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Author Topic: Attacking the canard - "Waaah, nobody told me about Resistance Mass in my area!"  (Read 2460 times)

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Offline Matthew

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Bishop Faure is not under discussion:

An American District website is the precise subject, and I will bet you $100 that, if I email Bishop Zendejas (with you CC'd in) right now and propose designing and maintaining a website for the American SAJM (which would include Mass locations, times, and contact information for all SAJM American District venues and events), he will have some reason (such as those you previously mentioned) for not wanting me to do it.

Do you doubt that?

I'm not a betting man, but why not try it?

I don't see why each chapel couldn't have a coordinator who checks a public GMAIL address. The coordinator could even serve God by giving out his phone number, so prospective parishioners could call. I do that here. Yes, it's volunteer work. But it's for God and nobody else, so it's all good.

You do need a "Grease trap" to catch all the gunk before it enters the main pipes. That's why you have a contact phone number/e-mail. A new parishioner should at least have to call and give their name, before getting the address for the place. If they want to show up anonymously without having to talk to anyone -- they are either a thief or a troll/heckler/troublemaker.

If they can't work up the courage to make a phone call, they will probably go into hives being in public (even just 12 parishioners) anyhow.

I'm sorry, but Trad chapels aren't Wal-mart. We have to acknowledge that reality. A retail store and a garage chapel are two very different realities. Usually chapels involve private homes, for starters. Trad chapels involve strong beliefs, strong opinions, strong emotions, and can set one person (an enemy) on a focused mission or quest to destroy. Wal-mart doesn't have to deal with this. If someone was trying to break things in the store, they could call the cops. There's no law against heckling, talking bad about a priest, or reporting to management that a priest's superior is a h0Ɩ0cαųst denier.

Offline Matthew

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If more and more people suggest to Bp. Z that we need a SAJM United States website listing the chapels, maybe he will consider it providential and start praying about it?

Tell him what you think -- go ahead! Make sure to give lots of good reasons. He operates on reason.

(I'm not just talking to Sean here -- I'm talking to everyone, especially those who think the Resistance needs more publicity)

The thing about prudence is that it changes as the situation changes. If he were doing something for dogmatic reasons, you'd expect him never to change.


Offline Matthew

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Imagine if we replaced "Resistance Mass" with ANY OTHER SUBJECT.

Let's say building electronics gadgets also known as "makers". What if I frequented NO such websites, visited NO such forums, and made no efforts find and befriend other like-minded individuals in my area. A "maker convention" comes and goes in my area without me even hearing about it. Who would I have to blame, besides myself?

Could I make the claim that, despite my apparent apathy, I was actually the victim of elitism because they didn't rent enough banners, place the event on the front page of the newspaper, etc.? 

My point: if you don't make sufficient effort on your end, you can't criticize the event organizer for not spending enough (or doing enough) advertising to reach you.

Food for thought...

I came into this world, shortly after the conclusion of VII. My whole life has been in Tradition in the post VII era. I vaguely remember in the seventies, (before the SSPX had any presence in the US,) there were several priests roaming the country side. Most of these priests didn't have a place of their own, they didn't have cell phones or internet, they didn't have traditional periodical publications advertising Traditional Masses in your area etc... a catholic had to do their due diligence to seek out the Traditional Sacraments. In my remote neck of the woods, we were able to aquire a priest to say Mass once a month in a hotel room for some time, about a hour and a half away.

I believe that things have gotten way to soft for us now days, we expect that things be handed over on a silver platter. I thank God for my earlier experiences in this life, I believe it has put me one step ahead of the masses in our current tribulations. God has provided for me and my family with all that we need. Thanks be to God! 

Its in French, and does not discuss the American apostolate at all.
It's even worse in Canada