Cardinal: Some not satisfied even after pope's Tridentine Mass decree

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The Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly in Chissano (Mozambique) took into their home this week a 25 year-old African young girl named Olivia, who despite not being baptized at the time and not having any legs, crawled 2.5 miles every Sunday to attend Mass.
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Should we not weep with profound gratitude that we have been blessed with legs, and have transportation to attend mass – not only weekly, but daily? As I read this, I thought about Our Lord who may lament with deep sorrow for His children who are squabbling and/or demanding to hear the mass in their preferred form.

As I mentioned earlier, there are many in the world who are not so blessed or privileged as we are, and would give their all to attend either form.

May we stop and think! before daring to offend God further with this attitude of “my rights.”
 
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KathleenElsie:
By the way, did you go to the Bishop’s Reception last year? If so we might have met.
No we haven’t met, but I have been to your parish when Fr. Larry was the pastor. Some of our secular carmelites were being clothed and since he was our Spiritual Director, as well as a Carmelite himself, we traveled there for the ceremony. If you think this is thread drift, you may send me a PM.
 
Is the sarcasm necessary?

And you have some private knowledge of immortal priests or crowded seminaries?

I’ll try to make this more simple so you will undrstand.

1000 people in a Parish.

975 prefer OF

only 2 Masses, and you are saying an overworked priest should be trained to give 25 people their preference, while ignoring the preference of the other hundreds of people who must attend a very crowded Mass or one not their preferred form?

Lux
Why can’t there be a 3rd Mass where the 25 who prefer the EF format? As for overworked if one mass was said on Saturday Evening and 2 on Sunday, it shouldn’t be too over burdensome.
 
Why can’t there be a 3rd Mass where the 25 who prefer the EF format? As for overworked if one mass was said on Saturday Evening and 2 on Sunday, it shouldn’t be too over burdensome.
I think as a trial something like that might be feasible, to see if interest grows or wanes. Eventually, however the needs of the majority and the time management of the priest could preclude such an arrangement. This is the reason such decisions are best made at the local level.

Then you have situations where we have one priest already saying five masses and there are no empty time slots to squeeze one in.
 
Why can’t there be a 3rd Mass where the 25 who prefer the EF format? As for overworked if one mass was said on Saturday Evening and 2 on Sunday, it shouldn’t be too over burdensome.
Hi,

my post was in response to
CradlCath:
Not al all. What I AM saying is that, if one of your Masses is a Novus Ordo & the other a TLM., your priests might not be so “overworked”.
which states there are only 2 Masses able to be said for the entire weekend. It would not be “in the common good” to ignore the preference of many for the preference of a few.

Lux
 
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_Believe;4251803]Some things to clarify. Cardinal Hoyos has already prayed the Gregorian Rite, as he calls it. He did so at Westminister Cathedral earlier this year. Not a single Bishop was there in support.
Undetered, he said afterwords, that it is the Pope’s wish that **every parish in the UK would offer the EF. ** Since then, no fewer than 60 priests are training to pray the EF there.
So, there seems a contradiction. He says what he said then, and now he says this. I believe it ties in with the quote from BXVI in France recently, where he said the MP was an act of tolerance.
Before you decide what you believe, I suggest examining the word “tolerance”.

"Toleration and tolerance are terms used in social, cultural and religious contexts to describe attitudes and practices that **prohibit discrimination against those practices or group memberships that may be disapproved of by those in the majority. ** Tolerance prohibits discrimination & though Pope Benedict has publicly said that he has made an act of tolerance…an act to prohibit discrimination against those who believe that the Novus Ordo is a "manufactured process, a fabrication, a banal on-the-spot product”.

Conversely, ‘intolerance’ may be used to refer to the discriminatory practices sought to be prohibited.

