Is this…

…the same religion as this?

Pics here.

Would have loved to be there, but I had to be at my parish with my family for Divine Mercy Sunday.  (We were readers.)

At the reception downstairs, I had the good fortune to meet one of my readers who actually came out because she saw the poster on this blog!  That made my day, as I never would have expected that since we only usually get St. Maurice parishioners, and only the hard-core ones at that!  Shout out to you Mighty Mouse!

By the way, did you notice the difference of the Altar’s appearance at the Basilica during this Mass?  See all those Candles and that big Crucifix, right in the middle of it? That really is what our altars should be looking like as well. But, you know, the rebellion continues.  That’s why the entry of these Anglo-Catholics into the Church is a shot in the arm for us regulars.

Happy day for you, Deb.  Hopefully, happier days for us too. 

I can’t wait until May 24.

Can you imagine this music at Mass? Kind of appropriate, isn’t it?

Not everyone likes Celebrate in Song.

I’m no liturgical expert, but the title is enough to make me hurl.  It’s so sixties that big flashing red lights should be going off.

Remember….I called it here. See emphasis in bold and red.

I am beginning to be more and more convinced that the problems concerning liturgy go much further than what happens at Mass.  I think liturgical deviance from Rome and the enforcement of pseudo liturgy by the liturgical commissariat end up revealing a serious problem with authority, ecclesiology and even sexuality. (Binding us to novelties)

Now get this whopper from this hip-to-it bishop:

“Couples are using artificial contraceptives to limit the size of their families, and sterilization is also becoming a common practice,” he observed.  “Families think they have the number of children they want, and then close off any further openness to life that God might want to bring into their family.”…

“In this time of great confusion, catechesis suffered. We booted the Baltimore Catechism out the door, but there wasn’t anything to replace it,” he continued.  “I was taught the faith in Catholic schools using materials that were weak and insubstantial. I wasn’t being taught my faith. The liturgy suffered from experimentation as well.”

“My generation raised up the next generation. Since we weren’t taught the faith, we raised children who weren’t either,” he added.

As a remedy, the bishop called for a renewal of catechesis and the promotion of Pope Benedict’s XVI efforts towards liturgical reform.  “If we can get catechesis and the liturgy right, we’ll be well on our way to the renewal and growth of the Church for which we hope,” he said.

Didjuz catch that? Didjuz?  The bishop linked the problems with contraception (and the culture of perverse sex and death) with the problem with the liturgy.  The Holy Spirit is moving in the Church…because we are all starting to connect the dots.

And once we connect the dots and remove the mask, the Devil is going to be put to flight, along with the banjos and the beachballs at Mass.

You can all thank me for pointing this out now.  Ahem.

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GROSS: Do you still go to church?

Mr. FALLON: I don’t go to – I tried to go back. When I was out in L.A. and I was kind of struggling for a bit. I went to church for a while, but it’s kind of, it’s gotten gigantic now for me. It’s like too… There’s a band. There’s a band there now, and you got to, you have to hold hands with people through the whole Mass now, and I don’t like doing that. You know, I mean, it used to be the shaking hands piece was the only time you touched each other.

GROSS: Mm-hmm.

Mr. FALLON: Now, I’m holding hand – now I’m lifting people. Like Simba.

(Laughter)

Mr. FALLON: I’m holding them (Singing) ha nah hey nah ho.

(Speaking) I’m doing too much. I don’t want – there’s Frisbees being thrown, there’s beach balls going around, people waving lighters, and I go, ‘This is too much for me.’ I want the old way. I want to hang out with the, you know, with the nuns, you know, that was my favorite type of Mass, and the grotto, and just like straight up, just Mass Mass. (Source)

Even the showbiz guys like Fallon know what real Mass looks like. Doesn’t that say it all? Dammit, I almost split my gut laughing when I read this….”people waiving lighters”…BAHAHAHAHA like a concert!  Why the hell not?  If it’s entertainment, might as well go all out…just don’t waive the lighter while clapping.

Movie trailer on the Catholic Mass...with some heavy hitters contributing.

The restoration is coming into full swing.

A firestorm is erupting around the new Missal, as people are discovering that their local priest or bishop is not following the new script. The requirement in some areas to stay standing after communion is causing a lot of angst.

If this is a problem in your parish, my advice is to start by learning what your bishop is mandating. It is only after you know that the requirement to stay standing is coming from your bishop that you should contact the Nunio and the Vatican (adresses provided below).

Why do I emphasize this? Because a priest’s actions do not always reflect the bishop’s marching orders. Read the rest of this entry »

Deborah Gyapong was at the installation mass of Pierre-Andre Durocher, the new Archbishop of Gatineau. You can read her coverage here.

Everyone’s just so happy about it, except perhaps me. And the beat of disobedience and rebellion in the Liturgy (and by extension, Authority) goes on.

