I recently warned the blinded SSPX that they would not be exempted from the recent Roman decrees incorporating new “saints” and Novus Ordo prefaces into the 1962 Missal (effectively making it a 2020 Missal) in two articles available here:
http://tradcatresist.blogspot.com/2020/03/two-excellent-articles-by-sean-johnson.html?m=1Some tried to argue that the new decrees were only optional.
Yet I rebutted that argument by noting the Roman modus operandi has remained the same since Vatican II:
Stress the optional nature to dissipate resistance, then later make the measures mandatory.
Now Rorate Coeli is reporting that Rome is sending a survey to all the bishops of the world, asking pointed questions about how Summorum Pontificuм has been implemented in their respective dioceses:
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2020/04/breaking-important-summorum-under.html#moreWith the PCED dissolved into the CDF (ie., the Commission being largely obsolete, with the SSPX already largely regularized), and the new hybrid missal just promulgated (optional for now, but not for long), it isn’t difficult to see where this is going:
Rome is laying the groundwork for abrogating SP, which, once the new 2020 hybrid Missal becomes mandatory, will be completely obsolete:
The 1962 Missal having disappeared, the raison d’etre for the motu proprio serves no purpose.
And just like that, the SSPX will have lost the 1962 Missal (which like their former PCED brothers, was pretty much the only thing they had been allowed to retain).
Some people never learn.