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Within novus ordo, many are priests and religious sisters are leading a double life and don't have a true calling.

Sodomites and adulterers have taken over Catholic schools and universities too.  

And now the SSPX deal is done.   They are taking the novus ordo steps of slowly stripping traditional Catholicism.  I notice many diocesan Latin Masses have been discontinued. 

What was Feast of Ascension like at SSPX philly?

Revision of the 1917 code was called for by pope John XXIII in 1960 the same day he called for Vatican 2.  It took 17 years, with the code being accepted in 1983.
 
 The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) did not exist before this time.
 
 While the 1917 code of canon law allows a bishops council to change such things, true traditional Catholics draw a line in the sand and do not accept things promulgated after Vatican 2.
 
 According to a NY times piece from 1983, the American NCCB met in 1983 to decide how many days of holy obligation the American Church would observe.  "After some discussion, the bishops voted to retain the existing pattern in America of observing six holy days."  The key here is "in America."  Changes must be made by unanimity of all the bishops in a country.  Individual states are not allowed, even according to the 1983 canon law, to change such things. 
 
 (https://mobile.nytimes.com/1983/11/27/us/new-canon-law-code-in-effect-for-catholics.html)
 
 Clearly Fr. Asher, once again, is touting the party line bringing the SSPX, day by day, closer in line with the conciliar church to make complete absorption palatable and seamless. 

Considering Fr. Ashers parents are strong NO and one of his brothers is hard core feenyite, I can see why he might be confused.  I hope confusion is all it is.  Pray for Fr. Asher.

I'll tell you one thing, Jim: I attended holy Mass at the Los Gatos chapel in 2009 on the Feast of the Ascension, and there were very few people in the pews. The celebrant was a third stringer from the Trans-Alpine Redemptorists. I expected Father Emily to be saying the Mass. The priest was "effeminate", like a Conciliar priest is. Smiles, nods, feeble mind, etc. I got the distinct impression that the Society does not consider Ascension Thursday a major feast, and it is nearly certain that almost none of the regular congregation took the day off work. My disgust was immense, because I am a pre-Vatican II Catholic, not a modern Catholic. I reject the Council and the "reforms". In my opinion, the Feast of the Ascension is a Holy Day of Obligation, whatever the Conciliar Church or the Society feels.

I was there also in 2009 (and several year before) and Fr. Alphonsus is not "effeminate", he is a very good priests, one of only three that left when the Redemptorists made a deal with Rome. Plus, he told me specifically that is our duty to take the day off work when Holy Days fall on a weekday, but if the boss prevents you then no sin on you, but you do have to try. So we can not judge the others, although we can suspect some did not even try or even care, assuming you know each person and their circuмstances which I suspect you do not (otherwise you would not single out 2009, you would have similar experience in 2004 and 2006).