The FSSP cannot and do not open independent churches within the diocese of other Bishops. The FSSP is invited into the diocese by the Bishop in control of that area. They operate in a similar fashion to the Dominicans and Franciscans.
Hey i know this happened in Boston. O’Malley had offers from the FSSP that he turned down. Learned this from one of the parishes that is being closed, Holy Trinity.And, you can document this?
This further supports my view that the FSSP are more than willing to enter into parishes in order to meet the needs of traditionalist Catholics.
Heresay or documented?
I find this difficult to believe. We have priests doubling and even tripling up with parishes as it is now. A bishop would REFUSE a priest because of thier preference for the TLM?
I never said a Bishop would “REFUSE” any FSSP priest. I said that the FSSP would be willing to enter into a diocese if invited.
I would think that perhaps, in the larger metropolitan areas, the must be surely ONE parish available that could be FSSP-staffed, much like the parishes that are staffed by other orders?
My bishop merely “acknowledged” the Motu Proprio (his exact word). This announcement was followed by a scathing article by the diocesan chancellor in the diocesan newspaper saying “nobody wants this Mass”.
I wonder what “myth” they were entertaining? Was it perhaps that because I loved the Traditional Mass, I was a “schismatic”?
no idea. I would ask them.
Are these parishes being closed because of a lack of priests, or lack of financial support from the congregation?
The historic parishes I have in mind did not flood nor did the homes surrounding them. Their populations are basically the same as they were before Katrina. The parishoners demonstrated financial soundness for the archbishop. In spite of that he closed them. To great dismay I might add.
Thanks for your answer. That is what I am getting at. Do we actually know WHY the churches were closed? If it was a lack of priests, do we know for certain that various orders, including the FSSP, were approached with a request to staff said parishes?
Lets talk about one Parish., St Henrys
If you have a larger church just two blocks away, it DOES make sense to combine, and free up that priest for service elsewhere, no? Sounds like that neighborhood might be one of those old throw-back areas where there were multiple ethnic parishes back in the early 1900’s.
So what you are saying is that a parish with a smaller congregation and a larger building should be sustained while the parish with the larger congregation but a smaller building should be shut down.
This is the same story I heard about Holy Trinity in Boston. Although it was healthy, the Diocese over the years denied certain activities at the parish which made it look like it was dying - even taking money out of the healthy parish accounts [that parishioners had raised personally] and giving it to support OTHER parishes. This parish also is in a block of valuable prime real estate identified for development.
Since they are conservative, I’m guessing that they’re not in a hurry to add the wimple back to their habits, nor the old rules that kept them from visiting their families before someone had actually died. Do not be certain that others who attend the TLM have not told them that those “good old days” are devoutly to be wished for.I remember after the first Traditional Mass I went to, I was talking to some nuns from the Daughters of St. Paul about how it incredible it was. As I was walking away, I saw the nuns huddled together whispering about me, “concerned” about something. This was the first time that discovered that something was “wrong” for feeling the way I was feeling about the Traditional Mass. And what made it worse----these nuns were “Conservative”.
This was also the first time I realized that Traditonalists had more than the Progressives as enemies—we had the “Conservatives” too.I wonder what “myth” they were entertaining? Was it perhaps that because I loved the Traditional Mass, I was a “schismatic”?
I’m not sure exactly what you are saying. Are you saying that I am effeminate somehow beacuse of my love for the Traditional Mass??Since they are conservative, I’m guessing that they’re not in a hurry to add the wimple back to their habits, nor the old rules that kept them from visiting their families before someone had actually died. Do not be certain that others who attend the TLM have not told them that those “good old days” are devoutly to be wished for.
Or maybe they were only debating whether it was charitable at that point to let you know that you had your skirt tucked into the back of your pantyhose.
I dunnoYou are too rich…no!I’m not sure exactly what you are saying. Are you saying that I am effeminate somehow beacuse of my love for the Traditional Mass??
I was saying that when people sort of whisper and look at you with a concerned expression, sometimes you have unknowingly had something embarrassing happen to you, and they’re trying to decide if it is nice to say something or not. You know, like toilet paper dragging from your shoe, or spinach in your teeth, or when a woman rubs her eye, smears her makeup, and then looks like the make-up department did a bad job of approximating a black eye. I’m sorry I didn’t realize you were a guy. I was putting myself in your place, that’s all.