I never left the Church. The Church left me. When they censure SSPX, they harm me, as I have find nothing harmful in their teaching. I have never attended their Masses. I think I will find one of the places this weekend.
When they tore down the high altars they made clear their revulsion for what we had always revered.
When they disparaged the traditional devotions, including the Rosary and Benediction, and others too numerous to mention, and do still now, they took away the people’s basis in Faith, because they also stopped teaching the Doctrines of the Church. They replaced the catechism teachings with “praxis,” which teaches nothing as you can believe 4+4 is anything you find convenient. By the way I raised four children thru parochial and Catholic High School, I have to teach them the Faith to this day. They never learned it. Most of the lay teachers they had were divorced and got up in the Sanctuary every Sunday to dispense Communion. Takes four times as long as along the rail when I was a child, and really just a show for a lot of questionable people to take a place up there, which is a sacred place.
What happened in the 60’s was a revolutionary takeover, and the lynchpin of revolutions is to tell the people were always wrong, and then you can lead them where you want.
Cite places where the old devotions are still practiced, but then look where they are disparaged by Bishops. I would rather a thousand or more people praying the Rosary at Mass, than the bored apathetic crowd present listening to a sermon about how Jesus did not mean to say what we used to be told he said, and having to wash that down with protestant hymns.
When they did their slow cook revision in the late 1960’s we blinked, and we were obedient. We thought this was the just a minor change.
The last straw was when, as part of the approved rite (no caps for that, intended) , they brought money to the altar, as Pharisees. I served as an altar boy, from grade school to high school. I never thought I would see such a thing. People really need to see how corrupting this is. The offerings to God the Father as a sacrifice are the bread and wine, which Christ offered up, and which will become the Body and Blood of Christ. Can money become that? Where is that in the Last Supper? Oh yes…Judas got the money. That is where the money is in story.
I do note that as so called conservative prelate in Australia has denied Original Sin, but no murmur from the Vatican, although they expect SSPX to continue to jump through multiple hoops.
Please pray for the Catholic Church.
