"Beautiful? The Faithful Paid for That. Because They Wanted It. And They Trusted. They Trusted."

The Parish spent $250K to renovate the Church for the celebration of the TLM. Now, Gregory says, 'Sorry! That's not allowed anymore.'

From Fr Z's Blog

The cruel dictates of bishops and archbishops concerning the Vetus Ordo, now in these USA invoking the cover of “Rome said so”, have a …

… human face.

This is what our dear pastors don’t want to see.

Here is an example of the impact Wilton Gregory of Washington DC had on one community through his cruel decree.

From the blog of Fr. Kevin Cusick, who is well-known for columns in my old paper The Wanderer and other, comes a concrete instance of the collateral damage.  To Father, and to all of the Vetus leaning out there who have had any sort of rocky way, I say, whatever may have been in the past we must now band together like never before.

Go HERE to the blog entry.  If nothing other than a Memorare for him and these people, CLICK and shower their site with stats love to – at least – let you know you are there.  Please?  As a favor to me?

Southern Maryland parish forbidden to offer traditional Latin Mass after investing in quarter million dollar renovation and decoration for the purpose

Nightmare and heartbreak.

Parishioners of Saint Francis de Sales in Benedict, Maryland, devoted to the Church’s traditional worship, installed a new pine floor, painted altars and gradines, hung chandeliers and lamps, and painted a monumental mural. And more. After an extensive professional renovation and painting of the church’s entire 100-year-old plaster interior walls and ceiling.

All to give honor and glory to God for the salvation of souls through the most beautiful prayer of the traditional Latin Mass.

By means of draconian cruelty they have been officially forbidden to pray as they desire according to their Catholic patrimony in their own church. This compliments of the hierarchy that boasts of mercy, Synodality, compassion, seeking the margins, listening, accepting everyone, rejecting no one, diversity.

The parish offers a complete weekly schedule of traditional Masses with the exception of one novus ordo liturgy each Sunday so that no one feels excluded or marginalized.

Beautiful?  The FAITHFUL paid for that.  Because they WANTED it.  And they trusted.

I suspect the faithful of that place will never contribute to another monetary thing that the Archdiocese begs for.  Concrete works of mercy, sure.  That’s trads.  Concrete support for the maintenance of the Church, sure.  That’s trads, who tend to be quite generous, in my experience.

We MUST have the Vetus Ordo, especially now, when the barque of the Church in these USA has experienced a nearly catastrophic damage to its propulsion system.   In the dangerous waters of today’s secular monstrosities, we need to be able to navigate through through the rocks and rapids or we will perish.

I am reminded of the moment in the movie The African Queen when Humphrey Bogart explains that they have to get the propeller working because, in order to steer the boat through the dangerous rapids, they have to go faster than the current.  I would add that the propeller simultaneously roots the boat in the past while giving us the option of where to go in our future.

The Vetus Ordo is not the past.  It is the future.