January 15, 2012
At the Réunicatho meeting which convened at 2:00 this afternoon, Bishop Schneider proclaimed an important development in the implementation of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. Indeed Msgr. Germiny, Bishop of Blois, has erected a personal parish for the extraordinary form at Blois on November 1 in the church of Notre-Dame des Grouëts. The parish was placed under the patronage of the Holy Apostles.
The announcement was made this morning by Father M. Gac, superior of the Society of St Thomas Becket who has been appointed pastor of the personal parish. I am able to reveal that Father Michel Viot has played an instrumental role in this event. Up until now the church of Notre-Dame des Grouëts depended on the parish of St-Pierre-des-Cabochons, the pastor of which was Fr. Viot who had already instituted the celebration of the extraordinary form. Due to the parish consolidation that has been carried out in the diocese, it is currently in the territory of the Right Bank parish - that of Blois Cathedral - but has been separated from this parish to become the personal parish church of the Holy Apostles.
So there are now four personal parishes for the extraordinary form in France:
- The parish of St-François de Paule in Toulon where Fr. Fabrice Loiseau, superior of the Missionary Society of Divine Mercy is pastor;
- The parish of St-Eloi in Bordeaux where Fr. Vella, priest of the Institute of the Good Shepherd is pastor;
- The parish of the Croix-Glorieuse in Strasbourg, where Fr. Gouyaud, priest of the Totus Tuus association is pastor;
- And the parish of the Holy Apostles at Blois where Fr. Gac, Institute of St. Thomas Becket, is pastor.
Christophe Saint-Placide, Riposte Catholique