In my experience, liberal Catholics are very discriminatory people.
I could site a score of **definite **reasons for considering the Tridentine Mass as more representative of the whole of Catholicism & the liberals here would simply give an answer based on emotion. In this thread, I’ve only been given one reason for preferring the Novus Ordo & that was that it’s said in the vernacular. IMO., the fact that this Mass is easier is not a good enough reason to choose a Liturgy…but, at least, it’s a reason.
Frankly, I think they are tired of the arrogance displayed by some who demand to call the shots now. Emboldened by their interpretation of the MP, these people want all of their concerns regarding the crisis, according to their definition of “the crisis”, dealt with in one decisive “house cleaning”.
Frankly, I think that the Cardinal is just tired! He is 80 years old & currently serves as President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. Ecclesia Dei is totally alive with action & the Cardinal is traveling extensively. Is it any surprise that he is out of patience with the** few** Trads who are complaining, the Bishops who are doing all they can to discriminate against the wishes of Traditional Catholics??
So yes, I can understand Cardinal Hoyos saying what he has said. These** bitter** laity and **some of their clergy **are **making unrealistic and imprudent demands **which indeed seem to fuel further division, all the while remaining **blind **to our H.F’s efforts to acknowledge some of their valid concerns
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Personally, I don’t think you understand Cardinal Hoyos at all.

The Catholic Herald: So would the Pope like to see many ordinary parishes making provision for the Gregorian Rite?

Cardinal Hoyos: All the parishes. Not many – **all **the parishes, because this is a gift of God. He offers these riches, and it is very important for new generations to know the past of the Church. This kind of worship is so noble, so beautiful – the deepest theologians’ way to express our faith. The worship, the music, the architecture, the painting, makes a whole that is a treasure. The Holy Father is willing to offer to all the people this possibility, not only for the few groups who demand it but so that everybody knows this way of celebrating the Eucharist in the Catholic Church.

youngcatholicadults-latestnews.blogspot.com/2008/06/cardinal-hoyos-pope-wan

Cardinal Hoyos finishes by saying that because diocesan bishops are still reluctant to implement the Pope’s request for generous permissions for the traditional rite, Rome is preparing a new ‘juridical guarantee’ of the rights of the traditionalist faithful.
  1. In an interview with the Italian newspaper, Il Giornale, published 31 May, Cardinal Hoyos confirms that traditionalists are not to be seen as ‘second class’ citizens in the Church.
    latin-mass-society.org/2004/hoyospraise.html
A homily preached by Cardinal Hoyos at Westminster on the feast of St. Basil:
Thus it seems particularly appropriate for us to celebrate his memory today in this cathedral, so evocative of Byzantium, with the Pontifical Mass in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite for Saint Basil is a saint who transcends any narrow “provincialism” and belongs to the entire Church. The Holy Father tells us that Saint Basil the Great was also “a wise ‘liturgical reformer’”, a bishop who was ready to adapt so that his flock could better integrate the liturgy into their lives
timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4159619.ece
Their clergy have in essence set up a parallel magisterium, and are, in truth, standing just this side of formal schism
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This remark puts you closer to schism than any remark I’ve heard from “Their” clergy. In fact, should you by an off chance read these links, you’ll see that Romes big problem comes from liberal Bishops.
 
Frankly, I think that the Cardinal is just tired! He is 80 years old & currently serves as President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
Hence the problem with taking any remark made and running with it as if it was a pronounucement of policy, including the remark that he wanted the TLM in every parish in England. It is equally likely he was fed up there with bishops that drug their feet in allowing the TLM to procede even when a large contingent of traditionalists desired it.

This is why I am sceptical about any news story until I here the official statement of a new policy being impemented. People tend to exaggerate the ones they like and dismiss the ones they don’t.
 
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Before you decide what you believe, I suggest examining the word “tolerance”.

"Toleration and tolerance are terms used in social, cultural and religious contexts to describe attitudes and practices that **prohibit discrimination against those practices or group memberships that may be disapproved of by those in the majority. ** Tolerance prohibits discrimination & though Pope Benedict has publicly said that he has made an act of tolerance…an act to prohibit discrimination against those who believe that the Novus Ordo is a "manufactured process, a fabrication, a banal on-the-spot product”.

Conversely, ‘intolerance’ may be used to refer to the discriminatory practices sought to be prohibited.
Whoa lol. I think my understanding of the use of the word is in line with the context BXI uses it as it pertains to the Church.
Frankly, I think that the Cardinal is just tired! He is 80 years old & currently serves as President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. Ecclesia Dei is totally alive with action & the Cardinal is traveling extensively. Is it any surprise that he is out of patience with the** few** Trads who are complaining, the Bishops who are doing all they can to discriminate against the wishes of Traditional Catholics??
You are simply pointing out what I already said. “some” = “few”
Didn’t I say “some” twice ?

