08 April 2020

The Grave Blasphemy of Beans. Wherein Fr. Z Rants and Makes a Constructive Suggestion.

'Beans' Faggioli ceased to be a believing Catholic long ago, and this is just more proof of the fact.

From Fr Z's Blog


At LifeSite I read something quite simply shocking, and yet not really that surprising, given the source.
After the bishops of the Italian region of Umbria urged priests to continue to say Mass privately during this COVID challenge, the liberal logorheaic bomb-thrower Massimo “Beans” Faggioli – publicly on Twitter – compared priests saying Mass privately to self-abuse.
He apparently deleted the tweet, but Joseph Shaw of the UK’s Latin Mass Society posted a screenshot.
In addition to this being insulting, cruel and in bad taste, it is blasphemous, all the more grave because it was deliberate, public and about the most holy things that we have from Christ Himself, Eucharist and priesthood.
It is incredible that someone claiming to be Catholic would ever post something like that.  Beans seems not to have an unpublished thought.  It remains hard to grasp, however, that such a thing would even enter into the mind of someone who is Catholic.  There is no way that that comparison can share space in the mind with even a fundamental grasp of the effects of every Holy Mass, private or thronged with congregants.
Pray for this poor man.  Perhaps this was just an instance of a clever guy being so enamored of his own wit that he momentarily lost his his wits and posted that monumentally blasphemous comment.
This display of animus will forever be hung around his neck.
Since this was a public comment, he needs publicly to apologize.  Perhaps he has done so already, but I haven’t seen it.
Meanwhile, let’s bring a positive from this disgusting event.
I suggest to all the priests out there who read this, that they begin to say this “Statement of Intention” before every Mass, if they don’t already.  It is also in breviaries and in the Missale Romanum, even the Novus Ordo edition, among the priest’s preparatory prayers before Mass.
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Ego volo celebrare Missam, et conficere Corpus et Sanguinem Domini nostri Iesu Christi, iuxta ritum sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, ad laudem omnipotentis Dei totiusque Curiae triumphantis, ad utilitatem meam totiusque Curiae militantis, pro omnibus, qui se commendaverunt orationibus meis in genere et in specie, et pro felici statu sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae.
Gaudium cum pace, emendationem vitae, spatium verae paenitentiae, gratiam et consolationem Sancti Spiritus, perseverantiam in bonis operibus, tribuat nobis omnipotens et misericors Dominus. Amen


My purpose is to celebrate Mass and to confect the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the rite of the holy Roman Church to the praise of almighty God and of all the Church Triumphant (in Heaven), for my good and for the good of all the Church Militant (on Earth), and for all who have commended themselves to my prayers in general and in particular, and for the favorable state of the holy Roman Church.

May the almighty and merciful Lord grant us joy with peace, amendment of life, time for true repentance, the grace and consolation of the Holy Spirit and perseverance in good works. Amen.

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