Korazym.org (here) published in Italian a sort of odd article expressing skepticism over the intent of the particular audiences granted by Pope Francis to representatives of the FSSP on last February 4 and to Rev. Davide Pagliarani the Superior General of the FSSPX on February 8 and the consequent steps or declarations emanating from the Holy See.
Korazym does not seem to make much of the papal document of February 11, securing for the FSSP and seemingly for all the other Ecclesia Dei Institutes the guarantee that their constitutions are held upright and in their own churches or houses or with the blessing of the local ordinary they can continue their mission rooted in the ancient usage for Holy Mass, the Sacraments, the Breviary and devotions. The Italian Catholic news service compared the move by the Pope to the historical creation of reservations in the wastelands of the United States for the sake of confining the native American peoples.
Regardless of what you might think of that comparison, Korazym's intent was to clearly write off these recent events as nothing more than a malevolent strategy of containment on the part of the Holy Father, which in no way detracts from his endgame very much still at odds with Church Tradition and bent on consigning our liturgical patrimony to the dustbin of history once and for all.
I guess for my part I have always underestimated the visceral hatred of the last elements standing of a generation older than mine, which since the 1950's at least have mindlessly pushed forward the "Star Trek" agenda of venturing where no man has gone before. Condemnations of "rigidity" are no more than a smokescreen to cover an old vendetta, rooted as much in a petty modernist agenda as in hatred of all things starched and trimmed with lace.
Desperately holding to the Novus Ordo and the delusion that it might represent a way forward must be in its death throws. With confidence we will hold for tradition and the hope that true religion will stand forth upon the rubble of the edifice of the last 60 years marred as it is by violence and dissimulation.
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May God richly bless this good shepherd.
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ReplyDeleteI’m one of the spiritual sons of don Attilio Bianchi, whom you might remember for the Confirmations you conferred in 2019 at his parish church in Chiuro (in Valtellina, the Lombardy province bordering Switzerland). I see that the homily you preached there is on this website. As you might know – and if you didn’t, I’m sad to inform you that – my dear spiritual father passed away last spring after a short and excruciating battle with COVID-19.
I had the privilege to attend for quite some years his Sunday TLM, the only public festive Latin Mass in the diocese. Now, of course, that Mass is suspended sine die, and the current parish priest is, to put it mildly, not likely to pick up the traditional liturgy.
I tried contacting the Diocese on behalf of the TLM group, but after some vague reassurances last Autumn, we had no further directive or message from the chancery.
Do you have any word of advice as to how we could break the deadlock we find ourselves in?
Keep praying and doing penance in expectation of deliverance. No, I had not heard of don Allilio's passing. The Lord reward him!
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