The Nightmare of 2020 Continues: Local Traditional Catholics Gird Your Loins for Heartbreaking News October 12, 2020
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[EDIT] – I substantially reworked the beginning of this post immediately after posting it. It’s deliberately more circumspect than the initial version, due to my own re-consideration.
After the crushing news of a priest participating in vile acts upon the very Altar of Sacrifice of Jesus Christ in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, I am heartbroken to relate that local Catholics, particularly those of a traditional bent, are facing revelations along a similar line. I cannot go into details in public now about the specifics, but pray now for all involved, including ourselves. Yet another cross to bear, for those who are already weighted down under a crushing load. I provide this post simply as a warning to start praying now to steel your hearts for further bad news.
For now, Taylor Marshall rightly expresses his outrage over the revelations from Pearl River, LA. I do not know if he is aware of the local scandal at this point, or not, but it seems to me that he might be, just based on a few things he says below.
Wheels have come off, and that right hard. Something has gone very wrong, and many of the laity sense it. Of course, much of this is due to the hierarchy’s generally cowardly response to COVID – heck, their cowardly leadership going back decades on essentially all matters of moral import. How many dioceses are still shut down, or largely shut down? How much Grace was missed from millions of Masses cancelled worldwide? How many priests have been given, or forced to endure, far, far too much idle time in which satan can work his evil?
Lord, what is the deal with this two thousand and twentieth year of Your Incarnation?!? Pray, let us not also be forced to bear the stealing of an election in this country, as we go through the most concentrated and bald-faced gaslighting campaign in world history! Have mercy on Your people, Lord! We know we have sinned, and continue to do so with a maniacal ferocity. Please, may Your mercy exceed Your justified wrath at this nation and Church that have so obviously and deliberately turned their backs on You. Please give us the strength to weather the coming storms. Please may Your Grace keep us and our children in the Church in spite of all the failings of those who have been given the infinite gift of a clerical office.
His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s Visit Was a Remarkable Blessing October 21, 2019
Posted by Tantumblogo in awesomeness, Basics, Dallas Diocese, episcopate, FSSP, General Catholic, Glory, Grace, Latin Mass, Restoration, sanctity, Spiritual Warfare, thanksgiving, the struggle for the Church, Tradition, true leadership, Virtue.comments closed
I will try to post a thorough recap of yesterday’s Pontifical High Mass tomorrow, but for now a few pictures of my family with Bishop Schneider which we were blessed to take after receiving the bishop’s blessing and having a short conversation with him. He is a gentle and virtuous man, whose concern for souls is eminently apparent from even brief interaction with him. I thank Bishop Burns of the Diocese of Dallas for letting both the Blessed Karl Symposium and the Pontifical High Mass, involving a foreign bishop, to take place, and I again thank David Ross for putting together the symposium and making this Mass possible. That was a most commendable work, and I know it required a huge amount of effort.
Well, it only took 9+ years, but a bishop finally offered a Pontifical High Mass at Mater Dei, and he was from………….Kazakhstan. Hurray for the Catholic Volga Germans:
Just a note, one of the kids in the picture was not mine, and one of mine was not present. Also, my oldest daughter got cropped out of the picture by the person taking it, but you get the idea.
I hope to post more on the Pontifical High Mass tomorrow, I planned to post complete coverage today but the Pachamama destruction came up and that was most important.
A few more to tide you over:
Good Fruit of Francis’ Revolution – TLM Attendance Skyrocketing in US October 21, 2019
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+JMJ
Finally some hard numbers to put with the numerous anecdotes about rapidly increasing TLM attendance over the past few years. I know from surveys and speaking with many of the recent “converts” to the Traditional Latin Mass, many of these folks are seeking out sanity and good Catholic liturgy and doctrine directly as a result of the errors being taught in their former parishes, and the horrific example of Francis which is often cited in those former parishes as reasons for rejecting and contradicting the perennial belief and practice of the Church. Thus, in spite of himself, Francis and his cohort of aging hippies and Peronists are accomplishing much good in helping strengthen the Catholic counter-revolution.
