Pray for Pope Francis

Gregory DiPippo, on this Carmelite Feast, draws a parallel between the persecution the Carmelites suffered in the 13th century and Francis's actions of today.

From New Liturgical Movement

By Gregor DiPippo

Commentary will be issued later today, after prayer, a good long walk, and a lot of coffee. We must redouble our prayers for Pope Francis, whose whole papacy, every smile, every hug of a disabled person, every exhortation to mercy, will be stained for the rest of history, along with the throne of St Peter itself, by this unprecedented and absolutely gratuitous act of pastoral cruelty, the attempted revocation of Summorum Pontificum.

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2021/07/urgent-anti-summorum-motu-proprio.html

Today is the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the patronal feast of the Carmelite Order. When the mendicant orders like the Carmelites emerged in the 13th century, as part of the on-going reform movement within the Church, they were attacked on various grounds by representatives of the more established ecclesiastical institutions, who did not like to have their own decadence and complacency challenged by the evangelical vitality of the new movement. Semper idem. If you love the Church and the traditional liturgy, take up a Marian devotion, if you don’t already have one, and make it your intention to ask the Virgin’s intercession for the untying of this knot of gross injustice. Likewise, let us continually invoke the intercession of St Joseph, whom we honor with the title Patron of the Universal Church, which stands in the direst need of his mighty protection, and of St Pius V, whose Missal remains the most authentic expression of the Roman Church’s lex orandi.

An image of Our Lady of Mt Carmel from a Carmelite Rite Breviary.