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I’ve read some posts of people complaing that they only have the Extraordinary Form in the sundays, and who are tired of abuses. I too am tired of abuses, and that is why I decided to share with you some information about the situation of the (lack of) implementation of the Summorum Pontificum in Portugal.
While in most countries, on September the 14th, the Motu Proprio was lauded with Masses on the Extraordinary Form, in Portugal, the ortodox-conservative-traditionalist-loyal Catholics were shocked by a letter of the Patriarch of Lisbon, Dom José Policarpo, stating the following:
“O Santo Padre reconhece que a notícia da publicação destas Normas provocou duas reacções: uma entusiasta aceitação e uma férrea oposição. Espero que, entre nós, nenhuma destas atitudes extremas prevaleça.” - The Holy Father recognizes that the news of the publication of these norms has caused two reactions: an enthusiastic acceptation and an hard rejection. I hope that, among us, none of these extreme attitudes will prevail.
On that letter, the Patriarch forbid the priests to allow any EF mass on Sundays until further notice.
More than one year after the publication of the Motu Proprio, there are no celebrations on the Extraordinary Form, and there isn’t even any Latin Mass on the Ordinary Form on the entire country.
The only stronghold of ortodoxy is Opus Dei, which has a good implementation in the country, but is looked with reservations by most Portuguese catholics.
The Jesuits, with their creative liturgy, and many other creative parish priests are the mainstream, together with boring and usually not-reverent old priests.
The Portuguese Episcopate can be qualified (I’ll try to be charitable) as a bit distant from the Vatican teaching.
The laity is ignorant of church teaching on almost any issue, the clergy seems to confused, and the bishops are not the most cooperative with Rome. On this scenario, it is indeed hard to be a loyal Catholic, as one gets frequently looked down, even by priests and other catholics, who will call you a pharisee or an hypocrite.
Without a single latin mass, without a single ad orientem mass, without any mass with communion rails [except in Opus Dei, where there are always rails, and sometimes mass is ad orientem], without benedictine altar arrangements, without decent sacred music, it is indeed hard to be a Catholic in Portugal.
So, please, if you only have a EF Mass per week, please don’t complain too much, and pray for us
Nossa Senhora de Fátima, rogai por Portugal!
While in most countries, on September the 14th, the Motu Proprio was lauded with Masses on the Extraordinary Form, in Portugal, the ortodox-conservative-traditionalist-loyal Catholics were shocked by a letter of the Patriarch of Lisbon, Dom José Policarpo, stating the following:
“O Santo Padre reconhece que a notícia da publicação destas Normas provocou duas reacções: uma entusiasta aceitação e uma férrea oposição. Espero que, entre nós, nenhuma destas atitudes extremas prevaleça.” - The Holy Father recognizes that the news of the publication of these norms has caused two reactions: an enthusiastic acceptation and an hard rejection. I hope that, among us, none of these extreme attitudes will prevail.
On that letter, the Patriarch forbid the priests to allow any EF mass on Sundays until further notice.
More than one year after the publication of the Motu Proprio, there are no celebrations on the Extraordinary Form, and there isn’t even any Latin Mass on the Ordinary Form on the entire country.
The only stronghold of ortodoxy is Opus Dei, which has a good implementation in the country, but is looked with reservations by most Portuguese catholics.
The Jesuits, with their creative liturgy, and many other creative parish priests are the mainstream, together with boring and usually not-reverent old priests.
The Portuguese Episcopate can be qualified (I’ll try to be charitable) as a bit distant from the Vatican teaching.
The laity is ignorant of church teaching on almost any issue, the clergy seems to confused, and the bishops are not the most cooperative with Rome. On this scenario, it is indeed hard to be a loyal Catholic, as one gets frequently looked down, even by priests and other catholics, who will call you a pharisee or an hypocrite.
Without a single latin mass, without a single ad orientem mass, without any mass with communion rails [except in Opus Dei, where there are always rails, and sometimes mass is ad orientem], without benedictine altar arrangements, without decent sacred music, it is indeed hard to be a Catholic in Portugal.
So, please, if you only have a EF Mass per week, please don’t complain too much, and pray for us
Nossa Senhora de Fátima, rogai por Portugal!