This is the official letter of the Bishop Beckman annihilation of the Traditional Latin Mass in Knoxville (East Tennessee):
“By January 1, 2026 every Latin Mass in the diocese will be celebrated using the 2002 Roman Missal ensuring consistency with the Church’s approved liturgical books…your community will continue to worship in Latin…while faithfully serving the unity of the Church.” [cf. letter below]
They really do think it’s about the “Latin” language in itself, and about the “smells and bells.” They really do think we are as vapid, and superficial, and malicious as they are.
Let us be clear for the 1000th time: it is about the RITE, the ancient rite, which you may call “form,” but it is ours, to which all Catholics of the Latin Church have “rightful aspirations” (John Paul II) -- and that, “in the meantime, it has clearly been demonstrated that young persons too have discovered this liturgical form, felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist, particularly suited to them.” (Benedict XVI)
This was true in 1988, in 2007, AND IT IS EVEN MORE SO TODAY. Your new committee-made, "fabricated" liturgy is not what we inherited from our forefathers. It is not ours by history, culture, inheritance, and legacy:
"What happened after the Council was altogether different: instead of a liturgy fruit of continuous development, a fabricated liturgy was put in its place. A living growing process was abandoned and the fabrication began. There was no further wish to continue the organic evolution and maturation of the living being throughout the centuries and they were replaced -- as if in a technical production -- by a fabrication, a banal product of the moment." (Joseph Card. Ratzinger)
We are not idiots, and WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY GENTLE INTO THAT NIGHT.
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