Belated Anniversary! 2nd Year of “Traditionis Custodes”.

A bit late, Fr Zed has some thoughts on the 2nd anniversary of 'the stupidly unnecessary, falsely grounded, and wickedly cruel' Traditionis Custodes.

From Fr Z's Blog

It occurs to me that we missed celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the stupidly unnecessary, falsely grounded and wickedly cruel attack on the people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass via the document Taurina cacata… er… um… Traditionis custodes.

In the last year, in travelling in these USA and also during my sojourns in Rome (thank you… and I have a fundraiser going on for October) I’ve heard again and again what a great failure TC and subsequent documents have been.  Interest in the traditional Roman Rite has increased, not decreased.  Young priests and seminarians still want to use the 1962 (and earlier) Missale.

The best thing that bishops can do is IGNORE TC and quietly let people have what they want.

The best thing that priests can do is CONTINUE to say Mass with the older rite when they can.

The best thing that laypeople can do is JOYFULLY participate with eager hearts and attentive minds and EXCERCISE PRUDENCE.  Don’t be your and our own worst enemy.

Pop over the One Peter Five (where I also write weekly) and check out this:

Papalist Failure: Traditionis Custodes, Two Years Later

That piece mentions also an important consequence of TC: the unmasking of “hyperüberultramontanism”, nearly fanatic papalotry unlike that ever seen in the history of the Church.

Friends, the Traditional Roman Rite is not going away. It can’t be suppressed. This is not the 70’s or 80’s when resources such as appropriate vestments and books were as rare as hen’s teeth. We have the internet. The haters have nothing but bullying.

Three points:

I suspect that those who want to suppress the Traditional Latin Mass do so because it makes them feel guilty about something.

They might dislike the TLM, but they dislike the people who want the TLM even more. It’s the people they dislike. The attack on the rite is really an attack on the people who desire it.

When they say that the Traditional Roman Rite is against Vatican II, they are lying. If the “spirit” of Vatican II, informed by an overly optimistic anthropocentrism, might emphasize eschatological joy more than the Traditional Latin Mass, the TLM offers a strong focus on eschatological joy but it supplements that hope with HOW TO ATTAIN IT.

The Novus Ordo falls down on something important: the joy of Heaven is a great theme, but we have to get to Heaven to have it. That means that we have to deal with our sin, our guilt, our unworthiness, the overwhelming mercy of God which we must beg for in order to receive it, the obligation to amend our lives, etc.

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