“Father Spadaro also asked the pope in the interview about the need of some of the faithful to return to the Latin language and the old form of the liturgy. “Pope Benedict made a correct and generous gesture by accommodating a certain mentality of different groups and individuals, who were nostalgic and who had wandered away.” So spoke Pope Francis about the Vatican’s rapprochement withe Fraternity of St. Pius X. during the prior pontificate. “But that is an exception. For that reason we speak of the ‘Extraordinary’ form of the rite. It is not the ‘ordinary’ form.” one must implement the Second Vatican Council and the constitution on the liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium according to their sense. In the past it was especially the prefect of the congregation of the Liturgy, Cardinal Robert Sarah, who proposed a ‘Reform of the Reform” and therefore also the reintroduction of a common orientation of all the faithful in prayer as it was before the Council. Addressing this in the interview with Fr. Spadaro, the pope put it this way:”to speak of a Reform of the Reform is an error.”

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(My Translation) This is a summary, in the German language Vatican Radio, of an interview of Pope Francis with Fr. Spadaro SJ. The new interview is contained in a book collecting the sermons of Bergoglio as a bishop in Argentina. At the rollout of the book in Rome today Archbishop Cupich of course was present. The writer of the above paragraph, Pope Francis and Fr. Spadaro combine here to make a perhaps record number of factual errors, derogatory insinuations and false juxtapositions in a single paragraph. But Bergoglio’s attitude towards both Traditionalists and liturgical “conservatives” is abundantly clear!

La Croix provides more details of the same interview:

(Pope Francis) “I try to understand what is behind those who are too young to have lived the pre-conciliar liturgy yet who nevertheless want it.” “At times I find myself facing very rigid people, facing an attitude of rigidity. And I ask myself: why so much rigidity?” he continued, indicating that such rigidity hides “always something: insecurity or even something else.”….. For Pope Francis, “Rigid traditionalism isn’t good.”

(My Translation)

But what are we to make of this passage – also very recent:

“(Seewald) The reintroduction of the old mass is frequently interpreted as an accommodation to the Fraternity of Pius X.

(Pope Benedict) That is just utterly untrue! It was important for me that the Church itself would be spiritually at one with her own past. That that which previously was sacred, is not now false. ….As I said, my intention was not tactical in nature but concerned the substance of the matter itself.”

(my Translation) Benedict XVI (with Peter Seewald). Letzte Gespraeche at 231-32 (Droemer Verlag, Munich 2016)

Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, is visiting numerous churches in the Northeast this month. All masses listed here are traditional masses. (The photo shows Bishop Schneider during a Solemn Pontifical Mass at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk on January 6, 2013)

For a full schedule including Pennsylvania, Washington DC and Ohio: Schedule

Berlin, NJ:

Sunday, 23 October 2016, 10:30 AM
Solemn Pontifical Mass & Conference, Mater Ecclesiae Church information

Manhattan:  

Monday, 24 October 2016, 6:00 PM
Solemn Pontifical Mass, Church of the Holy Innocents

Tuesday, 25 October 2016, 6:00 PM
Pontifical Low Mass & Conference, Church of the Holy Innocents

THE ENGLISH MARTYRS VIEWED FROM A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE
By Joanna Bogle

Where? Holy Innocents Church, Broadway and 37th Street, Manhattan

When? Monday, October 17, 7:00 p.m., following the 6:00 p.m. Mass

For whom? Open to the public.

The Presenter
Joanna Bogle is an author, journalist and broadcaster working in London. Her books include several historical biographies, and “A Book of Seasons and Celebrations” explaining the traditions and customs associated with the Church’s year. She leads Catholic History Walks around London, and lectures regularly to schools, colleges, historical societies and Catholic and community groups. A regular broadcaster with EWTN, she writes for a range of newspapers and magazines in Britain and elsewhere, and is chairman of Christian Projects, an ecumenical group organizing Scripture-based projects for schools across Britain. She lives in London with her husband, who is a barrister.

For the Solemn Requiem Mass at St. Vincent Ferrer on November 7th, the Schola Cantorum of Saint Vincent Ferrer will be joined by a band of Renaissance wind instruments: shawms, sackbuts, and dulcians. These instruments are the ancestors of the modern oboe, trombone, and bassoon. While this type of accompaniment was a frequent practice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is seldom experienced today in liturgical use and will lend special solemnity to this occasion.

Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650), a Renaissance composer from the golden age of Portuguese polyphony, spent most of his life as a Carmelite in residence at the Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Lisbon. He published extensively, often with through the beneficence of his friend King John IV, although much of his music was lost in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.

Cardoso’s Missa pro defunctis a 6 is a masterwork of technical precision and emotive power, with many stylistic similarities with his two older contemporaries, Victoria and Palestrina. Much more so than in the Roman tradition, Iberian polyphony was often accompanied by instruments, and records from Cardoso’s own convent indicate that this was the case there.

St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT will offer a traditional mass on Friday October 7 at 7:30 pm to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. Benediction and adoration will follow.

St. Aloysius Church, 935 Bennetts Mill Road, Jackson, NJ will offer a Solemn Mass on October 7 at 7 pm.  More information at www.latinmasstrenton.org

The image of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary is in the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York.

Tonight the New York Purgatorial Society will offer its monthly Requiem Mass in the Dominican Rite at 7 pm. Please note the new location: St. Vincent Ferrer Church, 869 Lexington Ave., New York.