{"id":1674,"date":"2015-04-10T05:22:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T09:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2015-04-12T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T01:29:48","slug":"u-s-traditional-catholic-communities-being-crushed-in-francischurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=1674","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Traditional Catholic Communities Being Crushed in FrancisChurch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I used to work two full time jobs.\u00a0 One of them was an hour away.\u00a0 I was determined, after many years of experience, that I would not let my work obligations get in the way of daily Mass.\u00a0 (Daily Masses would have more young people if they said them when they weren’t at work or in school.)<\/p>\n

Well, I hated my first job.\u00a0 It was government make-work and bickering.\u00a0 I had to travel to an ugly, busy part of town.\u00a0 I tried finding a Mass somewhere on the way because they only have one daily Mass in my hometown, and it’s too late in the morning.\u00a0 I had to drive several miles out of my way to sit in a cramped florescent chapel.\u00a0 It had unsettling priests too.<\/p>\n

Then I found St. xxxxx.\u00a0 It was five minutes from the office, and they had a noon Mass!\u00a0 I worked five years at that job, and went out to lunch exactly once, it didn’t make me unpopular.\u00a0 I used to get lots of prayer requests on the way out.\u00a0 I used to get a lot of Catholic questions directed my way too.<\/p>\n

This parish had signs requesting quiet, pictures of how not to dress and altar rails.\u00a0 The pastor said Mass facing the tabernacle.\u00a0 He sung most of the prayers, many of them in Latin.\u00a0 What a blessing!\u00a0 His associate was also the head of the local TLM Mass group closer to my home.\u00a0 The parish was full of very faithful, humble people, many from the local university.<\/p>\n

In the past year St. xxxxx picked up a new young priest.\u00a0 His homilies were quite painful: loud, long and brutish.\u00a0 His message, from what I could tell, was about love, love, and feminism.\u00a0 I knew why he was there.\u00a0 It was now FrancisEra.<\/p>\n

This week we’ve learned the Pastor of St. xxxxx is being ‘retired’ and removed.\u00a0 The younger vicar, who also says the Ancient Mass nearby, is being sent somewhere unknown.\u00a0 The faithful group they’ve served doesn’t know what to do.\u00a0 (There are really two communities involved.)<\/p>\n

Asked by parishioners for a meeting, the bishop has scheduled something eight months out.\u00a0 The transfers, however are immediate. I don’t know how unusual this is.\u00a0 I don’t know if it was precipitated by some complaint, if there’s some pretext.\u00a0 I’m sure it doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n

I have wracked my brain about how I can help personally.\u00a0 Sometimes when you have trouble deciding what to do, it’s because you have too many good options.\u00a0 This isn’t one of those times.\u00a0 This is FrancisChurch.<\/p>\n

Catholic teachers can’t teach the Faith.\u00a0 Gay sex must be promoted.\u00a0 Faithless anti-Catholic people must be employed, must be admitted.\u00a0 Morals codes are crushed.\u00a0 The Ancient Mass, or even a holy modern Mass are both suppressed, illegal.\u00a0 The priests are all Protestants.\u00a0 Do you ever see a nun anywhere?\u00a0 Perhaps they hide in plain sight.<\/p>\n

We must be honest with ourselves and ask, “Where is our Church?”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reason we must ask is because we have to stop pretending it’s where it is not. People yell, ‘Schism, schism!’\u00a0 I’m not calling for some break.\u00a0 I’m just trying to find the Church to which I should adhere.\u00a0 I think the Church is a real thing.\u00a0 As a real thing, shouldn’t it have characteristics?\u00a0\u00a0 I think it does have characteristics; I just don’t see them anywhere.<\/p>\n

When it’s doing Satan’s dance, will you still call it Catholic?\u00a0 Will you dance?\u00a0 Where does this end?<\/p>\n

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