the Nazi organization.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After the Second World War broke out, the seminary was shuttered and he was drafted into the military, serving in an anti-aircraft unit and helping to prepare anti-tank defenses. He abandoned his post in 1945 as the Allies swept into Germany, although the penalty for desertion was death.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In “Milestones,” he described how he attempted to reach home on foot without being detected. “But, as I walked out of a railroad underpass, two soldiers were standing at their posts, and for a moment the situation was extremely critical for me,” he wrote. “Thank God that they, too, had had their fill of war and did not want to become murderers.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He was reunited briefly with his family, but then seized by U.S. forces and interned in a prisoner-of-war camp near the city of Ulm. He slept outdoors, but was consoled by the sight of the spire of Ulm cathedral. “Day after day the sight of it was for me like a consoling proclamation of the indestructible humaneness of faith,” he later wrote.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When he was finally released, the driver of a milk truck gave him a lift back to his hometown. He reached it before sunset, recalling that “the heavenly Jerusalem itself could not have appeared more beautiful to me at that moment.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-body-copy); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He returned to his seminary studies and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising on June 29, 1951, at the age of 24. When the archbishop placed his hands on him during the rite, a bird flew up from the high altar and began to sing, which he took to be “a reassurance from on high” that he was on the right path.</span></p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="background-color: var(--color-background-secondary); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: min-content; padding: 0px;"><a class="fslightbox-image-wrap" data-fslightbox="" data-no-swup="" href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_uL1syiMyD0LKJo3P4Nb5rdzmGJ4B1HfuDBuSS083PsnJB8D9WUtjW7WMdpYtzB3dR3LLXLtLmMPz6Civ6cEU05ydP12HQkFU7UVz5_CKmCASpaIFwXLddDUNhIvrw6xBRC5iiVxM3BlwJXYvuOFwhRJYaahCBiTNyrCAVKc5iG3WBf9IHbAWvm43g" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="kg-image" height="416" loading="lazy" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_uL1syiMyD0LKJo3P4Nb5rdzmGJ4B1HfuDBuSS083PsnJB8D9WUtjW7WMdpYtzB3dR3LLXLtLmMPz6Civ6cEU05ydP12HQkFU7UVz5_CKmCASpaIFwXLddDUNhIvrw6xBRC5iiVxM3BlwJXYvuOFwhRJYaahCBiTNyrCAVKc5iG3WBf9IHbAWvm43g" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: zoom-in; display: block; font-style: italic; height: auto; margin: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="624" /></a><figcaption style="background-color: var(--color-background-primary); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-text-secondary); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-1); letter-spacing: var(--font-letter-spacing-long-primer); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-1); padding-top: var(--space-8); width: 626.562px;">Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger with Pope Paul VI. Jornal O Bom Católico via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0).</figcaption></figure><h3 id="coworker-of-the-truth" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-semibold); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-5); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Coworker of the truth</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: calc(var(--content-flow)/ 2); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">After earning a doctorate, Ratzinger began teaching, and his reputation as a theologian grew. Cologne’s Cardinal Joseph Frings asked him to serve as a peritus, or adviser, at Vatican II, one of the major Catholic events of the 20th century.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">He supported the reforming current at the ecumenical council and afterward received an invitation from the prominent progressive theologian Hans Küng to teach at the renowned University of Tübingen. But there he concluded that the Council’s reforms were being distorted by activists imbued with the revolutionary spirit of the late 1960s. “Anyone who wanted to remain a progressive in this context had to give up his integrity,” he said decades later.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">He left Tübingen in 1969 to teach at the less prestigious University of Regensburg in his Bavarian homeland. That year, he made a radio broadcast in which he pondered the Church’s future.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">“From the crisis of today,” he said, “the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">But in the end, he predicted, “the church of faith” would remain. “It may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but it will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as Man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death,” he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">In 1972, Ratzinger helped to found the influential theological journal <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Communio, </em>with fellow theological luminaries Hans Urs von Balthasar and Henri de Lubac.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">He was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising on May 28, 1977, at the relatively young age of 49. He took the motto “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cooperatores veritatis</em>” (“Coworkers of the truth”), drawn from 3 John 8. He was made a cardinal a month after his episcopal ordination.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">His tenure in Munich was overshadowed decades later by a report that accused him of mishandling four abuse cases. He denied claims that he had sought to cover up wrongdoing, but in a letter issued in 2022, he said: “I have had great responsibilities in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses and the errors that occurred in those different places during the time of my mandate.”</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="background-color: var(--color-background-secondary); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: min-content; padding: 0px;"><a class="fslightbox-image-wrap" data-fslightbox="" data-no-swup="" href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/IARiClHAbSdC_aXh4yhgvzFnDRSYiuy-iCaGEZe_J-bmf_jgFoU651XEMH_wrSQueCcyMxgamimfugE1enSjpWWPEMJyZPHoRRxJtdBO0l05rWipxGmWFORCWuFvuGALTpVSFoc3kBS5aRuKM8304dCVXdMAkF07ZYhG_zyRndhq6AAiu2eAUr3Yqg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="kg-image" height="416" loading="lazy" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/IARiClHAbSdC_aXh4yhgvzFnDRSYiuy-iCaGEZe_J-bmf_jgFoU651XEMH_wrSQueCcyMxgamimfugE1enSjpWWPEMJyZPHoRRxJtdBO0l05rWipxGmWFORCWuFvuGALTpVSFoc3kBS5aRuKM8304dCVXdMAkF07ZYhG_zyRndhq6AAiu2eAUr3Yqg" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: zoom-in; display: block; font-style: italic; height: auto; margin: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="624" /></a><figcaption style="background-color: var(--color-background-primary); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-text-secondary); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-1); letter-spacing: var(--font-letter-spacing-long-primer); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-1); padding-top: var(--space-8); width: 668px;">Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in Szczepanów, Poland, on May 10, 2003. Muu-karhu via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0).</figcaption></figure><h3 id="doctrinal-defender" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-semibold); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-5); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Doctrinal defender</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: calc(var(--content-flow)/ 2); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Pope John Paul II summoned Ratzinger to Rome in 1981 to serve as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The Polish pope believed that the decades after Vatican II were marred by a theological free-for-all and encouraged the cardinal to help restore a sense of balance.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Ratzinger took action against prominent theologians he believed had departed from Catholic teaching, including the Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff, the Sri Lankan priest Tissa Balasuriya, and the Belgian Jesuit Jacques Dupuis.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">These actions made him a controversial figure among Catholics on the Church’s progressive wing, who referred to him as the “Panzer Cardinal” and “God’s Rottweiler.” He complained that he was being cast as a bogeyman when he was only seeking to help simple believers recognize misleading accounts of the faith.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">With John Paul II’s unflagging support, he tackled the Church’s most contested topics, from women priests to homosexuality. He also sought to present Catholic teaching in a positive light in his personal theological works and through his labor on the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church, a monumental guide to the faith.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">After the turn of the millennium, he continued to serve as a theological lightning rod. In the year 2000, he signed the declaration <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dominus Iesus</em>, which affirmed that there is “a single Church of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic Church” — prompting criticism from Protestant leaders.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">In 2001, Ratzinger convinced John Paul II to allow his Vatican congregation to investigate cases of clerical abuse worldwide. Once a week, he would read through dossiers on accused priests, a practice he referred to as “our Friday penance.” Between 2004 and 2014, 848 priests were laicized and 2,572 given other penalties.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">In a 2004 lecture on Europe’s Christian roots, Ratzinger invoked the historian Arnold Toynbee’s idea of “creative minorities” who help to revitalize civilizations. “Christian believers should look upon themselves as just such a creative minority, and help Europe to reclaim what is best in its heritage and to therefore place itself at the service of all humankind,” he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">In light of his age and bouts of ill health, he tried to resign several times, but continued to work as the Vatican’s doctrinal enforcer until John Paul II’s death in 2005.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Ratzinger presided at the Polish pope’s funeral, before a television audience of more than 2 billion. In his role as dean of the College of Cardinals, he preached to the world’s cardinals before they entered the conclave to elect John Paul II’s successor. He warned them that “having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism,” while a “dictatorship of relativism” was being built “that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires.”</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="background-color: var(--color-background-secondary); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: min-content; padding: 0px;"><a class="fslightbox-image-wrap" data-fslightbox="" data-no-swup="" href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/5dDSauq0--CNnzX_2MuziZOpKFNUK4hDeyijVEcZCv5WoOefNn91PE7e8fWC13l1CC3DiRnBhtr_gPZF12EdNYvokPX4_1OQKBPlTmy4Cu680dSNflt8OuA9vzgglo04EnV0b_1L85-H6s5DYiyepS8MrRDdKfXMYsZpOpGMLIO1g7KZf19Y_BDtZA" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="kg-image" height="416" loading="lazy" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/5dDSauq0--CNnzX_2MuziZOpKFNUK4hDeyijVEcZCv5WoOefNn91PE7e8fWC13l1CC3DiRnBhtr_gPZF12EdNYvokPX4_1OQKBPlTmy4Cu680dSNflt8OuA9vzgglo04EnV0b_1L85-H6s5DYiyepS8MrRDdKfXMYsZpOpGMLIO1g7KZf19Y_BDtZA" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: zoom-in; display: block; font-style: italic; height: auto; margin: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="624" /></a><figcaption style="background-color: var(--color-background-primary); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-text-secondary); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-1); letter-spacing: var(--font-letter-spacing-long-primer); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-1); padding-top: var(--space-8); width: 668px;">Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger presides at the funeral of Pope John Paul II on April 8, 2005. Ricardo Stuckert/PR - Agência Brasil via Wikimedia (CC BY 3.0 br).</figcaption></figure><h3 id="the-church-is-alive" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-semibold); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-5); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">The Church is alive</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: calc(var(--content-flow)/ 2); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">After four ballots, he was elected pope on April 19, 2005, at the age of 78. He chose the name Benedict XVI in honor of Benedict XV, who “guided the Church through the turbulent times of the First World War,” and St. Benedict, “a fundamental point of reference for the unity of Europe.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">At his installation Mass, he appeared to acknowledge the forces arrayed against him, asking for prayers “that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.” But he also struck a hopeful note, saying that in his predecessor’s last days, “it became wonderfully evident to us that the Church is alive. And the Church is young.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">“She holds within herself the future of the world and therefore shows each of us the way towards the future,” he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">His almost eight-year pontificate was marked by a series of crises.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">The most challenging and extended was the abuse crisis. Just two months after his election, he imposed restrictions on Fr. Marcial Maciel, the powerful founder of the Legionaries of Christ, who appeared to have been protected by figures at the Vatican despite evidence of his depravity.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">The global media repeatedly accused Benedict XVI of having covered up abuse as an archbishop in Germany and a prefect in Rome — claims firmly rejected by his supporters.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">He met abuse survivors during his foreign visits and sent a landmark letter to Irish Catholics in 2010, acknowledging that some abuse survivors “find it difficult even to enter the doors of a church after all that has occurred.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Another crisis occurred in 2006, when he gave an address at the University of Regensberg in Germany in which he cited a Byzantine emperor who told a Muslim interlocutor that Mohammed had brought into the world “things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Benedict noted that the emperor delivered the words with “a brusqueness that we find unacceptable,” but his speech was reported around the world as if he had endorsed the remark. Muslims erupted in protest from Jordan to Indonesia.