Frank Dewane, the bishop of Venice, Florida, got word that some of his priests were celebrating the new form of the Latin Church's worship ad orientem.
So he's trying to squash that.
Meanwhile, here is a fully-compliant, a-ok with the Ordinary mass in the same diocese.
That is "what serves the common spiritual good of the People of God, rather than private inclination or arbitrary choice."
That meets his "vigilance over the whole of the Diocese's liturgical life."
Look, I can understand a bishop allowing Sacred Heart-type parishes their peculiarities. But the same latitude should be extended to parishes that face east.
But not in the situationally-deaf "listening church," alas.
In the faux open church, you can do anything with the new order of mass except make it look or sound (how many Latin NOs are there?) anything like what proceeded it. And so it is with the Reverend Dewane: livestreamed hammy pastors with constant ad-libs and close-ups are what mass is permitted to be. A priest facing east--no, hell no and nuh-uh too.
And for all those garbage people in Venice "who[]
wish[] to celebrate with devotion according to earlier forms of the
liturgy" where they "can find in the reformed Roman Missal according to Vatican
Council II all the elements of the Roman Rite"?
Ad orientem is verboten, but Sacred Heart passes muster.
Yeah, that ought to hold the little bastards. What the Rev. Dewane thinks of such retrograde devotion to the Roman Rite is abundantly obvious.
I mean, the above-quoted part about finding all the elements of the old liturgy in the new is 13 percent true.
To be fair: as Groot would point out, that is better than 12 percent.
And
then there's the shredded liturgical calendar, making the Roman Canon optional and thus almost
extinct, etc.
Yeah, well, too bad. "Unaltered faith and uninterrupted and living tradition"--because they say so. Arguments from authority are the only arguments that matter in the Latin Church.
Besides, Sacred Heart is part of that continuity because the vigilant bishop says so, too. And you ad orientem types are not--also because the vigilant bishop says so. All the seal of approval you dare to ask for.
A cynic might think that the old rite has to be crushed to destroy the evidence of the before time. The Listening Church does not enjoy questions that suggest it is anything short of omni-competent.
La la la can't hear you!
Anyway, schismo, the bishop's annual appeal is coming up: open that wallet.
"I mean, the above-quoted part about finding all the elements of the old liturgy in the new is 13 percent true." It's a bit more than that, but Mr Hazell has his own axe to grind and isn't above making other people look bad to sharpen it. Grain of salt. If not a block of it.
ReplyDeleteIf we bother to read TC, we all know why it fell so hard on TLM worshippers. It had nothing to do with how well or ill the Mass was celebrated in one form or another.
Meanwhile, glad to hear your illness was relatively light. Mine, not so much. Told my sister I could see how people died from it. 11 days in and just now I'm getting close to being out of the house. Take good care.
I will refrain from sparring and pray for your full recovery. My sister-in-law has it, and prayers for her would be most welcome.
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