“We no longer lend the church for the rites of past centuries!”

Paix Liturgique reports on a group of Catholics that went to a certain spot for a summer educational weekend last weekend and were denied permission to say the TLM in the parish church. The deacon apparently said to them: “We no longer lend the church for the rites of past centuries!”

Paix Liturgique comments:

“What does ‘the rites of past centuries’ mean? Does the last version of the traditional 1962 missal with which the priest would have celebrated Mass if the parish of Béruges had accepted it belong to a past century different from the new 1969 missal? A textbook case of the hermeneutics of rupture!

“In the parish of Sainte Clotilde in Poitou, what the Church has practiced for centuries is no longer even tolerated. We are far from the words of peace of Pope Benedict XVI in his letter to the bishops of July 7, 2007…

“The mass was indeed celebrated in the ruins of the abbey chapel, in the open air. A magnificent example of peaceful resistance to the tyranny of the enemies of liturgical peace! The enemies of the Motu Proprio of Benedict XVI can close the churches and prefer them sadly empty rather than to see the traditional liturgy celebrated there, but this will in no way obviate the unwavering attachment of the faithful, who are becoming younger and more numerous.

“This is what is happening in Saint Germain en Laye where the faithful have been forced to attend the celebration of Mass every Sunday for more than a year… outside, on the square of the hospital chapel that the ecclesiastical authorities prefer to close…

“Wherever the faithful attached to the traditional mass are rejected by the authorities, peaceful and unfailing determination will prevail over the hatred and ideology of the old men of 1968.”

(Rough translation from the Paix Liturgique email blast with Letter 820 in French; not yet up at their primitive website)

Dr Peter Kwasniewski (via Facebook)