Figures. It’s not like this is a big surprise.

I thought this picture summed it up perfectly…. Read the rest of this entry »

Bahahahahaa. Click above to read about a bishop who takes no guff and sticks to the rubrics.  A refreshing change from what those poor people in London Ontario are going through.

The money quotes:

Therefore no other person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority. (Sacrosanctum Concilium n, 22)

Nota Bene:

1 – What part of “anything” do the liturgists not understand?

2 – Please note this citation comes from the real Vatican II, not the imposter that’s offered.

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The “Our Father Holding Hand” is a one-size fits all that you can easily slip on your real hand and then slip off discreetly so the progressive congregant to your left or right has a hand to hold. Meanwhile, your real hands are now reverently folded so that you can pray the Lord’s Prayer without getting stuck in that giant 60′s style peace chain.

“Members of my family, in the London diocese, were all commanded to stand for the reception of Holy Communion; their parish priest berated them that such behaviour would not be tolerated in “his church.” As if that were not shocking enough he labelled them, “cookie worshipers”!”

I’m just wondering to myself:  just how bad does it have to get before we dump this Ecclesiastical establishment?

If they don’t believe in the Church’s central doctrines, and they don’t act like they do, just how long do we have to put up with it before calling out that the Emperor has no clothes?  Seriously.  As Catholics are we bound to stay in Communion with the open heretics?  I don’t think so. 

What’s really scary is the fact that most people in the pew won’t bat an eyelid at what this priest says.  40 years of social justice drugs does that to you.  But as for the rest of us, we need to do something and let the professionals know that it’s not business as usual anymore.

Maybe we can petiton Rome for our own Ordinariate within the Church, like the Anglicans got.

Dear Holy Father, please consider this our application for our little Ordinariate . 

We like to call it “Catholic”.

Yours sincerely,

Beleagured in the Great White North 

Well, it looks like the Liturgical war is in full swing.  For all of the liberalizing influences of the “Spirit” of Vatican II, the Liturgical police seem to be insistent that it’s their way or the highway, regardless of what Rome says, or rather does not say.  

Here’s is how one of The Vox’s readers put it:

Sadly, in my diocese last evening, some left Holy Mass in tears and angry after being forced to stand after receiving Our precious Lord in the Eucharist and were prohibited from kneeling. Shame on the priest and our bishop!

 Which diocese is this reader referring to?  Well, London, Ontario, of course:

Meanwhile, the poor people of the See of Toronto’s wayward child have had gestapo like “ministers of uniformity” going around telling them to get off of their knees. The Diocese of London under Bishop Ronald Fabbro of the Congregation of St. Basil as High Priest of liturgy has ordered under the rubric of “obedience” that people must all stand after Holy Communion until all have received and returned to their pews as a sign of “unity” and “community.”

It seems that certain Canadian dioceses are into binding what the Church does not bind, and therefore making the Liturgy into a play-thing to be manipulated to their own tastes.  Relativism does not first affect morality and then eventually destroy culture.  Relativism first destroys the liturgy, and then it attacks morality and then the culture.  I am convinced that this is what has been playing out in the West these past 40+ years. 

Socon or Bust readers will know about the problems with London. We’ve covered this problematic diocese over the years.  And there’s stuff we simply can’t (at this time) publish on this blog but it’s no less scandalous than the tragic events which have already been reported on.

I am beginning to be more and more convinced that the problems concerning liturgy go much further than what happens at Mass.  I think liturgical deviance from Rome and the enforcement of pseudo liturgy by the liturgical commissariat end up revealing a serious problem with authority, ecclesiology and even sexuality.

For instance, readers will remember Richard Gaillardetz.  He’s the dissenting theologian which Socon or Bust exposed a couple of years ago when he was invited to address the CCCB.  Well, you’ll never guess where’s he’s recently turned up.  If you guessed in London at its Pastoral Study Days, you would be right!

Bishop Fabbro, the bishop of London, is the bishop who chairs the CCCB’s ad hoc Committee on Life and Family which is responsible for initiating the Canadian Church’s pro-life strategy over the next several years (which has been prompted, I might add, from the pressure exerted on them from the abortion scandal concerning Development & Peace).  He’s the same bishop who has invited Richard Gaillardetz.  Gaillardetz sat on Obama’s National Catholic Advisory Council, dissents on the infallible status of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, contraception, and many, many other areas and is the feature speaker at the Diocese of London’s “Pastoral Study Days”.

Does this make any sense?  Actually, it makes perfect sense.  Liturgical abuses, doctrinal dissent, and pastoral abuses all go hand-in-hand.  

Binding us to liturgical novelties might not therefore seem to be a big deal, but it invariably points to the proverbial canary in a Church coal mine.