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter has put out some attendance numbers at a few representative parishes and they all show tremendous growth, whether very new or long and established. I do not have attendance numbers for the other Ecclesia Dei communities or diocesan TLMs, nor the SSPX, though on the latter I have had discussions with a half dozen or more people who frequent SSPX chapels who say they have seen solid growth in the past year or two.
Halfway through the FSSP’s annual October census, Fraternity parishes and chapels around the country report major increases in Sunday Mass attendance compared with last year.
Newer apostolates have seen dramatic growth, some doubling their numbers over the last year, such as Los Angeles, which went from 250 per Sunday to 500. The apostolate did not even have its own church until 2018, so finally settling down in a small church in San Fernando provided needed stability, contributing to the significant increase it saw this past year.
“The main obstacle right now is a lack of space,” said Fr. Federico Masutti, assistant pastor of St. Vitus, talking to the Missive over the summer. His words echo the sentiment of so many other FSSP apostolates that find themselves outgrowing their buildings, but it’s really a great problem to have.
“When we were at 200 people,” said pastor Fr. James Fryar, “we decided to add the fourth Mass, and just adding that one Mass, from one week to the next, another 200 people came.”
“The growth was amazing,” confirmed Fr. Masutti.
In Naples, Florida, the FSSP has been operating for less than two years, and is at nearly 400 people per Sunday, up over 20 percent from last year.
“A plethora of young families are coming, attracted by the sacred beauty and reverence of the Mass, the traditional catechesis and true parish family life,” said pastor Fr. Jonathan Romanoski…………
“It’s more than just the Latin Mass—they’re coming for the community life and all of the groups we have—for adults, for kids, for catechesis,” he said. “They come because we are two priests, we are a small community where everybody can get to know each other and the families can truly bond.”
Two new apostolates established last year—in the dioceses of Philadelphia and Providence, Rhode Island—have started off strong and now have 400 and 300 parishioners, respectively. Both locations have inherited magnificent churches that should accommodate their communities for a long time………..
……….Even apostolates that have been established for a long time (by FSSP standards) have seen significant increases, but most report constraints of space that inhibit their growth and they look forward to building or buying new churches.
St. Anne Parish, our apostolate in San Diego, for example, was established in 2008, and despite having a small church that can seat approximately 200 adults, had reached more than 800 parishioners by 2018 with three priests offering five Sunday Masses. Now, they are averaging over 1,000.
“At some of our Masses we will have as many as maybe 350 people and so not everyone fits and so people are actually sitting outside the doors looking in through open doors,” said pastor Fr. John Lyons.
Other long-established FSSP parishes that have seen strong growth include our first North American apostolate, Mater Dei in Dallas, established in 1991, which has seen its Sunday congregation grow 24 percent from 1250 to 1550 in the last year. [It’s way north of 1600 now and touching on 1800 some Sundays. It was about 200 in 2009.]
St. Joan of Arc Parish, our apostolate in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has gone from 650 to 840 in the past two years, an increase of about 29 percent. Likewise, St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, established in 1995, has grown 30 percent over the last year. In October of 2018, it averaged 460 people each Sunday; so far this month, it has over 600. +
Other established parishes like St. Rose Philippine in Kansas City have also grown a great deal.
Overall, it does seem the traditional Latin Mass continues to grow and thrive in virtually all locations where it has found a home. If you have news of your local TLM parish or diocesan parish offering a TLM, please share. This data is very helpful, and encourages others to seek out and experience the Mass of all ages. We’re not weird freaks! We have many good and devout souls and lots of normal and fun people! We’re all finding out way through this time of unprecedented darkness within and without Holy Mother Church as best we can. Most of all, we need to all get together and support each other, whether SSPX or ICRSS or FSSP or CMRI or whatever. Sure we may have differences, but what binds us together, and what threatens all of us, is much, much greater.
More to post later as I have time. Good news from Las Cruces which I hope to get to early this week, and a report on Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s spectacular Pontifical High Mass at Mater Dei in Irving on 19th Sunday after Pentecost, October 20 2019.
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