I noticed this in a posting on suscipedomine.com and realized that it caused significant emotions after the first reading. Specifically, anger.
The exact reason for my anger is difficult to pin down. So I'm assuming that it has touched upon a 'cultural assumption'.
Firstly, the appeal to ask all to maintain "silence, respect and prayer regarding the matter" is of interest.
Is it right for people to not be upset and want to take action in the face of what objectively is an outrageous treatment of a religious order in this day of leniency?
The Legion of Christ, seems to have had a walk in the park compared with the FFI. It may be just recency effect, but I don't recall this level of intensity and severity in their case.
All I remember is that the Legion imploded when the issues with its founder were made public.
I think that the best word for the treatment of the FFI is injustice.
Secondly, I think that the silent submission (blissful ignorance) mode of operation was used when the changes in the Church liturgy etc were first implemented.
At that time the assumption was that the persons implementing the changes had the good of the Church and Doctrinal Orthodoxy in mind. I believe that it is relatively safe to conclude that that assumption was provided unfounded.
In this day and age the same question, unfortunately, needs to be asked and asked with great frequency and intensity.
The answer may be unsettling.
Let us be clear that I am advocating true obedience as laid out by St. Thomas in the Summa.
Is the Novus Ordo Missae really in continuity with the liturgical tradition?
Are the documents of the Second Vatican Council really in continuity?
These are two important questions, these are questions that need to be answered and answered well not just off handedly.
P^3
Declaration about some recent facts
Having learned of the online petition organized by the website of the Association "Corrispondenza Romana" in order to gather signatures to be presented to the Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life against the Decree of 11 July 2013 (Prot. 52741/2012), after having already expressed its position several times and after having released the official communication of its Father Founder, the Religious Institute of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate REAFFIRMS its obedience to the dispositions of the Holy Father, DECLARES that it will have NOTHING TO DO with the initiative of the aforesaid website or any like initiative, past or future, REJECTS any attempt to use a matter internal to the Institute to attack the Pope and the Catholic Hierarchy, and APPEALS TO ALL to maintain SILENCE, RESPECT AND PRAYER regarding the matter, in order to allow the competent authorities to carry out their task in peace for the good of the Church and of the Institute.
In Corde Matris
Fr. Rosario M. Sammarco, fi
Encharged of the Institutional Website of the Franciscans Friars of the Immaculate Source
The exact reason for my anger is difficult to pin down. So I'm assuming that it has touched upon a 'cultural assumption'.
Firstly, the appeal to ask all to maintain "silence, respect and prayer regarding the matter" is of interest.
Is it right for people to not be upset and want to take action in the face of what objectively is an outrageous treatment of a religious order in this day of leniency?
The Legion of Christ, seems to have had a walk in the park compared with the FFI. It may be just recency effect, but I don't recall this level of intensity and severity in their case.
All I remember is that the Legion imploded when the issues with its founder were made public.
I think that the best word for the treatment of the FFI is injustice.
Secondly, I think that the silent submission (blissful ignorance) mode of operation was used when the changes in the Church liturgy etc were first implemented.
At that time the assumption was that the persons implementing the changes had the good of the Church and Doctrinal Orthodoxy in mind. I believe that it is relatively safe to conclude that that assumption was provided unfounded.
In this day and age the same question, unfortunately, needs to be asked and asked with great frequency and intensity.
The answer may be unsettling.
Let us be clear that I am advocating true obedience as laid out by St. Thomas in the Summa.
Is the Novus Ordo Missae really in continuity with the liturgical tradition?
Are the documents of the Second Vatican Council really in continuity?
These are two important questions, these are questions that need to be answered and answered well not just off handedly.
P^3
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