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Article: While US Church suffers, Latin Masses skyrocket.
« on: November 06, 2019, 05:30:09 PM »
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  • Great article. It shows where the future lies. https://cal-catholic.com/while-u-s-church-suffers-latin-masses-skyrocket/

    "While U.S. church suffers, Latin Masses skyrocket
    St. Vitus in Los Angeles up to Sunday attendance of 500 in one year; St. Anne in San Diego up to 1000


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    Traditional Catholic parishes run by one society of priests are growing in the United States, defying the trend of decline in the broader American church over previous decades.
    Over the past year, parishes run by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a society of priests dedicated to celebrating the traditional Latin form of the Catholic liturgy, have reported large increases in Sunday Mass attendance. The traditional liturgy that draws attendees is the form of the Mass celebrated before the reforms instituted at the Second Vatican Council, a meeting of the church’s bishops in the 1960s.
    In Los Angeles, the fraternity did not have their own church until 2018, but Mass attendance over the past year doubled from 250 per Sunday to 500. The pastor of the parish [St. Vitus in San Fernando], Fr. James Fryar, commented for the fraternity’s website that, after his parish added a fourth Mass on Sunday, “another 200 people came.”
    The Naples, Florida, parish has been around for less than two years, but close to 400 people attend every Sunday, an increase of 20% from 2018. The pastor, Fr. James Romanoski, told the Washington Examiner the parish has been “averaging a new household — sometimes a family, sometimes an individual — every week” for over a year.
    Romanoski said people are attracted to the liturgy and the strong community, which includes groups for men and women, young and old alike, and monthly potlucks.
    One Naples parishioner, Greg Colker, was a Protestant who converted to Catholicism but first attended a “standard” American Catholic parish, “not at all particularly traditional, not at all particularly liberal,” he told the Washington Examiner.
    The traditional liturgy proved transformative for him, and he described it as “something that has formed from the heart of the church to form us into better people.” He added, “There’s this big lie that the traditional stuff is legalistic and rigid. I have found it to be anything but. I have found the teaching to be clear and useful.”
    Sunday Mass attendance at the fraternity’s parish in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho increased by about 29% in the past two years, while the parish in Atlanta has grown by 30% in the last year.

    It is difficult to gauge the total number of Catholics affiliated with the fraternity’s parishes or who regularly attend traditional liturgies, as neither the church nor the fraternity provide public information about attendance. The popularity of the fraternity among American Catholics can be approximated through other factors, including priestly ordinations and the society’s presence in dioceses around the country.
    The fraternity has witnessed a steady increase in the number of priests in the society since its founding in 1988, and ordinations continue to grow. Between 2007 and 2012, an average of 10 seminarians were ordained priests each year. Between 2013 and 2018, that number has jumped to an average of almost 15 per year. Annual reports provided to the Washington Examiner by the society show the number of the fraternity’s personal parishes has tripled from 11 to 33 in the U.S. since 2008. A personal parish is a Catholic community recognized by bishops based on a special feature of the group, such as commitment to celebrating the Latin liturgy, rather than geographical location.
    Social media pages offer a less conventional way of gauging interest in traditional Catholicism, with humorous pages such as TradCatholic Memes and Traditional Catholic Memes for Working Class Teens garnering 12,000 and 9,000 likes, respectively. Another page, The Beauty of Catholicism, which frequently posts images of the traditional liturgy, has almost 130,000 likes.
    The growth of FSSP parishes comes amid decades of decline in the Catholic Church in the U.S., which has been marred by sɛҳuąƖ abuse scandals. Since 1970, the number of priests in the U.S. has declined by about 38% to 36,580 in 2018.
    In absolute terms, the Catholic population has grown from 54.1 million in 1970 to 76.3 million in 2018, although that is down from a high of 81.2 million in 2005. In relative terms, however, the Catholic population has declined as a share of the overall U.S. population over the past decade, from 24% in 2007 to 20% in 2019. The number of people identifying as former Catholics has skyrocketed from 1.8 million in 1975 to 26.1 million in 2018.
    The above comes from a Nov. 2 story in the Washington Examiner.
    From the FSSP report cited above:
    St. Anne Parish, our apostolate in San Diego, was established in 2008, and despite having a small church that can seat approximately 200 adults, had reached more than 800 parishioners by 2018 with three priests offering five Sunday Masses. Now, they are averaging over 1,000."
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    Re: Article: While US Church suffers, Latin Masses skyrocket.
    « Reply #1 on: November 06, 2019, 07:45:05 PM »
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  • By all means, go join the FSSP.  That would be the group most consistent with your thinking.