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Personally, I don’t think you understand Cardinal Hoyos at all.

The Catholic Herald: So would the Pope like to see many ordinary parishes making provision for the Gregorian Rite?

Cardinal Hoyos: All the parishes. Not many – **all **the parishes, because this is a gift of God. He offers these riches, and it is very important for new generations to know the past of the Church. This kind of worship is so noble, so beautiful – the deepest theologians’ way to express our faith. The worship, the music, the architecture, the painting, makes a whole that is a treasure. The Holy Father is willing to offer to all the people this possibility, not only for the few groups who demand it but so that everybody knows this way of celebrating the Eucharist in the Catholic Church.

youngcatholicadults-latestnews.blogspot.com/2008/06/cardinal-hoyos-pope-wan

Cardinal Hoyos finishes by saying that because diocesan bishops are still reluctant to implement the Pope’s request for generous permissions for the traditional rite, Rome is preparing a new ‘juridical guarantee’ of the rights of the traditionalist faithful.
  1. In an interview with the Italian newspaper, Il Giornale, published 31 May, Cardinal Hoyos confirms that traditionalists are not to be seen as ‘second class’ citizens in the Church.
    latin-mass-society.org/2004/hoyospraise.html
A homily preached by Cardinal Hoyos at Westminster on the feast of St. Basil:
Thus it seems particularly appropriate for us to celebrate his memory today in this cathedral, so evocative of Byzantium, with the Pontifical Mass in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite for Saint Basil is a saint who transcends any narrow “provincialism” and belongs to the entire Church. The Holy Father tells us that Saint Basil the Great was also “a wise ‘liturgical reformer’”, a bishop who was ready to adapt so that his flock could better integrate the liturgy into their lives
timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4159619.ece
I’ve read all that, and have all but one of those links on file.
Look, did you even read my post, or, if you did, was it the “close to formal schism” comment that teed you off and caused you to decide I meant what you wanted me to mean, which required disregarding what I actually said, and lead to this absurd remark…
This remark puts you closer to schism than any remark I’ve heard from “Their” clergy. In fact, should you by an off chance read these links, you’ll see that Romes big problem comes from liberal Bishops.
lol, I know exactly what you mean. It’s the old “the SSPX isn’t in schism, it’s Modernist Rome who is in schism, and anyone who has been informed of this and remains in communion with Rome is the one with schismatic tendencies”. Go on and say it without beating around the bush. After all my first year here’s posts defending the SSPX, I’m now seen as a traitor and will have to endure the cultish wrath of the remnant ! Just like the FSSP. Just like The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer. Just as anyone who wakes up and sees that fighting for Tradition within the Church is preferable to fighting under the dark cloud of the stigma which accompanies the excommunications and irregular status.

They have fought a good fight, and until now, a righteous fight. But to continue under these circumstances despite the sincere efforts of our Holy Father BXVI to begin the healing is imprudent, pridefull, and imo, quite wrong.

Out of respect for all the good fruits born of their diligence, I’ll save you from my stating what I feel is the true reason H.E. Fellay and Williamson won’t bend.
 
As the earlier statement might have been. After the lack of support he received from the bishops in England, he would have had good reason for frustration. When we start trying to look for policy in everything that comes out of the mouths of people like the Cardinal, we often see only what we want. We forget that they have human frailities and righteous anger. We must pray for and support our leadership. In this matter, they truly are trying to do what is best for all the Church. Likewise, we should support each other, desiring what is best for each other, more than what we sant for ourselves.

The whole argument of “I want” and “I prefer” should never cause us to seek our wants and desires first. I know in this type of forum we all love to give our opininion, and that is fine. But when it comes down to action, we should seek the good of the other first.
Agreed and well said.
 
Good evaluation of the situation.

As is very human, each side takes some words of the Holy Father out of context, and uses them to further their own POV.