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Two months later, he made a conciliatory visit to Turkey, pausing for a moment of reflection alongside an Islamic cleric in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">In 2009, he sparked a another crisis when he lifted the excommunications of four bishops belonging to the Society of St. Pius (SSPX), the breakaway group founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The move coincided with an interview in which one of the four, Bishop Richard Williamson, denied the Holocaust. Benedict wrote an apologetic letter to the world’s bishops, noting that he had been told “that consulting the information available on the internet would have made it possible to perceive the problem early on.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">As pope, he made far-reaching decisions on the liturgy, ecumenism, and Vatican finances.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">His 2007 motu proprio <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Summorum Pontificum</em> acknowledged priests’ right to offer Mass using the Roman Missal of 1962, which is in Latin. He defined the new and old versions of the Roman Missal as the “ordinary” and “extraordinary” forms of the Roman Rite, expressing the hope that they would be “mutually enriching.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">In his 2009 apostolic constitution <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Anglicanorum coetibus</em>, he established personal ordinariates enabling groups of Anglicans to enter into full communion with Rome while preserving elements of their patrimony.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">In 2010, he attempted to shed light on the Vatican’s notoriously opaque finances with the creation of a watchdog body, the Financial Information Authority. His efforts at reform were undermined by a series of leaked documents in what came to be known as the “Vati-Leaks” scandal, which led to the jailing of his butler.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Despite his advanced age, he made trips to countries including Australia, Brazil, and Benin. In 2008, he undertook a six-day visit to the United States, addressing the United Nations General Assembly, praying at Ground Zero, and visiting the White House.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">He beatified more than 800 people, including Cardinal John Henry Newman, canonized 45 others, and proclaimed St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. John of Avila Doctors of the Church.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">He published three encyclicals: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deus caritas est</em>, on love; <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spe salvi</em>, on hope; and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Caritas in Veritate</em>, on charity. His fourth, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lumen fidei</em>, was left unfinished and completed by his successor Pope Francis.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Throughout his pontificate, he stressed the continuity of the Catholic faith. Speaking to Vatican officials in 2005, he criticized those who interpreted Vatican II in terms of “discontinuity and rupture,” arguing that it should be understood instead with a “hermeneutic of reform” that did not imply “a split between the pre-conciliar Church and the post-conciliar Church.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Benedict XVI resigned on Feb. 11, 2013, announcing the dramatic break with centuries of tradition in Latin to an audience of shocked cardinals. He told them that “both strength of mind and body” were necessary to govern the Church, but that strength had “deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">His resignation took effect on Feb. 28, 2013, when he departed Vatican City by helicopter. Arriving at the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, he described himself as “simply a pilgrim who is starting the last stage of his pilgrimage on Earth.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">“Let us go ahead together with the Lord for the good of the Church and of the world,” he said, before departing into retirement.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption" style="background-color: var(--color-background-secondary); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: min-content; padding: 0px;"><a class="fslightbox-image-wrap" data-fslightbox="" data-no-swup="" href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/uPl_f5ZPNVvggR8iiXcQmUyZ_sWjGhzI9Lvx6t-_NDYcpNyD5HSZhkaFIkQDVN5fOXfwPYu2K0x6wz4AO6VjF_4u4NF8ploDktrqSfhgVY97tsTX6m-i31RD5raZiAUfZWlROBrkYUXBhC1iWscyF2onk_7J87p5WNlWAEerSLikzIgs_U4nzSQ5aw" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="kg-image" height="416" loading="lazy" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/uPl_f5ZPNVvggR8iiXcQmUyZ_sWjGhzI9Lvx6t-_NDYcpNyD5HSZhkaFIkQDVN5fOXfwPYu2K0x6wz4AO6VjF_4u4NF8ploDktrqSfhgVY97tsTX6m-i31RD5raZiAUfZWlROBrkYUXBhC1iWscyF2onk_7J87p5WNlWAEerSLikzIgs_U4nzSQ5aw" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: zoom-in; display: block; font-style: italic; height: auto; margin: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="624" /></a><figcaption style="background-color: var(--color-background-primary); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-text-secondary); font-size: var(--font-size-scale-1); letter-spacing: var(--font-letter-spacing-long-primer); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-1); padding-top: var(--space-8); width: 668px;">Benedict XVI’s last public appearance as pope, at Castel Gandolfo on Feb. 28, 2013. © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.</figcaption></figure><h3 id="the-last-stretch" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-semibold); line-height: var(--line-height-scale-5); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">The last stretch</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: calc(var(--content-flow)/ 2); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Benedict XVI adopted the title “pope emeritus” and continued to wear white — choices that critics said might lead Catholics to think he was still pope. He settled in a new home, the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican Gardens. He was 85 years old and not expected to live long, though the Vatican had not indicated a terminal illness. But over the next 10 years, he remained active.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">His first public appearance after his resignation came in February 2014, at Pope Francis’ first consistory for the creation of new cardinals. Months later, he was present at the canonization of John Paul II and John XXIII.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">In retirement, he continued his long collaboration with the journalist Peter Seewald. Together, they produced the 2016 book-length interview “Last Testament,” their fourth after “Salt of the Earth” (1997), “God and the World” (2002), and “Light of the World” (2010). They also worked together on a multi-volume biography “Benedict XVI: A Life,” published in German in 2020.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">He occasionally generated controversy in retirement, contributing in 2019 to a book supporting clerical celibacy amid a debate about a relaxation of the discipline in the Amazon region. In an essay published in the same year, he was accused of blaming clerical abuse on the sexual revolution of the 1960s. But he insisted that his point was that the crisis was caused by a turning away from God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">Catholics around the world continued to cherish the German pope in his retirement. On his 95th birthday, thousands of people sent messages via a website dedicated to his work.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;">His longtime personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein confided that Benedict himself was surprised by his longevity, recalling that he once said: “I would never have believed that the last stretch of the journey that would take me from the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery to the gates of heaven with St. Peter would be so long.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-serif); font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--line-height-scale-body-copy); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--content-flow); min-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Benedict XVI was born on April 16, 1927. He died on Dec. 31, 2022, aged 95.</em></p></div></article>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-37684196089907616922022-08-13T09:37:00.001+02:002022-08-13T09:37:19.552+02:00Per non dimenticare (sul rifiuto della nuova Messa)<p><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Per non dimenticare</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">di Don Pierpaolo Petrucci</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><hr style="height: 2px; text-align: justify; width: 600px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Don Pierpaolo Petrucci è il Superiore del Distretto italiano</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">della Fraternità Sacerdotale San Pio X.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">L'articolo è sato pubblicato sul <a href="http://www.sanpiox.it/public/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1215:per-non-dimenticare&catid=64:crisi-nella-chiesa&Itemid=81">sito italiano della Fraternità</a></div></span></div><hr style="height: 2px; text-align: justify; width: 600px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://www.unavox.it/NuoveImmagini/Frutti_Concilio/PaoloVIProtestantiAlConcili.jpg" style="height: 392px; width: 488px;" /></div></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I 6 pastori protestanti che aiutarono a inventare la nuova Messa: fotografati in Vaticano il 10 aprile 1970, accanto a Paolo VI (a destra); da sinistra: Dott. George; Canon Jasper; Dott. Shephard; Dott. Konneth; Dott. Eugene Brand e Padre Max Thurian; in rappresentanza del Consiglio Mondiale delle Chiese, della chiesa d'Inghilterra, della chiesa luterana e della comunità di Taize.</i></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Il solo motivo che può autorizzare un cattolico a resistere all’autorità nella Chiesa è la fede. In particolare, per quel che riguarda la liturgia, solo la fede può motivare il rifiuto del nuovo rito della messa ed il motivo fondamentale per cui ogni sacerdote e fedele non può accettare il <span style="font-style: italic;">Novus ordo</span> è proprio perché «<span style="font-style: italic;">rappresenta, sia nel suo insieme come nei particolari, un impressionante allontanamento dalla teologia cattolica</span>» [<a name="1"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#1_"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1</span></a>]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tale allontanamento dalla teologia cattolica è conseguenze di un avvicinamento, voluto e consentito, alla dottrina ed alla liturgia protestante come ha dichiarato lo stesso Paolo VI stesso che ha introdotto il nuovo rito: «<span style="font-style: italic;">Allo sforzo richiesto ai fratelli separati perché si riuniscano, deve corrispondere lo sforzo, altrettanto mortificante per noi, di purificare la Chiesa romana nei suoi riti, perché diventi desiderabile e abitabile</span>» [<a name="2"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#2_"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2</span></a>].</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Di fatto, come è risaputo, Paolo VI domandò a sei pastori protestanti di prendere parte alla commissione incaricata di realizzare la nuova Messa. Uno di essi, Max Thurian, della comunità di Taizé, in occasione della pubblicazione del nuovo messale, potrà dichiarare: «<span style="font-style: italic;">In questa Messa rinnovata, non c’è niente che possa veramente disturbare i protestanti evangelici</span>» [<a name="3"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#3_"><span style="font-weight: bold;">3</span></a>].</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Padre Bugnini non ha mai nascosto le sue intenzioni ecumeniche. Sulle colonne dell’ <span style="font-style: italic;">Osservatore Romano</span>, dichiarò che la riforma liturgica è stata improntata al «<span style="font-style: italic;">desiderio di scartare ogni pietra che potesse costituire anche solo l’ombra di un rischio di inciampo o di dispiacere per i fratelli separati</span>» [<a name="4"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#4_"><span style="font-weight: bold;">4</span></a>]. Per questo ha ammesso riguardo alla nuova messa che si tratta «<span style="font-style: italic;">in certi punti, di una vera nuova creazione, dato che l’immagine della liturgia data dal Concilio Vaticano II è completamente differente da quella che la Chiesa cattolica ha avuto finora</span>» [<a name="5"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#5_"><span style="font-weight: bold;">5</span></a>].</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Molti esponenti di rilievo del mondo protestante – che naturalmente avevano sempre rifiutato la Messa tradizionale – hanno affermato che vi è più nessuna difficoltà nell’utilizzare il nuovo rito per celebrare la cena protestante. Oltre al già citato Max Thurian, si possono menzionare, tra gli altri, G. Siegwalt (in <span style="font-style: italic;">Le Monde </span>del 22 novembre 1970); O. Jordahn (conferenza del 15 giugno 1975 nell’abbazia di santa Maria Laach); infine, la Dichiarazione ufficiale del «Concistoro superiore della Chiesa della Confessione di Augusta, di Alsazia e di Lorena» dell’8 dicembre 1973 [<a name="6"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#6_"><span style="font-weight: bold;">6</span></a>].</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">A nuova liturgia corrisponde una nuova fede per il rapporto intimo che vi è fra la <span style="font-style: italic;">lex orandi</span> e la <span style="font-style: italic;">lex credendi</span> [<a name="7"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#7_"><span style="font-weight: bold;">7</span></a>] e la nuova architettura delle Chiese post-conciliari, ispirate e volute da questo cambiamento lo manifestano in maniera eclatante. Per questo la nuova messa è pericolosa per la fede e induce i fedeli che vi assistono a una professione esterna contraria alla fede.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">La nostra fedeltà al rito tradizionale quindi non è motivata da un attaccamento nostalgico al latino, all’incenso, ai pizzi e merletti e neppure ad un certo rituale ma essenzialmente dal dovere di conservare la fede ed aiutare i fedeli a fare altrettanto.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Per questo non accetteremo mai il nuovo rito riformato, così vicino alla “messa” di Lutero, e per questo incoraggiamo i fedeli a fare tutti i sacrifici per assistere alla Messa di sempre e fuggire le nuove celebrazioni, incoraggiando i sacerdoti a celebrare unicamente secondo il rito tradizionale.