I came across this fantastic sermon on another site. It gives a different, more Traditionally-minded slant to the Pope's abdication than that in the general media. It was taken down and disappeared, but someone saved it and has posted it on YouTube until it vanishes again. So listen while you can. Only 11 minutes, and worth it. I don't know how to embed the video, maybe someone will be nice enough to do it for me.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qQ7aAjzZI&feature=youtu.be

I agree, padrepio, this forum might not be the right one, but either Crisis or
General or Resistance or Modern World would have been okay.  It's kind of
funny how all these things are affected by what the Pope does!  

It seems like the priest may be a diocese priest, but what he says is not the
kind of thing that diocese priests say any more.  But he has a priestly voice,
without a doubt.  Sad to say SSPX priests, in the current climate of making a
'deal' with modernist Rome, don't talk this way anymore, either!  They used
to, though, before +Fellay got hold of the reigns!

So maybe he's independent, but I do not recognize the voice.  There is no
description - the person uploading it (Jennifer Mary) says the source is not
known.  It could be that the priest recorded it himself and does not want it
traceable to him.  

Could it have been given in an empty church, when the speaker was able to
say what he really wants to say but cannot?  I don't hear any coughing or
other noises in the audience.  There is a reverb/echo that can be faked with
dubbing, but is usually a result of the mic the speaker is using picks up the
ambient sound of the same voice bouncing off the walls of the room.  There
are a few faint artifacts of a distant barking dog.  So I would be inclined to
say it may have been recorded in an empty church, at night, FWIW.  If so,
what a shame that people didn't hear it.  So it's up to us to make up for their
absence:  WE ARE THE AUDIENCE!

He says that this abdication is the first one in history.  I was saying, "no, this
has happened before, 600 years ago and more, in the past."  

Then he made the qualifier:  never before has any pope resigned because of
advanced age.  And I had to concur.  None of the previous times was due to
infirmity of age.  Other popes have resigned in the past, but none of them
have resigned because of their old age.  

The Church has had over 260 popes in nearly 2,000 years and this is the first
one to voluntarily end his pontificate because he thinks he is too old.  

The reference to Hans Urs von Balthazar's Razing the Bastions is quite
appropriate.  The erstwhile Fr. Ratzinger was an intellectual colleague of von
Balthazar, and they were both suspect of heresy in saner days.  I had not
known that von Balthazar authored a meditation book on Tarot cards.  But
I'm not too surprised.  

Unlikely to be a diocesan priest, as I've never heard any diocesan priest starting sermons with 'In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy GHOST', unless someone can show me something to the contrary. Usually the modern priests will use 'Holy SPIRIT'.

Unlikely to be a diocesan priest, as I've never heard any diocesan priest starting sermons with 'In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy GHOST', unless someone can show me something to the contrary. Usually the modern priests will use 'Holy SPIRIT'.

That's a good point.  I missed that.  It's been so long since I've heard a priest
use "Holy Spirit" that I had forgotten about it.  

There is a theological nuance involved in this.  And it got past nearly everyone
at first, when the trend grew in the 50's leading up to, and the 60's during the
Council and immediately after.  The nuance is, that 'spirit' is ambiguous, and it
can mean not only the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, but equally a feeling
or an attitude, such as 'spirit of pride' or 'spirit of compromise,' or even "The
Spirit of St. Loius" -- which, by the way, was an airplane. <-- website for model!




Spirit is preferred when speaking of the 'soul of a brute animal' or of a plant, as
the principle of life in a material living organism, distinguished from an eternal
soul, that is, of man.  

Our biggest problem today is that the word 'spirit' was co-opted by the
Modernists at Vat.II to mean 'the spirit of Vatican II' which gave them carte
blanche to spread the errors of the Council with wild abandon.  It became, as
it were, the 'spirit of the age'.  

We could pull out of that dead-end road and get back to normal if we would
only recognize that they left out one word:  the unclean spirit of Vatican II.









FWIW I just realized that Lindburgh could not see out the front of the plane
because there was no front windshield  --  it was covered by fuel tanks
inside the plane, 450 gallon capacity: