My present understanding is that a committee was constituted for the purpose of procuring land and directing the establishment of a church, convent, priory, school, and cemetery. I am given to understand that the intention is to equal, if not surpass, St. Mary’s, with the expectation of success arising chiefly from the proximity of the proposed site to Charlotte.
Got to wonder how realistic it is, to aspire towards "surpassing St Mary's". (The priory, taken all by itself, is probably a good idea.) It's apples and oranges, SM is out in the middle of nowhere, with I'm assuming relatively few non-SSPX TLM adherents, while Charlotte is a major American city with a fairly substantial number of such adherents, some of whom wouldn't touch the SSPX with a ten-foot pole, the whole unauthorized, schismatic [sic] thing, you know.
The way I've heard it, of such adherents, roughly one-third have gone with the SSPX, another one-third trek out to that chapel Bishop Martin erected, and another one-third just gave up the TLM entirely. (I said "roughly", don't hold me to exact figures.) And at the end of the day, anything in Charlotte would still be quite a trek from Greensboro, Boone, and so on. (TLM adherents in the western part of the diocese have Masses in Greenville SC they can attend, not nearly as far away.) In addition, there's been a lot of bellyaching and moaning over how "remote" the diocesan chapel is, yet at roughly 35 miles from Charlotte proper, that's not nearly as far as many TLM adherents drive throughout the country. Sounds more like casual "Latin Mass lovers" who got used to diocesan TLMs a short distance from where they live.
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