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><big style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">NOTE</span></div></big><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#1">1</a> - A. Ottaviani – A. Bacci, op. cit.,Vaduz (Liechtenstein) 1970, p. 23 [<a href="http://www.unavox.it/doc14.htm">Lettera dei cardinali Ottaviani e Bacci a Paolo VI, di presentazione del <span style="font-style: italic;">Breve esame critico del “Novus Ordo Missae”</span></a>]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a name="1_"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="1_"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#2">2</a> - Citato in J. Guitton, <span style="font-style: italic;">Paolo VI segreto</span>, San Paolo, Milano 1985 (quarta edizione 2002), p. 59.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#3">3</a> - M. Thurian, in <span style="font-style: italic;">La Croix</span> del 30 maggio 1969.</div><a name="3_"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="3_"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#4">4</a> - Cfr. <span style="font-style: italic;">La Documentation Catholique</span>, n. 1445 (1965), col. 604. In questo quadro appare del tutto verosimile, anche se non verificabile con assoluta certezza, l’informazione che mons. Bugnini (divenuto vescovo nel 1972) appartenesse alla massoneria: la massoneria, infatti, ha sempre predicato la parità di tutte le religioni, e dunque per un massone il nuovo rito della Messa si presenta molto meno sgradevole, sotto questo profilo, rispetto a quello tradizionale. I fatti sarebbero questi: nel 1975 mons. Bugnini fu denunciato come massone a Paolo VI; l’ecclesiastico che lo accusava forniva delle prove e minacciava di rendere la cosa pubblica. Paolo VI prese la cosa molto sul serio: per evitare lo scandalo sollevò immediatamente mons. Bugnini dalle sue funzioni di segretario della Congregazione per il culto divino e, nel gennaio 1976, lo nominò pronunzio a Teheran. Successivamente il nome di Annibale Bugnini è comparso nelle liste di prelati massoni pubblicate dalla stampa (liste pubblicate da <span style="font-style: italic;">Panorama</span>, n. 538 del 10 agosto 1976, e poi nell’<span style="font-style: italic;">Osservatore Politico </span>di Mino Pecorelli il 12 settembre 1978). Su questo caso, si può consultare l’inchiesta del dott. C. A. Agnoli, <span style="font-style: italic;">La massoneria alla conquista della Chiesa</span>, ed. Eiles, Roma 1996.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#5">5</a> - A. Bugnini, Dichiarazione alla stampa (4 gennaio 1967), in <span style="font-style: italic;">La Documentation Catholique</span>, n. 1491 (1967), col. 824.</div><a name="5_"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="5_"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#6">6</a> - <span style="font-style: italic;">Catéchisme catholique de la crise dans l’Eglise</span>, Mathias Gaudron, Le Sel 2007 p. 178</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a name="6_"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="6_"></a><a href="http://www.unavox.it/ArtDiversi/DIV723_Don_Petrucci_Per_non_dimenticare.html#7">7</a> - La legge della preghiera è quella della fede.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-78638465730884020092022-07-24T09:29:00.006+02:002022-07-24T09:36:59.309+02:00The Holy Souls of Purgatory<p><span face=""Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9wGEHvQigS-nF_UZ3s7Ex7EDO2GPDMhQYtYhNCzvO8QpU7LzR1Gnh2WgmzFsB07y3YX8kmI_T92NXFW4WPMaScgK7vel4kk1gc30Xy819pSHno7KsZtZ3ekvOLsURwUt1eaqFcqxZ2QuDxUyUvAmnGZlmelhAXT0T12A2G7Gyu7rr4oaLiSTCiarp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="720" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9wGEHvQigS-nF_UZ3s7Ex7EDO2GPDMhQYtYhNCzvO8QpU7LzR1Gnh2WgmzFsB07y3YX8kmI_T92NXFW4WPMaScgK7vel4kk1gc30Xy819pSHno7KsZtZ3ekvOLsURwUt1eaqFcqxZ2QuDxUyUvAmnGZlmelhAXT0T12A2G7Gyu7rr4oaLiSTCiarp=w225-h349" width="225" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"There is no doubt," says the devout Father Rossignoli, "that on their entrance into eternal glory the first favours which they ask of the Divine Mercy are for those who have opened to them the gates of Paradise, and they will never fail to pray for their benefactors, whenever they see them in any necessity or danger. In reverses of fortune, sicknesses, and accidents of all kinds they will be their protectors. Their zeal will increase when the interests of the soul are at stake; they will powerfully assist them to vanquish temptation, to practise good works, to die a Christian death, and to escape the sufferings of the other life." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Cardinal Baronius, whose authority as historian is well known, relates that a person who was very charitable towards the holy souls was afflicted with a terrible agony when on her deathbed. The spirit of darkness suggested to her the most gloomy fears, and veiled from her sight the sweet light of Divine Mercy, endeavouring to drive her into despair; when suddenly Heaven seemed to open before her eyes, and she saw thousands of defenders fly to her aid, reanimating her courage, and promising her the victory. Comforted by this unexpected assistance, she asked who were her defenders? "We are," they replied, " the souls which you have delivered from Purgatory; we, in our turn, come to help you, and very soon we shall conduct you to Paradise." At these consoling words the sick person felt that her fears were changed into the sweetest confidence. A short time afterwards she tranquilly expired, her countenance serene and her heart filled with joy.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Extract from <i>Purgatory Explained by the Lives and Legends of the Saints</i>, by Fr. F.X. Schouppe, S.j., </span><span>Tan Books 1986, pp. 317-320</span></span></div>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-36925809343291515502022-07-03T10:36:00.000+02:002022-07-03T10:36:25.339+02:00The end of Tridentine Mass in Malta? (Apostolic Letter Desiderio Desideravi)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/22_06_29_document-768x1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="634" src="https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/22_06_29_document-768x1024.jpg" width="476" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">An urgent meeting of the newly-elected Committee of <i>Pro Tridentina</i> (Malta) discussed the latest document issued by Pope Francis, namely <i>Desiderio Desideravi</i>. It is our understanding that based upon p. 61 of this document, the Tridentine Mass currently being celebrated at the Jesuit Church in Valletta / St. Paul Church, Valletta might soon not be allowed anymore. The reason being that it is a Diocesan Mass. Thankfully, the previous Committee of <i>Pro Tridentina</i> (Malta) has ensured that Tridentine Mass can continue to be celebrated by Fr Anthony, outside diocesan restrictions. still, it is painful for us to read such a document, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Following is the afore-mentioned p. 61 of <i>Desiderio Desideravi:</i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;">61. In this letter </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have wanted simply to share some reflections</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;"> which most certainly do not exhaust the immense treasure of the celebration of the holy mysteries. I ask all the bishops, priests, and deacons, the formators in seminaries, the instructors in theological faculties and schools of theology, and all catechists to help the holy people of God to draw from what is the first wellspring of Christian spirituality. We are called continually to rediscover the richness of the general principles exposed </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in the first numbers of <a href="https://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/p/sacrosanctum.html">Sacrosanctum Concilium</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;">grasping the </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">intimate bond between this first of the Council’s constitutions and all the others</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For this reason we cannot go back to that ritual form which the Council fathers, cum Petro et sub Petro, felt the need to reform</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;">, approving, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and following their conscience as pastors, the principles from which was born the reform. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;">The holy pontiffs St. Paul VI and St. John Paul II, approving the reformed liturgical books ex decreto Sacrosancti OEcumenici Concilii Vaticani II, </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">have guaranteed the fidelity of the reform of the Council</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;"> For this reason I wrote Traditionis custodes, so that the Church may lift up, in the variety of </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">so many languages</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-style: italic;">, one and the same prayer capable of expressing her unity.[23 Cf. Paulus VI, Constitutio apostolica Missale Romanum (3 Aprilis 1969) in AAS 61 (1969) 222.] </span></p>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-34224760173654120252022-07-03T09:49:00.002+02:002022-07-03T09:51:51.579+02:00Quotes to reflect upon (24)<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://wp.en.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/popepius-xii.jpg?w=640&crop=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="640" height="441" src="https://wp.en.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/popepius-xii.jpg?w=640&crop=1" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><b>From the encyclical<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <i>Mediator Dei</i> of Pope Pius XII (1947). </span></b></span><p></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">23. The worship rendered by the Church to God must be, in its entirety, interior as well as exterior. It is exterior because the nature of man as a composite of body and soul requires it to be so. Likewise, because divine Providence has disposed that “while we recognize God visibly, we may be drawn by Him to love of things unseen.”[26 – Roman Missal, Preface for Christmas.] Every impulse of the human heart, besides, expresses itself naturally through the senses; and the worship of God, being the concern not merely of individuals but of the whole community of mankind, must therefore be social as well. This obviously it cannot be unless religious activity is also organized and manifested outwardly. Exterior worship, finally, reveals and emphasizes the unity of the mystical Body, feeds new fuel to its holy zeal, fortifies its energy, intensifies its action day by day: “for although the ceremonies themselves can claim no perfection or sanctity in their won right, they are, nevertheless, the outward acts of religion, designed to rouse the heart, like signals of a sort, to veneration of the sacred realities, and to raise the mind to meditation on the supernatural. They serve to foster piety, to kindle the flame of charity, to increase our faith and deepen our devotion. They provide instruction for simple folk, decoration for divine worship, continuity of religious practice. They make it possible to tell genuine Christians from their false or heretical counterparts.”[27]</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">24. But the chief element of divine worship must be interior. For we must always live in Christ and give ourselves to Him completely, so that in Him, with Him and through Him the heavenly Father may be duly glorified. The sacred liturgy requires, however, that both of these elements be intimately linked with each another. This recommendation the liturgy itself is careful to repeat, as often as it prescribes an exterior act of worship. Thus we are urged, when there is question of fasting, for example, “to give interior effect to our outward observance.”[28 – Roman Missal, Secret for Thursday after the Second Sunday of Lent.] Otherwise religion clearly amounts to mere formalism, without meaning and without content. You recall, Venerable Brethren, how the divine Master expels from the sacred temple, as unworthily to worship there, people who pretend to honor God with nothing but neat and well-turned phrases, like actors in a theater, and think themselves perfectly capable of working out their eternal salvation without plucking their inveterate vices from their hearts.[29] It is, therefore, the keen desire of the Church that all of the faithful kneel at the feet of the Redeemer to tell Him how much they venerate and love Him. <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She wants them present in crowds</span> – like the children whose joyous cries accompanied His entry into Jerusalem – <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to sing</span><b> </b>their hymns and chant their song of praise and thanksgiving to Him who is King of Kings and Source of every blessing. <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She would have them move their lips</span> in prayer, sometimes in petition, sometimes in joy and gratitude, and in this way experience His merciful aid and power like the apostles at the lakeside of Tiberias, <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">or abandon themselves totally, like Peter on Mount Tabor, to mystic union with the eternal God in contemplation</span>.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">25. <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is an error, consequently, and a mistake to think of the sacred liturgy as merely the outward or visible part of divine worship or as an ornamental ceremonial.</span> No less erroneous is the notion that it consists solely in a list of laws and prescriptions according to which the ecclesiastical hierarchy orders the sacred rites to be performed. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">26. It should be clear to all, then, that God cannot be honoured worthily unless the mind and heart turn to Him in quest of the perfect life, and that <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the worship rendered to God by the Church in union with her divine Head is the most efficacious means of achieving sanctity</span>.</p>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-47449180247198579292022-05-08T16:44:00.003+02:002022-05-08T16:44:19.579+02:0010 Reasons to be a Traditional Catholic and 10 Ways to Stay a Traditional Catholic<div class="site" id="page" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Libre Franklin", "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;">
