Banquet bookings: [...] please contact DIRECTLY the person in charge: [see original reply (#18) for contact-info]
Clergy attendance: by personal invitation only.
Please do NOT call St Athanasius Rectory for problems with your [personal travel arrangements !]
The priests are VERY BUSY !
Isn't it quite safe to assume that the
laypeople who've accepted leadership roles or other responsibilities to make this
consecration happen and related events
run smoothly are also "
VERY BUSY ! "? And
things will go wrong ! From
inexperience, if nothing else; as Matthew himself had written (albeit for a different reason):
1. It is the first consecration of a Traditional Catholic bishop in the United States who is not Sedevacantist and/or Thuc-line. This will also be the first bishop whose priestly apostolate was primarily in the United States since Fr. Williamson was chosen in 1988 !
2. Even today, there are not THAT MANY Trad bishops in the recognize-and-resist Traditional Catholic world.[....] Right now the neo-SSPX and Resistance have a total of 6 bishops, most of whom are over 70, and the rest of whom are in their 60's.
3. It is the first consecration of a new generation of bishops. [....]
So upon further review, I post this as my
mea culpa to the clergy and lay leaders of St. Athanasius (Catholic Church) for participating in cluttering this thread with
unofficial content.
May I be excused for being so bold as to suggest that to keep this particular
topic well
focused on what its
Subject: plainly indicates is "
official information", e.g., from responsible sources at St. Athanasius, that henceforth, all social chatter, including personal plans for attending, recommended attire, double-secret recognition signs, &c., be moved to an explicitly
unofficial topic that I created yesterday afternoon (May 3) for the purpose?
<
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/unofficial-informationre-official-information-for-bp-zendejas-consecration/> [
sic]
Yes, the event has its own Web site, but unlike a Web-
forum site (e.g., CathInfo), it's not set up with
index pages that are designed to
easily show visitors to the site
what's new and
what's changed. But even on CathInfo, that works well
only if unofficial people keep their
unofficial content out of the
official topic. Not to put too sharp a point on it.
Of course, I don't exercise any authority at St. Athanasius, nor on CathInfo, but perhaps I have the paradoxical advantage [$] of being "able to see the forest despite all the trees".
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Note $: From absolute
certainty that my budget prevents my attendance at the consecration.
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