Author Topic: Prayer Request for Fr. Stephen Somerville (Read 1479 times)

Miseremini · « **on:** December 01, 2015, 04:44:23 PM »

Please pray for Father Stephen Somerville who had a stroke on Saturday.

Father is the Canadian priest who offered the Traditional Mass for the cast and crew of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

McCork · « **Reply #1 on:** December 01, 2015, 05:39:41 PM »

Three quotes from Fr. Stephen Somerville, last living member of original ICEL commission that created the English New Order Mass:

"We found subtle ways of changing the words and dignifying these changes with decent, hopeful, positive expressions,"

"It was a revolution ... we were literally changing the faith of the Catholic Church because we were changing the way it prays."

"Never in the history of the Catholic Church has there been such a revolutionary change in the Mass (and the rest of the Liturgy) as has occurred since the 1960s. Has it been a harmful revolution? Indeed it has! Millions of Catholics have stopped practising their faith in this period, tens of thousands of priests have quit the priesthood, religious orders are dying, and whole new currents of heretical opinion are flowing through the surviving Church."

Miseremini · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2015, 06:21:17 PM »

Father publicly confessed and asked forgiveness for his participation in ICEL and came back to Tradition.
This post doesn't need an advocate for the devil.

In your charity please pray for Father.

McCork · « **Reply #3 on:** December 01, 2015, 06:31:22 PM »

Quote from: Miseremini

Father publicly confessed and asked forgiveness for his participation in ICEL and came back to Tradition.
This post doesn't need an advocate for the devil.

In your charity please pray for Father.

I intended quoting in his favor.

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #4 on:** December 01, 2015, 08:21:09 PM »

Fr. Somerville has for some number of years been the last surviving member of the old ICEL committee, and had been the youngest of the members. He has spent many years now making reparation for his past work with that committee, even while he sometimes has had to explain that he was not all that enthusiastic about what they had been doing. It was more like a job for him at the time. Some of the other members seemed to really enjoy doing that work but he couldn't say the same for himself.

It is noteworthy that a lot of clerics in the Church at the time of Vat.II took some kind of pleasure in destroying everything around them. Evidence of their curious obsession is to be found in various places. There is a book, Animus Delendi (desire to destroy), by Tradition in Action.

Prayers for Fr. Somerville

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poche · « **Reply #5 on:** December 01, 2015, 11:10:33 PM »

Miseremini · « **Reply #6 on:** December 10, 2015, 02:45:59 PM »

Father Sommerville is now in palliative care and my be nearing the end.

Please pray for him.

wallflower · « **Reply #7 on:** December 10, 2015, 03:24:26 PM »

Stubborn · « **Reply #8 on:** December 10, 2015, 03:45:36 PM »

stgobnait · « **Reply #9 on:** December 10, 2015, 04:00:23 PM »

Mark 79 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 10, 2015, 08:12:58 PM »

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #11 on:** December 10, 2015, 11:22:39 PM »