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One of the dangers of being a traditional Catholic is getting stuck on the superficial (exterior) elements of our Catholic faith and worship. Another danger is getting caught up in the polemic battles with those who are out to destroy us. For this reason, each one of us needs to have a life centered on God through prayer. We love and fight for everything traditional because it protects the divine presence of God in our souls, our families and in our Church.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">1) To adore, love and serve God in the most dignified way possible in this life on earth. </span>The primary reason we were created was to adore, love and serve God, in this life and in the life to come in heaven. This is what gives meaning to this life and our eternal life.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">2) To defend and preserve the Catholic faith in its Ancient Liturgy and Teachings. </span><i>Lex Orandi</i> (How we pray.) protects <i>Lex credendi</i> (What we believe), that leads to <i>Lex Vivendi</i> (How we live our lives). And this is why we are giving our lives to defend and preserve what was passed on to us from before our time.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">3) To obtain a personal union with God through the practice of this ancient Catholic faith. </span>In living a orthodox life and praying in a manner that pleases God, graces are given to us to obtain our final goal, a loving union with God in this life and in the one to come.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">4) To grow in holiness in our ordinary daily lives. </span>No matter what we may believe and know about our Catholic faith, what is of paramount importance, is that it will effect our daily lives and how we live it in union with God.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">5) To obtaining the graces necessary to fight the devil and our daily temptations. </span>We live in a constant spiritual battle for our own souls, and those around us, against the forces of evil. God has given us the graces necessary through the traditional Latin Mass, Rites and prayers to avail ourselves with great power against the devil and his minions. The devil hates Latin and all that is sacred.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">6) To defend Catholic Dogma against heresies and false worship. </span> From the beginning of Christianity there has always been error introduced into the Church.<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> </span>St. Paul writes about the false apostles and those who are against truth in his epistles. And this has been part of the Church’s struggle down to today. We need to realize that heresy will have to be fought up to the last second before Jesus’ return in Glory.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">7) To obtain the graces given by God that we need for the salvation of our eternal souls. </span>At every Holy Mass, every Holy Communion, every confession, every time we go to adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, we receive divine graces. Every time we read the Bible, pray the Holy Rosary, we receive more graces (supernatural help from God) to not fall in sin and loose our souls forever in hell.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">8) To avoid separation from God, which means eternal damnation and all of its horror. </span>The greatest horror is to be eternally separated from our loving union with God. In living the traditional Catholic life there are many aids to help us on our way to avoid the pits of damnation and to find the spiritual ladders to climb out of the well, if for some terrible reason we may fall into the well of sin.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">9) To help as many persons a possible to be saved through Jesus’ redeeming sacrifice. </span>We love God, and we love our neighbor. Out of love, we want to share the tools that God has given to His Church, for salvation of souls. So by preserving and sharing traditional faith, we love our neighbors as ourselves and help them get to heaven.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">10) To make it easy to be holy through the natural grandeur and beauty of the Latin Mass, churches, altars and art. </span>The Holy Latin Mass is the “Most Beautiful Thing This Side of Heaven”. When the solemn High Mass is offered, in its beauty, it speaks beyond what human words can express. All over Europe, people from all over the world are awe struck at the grandeur and beauty of the Catholic churches and art. Millions of people wait hours in line just to be able to visit the traditional Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in Rome. Divine liturgy, art and music speak on their own.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">1) Love God and Neighbor. </span>Love of God helps us avoid what offends Him. Love of neighbor helps us grow in virtue and is indispensable. Every day we need to work on loving God and asking Him to help us love our family, our friends, strangers and our enemies.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">2) Put God first in our personal lives, our family and our work.</span> Priorities, priorities, priorities. Great people always know how to prioritize. We too need to be reminded every day to put God first. With God in the first place, the rest seems to fit together naturally.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">3) Put prayer as the most important activity in your daily routine. </span>Living in this fast pace life, we get caught up in the stream of rushing. We try to keep up with everything that needs to be done everyday. Prayer, then gets put off because it takes discipline and does not come naturally. It is much easier to just go along with the flow, than to put prayer first in our day and our lives. A day that is not started with prayer does not go that well. We always want to put prayer as the most important activity we can do every day. Fight the temptation to put it off till later. Later usually never comes.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">4) Be around holy people who support, challenge us and council us on how to be holy. </span>As we see in the Bible, Jesus gathered the apostles, disciples and friends around Him. It is wonderful to know that Jesus knows we need Him, and other holy people, to grow spiritually. We were not meant to be lone rangers. Let us be humbly open to other’s suggestions and constructive criticism, especially from holy priests and religious.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">5) Read the Bible and other spiritual classics written by the saints. </span>We have a great guide to help us on our way to heaven, called the Bible. All we have to do is sit down and open it and read it. We have thousands of older brothers and sisters (the saints) who have gone before us and cleared the path to heaven for us. We can walk in their foot prints or try to clear the path on our own. It is a lot safer and easier to follow their path than to re invent the wheel and highway over again. But it will take discipline to read their writings.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">6) Attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as often as possible during the week. </span>Graces and encouragement is available at the Holy Mass everyday. If we can only organize our day so that we can make time for this great help, we will be happier and holier for it.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">7) Be attentive to the action of God in our ordinary lives as priests, religious and laity. </span>Most of us are just ordinary people trying to be good. The daily life of St. Joseph and Mary in Nazareth was ordinary like ours. We learn from them that the ordinary life is the ordinary way to heaven. So we want to be extraordinary saints through the ordinary life God has given us.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">8) Ask God for more faith and a deeper love for Him. </span>Faith and love are supernatural virtues that comes from God that need to be developed. We all need more faith and love. When we have more faith and love, we are able to put our lives (with all its difficulties) in the hands of Our Loving God. So to grow in the virtue of faith, we need to exercise blind believing that God is behind everything that is happening to us (other than sinful actions). To grow in Love we daily ask for the grace to do things out of love and to put love into even the tiniest event and action of our daily routine.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">9) Have gratitude for the graces already present in our lives.</span> “The Attitude of Gratitude” is so important to keep us cheerful and steadfast on the way to holiness. Taking time to reflect on what God has done, is doing and will continue to do in the future, helps us in the dry times of our spiritual lives.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">10) Have a hatred for sin and anything that would in the slightest way offend God. </span>Loving what God loves and hating what God hates, is a help to stay close to Him. It is very salutary to meditate on the terrible consequences of sin in our past and in the world around us right now. <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> </span>Sin is poison, a virus that kills the body and the soul. <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> </span></div>
<div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">God has been so good to help us live holy, happy and healthy lives. We are so blessed to have these divine treasures in the traditional Catholic Church. Let us protect them and share them with all those who have good will.</div>
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We traditionalists know who is in charge after all; God. And for that reason we can relax about all that is going on in the Church and in the world. So, we enjoy each day, loving, adoring, praising and thanking God for His love, protection and goodness.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: red;">The original author of this blog passed away in July of 2016. RIP Father Carota.</span></span></div></div></article></main></div></div></div></div>
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both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigjoR-c2QZkFfGbiS1t90SUdJV_GrWaAcmx5TYDg2lLxVcsSmVnLCdTejvqqlY66RFps2aulKrtCfaJIrN-u4MrN0kpf6cwmafQMYy2axbIDVGcKgK0nkNIvZMLdqEQjvSWZ8xYWLgMqgDx7_iMX0TTOVTu8z_pgoFAI5GKwEbfJNor-eFnBDnZVFD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1463" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigjoR-c2QZkFfGbiS1t90SUdJV_GrWaAcmx5TYDg2lLxVcsSmVnLCdTejvqqlY66RFps2aulKrtCfaJIrN-u4MrN0kpf6cwmafQMYy2axbIDVGcKgK0nkNIvZMLdqEQjvSWZ8xYWLgMqgDx7_iMX0TTOVTu8z_pgoFAI5GKwEbfJNor-eFnBDnZVFD" width="219" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="yiv0044247002Section1" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We intend to start a series of laypeople who contributed a lot to the aims of the Traditional Latin Mass. We start with an article about Elisabeth de Saventhem who died 22 years ago this month. She was the wife of the first President of FIUV. The article was written some time after her death by the second President of FIUV, the late Michael Davies.</span></div><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;">(We are most grateful to all those who contributed to the completion and translation of this text)</span></i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">Elisabeth de Saventhem was born in Bremen in 1911 as the eldest of seven children, five daughters and two sons, to Walther Clemens, Reichsgraf von Plettenberg-Lenhausen and his wife, Carmen Guillermina. Her spiritual formation was strongly influenced by an aunt, and her father's cousin was Blessèd Maria Droste zu Vischering of the Divine Heart, who had entered the Order of the Good Shepherd in Munster in 1885.</span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">The economic crisis in Germany forced Elisabeth to give up her language studies (French and Russian) in Leipzig and she found work in an office in Berlin, quickly being promoted to senior secretary and purchasing manager (the company produced silk for parachutes).</span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;">The publication, in March 1937, of Pius XI's Encyclica <i>Mit brennender Sorge</i> saw the first public confrontations between the National-socialist regime and the Catholic Church. Contrary to the concordat which had been signed four years before, the government forbade any distribution of the Pope's text. Nevertheless it was copied and circulated by the Plettenberg family and Elisabeth's parents were arrested and imprisoned in Bremen, accused of "malicious gossip endangering the State". Elisabeth, as eldest child, undertook successfully the defence of her parents before the minions of the Gestapo, so that they were released three weeks later. The Gestapo in Berlin continued to keep an eye on this courageous daughter and shortly afterwards, following a series of anonymous letters accusing Elisabeth herself of spying, they tried to incriminate her</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Courier New";"> -</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;"> after more than 20 cross-examinations. The efforts came to nothing of course, for the whole scandal had come from the unfounded, sickly jealousy of the wife of Elisabeth's employer. The affair reached the highest levels of the Gestapo and came to a conclusion only in December 1938 with Elisabeth's brilliant rehabilitation by the regular courts.</span></span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">During these years Elisabeth was much sought after in Berlin society. She impressed those who met her not only by her beauty, her great intelligence, her natural charm and her "Catholic at its best" humour, but also because of her extraordinary ability to listen. She understood especially how to recognise the problems lying deeper than the questions actually raised, and would then reply with great conceptual precision. Behind this unusual ability lay a faith matured by interior struggles, paired with the fruit of superb religious teaching which Elisabeth had received at school from a gifted priest, Pastor Franz Moschner. Later, at his request, she translated Moschner's most important book "Christliches Gebetsleben" into English. The MS was published in 1962 as "Christian Prayer" by Herder Book Co in the USA.</span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">Elisabeth's knowledge of doctrine and theology was so extensive and sound that her bishop authorised her to instruct and prepare converts for reception. The time that she devoted to this instruction, and she had many pupils, was never less than a year. She once remarked that although God had not blessed her with children of her own, she considered these converts to be her children.</span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">The fact that Elisabeth believed in God as the "iustus iudex" (the « just judge ») , to whom, throughout her life, she would address the question of the meaning or unavoidability of suffering and death, lent to her own witness that convincing, many-layered depth which rendered silent every sceptic.</span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">It was during the Berlin years that the momentous meeting with Isa Vermehren and her younger brother Eric took place, as they sought the Truth, which led to their conversions in 1938 and 1939 respectively. Early in 1939 Elisabeth returned to Bremen to help look after her youngest brother and sister, and in March 1941 she became engaged to Eric Vermehren. A few weeks later, Elisabeth's eldest brother was killed in Russia whilst carrying a badly-injured soldier from his company back to their trenches. Elisabeth's parents persuaded the young couple not to wait until the year of mourning was over and so, in October 1941, they were married quietly in the presence of the closest family members, at Schloss Hovestadt, the Plettenberg family seat.