    This serves no purpose other than to disguise the fact that Vatican II corrupted the faith.  Putting the veneer of the Tridentine Mass in front of it serves to legitimate and to obfuscate the grave doctrinal errors of the Conciliar Church.

    Wow, the FSSP has gone from 10 ordinations per year to a staggering 15.  I can already feel that the springtime of the Church's renewal is nigh.


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    Re: Article: While US Church suffers, Latin Masses skyrocket.
    « Reply #2 on: November 07, 2019, 01:07:44 AM »
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  • The TLM is the future.

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    Re: Article: While US Church suffers, Latin Masses skyrocket.
    « Reply #3 on: November 07, 2019, 01:10:39 AM »
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  • Fidelity to tradition ensures a fruitful future, Pope Francis said in a meeting Thursday with a contemplative-missionary community rooted in the spirituality of St. Augustine.
    “To be modern, some believe that it is necessary to break away from the roots. And this is their ruin, because the roots, the tradition, are the guarantee of the future,” Pope Francis said Sept. 12.

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-tradition-is-the-guarantee-of-the-future-11255

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    Re: Article: While US Church suffers, Latin Masses skyrocket.
    « Reply #4 on: November 07, 2019, 12:23:08 PM »
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  • The Novus Ordo church is a zombie church. It's dead on the inside and it will, eventually, become completely decomposed.

    It's funny seeing their bishops put on the charade like they're Catholic and raising "pressing issues" that are of "Catholic" concern.  The Boomers keep falling for it. Once the Boomers die off, the Novus Ordo will be near waste.


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    Re: Article: While US Church suffers, Latin Masses skyrocket.
    « Reply #5 on: November 07, 2019, 01:08:02 PM »
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  • “Once there are no more valid priests, they'll permit the Latin Mass.” ( Rev. Carl Pulvermacher OFM Cap, Former Editor, The Angelus )
    The Vatican II church - Assisting Souls to Hell Since 1962

    For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. Mat 24:24

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    Re: Article: While US Church suffers, Latin Masses skyrocket.
    « Reply #6 on: November 07, 2019, 01:32:57 PM »
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  • The Novus Ordo church is a zombie church. It's dead on the inside and it will, eventually, become completely decomposed.

    It's funny seeing their bishops put on the charade like they're Catholic and raising "pressing issues" that are of "Catholic" concern.  The Boomers keep falling for it. Once the Boomers die off, the Novus Ordo will be near waste.
    I wish all the modernist heretics in the Church would kindly just make their blatant apostasy a formality so real Catholics could start repairing all the damage they've caused. That's sadly far too much to ask for though. 

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    Re: Article: While US Church suffers, Latin Masses skyrocket.
    « Reply #7 on: November 07, 2019, 01:40:12 PM »
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  • dumb Boomers tithing some of their SS and pensions to the Novus Ordo on a monthly basis, too stupid to realize almost all of it goes to pay off pedophile civil suits against the fαɢɢօt priests raping little boys.


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    Re: Article: While US Church suffers, Latin Masses skyrocket.
    « Reply #8 on: November 07, 2019, 03:26:36 PM »
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  • almost all of it goes to pay off pedophile civil suits against the fαɢɢօt priests raping little boys.

    Indeed, if people would think a minute and realize what it is they're financing, they'd be up in arms.  But they are hoodwinked by their pastor into thinking that they're helping their church and the poor.