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New Liturgical Movement: What Does Opposition to the Traditional Mass Really Signify?

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 Peter Kwasniewski has published an article on the opposition to the Tridentine Mass - of which there appears to be no small amount in the hierarchy.  

As one diocesan priest said to me, "I don't understand why they are so afraid of this Mass."

I think I know why they are afraid and why they have every reason to be afraid. The Tridentine Mass, simply stated, is the embodiment of what the Catholic Church Teaches - even today.  You can't promote ecumenism of accompaniment with a liturgy the teaches ecumenism of return and conversion.

I thought that the republishing of the article was timely given the ongoing persecution within the Church of Traditional Catholics. 

P^3

 Source: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/07/what-does-opposition-to-traditional.html

Key Excerpts:


Editor’s note: on this day in the year 2007, Pope Benedict XVI promulgated the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, one of the most important acts of his pontificate, the fruit of his long and thoughtful consideration of the theological and pastoral problems which arose from the post-Conciliar liturgical revolution. This column on the opposition to it was originally published ten years ago, and although the landscape has changed since then, very much for the worse, its analysis of that opposition remains just as pertinent as it was a decade ago. Let us not allow this day to pass without a prayer of thanksgiving to God for the many benefits that have accrued to the Church from Summorum Pontificum, asking Him to hasten the day of its restoration; and likewise, pray for the eternal repose of His good and faithful servant, Pope Benedict XVI.


I am of the opinion, to be sure, that the old rite should be granted much more generously to all those who desire it. It’s impossible to see what could be dangerous or unacceptable about that. A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden, and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent. Can it be trusted any more about anything else? Won’t it proscribe tomorrow what it prescribes today?  (176-77)

 

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