</span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;">Because of a childhood injury, Eric was exempt from frontline service and served at first as a "Welfare Officer" in several camps for English and French prisoners of war. In 1942 he was transferred to the Intelligence Service and sent to Istanbul as aide to the German military attaché there. In this position he became aware, through freely available neutral reports, of the true extent of the dreadful deeds being done, especially in the occupied areas about which scarcely anything was known back in Germany. This knowledge made him realise that,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;">even as a subordinate,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Courier New";"> </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;"> his conscience would not allow him to serve the régime any longer. During his first home leave in December 1943, Eric informed Elisabeth of his decision, She was immediately ready to follow him into foreign exile. In January 1944 they were "kidnapped" by the English Secret Services, in an action organised in the hope of protecting their families back in Germany. English officers accompanied them via Izmir and Aleppo to Cairo and thence, via Gibraltar, to England.</span></span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">The British Foreign Office had at that time adopted the Morgenthau-Plan. Eric and Elisabeth tried, in many letters and interviews, to impress on the Foreign Office the advisability of allowing leading members of the inner German Opposition to help with the rebuilding of their ruined country, but to no avail. They then asked that their status as "Guests of the Foreign Office" be annulled and they began to earn an independent living as assistant teachers in Worth Priory, a Benedictine preparatory school. Elisabeth straightaway won the hearts of her pupils, despite, or perhaps precisely because of her original strictness in questions of discipline. Among the anecdotes that she would relate of her time at Worth was that of finding one of her eight year old pupils crying bitterly one day. She asked him the reason and he explained that it was because he liked her very much, so much in fact that he felt that she deserved to be English, and it was unfair that she was not.</span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">For an "ex-enemy alien" it was well-nigh impossible to find a decent job in post-war England. Eric founded a small export company and Elisabeth helped in this effort despite her delicate health. The early (unfortunately not long-lasting) success of the company allowed them to leave Worth and move to the shadow of Brompton Oratory and a flat which was furnished with articles donated by friends. Some five years passed before Eric found regular employment with a firm of Lloyds brokers. He had by then adopted the surname Vermeeren de Saventhem, mainly for genealogical reasons. In 1964 Eric became Director for Europe of the London firm. The couple spent two years in Paris and in 1966 moved back to Switzerland, to settle in Clarens by Montreux.</span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;">From the moment that Pope John XXIII's announced that he was con]vening a General Council of the Church, all eyes were fixed upon that spectacular event</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Courier New";"> -</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;"> those of the de Saventhems with growing concern. Elisabeth's religious life had always had its focus in Holy Mass which she attended daily with her husband. In the accomplishment of the Sacrifice of the Mass she saw the definitive identity of the true Church of Christ and at the same time the reason for and the justification of the Catholic priesthood. She knew</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Courier New";"> -</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;"> with all the Tradition of the Church</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Courier New";"> -</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;"> of the essential connexion between the Faith of the Church and its prayers: as the Church prays, so it believes. Thus it seemed to her presumptuous, nay dangerous, to question, even in Council, those forms of liturgy which have grown and proved themselves over the centuries. The maintenance of the Mass as codified by St Pius V "with equal rights and equal honour" alongside any new forms became the main theme of her prayer, her thought and her actions, in close co-operation with her husband, long-time President of the international Una Voce movement.</span></span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">A first meeting with Monseigneur Lefebvre in Rome in 1962 sowed the seeds for over 25 years of cooperation, particularly vis-à-vis the Holy See. This became intensified after the foundation of the Archbishop’s International Seminary in Ecône, an hour's drive away from Clarens. The Archbishop appreciated more than anything Elisabeth's ever acute <i>sensus fidei et ecclesiae</i> and her moral courage. For over ten years the de Saventhems daily made the long drive from Clarens to Ecône to attend early Mass. Later they were able to continue daily Mass attendance at a chapel in Lausanne and at the tiny Carmel of Marie Reine des Anges, both served by priests from Ecône priests. The latter was situated on the slopes of the aptly-named Mont-Pèlerin just a short drive from home.</span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">Elisabeth's life was filled with conscious and radiant gratitude towards the Church for the gift of faith. It was however permanently overshadowed by a never-ending chain of physical suffering. She accepted this with admirable discipline from her iron will which seemed to gain new strength at Mass each morning.</span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">The end was not easy. As the petals begin to curl inwards when a precious flower fades, so Elisabeth's mental elasticity, which had always been admired by all who met her, slowly diminished. The interest was there, but ever more frequently the helpful replies did not come. Her physical frailty increased visibly, and for her last journey from Switzerland to Bonn (the newly-chosen home, to be near the family again) a flying ambulance was necessary. Elisabeth died a few weeks later in Cologne, in her sister's house, surrounded and comforted by the deep love of her husband and the devoted care of her sister and family. R.I.P.</span></p><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="yiv0044247002MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p></h4>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-67844660699319700452022-03-21T18:07:00.001+01:002022-03-21T18:07:17.330+01:00Quotes to reflect upon (23)<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXI3B4mf0NzLXpqNEWDO-AznA-sf9viO0phKCEE2VMEjSkEAsYZKURateynfJdX-lwo3b_DAM4IOK2FC7XcgpX89EkKeisDHfVAZ1ZR4m7wbdToTMWCtzKxWKd2OVoxyJS1QxHEBitex0tNTa5Ru9rn9y2AX0YSq7Odp0CioZq-nhK9v-PTyioLLOq" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="770" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXI3B4mf0NzLXpqNEWDO-AznA-sf9viO0phKCEE2VMEjSkEAsYZKURateynfJdX-lwo3b_DAM4IOK2FC7XcgpX89EkKeisDHfVAZ1ZR4m7wbdToTMWCtzKxWKd2OVoxyJS1QxHEBitex0tNTa5Ru9rn9y2AX0YSq7Odp0CioZq-nhK9v-PTyioLLOq=w515-h290" width="515" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />In the current terrible situation in Europe, these words from Benedict XVI during an Angelus in July 2009 are very appropriate:</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"It is written in Genesis that the blood of Abel killed by his brother Cain calls to God from the earth. Unfortunately, today as yesterday, this cry has not ceased as human blood continues to flow because of violence, injustice and hatred. When will men learn that life is sacred and belongs only to God?" "The Blood of Christ is the pledge of God’s faithful love for humankind. By gazing at the wounds of the crucified Christ each man, even in conditions of abject moral poverty, can say: ‘God has not abandoned me, He loves me, He gave his life for me’, and thus rediscover hope".</span></span></p></blockquote>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-14906058095835126112022-01-23T10:16:00.003+01:002022-01-23T10:16:27.251+01:00The true legacy of Benedict XVI<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHq2EoOifMV1STpWZyEGCoSxxNHhiQoOU-YUC56Q3BqujgEwLkrZf1dxzdauzLlmMeICrbnm1qUBy9YO0XEJDoCcJyzvZBkxAG7GJ_k-pVMTu5e0xE0v_4SXQSyxKqQzYyhPpA2uT09x0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1461" data-original-width="2168" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHq2EoOifMV1STpWZyEGCoSxxNHhiQoOU-YUC56Q3BqujgEwLkrZf1dxzdauzLlmMeICrbnm1qUBy9YO0XEJDoCcJyzvZBkxAG7GJ_k-pVMTu5e0xE0v_4SXQSyxKqQzYyhPpA2uT09x0/w410-h277/image.png" width="410" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />For those who have been trying in the past few days to denigrate Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, let us remind them what he really did for the Church: </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2005: election of Benedict XVI;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2006: Lifting of declarations of excommunication from the SSPX Bishops;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2007: the motu proprio <a href="https://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/p/summorum-pontificum.html">Summorum Pontificum</a>;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2008: Canonical Erection of the <a href="https://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/search/label/Istituto%20del%20Buon%20Pastore">Institute of the Good Shepherd</a>;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2009: Correction of the translation of the <i>Novus Ordo Missae</i> imposed; </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2009: <a href="https://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/search/label/anglicani">Anglicanorum Cœtibus</a>;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2010: Doctrinal talks with SSPX begin;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2011: Instruction <a href="https://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/p/universae-ecclesiae.html">Universae Ecclesiae</a>. Its main effect: overrides the bishops, who are the main problem. But this and the <i>motu proprio</i> re-taken back by the current holder of the Office.</span></p>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-62641702353222798392021-12-26T19:28:00.000+01:002021-12-26T19:28:52.396+01:00Responsia ad dubia on certain provisions of Traditionis Custodes<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqCoSEQ1ZGuiEVUqxXBPRQlBcgirfymZd5cYDfML4_8Q5hBtytxyVISKKDMZFq4gVX-Mkfl3fN5myJQd5IUdf0dnARv6Zb7osluWL9Q0XL0lFR4AAWo_qENrPfSKaanCYIdiU_dp108g/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="670" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqCoSEQ1ZGuiEVUqxXBPRQlBcgirfymZd5cYDfML4_8Q5hBtytxyVISKKDMZFq4gVX-Mkfl3fN5myJQd5IUdf0dnARv6Zb7osluWL9Q0XL0lFR4AAWo_qENrPfSKaanCYIdiU_dp108g/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="color: #663300; font-size: small;"><p align="CENTER" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #663300;">ONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS</span></p></span></div><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><span style="color: #663300; font-size: medium;">RESPONSA AD DUBIA</span></b></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><span style="color: #663300; font-size: medium;">on certain provisions of the</span></b></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><span style="color: #663300; font-size: medium;">Apostolic Letter</span></b></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><span style="color: #663300; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">TRADITIONIS CUSTODES</a></span></b></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><span style="color: #663300; font-size: medium;">issued “Motu Proprio” by the Supreme Pontiff</span></b></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><span style="color: #663300; font-size: medium;">FRANCIS</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">TO THE PRESIDENTS<br />OF THE CONFERENCES OF BISHOPS</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Your Eminence / Your Excellency,</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Following the publication by Pope Francis of the Apostolic Letter “Motu Proprio data” <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i> on the use of the liturgical books from prior to the reform of the Second Vatican Council, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, which exercises the authority of the Apostolic See for material within its competence (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, n. 7), received several requests for clarification on its correct application. Some questions have been raised from several quarters and with greater frequency. Therefore, after having carefully considered them, having informed the Holy Father and having received his assent, the responses to the most recurrent questions are published herewith.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The text of the Motu Proprio and the accompanying Letter to the Bishops of the whole world clearly express the reasons for the decisions taken by Pope Francis. The first aim is to continue “in the constant search for ecclesial communion” (<i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, Preamble) which is expressed by recognising in the liturgical books promulgated by the Popes Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, the unique expression of the <i>lex orandi</i> of the Roman Rite (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, n. 1). This is the direction in which we wish to move, and this is the meaning of the responses we publish here. Every prescribed norm has always the sole purpose of preserving the gift of ecclesial communion by walking together, with conviction of mind and heart, in the direction indicated by the Holy Father.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">It is sad to see how the deepest bond of unity, the sharing in the one Bread broken which is His Body offered so that all may be one (cf. Jhn 17:21), becomes a cause for division. It is the duty of the Bishops, <i>cum Petro et sub Petro</i>, to safeguard communion, which, as the Apostle Paul reminds us (cf. 1 Cor 11:17-34), is a necessary condition for being able to participate at the Eucharistic table.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">One fact is undeniable: The Council Fathers perceived the urgent need for a reform so that the truth of the faith as celebrated might appear ever more in all its beauty, and the People of God might grow in full, active, conscious participation in the liturgical celebration (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html" style="color: #663300;">Sacrosanctum Concilium</a></i> n. 14), which is the present moment in the history of salvation, the memorial of the Lord’s Passover, our one and only hope.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">As pastors we must not lend ourselves to sterile polemics, capable only of creating division, in which the ritual itself is often exploited by ideological viewpoints. Rather, we are all called to rediscover the value of the liturgical reform by preserving the truth and beauty of the Rite that it has given us. For this to happen, we are aware that a renewed and continuous liturgical formation is necessary both for Priests and for the lay faithful.