This Shannon is saying what I've been thinking for years.
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A Reader Asks: Why Do So Many Traditional Catholics Try to Work within the System that Is Bent on Destroying the Faith?
From: Shannon
Dear Fathers:
We traditional Catholics in the 21st century have a lot to be thankful for. We have so many different ways to help us get firmly grounded in the traditional Faith and to aid millions of lost souls in doing likewise: books, internet, DVDs, CDs, periodicals, newspapers, etc. [For further information, click on FAQ05: What Traditional Catholic Resources Do You Recommend? in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics).]
Yet we crib and carp: "Why don't the pope and bishops return to Tradition? Why has God allowed this to happen? Is there no end to this apostasy in sight?" Sure, the papacy and the diocesan hierarchies bear a large share of the blame, but that this no excuse for us traditional Catholics to sit tightlipped, waiting for miracles to happen. God has supplied us with the miracle of all the available tools that we need for the Traditional Catholic Movement. Now we had better get to work, remembering the maxim: "Help yourself, and Heaven will help you."
It is understandable why traditional Catholics get angry, despair, and rant and rave, but why can't we go one step further and channel these negative emotions into positive action? What is preventing us from seeing that the New Order in Newvatican and its leaders are anything but Catholic and that we must break off all ties with them? Why do so many of us try to work within the system that is bent on destroying the Faith? Why do too many of us settle for the hoax of a "Motu" Mess, designed by the same Vatican II and Hannibal Bugnini that just seven years later brought us the full blown, invalid Novus Ordo Protestant-Masonic-Pagan service?
Why can't we work outside the New Order and rebuild the Church instead of settling for a few crumbs? The New Order has stolen our Catholic institutions -- schools, colleges, universities, publishing houses, ecclesiastical supply houses -- and turned them to serve the New Order. Yet, Newchurch has an Achilles' heel. It depends on financial resources to survive, primarily the Sunday collections from laypeople. The embezzlement of parishioners' funds to finance the luxurious lifestyles of the corrupt bishops and presbyters and to pay off the victims of their sex crimes are a lesson for us to learn from.
Those traditional Catholics who participate in Newchurch parishes (as at the "Motu" Mess) and put their money into the collection plate to support the Novus Ordo and its clergy's sex crimes form the bread and butter of Newchurch. By ceasing contributions to Newchurch, they would accelerate the destruction of the New Order that they claim to hate. If they continue to fund the New Order, they are just so many hypocrites.
The Fathers Reply.
Well said. The feastday of St. Francis of Assisi occurred just a few days ago. In St. Francis' time the Church was plagued with vice and corruption among the clergy, just as it is in our own day. From the crucifix in the little Church of San Damiano in Assisi, St. Francis seemed to hear the image of the Crucified Savior say to him: "Francis, repair my falling house." St. Francis took these words literally, thinking that the Lord wished him to repair San Damiano. Little did he realize then that Our Lord's call not to rebuild the little church, but the falling Roman Catholic Church itself, to rid it of its corruption, and to return it to its traditional Catholic values. The Franciscan revolution certainly did that, together with the revolution of St. Dominic, which returned traditional Catholic values to the religious orders.
The Catholic maxim is: Ecclesia semper reformanda. But that does not mean that the reformation is to "update" the Sacred Liturgy or to turn the Catholic and Apostolic Church into some New Order. No, it means that the souls of Catholics, and particularly the clergy, are to be returned to the traditional Catholic values from which they periodically fall.
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