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Offline miserere nobis

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Manifesto of the Catholic Laity (1943)
« on: March 23, 2017, 08:45:07 AM »
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    • I came across this on another forum which apparently appears as a footnote in Dom Alcuin Reid’s book The Organic Development of the Liturgy (Ignatius Press, 2005, pp. 103-104):

    Manifesto of the Catholic Laity

    “We, the undersigned Catholic Layfolk, desire…to make known our true feelings with regard to the present controversy concerning the language used by the Church in her public worship.

    “We utterly repudiate the subversive efforts that are being made to discredit the use of the Latin Liturgy, a precious heritage brought to the English people by Saint Augustine of Canterbury from our glorious Apostle, Saint Gregory the Great, and which we are proud to have preserved intact these fourteen hundred years, even throughout the hardships and dangers of the penal times.

    “We therefore protest that we are opposed to all attempts to tamper with this venerable Liturgy, or to substitute for it a copy of any non-Catholic rite, however beautiful or impressive.

    “We strongly resent the implication that we and our children are not sufficiently intelligent to understand the simple Latin of the Mass, and we declare our readiness to do all we can to equip ourselves with the necessary knowledge so as to be able to take a more active and intelligent part in our parochial Mass.

    “We also respectfully petition our bishops to use their authority to make the teaching of simple liturgical Latin obligatory in all our Catholic schools, since we are convinced that such instruction would be of immense spiritual and intellectual value to our children and would help them to realise more vividly the supra-national character of our faith.

    “Finally we very humbly beg our Clergy to help our efforts by a distinct and deliberate enunciation of all the words of the Liturgy, so as to make it possible for every one of us to become more at home with the spiritual language of our Holy Mother Church, and thus to assist at her public worship with greater understanding and devotion.”

    So this was two decades before Vatican II and yet the laity at that time, during the Second World War, thought the need to write such a letter, why? Does that not indicate that VII was in the works decades before it "officially" started?






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    Re: Manifesto of the Catholic Laity (1943)
    « Reply #1 on: March 23, 2017, 04:18:50 PM »
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    • During the papal conclave of Aug. 2, 1903 Mariano Cardinal Rampolla Del Tinder was nearly elected pope. Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef vetoed the nomination of Rampolla.  He was  in secret a member of the Lodge of the Freemasons.   Pius X was chosen.   Taken from "Tumultuous Times" by Fathers Francisco and Dominic Radecki. pages 521-22.

    We must speak of Marxism.  From the top down. We also had a 1846 letter from Pope IX (?) on Communism.  It spelled it out clearly!  My family took it seriously and sold everything and fled Bavaria for the US in 1847.
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