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">At the solemn closing of the second session of the Council (4 December 1963), St Paul VI said (n. 11):</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">“The difficult, complex debates have had rich results. They have brought one topic to a conclusion, the sacred liturgy. Treated before all others, in a sense it has priority over all others for its intrinsic dignity and importance to the life of the Church and today we will solemnly promulgate the document on the liturgy. Our spirit, therefore, exults with true joy, for in the way things have gone we note respect for a right scale of values and duties. God must hold first place; prayer to him is our first duty. The liturgy is the first source of the divine communion in which God shares his own life with us. It is also the first school of the spiritual life. The liturgy is the first gift we must make to the Christian people united to us by faith and the fervour of their prayers. It is also a primary invitation to the human race, so that all may lift their now mute voices in blessed and genuine prayer and thus may experience that indescribable, regenerative power to be found when they join us in proclaiming the praises of God and the hopes of the human heart through Christ and the Holy Spirit”.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">When Pope Francis (<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2017/august/documents/papa-francesco_20170824_settimana-liturgica-nazionale.html" style="color: #663300;">Address to the participants in the 68<sup>th</sup> National Liturgical Week</a>, Rome, 24 August 2017) reminds us that “after this magisterium, after this long journey, We can affirm with certainty and with magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is irreversible” he wants to point us to the only direction in which we are joyfully called to turn our commitment as pastors.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Let us entrust our service “to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Eph 4,3), to Mary, Mother of the Church.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">From the offices of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 4 December 2021, on the 58<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution on the Scared Liturgy <i>Sacrosanctum Concilium</i>.</p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">✠ Arthur Roche<br />Prefect</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><i>The Supreme Pontiff Francis, in the course of an Audience granted to the Prefect of this Congregation on 18 November 2021, was informed of and gave his consent to the publication of these </i>RESPONSA AD DUBIA<i> with attached </i>EXPLANATORY NOTES.</div><p><br clear="all" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><blockquote><i>Traditionis custodes </i><p style="font-size: 11pt;">Art. 3. Episcopus, in dioecesibus ubi adhuc unus vel plures coetus celebrant secundum Missale antecedens instaurationem anni 1970:</p><p style="font-size: 11pt;">[…]</p><p style="font-size: 11pt;">§ 2. statuat unum vel plures locos ubi fideles, qui his coetibus adhaerent, convenire possint ad Eucharistiam celebrandam (nec autem in ecclesiis paroecialibus nec novas paroecias personales erigens);</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: 11pt;"> </p></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">When it is not possible to find a church, oratory or chapel which is available to accommodate the faithful who celebrate using the <i>Missale Romanum</i> (<i>Editio typica</i> 1962), can the diocesan Bishop ask the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments for a dispensation from the provision of the Motu Proprio <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i> (Art. 3 § 2), and thus allow such a celebration in the parish church?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Affirmative.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>Explanatory note.</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The Motu Proprio <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i> in art. 3 § 2 requests that the Bishop, in dioceses where up to now there has been the presence of one or more groups celebrating according to the Missal prior to the reform of 1970, “designate one or more locations where the faithful adherents of these groups may gather for the Eucharistic celebration (not however in the parochial churches and without the erection of new personal parishes)”. The exclusion of the parish church is intended to affirm that the celebration of the Eucharist according to the previous rite, being a concession limited to these groups, is not part of the ordinary life of the parish community.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">This Congregation, exercising the authority of the Holy See in matters within its competence (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, n. 7), can grant, at the request of the diocesan Bishop, that the parish church be used to celebrate according to the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962 only if it is established that it is impossible to use another church, oratory or chapel. The assessment of this impossibility must be made with the utmost care.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Moreover, such a celebration should not be included in the parish Mass schedule, since it is attended only by the faithful who are members of the said group. Finally, it should not be held at the same time as the pastoral activities of the parish community. It is to be understood that when another venue becomes available, this permission will be withdrawn.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">There is no intention in these provisions to marginalise the faithful who are rooted in the previous form of celebration: they are only meant to remind them that this is a concession to provide for their good (in view of the common use of the one <i>lex orandi</i> of the Roman Rite) and not an opportunity to promote the previous rite.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><p><br clear="all" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" /></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><blockquote><i>Traditionis custodes</i><p style="font-size: 11pt;"><i> </i>Art. 1. Libri liturgici a sanctis Pontificibus Paulo VI et Ioanne Paulo II promulgati, iuxta decreta Concilii Vaticani II, unica expressio “legis orandi” Ritus Romani sunt.</p><p style="font-size: 11pt;">Art. 8. Normae, dispositiones, concessiones et consuetudines antecedentes, quae conformes non sint cum harum Litterarum Apostolicarum Motu Proprio datarum praescriptis, abrogantur.</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: 11pt;"> </p></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Is it possible, according to the provisions of the Motu Proprio <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, to celebrate the sacraments with the <i>Rituale Romanum</i> and the <i>Pontificale Romanum</i> which predate the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Negative.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The diocesan Bishop is authorised to grant permission to use only the <i>Rituale Romanum</i> (last <i>editio typica</i> 1952) and not the <i>Pontificale Romanum</i> which predate the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. He may grant this permission only to those canonically erected personal parishes which, according to the provisions of the Motu Proprio <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, celebrate using the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>Explanatory note.</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The Motu Proprio <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i> intends to re-establish in the whole Church of the Roman Rite a single and identical prayer expressing its unity, according to the liturgical books promulgated by the Popes Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of the Second Vatican Council and in line with the tradition of the Church.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The diocesan Bishop, as the moderator, promoter and guardian of all liturgical life, must work to ensure that his diocese returns to a unitary form of celebration (cf. Pope Francis, Letter to the Bishops of the whole world that accompanies the Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio data <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>)<i>.</i></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">This Congregation, exercising the authority of the Holy See in matters within its competence (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, n. 7), affirms that, in order to make progress in the direction indicated by the Motu Proprio, it should not grant permission to use the <i>Rituale Romanum</i> and the <i>Pontificale Romanum</i> which predate the liturgical reform, these are liturgical books which, like all previous norms, instructions, concessions and customs, have been abrogated (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, n. 8).</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">After discernment the diocesan Bishop is authorised to grant permission to use only the <i>Rituale Romanum</i> (last <i>editio typica</i> 1952) and not the <i>Pontificale Romanum</i> which predate the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. This permission is to be granted only to canonically erected personal parishes which, according to the provisions of the Motu Proprio <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, celebrate with the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962. It should be remembered that the formula for the Sacrament of Confirmation was changed for the entire Latin Church by Saint Paul VI with the Apostolic Constitution <i>Divinæ consortium naturæ </i>(15 August 1971).</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">This provision is intended to underline the need to clearly affirm the direction indicated by the Motu Proprio which sees in the liturgical books promulgated by the Saints Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, the unique expression of the <i>lex orandi</i> of the Roman Rite (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, n. 1).</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">In implementing these provisions, care should be taken to accompany all those rooted in the previous form of celebration towards a full understanding of the value of the celebration in the ritual form given to us by the reform of the Second Vatican Council. This should take place through an appropriate formation that makes it possible to discover how the reformed liturgy is the witness to an unchanged faith, the expression of a renewed ecclesiology, and the primary source of spirituality for Christian life.<br clear="all" /></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><blockquote><i>Traditionis custodes</i><p style="font-size: 11pt;">Art. 3. Episcopus, in dioecesibus ubi adhuc unus vel plures coetus celebrant secundum Missale antecedens instaurationem anni 1970:</p><p style="font-size: 11pt;">§ 1. certior fiat coetus illos auctoritatem ac legitimam naturam instaurationis liturgicae, normarum Concilii Vaticani II Magisteriique Summorum Pontificum non excludere;</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: 11pt;"> </p></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><em>If a Priest who has been granted the use of the Missale Romanum of 1962 does not recognise the validity and legitimacy of concelebration – refusing to concelebrate, in particular, at the Chrism Mass – can he continue to benefit from this concession?</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Negative.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">However, before revoking the concession to use the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962, the Bishop should take care to establish a fraternal dialogue with the Priest, to ascertain that this attitude does not exclude the validity and legitimacy of the liturgical reform, the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and the Magisterium of the Supreme Pontiffs, and to accompany him towards an understanding of the value of concelebration, particularly at the Chrism Mass.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>Explanatory note.</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Art. 3 § 1 of the Motu Proprio <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i> requires the diocesan Bishop to ascertain that the groups requesting to celebrate with the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962 “do not deny the validity and the legitimacy of the liturgical reform, dictated by Vatican Council II and the Magisterium of the Supreme Pontiffs”.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">St Paul forcefully reminds the community of Corinth to live in unity as a necessary condition to be able to participate at the Eucharistic table (cf. 1 Cor 11,17-34).</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">In the Letter sent to the Bishops of the whole world to accompany the text of the Motu Proprio <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, the Holy Father says: “Because ‘liturgical celebrations are not private actions, but celebrations of the Church, which is the <i>sacrament of unity</i>’ (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html" style="color: #663300;">Sacrosanctum Concilium</a></i>, n. 26), they must be carried out in communion with the Church. Vatican Council II, while it reaffirmed the external bonds of incorporation in the Church — the profession of faith, the sacraments, of communion — affirmed with St. Augustine that to remain in the Church not only ‘with the body’ but also ‘with the heart’ is a condition for salvation (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html" style="color: #663300;">Lumen Gentium</a></i>, n. 14)”.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The explicit refusal not to take part in concelebration, particularly at the Chrism Mass, seems to express a lack of acceptance of the liturgical reform and a lack of ecclesial communion with the Bishop, both of which are necessary requirements in order to benefit from the concession to celebrate with the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><em>However, before revoking the concession to use the Missale Romanum of 1962, the Bishop should offer the Priest the necessary time for a sincere discussion on the deeper motivations that lead him not to recognise the value of concelebration, in particular in the Mass presided over by the Bishop. He should invite him to express, in the eloquent gesture of concelebration, that ecclesial communion which is a necessary condition for being able to participate at the table of the Eucharistic sacrifice.<br clear="all" /></em></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><blockquote><i>Traditionis custodes </i><p style="font-size: 11pt;">Art. 3. Episcopus, in dioecesibus ubi adhuc unus vel plures coetus celebrant secundum Missale antecedens instaurationem anni 1970:</p><p style="font-size: 11pt;">[…]</p><p style="font-size: 11pt;">§ 3. constituat, in loco statuto, dies quibus celebrationes eucharisticae secundum Missale Romanum a sancto Ioanne XXIII anno 1962 promulgatum permittuntur. His in celebrationibus, lectiones proclamentur lingua vernacula, adhibitis Sacrae Scripturae translationibus ad usum liturgicum ab unaquaque Conferentia Episcoporum approbatis;</p></blockquote></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><em>In Eucharistic celebrations using the Missale Romanum of 1962, is it possible to use the full text of the Bible for the readings, choosing the pericopes indicated in the Missal??