You can get two other parishioners with you to request a EFM from your parish priest. It is your right to do so. And the priest can celebrate a EFM, if at least three parishioners request it, even if the bishop tells him he can’t.The Cardinal said it but the question was if the Pope wants to see that, not if he wants to see that. It’s Pope Benedict’s opinion.
I don’t want to see anything replaced, I just want to be able to go to my home parish every week to the EFM. Other people can have the other form if they prefer, I would just like the abundant availability of both forms.
The bishop can’t stop you from celebrating the EFM if at least three parishioners request it from a priest. The Pope has said so.I would be happy to see one EF at my cathedral parish. The choir already sings chant and sacred motets. I am hoping that our new pastor will be amenable. Our bishop merely “acknowledged” the Motu Proprio and sicced the now retired then diocesan chancellor who wrote a scathing editiorial about how “nobody wants this”.
I’ve waited and prayed for forty years for this. I don’t wan’t to replace the OF, I just want to have that which was taken away from me restored. I’m not the only “nobody”.
I just hope my priest is trained, I haven’t asked him yet. Are those priests rarities or are they somewhat common?You can get two other parishioners with you to request a EFM from your parish priest. It is your right to do so. And the priest can celebrate a EFM, if at least three parishioners request it, even if the bishop tells him he can’t.
Rare as gold.I just hope my priest is trained, I haven’t asked him yet. Are those priests rarities or are they somewhat common?
Our pastor of the last twelve years was ordained in 1957. He says the TLM privately. I sang in the cathedral choir for twenty years. I offered my services as either an altar server, singing in a schola, or singing in a choir for a TLM. Within the cathedral choir alone there are more than three who grew up with the TLM.The bishop can’t stop you from celebrating the EFM if at least three parishioners request it from a priest. The Pope has said so.
I would like to see the Pope having a conversation with that bishop…Our pastor of the last twelve years was ordained in 1957. He says the TLM privately. I sang in the cathedral choir for twenty years. I offered my services as either an altar server, singing in a schola, or singing in a choir for a TLM. Within the cathedral choir alone there are more than three who grew up with the TLM.
Our bishop merely issued a one paragraph statement in which he “acknowledged” the Motu Proprio. It was followed by a scathing editiorial by the diocesan chancellor stating that “nobody wants the Latin Mass” and that we have a perfectly good indult parish with a Low Mass and that that should be enough for everyone in the diocese.
I work for state government. The bishop’s one paragraph statement followed a week later by the editorial sends chills down my spine. It is bureaucratese for “I hear you but I’m not going to do a blooming thing about it”. It is called the “chilling effect”.
Father retired last week. All of us read the bishop’s “acknowledgement” and the chancellor’s editorial. We would not put Father through it. That is the “chilling effect”.
The Holy Father has said so. Most of us would not set a beloved priest against his bishop. There is that “chilling effect”.