No Mass! Vatican Treats Melbourne Archbishop "Like a Flunky"
During a visit to the Vatican on 24 January, Monsignor Peter Andrew Comensoli, 60, Archbishop of Melbourne, asked the Dicastery for the Liturgy for a "dispensation" to celebrate the Roman Rite Mass in three churches: St Michael, St Philip and the Cathedral St Patrick.
A day later he received the answer: Niet! The Vatican issued a decree forbidding the Mass in the cathedral.
Cardinal Arthur Roche "allowed" it only for two years and only in the churches of St Michael and St Philip. The decree was signed by his secretary, Archbishop Vittorio Viola (pictured).
According to the Vatican, over the next two years, the faithful are to be led into the [decadent] Novus Ordo from which they have all been fleeing for decades.
Archbishop Viola writes: "While we recognise that Mass according to the Missale Romanum of 1962 has been celebrated in the Cathedral Church for some time, we are nonetheless constrained [by whom?] to deny this request. It is now opportune [!] that the direction given by the …More
@Sean Johnson> I don't see the SSPX 'drifting' into the modern mass no matter the mindset of the 'resistance'. No doubt that is the 'wish' of Williamson's followers, after all, they desperately look for validation.
@Sean Johnson what you say is true. We can see it happening at our chapel. It is unfolding before our eyes. We were abandoned by the church during V2 and soon to be abandoned by the SSPX. The younger look and listen as if in awe. Us old timers shake our heads and wonder what happened.
Precisely my experience, except that I notice many old-timers have battle fatigue (one told me they weren’t going with the Resistance because they were too old to go back to hotel, basement, and garage Masses. In other words, worldliness has set in).
Sean, I'm an old timer and I can assure you, my wife and I have no inkling to abandon the 'The Faith of Our Fathers', We married a few months before the close of Vatican 2, that's a considerable span of time ago, and we have witnessed and lived through in England, Ireland and Australia, the associated trauma manifested on Catholics, Yet here we are, still, albeit in a less physical capacity, fighting the good fight and will continue to do so until our last breaths. Don't write us oldies off too quickly. Lastly, we have never been convinced an 'existential threat' on the SSPX existed, which required the setting up of a counter resistance movement.
…just as the SSPX is being lead by stages into the conciliar church, which it formerly had been fleeing for decades.
And to further facilitate and augment that absorption, priests ordained within the conciliar church’s new rites now proliferate. The faithful have only to accept or get out.
A master plan by Rome, really (Recall, +Huonder arrived at the request of Francis to further facilitate the SSPX’s assimilation process, first saying he was there simply to retire in peace, but ended by consecrating holy oils) to shake out all those old Lefebvrists still opposing the novel council and its new theology.
Day by day, the SSPX is transformed into that which it used to oppose.
Sean, many of us who have been helped by the SSPX for decades are, as you might guess, adults. Do you think that your random 'facts' will make a difference for your average attendee? And if the SSPX priests did all, abruptly, go 'N.O.', I for one would not be heading to a resistance group. Why not slow down your prognostication and let people use their own minds and souls to discern their choices.
Hi Mary-
I simply present the facts to reveal the ongoing deception. What you do with them is up to you.