</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Affirmative.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>Explanatory note.</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Art. 3 § 3 of the Motu Proprio <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i> states that the readings are to be proclaimed in the vernacular language, using translations of Sacred Scripture for liturgical use, approved by the respective Episcopal Conferences.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Since the texts of the readings are contained in the Missal itself, and therefore there is no separate Lectionary, and in order to observe the provisions of the Motu Proprio, one must necessarily resort to the translation of the Bible approved by the individual Bishops’ Conferences for liturgical use, choosing the pericopes indicated in the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">No vernacular lectionaries may be published that reproduce the cycle of readings of the previous rite.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">It should be remembered that the present Lectionary is one of the most precious fruits of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. The publication of the Lectionary, in addition to overcoming the “plenary” form of the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962 and returning to the ancient tradition of individual books corresponding to individual ministries, fulfils the wish of <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html" style="color: #663300;">Sacrosanctum Concilium</a></i>, n. 51: “The treasures of the Bible are to be opened up more lavishly, so that richer fare may be provided for the faithful at the table of God’s word. In this way a more representative portion of the holy scriptures will be read to the people in the course of a prescribed number of years”.<br clear="all" /></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><blockquote><i>Traditionis custodes</i><p style="font-size: 11pt;">Art. 4. Presbyteri ordinati post has Litteras Apostolicas Motu Proprio datas promulgatas, celebrare volentes iuxta Missale Romanum anno 1962 editum, petitionem formalem Episcopo dioecesano mittere debent, qui, ante concessionem, a Sede Apostolica licentiam rogabit.</p></blockquote></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Does the diocesan Bishop have to be authorised by the Apostolic See to allow priests ordained after the publication of the Motu Proprio <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i> to celebrate with the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962 (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, n. 4)?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Affirmative.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>Explanatory note.</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Article 4 of the Latin text (which is the official text to be referenced) reads as follows: «Presbyteri ordinati post has Litteras Apostolicas Motu Proprio datas promulgatas, celebrare volentes iuxta Missale Romanum anno 1962 editum, petitionem formalem Episcopo dioecesano mittere debent, qui, ante concessionem, a Sede Apostolica licentiam rogabit».</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">This is not merely a consultative opinion, but a necessary authorisation given to the diocesan Bishop by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, which exercises the authority of the Holy See over matters within its competence. (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html" style="color: #663300;">Traditionis custodes</a></i>, n.<i> </i>7).</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Only after receiving this permission will the diocesan Bishop be able to authorise Priests ordained after the publication of the Motu Proprio (16 July 2021) to celebrate with the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">This rule is intended to assist the diocesan Bishop in evaluating such a request: his discernment will be duly taken into account by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The Motu Proprio clearly expresses the desire that what is contained in the liturgical books promulgated by Popes Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, be recognised as the unique expression of the <i>lex orandi</i> of the Roman Rite: it is therefore absolutely essential that Priests ordained after the publication of the Motu Proprio share this desire of the Holy Father.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">All seminary formators, seeking to walk with solicitude in the direction indicated by Pope Francis, are encouraged to accompany future Deacons and Priests to an understanding and experience of the richness of the liturgical reform called for by the Second Vatican Council. This reform has enhanced every element of the Roman Rite and has fostered - as hoped for by the Council Fathers - the full, conscious and active participation of the entire People of God in the liturgy (cf. <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html" style="color: #663300;">Sacrosanctum Concilium</a></i> no. 14), the primary source of authentic Christian spirituality.<br clear="all" /></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><blockquote><i>Traditionis custodes</i><p style="font-size: 11pt;">Art. 5. Presbyteri, qui iam secundum Missale Romanum anno 1962 editum celebrant, ab Episcopo dioecesano licentiam rogabunt ad hanc facultatem servandam.</p></blockquote></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><em>Can the faculty to celebrate using the Missale Romanum of 1962 be granted ad tempus?</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Affirmative.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>Explanatory note.</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The possibility of granting the use of the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962 for a defined period of time - the duration of which the diocesan Bishop will consider appropriate - is not only possible but also recommended: the end of the defined period offers the possibility of ascertaining that everything is in harmony with the direction established by the Motu Proprio. The outcome of this assessment can provide grounds for prolonging or suspending the permission.</p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </div><hr style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="90%" /><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><em>Does the faculty granted by the diocesan Bishop to celebrate using the Missale Romanum of 1962 only apply to the territory of his own diocese?</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Affirmative.</p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </div><hr style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="90%" /><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><em>If the authorised Priest is absent or unable to attend, must the person replacing him also have formal authorisation?</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Affirmative.</p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </div><p><br clear="all" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" /></p><hr style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="90%" /><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Do Deacons and instituted ministers participating in celebrations using the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962 have to be authorised by the diocesan Bishop?</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Affermative.</p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </div><hr style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="90%" /><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><em>Can a Priest who is authorised to celebrate with the Missale Romanum of 1962 and who, because of his office (Parish Priest, chaplain, etc.), also celebrates on weekdays with the Missale Romanum of the reform of the Second Vatican Council, binate using the Missale Romanum of 1962?</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Negative.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>Explanatory note.</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">The Parish Priest or chaplain who - in the fulfilment of his office - celebrates on weekdays with the current <i>Missale Romanum</i>, which is the unique expression of the <i>lex orandi</i> of the Roman Rite, cannot binate by celebrating with the <i>Missale Romanum</i> of 1962, either with a group or privately<em>.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">It is not possible to grant bination on the grounds that there is no “just cause” or “pastoral necessity” as required by canon 905 §2: the right of the faithful to the celebration of the Eucharist is in no way denied, since they are offered the possibility of participating in the Eucharist in its current ritual form.</p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><hr width="90%" /></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>To the proposed question:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><em>Can a Priest who is authorised to celebrate using the Missale Romanum of 1962 celebrate on the same day with the same Missal for another group of faithful who have received authorisation?</em></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>The answer is:</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Negative.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><b><i>Explanatory note.</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">It is not possible to grant bination on the grounds that there is no “just cause” or “pastoral necessity” as required by canon 905 §2: the right of the faithful to the celebration of the Eucharist is in no way denied, since they are offered the possibility of participating in the Eucharist in its current ritual form.</p><div><br /></div>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-70281774334156221252021-12-26T18:19:00.002+01:002021-12-26T18:20:39.383+01:00EXCLUSIVE: Some details about Pope Francis' visit to Malta<p><img alt="Archbishop Scicluna writes Pope Francis tribute for Time Magazine&#39;s 100 Most Influential People edition" class="n3VNCb" data-noaft="1" src="https://i2.wp.com/cde.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Scicluna-Pope.jpg?resize=618%2C348&ssl=1" style="height: 329.417px; margin: 0px; width: 585px;" /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This Blog is pleased to announce that some details of Pope Francis' visit to Malta next year are being made available below to our readers. It is however important to stress that although a <span><u><b><span style="color: red;">draft programme</span></b></u> has been made available to us, it is our belief that such details are best left to the Church and Government to publish when they deem appropriate</span>. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Our source in the Vatican confirmed that the dates - although preferable to the Holy See to coincide with the feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck in Malta - depend to a large extent on the general elections due to be held in Malta in 2022. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is the wish of the current Pontiff to visit churches that were not visited in past Papal visits to Malta by John Paul II and Benedict XVI.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>However, the choices being currently considered, namely those of the churches of Fgura (Madonna tal-Karmnu) and Naxxar </span><span>(</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span>Santwarju Ġesù Ħniena Divina - San Pawl tat-Tarġa)</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"> seem</span><span> to be problematic from a logistics point of view. Still, according to our source, the Pope wants to visit churches that architecturally reflect Vatican Council II and Mercy. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Also, the current pandemic seems to preclude large mass gatherings. Therefore, Open Mass in Floriana is currently being excluded. However, consideration is being given to Ta' Qali National Stadium, due to seating possibilities.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For the rest, the visit to Gozo is still to be confirmed although Cardinal Mario Grech is pushing hard for it to be included. A migrants centre is also included in the visit.</span></span></p>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088110579430714744.post-790214587157165152021-12-26T17:41:00.000+01:002021-12-26T17:41:39.792+01:00St. Basil's economy of silence<p> </p><h1 class="page-title" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 6.6rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.12121; margin: 3.4rem 0px 4.9rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEyvc2UW9zJo7_fUqJVYo0lISmrxTMOLJwk_hpEvaq0Zo9xZPxJSSiZccxTigxYFAn5WKkedJQO0urCPfizr6DASRu3E20fub9is2mxJe50DM8IRMQFQetzb9c2eLPau0d2d7fnz1xQhc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEyvc2UW9zJo7_fUqJVYo0lISmrxTMOLJwk_hpEvaq0Zo9xZPxJSSiZccxTigxYFAn5WKkedJQO0urCPfizr6DASRu3E20fub9is2mxJe50DM8IRMQFQetzb9c2eLPau0d2d7fnz1xQhc/w297-h400/image.png" width="297" /></a></div></h1><article class="l-content-page content-page" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><section class="content-page__text content-page__text--summary" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 3.8rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="summary-body" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The example of St. Basil of Caesarea shows that, even in a doctrinal crisis of the Church, the steadfast profession and defense of the Faith is not incompatible with a prudential attitude, seeking an accommodation with those who are in error—a practical, realistic approach, aimed at bringing them back to orthodoxy, while preserving the souls entrusted to us.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">This article by Fr. Juan-Carlos Iscara (a professor of history at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Winona, Minnesota) first appeared on sspx.org on March 9, 2012.</span></p></div></section><section class="content-page__text" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 6.5rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 3.8rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 3.4rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.05882; margin: 5.6rem 0px 2.8rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the face of heresy: St. Basil's "economy of silence"</h2><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the fourth century, St. Basil, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, confronted a hornets’ nest of theological controversy. The Pneumatomachian heresy, an offshoot of Arianism, denied the consubstantiality (<i>homoousia</i>) of the Holy Ghost. The Arians themselves held that the Son was a creature of the Father and the creator of all other things, and so it was only logical for them to consider the Holy Ghost as a creature of the Son. At the same time, some “conservative” semi-Arians, who believed the Son was of a similar nature (<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">homoiousios</em>) to the Father, and the Anomoeans, who denied any such similarity in nature, began explicitly teaching that the Holy Ghost was simply a higher-ranking angel. Even among orthodox Catholics, some considered the term “consubstantial” to be suspect, because not of biblical origin, and opposed its use by the Council of Nicaea on these grounds.