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Francis might amend Summorum Pontificum? The future of the TLM is in jeopardy? What if my bishop takes away the Latin Mass for us speaking out too much in the church parking lot?
These are daily topics that come up on my computer screen in the online Catholic world.
I am reminded of a couple things St. Athanasius said. They can take away our churches, but they cannot take away our Faith. And, he said those faithful to Tradition are the true Church.
When they are in material schism from the historic Church, us refusing to be a part of that does not place us in any kind of schism.
After all, those who followed St. Athanasius and his priests outside the city walls to worship in the wilderness, apart from their Arian or Semi-Arian bishops, did so because said bishops were placing their apostolic sees in a crisis of separation from Tradition.
I've always thought the motu proprio is on its own a good thing. Priests supporting the work of restoring Tradition is a good thing. But if Trads are persecuted in their own local Church, by their own bishop, then so be it, that makes them friends of the apostles and prophets who were persecuted.
So for example here in the Tulsa Diocese, if the powers-that-be ever end the motu proprio Mass, no problem, God will provide. If Bishop Konderla or the Presbyteral Council should ever give the FSSP the boot, no problem, God will provide. Like with the Society of St. Pius X in Oklahoma City, for example.
And if there’s ever no TLM in Tulsa, and you can’t make it to OKC, there is no point in worrying about offending the baby boomer modernists in charge to avoid that situation. They will one day retire and be replaced by the young priests who do care about Tradition. The trend at least seems to portend that future likelihood. In the meantime, if need be, one can just sit passively and prayerfully in the back pew of the Novus Ordo to receive the sacraments. Or go to an Eastern Catholic rite.
God will provide.
I'm not a sedevacantist, so I recognize the local Ordinary here and obey him where he is not leading me into sin or error, but he is objectively a modernist. As are almost all bishops today. And Modernism is no better than Arianism. So there is zero surprise when the relatively new Tulsa bishop gives PC sermons to memorialize the race riot, discourages ad orientem worship in the Novus Ordo, kicks out 2 trad religious communities right after becoming a Bishop, or blows off laity petitioning for a Latin Mass in their rural parish.
This crisis is the fault of the shepherds chiefly, so it is them who leave us out in "the wilderness," not something we would choose or want.
In your local Church that blame/responsibility rests squarely on the Bishop and Presbyteral Council. Whether in Tulsa or any other diocese.
So daily headlines suggest they want to suppress the Motu Proprio and Traditionalist movement? So be it. That would be essentially nothing new. Yet, Christ will continue to be our consolation, as we are in unity with all the Popes and Bishops of 2000 years, in public opposition to the Modernism of the present hierarchy.
We Traditional Catholics don’t need to worry about being kicked out into the Wilderness, or the Francis Regime abolishing the TLM. Because we are already in the Wilderness. All praise be to Jesus Christ.