It seems as though the supporters of the EF are seeking some sort of liturgical affirmative action, which is an unrealistic demand in view of the fact that both forms are equal in value, and there is a ligitimate need to recognize both requests. So it would seem that some sort of schedule must be worked out which is more dependent on preference of the congregation and priests qualified to celebrate, rather than “every week in every parish”

Lux
Quite right, and thanks for the excerpt. I have not got around to reading the GIRM, but will do so soon.
 
lol, I know exactly what you mean. It’s the old “the SSPX isn’t in schism, it’s Modernist Rome who is in schism, and anyone who has been informed of this and remains in communion with Rome is the one with schismatic tendencies”.
No, it’s obvious that you DON’T know what I mean. I have never had anything to do with the SSPX, nor will I ever, whether they are technically “in schism” or not. The truth is that they oppose the authority of our Pope & that, in itself, is schismatic IMO. Plus, it irritates me that one has to carefully search every traditional Catholic web site to see if they are involved in it.
I am a Traditional Roman Catholic.
Go on and say it without beating around the bush. After all my first year here’s posts defending the SSPX, I’m now seen as a traitor and will have to endure the cultish wrath of the remnant ! Just like the FSSP. Just like The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer. Just as anyone who wakes up and sees that fighting for Tradition within the Church is preferable to fighting under the dark cloud of the stigma which accompanies the excommunications and irregular status.
I’m not condemning you for being part of the SSPX, but it’s hard to understand how any Catholic can be part of a sect that claims that the all of our Popes, since Vatican II, are heretics.
Out of respect for all the good fruits born of their diligence, I’ll save you from my stating what I feel is the true reason H.E. Fellay and Williamson won’t bend.
What “good fruits” have they contributed to Roman Catholicism? IMO., all they’ve shown US, is how not to handle a problem within the Church. What about them is any different than Martin Luther, & his movement in it’s early days.
Anyway, you have a tendency to put all Traditionalist Catholics into a little box…tie that up with a ribbon & tape on a little tag that says SSPX. Most of us would have nothing to do with it.
 
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CradleCath:
No, it’s obvious that you DON’T know what I mean. I have never had anything to do with the SSPX, nor will I ever, whether they are technically “in schism” or not. The truth is that they oppose the authority of our Pope & that, in itself, is schismatic IMO. Plus, it irritates me that one has to carefully search every traditional Catholic web site to see if they are involved in it.
I am a Traditional Roman Catholic.
I have not said you were an SSPX supporter. But I’ve weathered the same tone from those who are now that I see their errors and have stated so here and on other forums. The only difference in us, going by your statement is that I once did get caught up in their mindset.
I’m not condemning you for being part of the SSPX, but it’s hard to understand how any Catholic can be part of a sect that claims that the all of our Popes, since Vatican II, are heretics.
What have I said that makes you think I am part of it or ever was formally ?

Every time I get in these spats lately it is because someone does not read my words. All you have done here is re-phrase exactly what I said, which leads me to believe you just want to argue. Somewhere along the line I said something you didn’t like. What was it ?
What “good fruits” have they contributed to Roman Catholicism? IMO., all they’ve shown US, is how not to handle a problem within the Church. What about them is any different than Martin Luther, & his movement in it’s early days.
Anyway, you have a tendency to put all Traditionalist Catholics into a little box…tie that up with a ribbon & tape on a little tag that says SSPX. Most of us would have nothing to do with it.
What don’t you understand ? I’ve made it clear I won’t defend them any longer. Yes, I said there have been a few good fruits, but the point I made about now being the time to take BXVI’s offer of regularization, and their refusal, should make it clear I don’t support their current position. Surely BXVI sees some benefit in their regularization or he would ignore them. Do you think he’s playing politics ? I don’t, but they seem to think so.

I don’t get it. You say they are schismatic, then say I’m schismatic (in your first post) for saying they are close to formal schism. I take comfort in assuming everyone who reads this thread has a sufficient level of reading comprehention to see who is the one confused.

Just as in your first reply, you ended with an absurd statement, this time claiming I put all trads in a box despite my pointing out the contrary in my reply to your first reply.

I’d like to make it clear that I really don’t believe anyone who has been excommunicated a tradtional catholic. Nor anyone who is not in full communion with Rome.

Who’s battle are you fighting here ? What is this really all about ?
 
Better yet, out of respect for the OP, and for the sake of acknowledgment in the value of Charity and Humility, let’s just drop it.

J+M+J
 
I am certainly not about to demand that a Tridentine be offered at each church, but it would be nice. It would be wonderful.
The nearest Tridentine to me is 31.8 miles and is only offered on the first and third Sundays of the month.
Better accessibility would be a beautiful thing, IMO.
 
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