Last Sunday parishioners in Walton, KY, were told that they are no longer obligated under pain of mortal sin to attend Ascension Thursday Mass. The priests will 'encourage' attendance though, as the Mass will continue to be celebrated as usual on Ascension Thursday. When the pastor was asked why after all these years... why the SSPX is just now following this change by the U.S. bishops, he replied, "I think this is something that fell through the cracks and so when we realized it we addressed it. There is nothing more than that. We will continue to treat the Ascension as a holy day and encourage all the faithful to treat it as a holy day ."
No one batted an eye.
Incredible.
Not the SSPX changing more and more every day to "fit better" into the Conciliar Church -- that I expected.
It's sad that so many Traditional Catholics are losing it -- being demoted from "Traditional Catholic" to "Latin Mass Catholic".
Latin Mass Catholics just believe "it's better in Latin" or "the Tridentine Mass is better" but they don't think there's a Crisis in the Church as we consider it -- unless you're talking about the fact that
so many ignorant souls prefer the inferior Novus Ordo... That's the only Crisis in the Church for them.
Traditional Catholics want NOTHING TO DO with the Conciliar Church, its entire corrupt or compromised hierarchy, the Novus Ordo Missae, the new Code of Canon Law, or the new relaxed disciplines established by the Conciliar Church after Vatican II.
That's how you can tell a Traditional Catholic from a conservative Catholic, or "Latin Mass" Catholic. There's a huge world of difference.
The SSPX used to be Traditional; now they're conservative. That's not what I signed up for, so I left.With the defection of the SSPX, Tradition has been thrown back to the Stone Age as it were -- a.k.a. the 1970's. Few options for Mass, Independent chapels only, lots of humble chapels (garage, hotel room, rented facility), lots of variety of theological opinion, severe priest shortage, many people can't get to Mass on Sunday. Oh, and just like the 1970's, we have former parishioners telling us things like, "Come on, stick around and at least have a place for Mass on Sunday. You can ignore the various evils or offer them up. Come on, don't be proud or disobedient..."
For those who lived through the 70's, and stayed faithful to Tradition after the SSPX defected, it's like Deja vu!
We'll rebuild Tradition once again. We have to. We really have no choice. We still have to save our souls, raise our children Catholic, etc.
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