Traditionis custodes, denies, scorches the earth and starves His sheep.
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass disappeared from one Sunday to the next.
At 11:15 AM on a Sunday, our Parish had a vibrant community attending the Traditional Mass. From one Sunday to the next it simply disappeared. What was feeding His sheep one Sunday was simply gone the next.
The Faithful attending this Traditional Mass were feed on what is uncompromisingly Roman Catholic. They knew that if they prayed as Roman Catholics uncompromisingly do, they would believe as Roman Catholics uniquely do.
“Lex orandi, lex credendi, sometimes expanded as Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi, is a motto in Christian tradition, which means that prayer and belief are integral to each other and that liturgy is not distinct from theology.”
Our Lord in the triple plea to St Peter could have said, rule over or govern my sheep in the likes of Traditionis custodes which literally cuts off the food supply, but simply He said “feed My sheep”.
All the clergy need to evaluate what is obedience in relation to the prime law above which there is none, “the salvation of souls”, feeding the sheep.
There are canonised Saint’s, canonised simply because they rose above a false obedience, themselves falsely excommunicated, maintained what they had been handed,(Tradition) aligned with Our Lord’s invocation through St. Paul in 2 Thes. 2:15 “stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned”.
The scorched earth policy of TC is in direct opposition to Our Lord’s triple command.
He saith to him: Feed my lambs. [16] He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. [17] He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.