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Faced with this situation, St. Basil, while never yielding to error or denying the orthodox belief, carefully avoided the use of the term “consubstantial” (<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">homoousios</em>) in his discussions with heretics. Simply employing this word aroused immediate opposition and effectively ended any effort at discussion or proselytism. Therefore, in order not to burn down the bridges, Basil approached the question of the Holy Ghost’s divinity obliquely. He made use of the terms “community of nature” (<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">physike koinonia</em>) and especially “equality of honor” (<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">homotimia</em>). Each amount to the same meaning as “consubstantial,” since equal dignity and honor with the Father and the Son necessarily presupposes identity of substance. Thus, the traditional doxology implies the Holy Ghost’s divinity; one who is not God cannot be equal to God in dignity. Though his tactic avoided direct controversy, Basil made every effort to answer even insignificant objections with meticulous exactitude. He wanted not only to oppose the error, but also to bring as many heretics as possible back to orthodoxy.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a letter addressed to the clergy of Tarsus, Basil explained the motives and general attitude that guided his discussions with heretics. In it, he shows his doctrinal orthodoxy, his realistic understanding of the concrete situation, both his own and that of his church of Caesarea, and his zeal and prudence in seeking a solution for the greater good of souls and the preservation of his church:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The present time shows a great inclination toward the destruction of the churches […]. Further, as to the building up of the Church, the correction of errors, compassion toward the weak among the brethren, and protection for those who are sound—not one of these things exists.[…]</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Therefore, there is need of great zeal and great care in such a time, so that the churches may receive some benefit. And it is a benefit to those hitherto separated to be united. Moreover, there would be union, if we would be willing to accommodate ourselves to the weaker in whatever matters do not harm to souls.</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[…] We ask you to receive in communion those who do not say that the Holy Ghost is a creature, in order that blasphemers may be left alone, and that either being ashamed they may return to the truth, or continuing in their sin may be held unworthy of credit because of their small number.</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Therefore, let us seek for nothing more, but hold out to the brethren who wish to be united with us the Creed of Nicaea; and, if they agree with it, let us require further that they must not say that the Holy Ghost is a creature, nor be in communion with those who say it.</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But I think that we should demand nothing beyond this. In fact, I am convinced that by a longer association and an experience together without strife, even if it should be necessary to add more for the purpose of explanation, the Lord who makes all things work together unto good for those who love Him will grant it."[1]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is what St. Athanasius and St. Gregory of Nazianzus called the “economy” of St. Basil. Nonetheless, this method met with fierce opposition from many who otherwise shared Basil’s orthodox belief, as it is clear from his own description of the situation.</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What storm at sea was ever so fierce and wild as this tempest of the churches? [...] Every foundation, every bulwark of opinion has been shaken […]. We attack one another. We are overthrown by one another, [and] if our enemy is not the first to strike us, we are wounded by the comrade at our side."</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For, in spite of his explanations, St. Basil’s attitude led to the questioning of his orthodoxy by some firebrands who, disregarding his pastoral approach and themselves risking much less than he, demanded a total, uncompromising exposition of the truth—that is, a more outspoken declaration of his belief in the divinity of the Holy Ghost. As his friend St. Gregory of Nazianzus reported in a letter:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many people have accused us of not being firm in matters of faith—people who sincerely share our concerns. Some accuse us openly of sacrilegious opinions, others of cowardice: of sacrilege, those who think we are no longer in a healthy state of mind; of cowardice, those who charge us with concealing our real thoughts. […] I shall tell you what recently happened.</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There was a party, and among the guests present were not a few distinguished people who are our friends; one of them belongs to those who bear both the name and the garb of piety.[2] […] The conversation turned to you and me, as often happens […]. But while everyone admired your way of governing, and spoke, in addition, of our having shared a philosophic life—spoke of our friendship and of Athens, and of our agreement and like-mindedness on every subject — the so-called philosopher became indignant. “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is all this, my friends?</em>” he said, crying out in an insolent way.</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You are such liars and flatterers! Let these gentlemen be praised for their other qualities, if you like, and I will make no objection; but I will not grant the most important quality. Basil is wrongly praised for orthodoxy—and Gregory wrongly, as well! The one betrays the faith by the public discourses he holds, the other is an accomplice in the betrayal by not objecting! […] I heard the great Basil speaking excellent and perfect things about the divinity of the Father and the Son, as no one else could easily do, but gliding past the Spirit […].</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then he said, turning to me, '<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And why on earth do you, my friend, speak so openly of the Spirit as God</em> […] <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">while he</em> [St. Basil] <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">plays down the fact in murky expressions, and only lays out doctrine in a sketchy way. He will not speak the truth frankly, but bathes our ears in language more political than pious, concealing the ambiguity in the power of his word</em>s.” <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Since I live in obscurity</em>,” I said, "<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and am unknown to most people, and since both what I do say and the fact that I say anything at all is hardly noticed, I can be a philosopher without risk. But his pronouncements are more important, since he is better known both on his own account and on account of his Church. Everything he says is public, and a great war is going on about him; the heretics are eager to criticize a simple word, let alone Basil himself, so that he might be expelled from the Church—he who remains virtually the only spark of truth, the force of life, while everyone around him is tainted with heresy—and that this evil might take root in the city, and then, using this Church as a kind of base of operations, overrun the whole world</em>.'</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The better path, then, for us is that the truth be managed prudently, that we yield a bit to our times as one would to a cloud, rather than let the truth be destroyed by the bright clarity of our proclamation.[3] For us, after all, there is no harm in recognizing the Spirit as God through other expressions that lead in that direction—for truth is found less in sounds than in the understanding; but for the Church, there will be a great loss if truth is put to flight through the defeat of a single man!"[4]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although many objected to this idea of “prudent management” of the truth, to his “economy” of silence, “which seemed to them a vapid way of playing with words” and “cowardice rather than doctrine,”[5] St. Basil felt that answering these charges against him was beneath his dignity.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nonetheless, many of his friends took up his defense. For example, St. Athanasius wrote to the presbyter Palladius, encouraging obedience and suggesting that God should be praised on account of St. Basil’s great goal and his “economy.”[6]</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[…] I have learned from our beloved Dianius that [the monks at Caesarea] are vexed, and are opposing our beloved bishop Basil […]. I have pointed out to them what is fitting, namely that as children they should obey their father, and not oppose what he approves.</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For if he were suspected as touching the truth, they would do well to combat him. But if they are confident, as we all are, that he is a glory to the Church, contending rather on behalf of the truth and teaching those who require it, it is not right to combat such a man, but rather to accept with thanks his good conscience. For from what the beloved Dianius has related, they appear to be vexed without cause. For he, as I am confident, to the weak becomes weak to gain the weak.</p> <p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But let our beloved friends look at the scope of his truth, and at his special purpose, and glorify the Lord Who has given such a bishop to Cappadocia as any district must pray to have. And do you, beloved, be good enough to point out to them the duty of obeying, as I write. For this is at once calculated to render them well disposed toward their father, and will preserve peace to the churches […]”[7]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is beyond any doubt that St. Basil’s hesitation and “economy” with the truth were dictated by prudential reasons, pastoral and canonical, and not by theological ones.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His reticence to call the Holy Ghost “God” in his treatise <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">De Spiritu Sancto</em> is based on the fact that the Council of Nicaea itself didn’t use the term—and St. Basil considered that he had to loyally submit to the canonical function and superiority of the ecumenical council:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are not able to add anything at all to the Nicene Creed, not the slightest thing, except the glorification of the Holy Spirit, because our Fathers made mention of this part cursorily, since at that time no inquiry had yet been stirred up regarding it [...]."[8]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moreover, he never called the Holy Ghost <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">homoousion </em>because the terms <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">homoousios </em>and <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ousia</em>, of philosophical and not biblical origin, were used primarily for material and created substance. The heretics even used these words to support their theory of the subordinate status of the Holy Ghost. In addition, a more open declaration of doctrine would have only poured oil on the fire.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople at last decided the controversy. It adjourned in 381, two years after Basil’s death, having made some important additions to the third article of the Nicene Creed:</p><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We believe… in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and life-giver, Who proceeds from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son is together worshipped and together glorified, Who spoke through the prophets..."[9]</p> </blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although not using St. Basil’s exact words, the Council effectively expressed his conceptions, affirming the belief in divine nature of the Holy Ghost, who must be worshiped and glorified together with the Father and the Son, and, without explicitly calling Him “God,” emphasized His divine operations as the giver of life and the one who reveals through the prophets.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus, St. Basil’s teaching and “economic” attitude—both prudent and patient—opened the way for the final resolution of the theological uncertainties and the end of the heresy.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem;">Bibliography</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daley, Brian, SJ. Gregory of Nazianzus. London: Routledge, 2006.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rousseau, Philip. Basil of Caesarea. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tsirpanlis, Constantine N. Some reflections on St. Basil’s pneumatology: The “economy” of silence. in: Kleronomia, 13. Thessaloniki: 1981.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Young, Frances M. From Nicaea to Chalcedon: A guide to the literature and its background. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2010.</p><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(114, 114, 115); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 0.1rem 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 0.1rem; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Footnotes</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 Basil of Caesarea, Letter 113. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FC </em>(<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fathers of the Church</em>), vol. 13, pp. 239-240.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I.e</em>., a monk.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrologia Graeca</em> (Migne) 37, col. 115: “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Praestat, itaque oeconomiam quandam ad veritatem adhibitam fuisse, nobis videlicet tempori, quasi nebulae quidam, nonnihil cedentibus, quam u tea ob praedicationis perspicuitatem opprimeretur</em>.”</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4 Gregory of Nazianzus, Letter 58, in Daley, pp. 179-180.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5 The same letter, in <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ibidem</em>.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6 <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cf</em>. Tsirpanlis.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7 Athanasius, Letter 53, to Palladius.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 Basil, Letter 258, to Epiphanius, bishop of Cyprus. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FC</em>, vol.28, II, pp.218-219. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cf</em>. also Tsirpanlis.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9 Kelly, J. N. D. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Early Christian Creeds</em>. New York: McKay, 1972. p.298.</p></section></article>Pro.tridentina.malta@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06606000814925416720noreply@blogger.com0