Father Thomas Rosica, PR assistant to the Vatican and aggressive proponent of the Francis agenda, is visiting Brooklyn. In the past he has often clashed with pro-life forces,  especially on the internet. He has this to say of his critics – including liturgical Traditionalists:

“Many of my non-Christian and non-believing friends have remarked to me that we ‘Catholics’ have turned the Internet into a cesspool of hatred, venom and vitriol, all in the name of defending the faith!”

Often times the obsessed, scrupulous, self-appointed, nostalgia-hankering virtual guardians of faith or of liturgical practices are very disturbed, broken and angry individuals, who never found a platform or pulpit in real life and so resort to the Internet and become trolling pontiffs and holy executioners!” Rosica said.

“In reality they are deeply troubled, sad and angry people,” he said. “We must pray for them, for their healing and conversion!”

It’s the vintage, inimitable style of Francis: pouring personal abuse and calumny on opponents – almost exclusively Catholics – while whining about the alleged injuries these enemies have inflicted.  But it’s been the modus operandi of progressives and “liberals” forever.

Thank goodness Pope Francis has had an entirely different approach!

“Prior to Pope Francis, when many people on the street were asked: ‘What is the Catholic Church all about? What does the pope stand for?’ The response would often be, ‘Catholics, well they are against abortion, gay marriage and birth control’,” Rosica said.

“Today I dare say that the response is somewhat different,” Rosica said.

“What do they say about us now? What do they say about the pope?

People are speaking about our leader who is unafraid to confront the sins and evils that have marred us,” he continued.

“We have a pope who is concerned about the environment, about mercy, compassion and love, and a deep passion, care and concern for the poor and for displaced peoples roaming the face of this earth,” he added. “Pope Francis has won over a great part of the media.”

The pontiff “has changed the image of the church so much that prestigious graduate schools of business and management are now using him as a case study in rebranding,” the priest added.

So “our leader” confronts the sins and evils that have marred “us” (the Catholic Church?) And he has won over  “a great part” of the (secular) media and “prestigious schools of business and management.”  “Abortion, gay marriage and birth control” no longer are issues, apparently. Rarely has the entirely secular course of Francis been as blatantly presented.  I also seem to recall that the (alleged) Founder of this Church had an entirely different view of pleasing the world and seeking to conform to the opinion of men.

In conclusion,  of course, “who am I to judge?” We can no longer say any individual is sinning:

“May our way of communicating help to overcome the mind-set that neatly separates sinners from the righteous,” he said. “We can and we must judge situations of sin – such as violence, corruption and exploitation – but we may not judge individuals, since only God can see into the depths of their hearts.”

SOURCE

Father Rosica is in Brooklyn to receive an award: “Rosica was presented with the Brooklyn Diocese’s St. Francis DeSales Distinguished Communicator Award by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio (of Brooklyn). And the fawning, uncritical report from which we have quoted was prepared by Crux staff (Crux  (John Allen) is now sponsored by the Knights of Columbus). So the Catholic Establishment, lay and clerical, is making its peace with the most aggressive supporters of the Francis “revolution.” You should remember that – if you are a Traditionalist – when  donation time comes…..

In the EF.

There is a daily traditional mass (low mass) every morning, Monday through Saturday,  at 7:30am at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 70 Park Hill Avenue, Yonkers, N.Y.   For details,call Father Salvatori at 914-433-8596 or at 914-963-4766.

For the TLM. From Fox News:

Veiled women, incense, Gregorian chants, kneeling, standing, kneeling again, long periods of silence — think all of this is a scene from a Catholic Mass in 1950?

It was then, to be sure — but it is now also happening every Sunday, and in some places every day, in churches all over the United States. The Latin Mass of years gone by is becoming more popular again.

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Alfonso DiGirolamo, a lifelong Catholic, started a website, GetTLM.org, to help parishioners bring the Traditional Latin Mass to their own parish. The website includes videos that explain what to expect when attending the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, and it shares resources to help formally introduce parishes to the TLM.

DiGirolamo has been attending the TLM in Philadelphia for more than four years. He learned how to serve as a master of ceremonies for it, which means he’s the adult male altar server who responds in Latin on behalf of the congregation during the Mass and helps direct the altar boys. He explained, “Between the reverence, the prayers, and the adoring respect for the Holy Eucharist, it has become an essential part of my and our prayer life, which is just not available, even in the most reverent, in the Ordinary Form.”

Complete Article HERE.

From the Latin Mass community in Jersey City:

“Pentecost is always kept with special fervor by the Latin Mass community in Jersey City, NJ, since that is the Feast on which the old rite was resurrected in 2003. This year the Mass will be moved from 9:00 am to 2:00 PM to permit it to be offered with particular care and also to mark the 40th anniversary of the ordination of the Rev. John A. Perricone. Fr. Perricone regularly celebrates Holy Mass for this Latin Mass Community which is now part of the parish of St. Anthony of Padua and also teaches his Aquinas course for the parish. Fr. Perricone, a professor of philosophy at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, has spent his entire priesthood fighting for the integrity of the Faith and has been in the vanguard of liturgical restoration.

The resident choir at St. Anthony’s, Cantantes In Cordibus, will sing Mozart’s Missa Solemnis (KV 337) with orchestra under the direction of Simone Ferrarasi. The Propers will be sung by the Men’s Schola under the direction of Joseph Orchard, PhD. Motets will include Franck’s Dextera Domini, Biebl’s Ave Maria, and Desmet’s Ecce Sacerdos.

A dinner will be held afterward in honor of Fr. Perricone and tickets can be obtained through Dan Marengo. danmarengo@aol.com.

St Anthony of Padua, Jersey City, is a landmarked historic edifice in the Victorian gothic style at 457 Monmouth Street, Jersey City, NJ 07304. 457 Monmouth St, Jersey City, NJ 07302. There is off street parking on 6th Street between Coles St. and Monmouth. The church is walking distance from the Grove Street PATH station.”

This evening a Solemn Mass was offered at St. Mary Church, Greenwich, in the presence of the incorrupt heart of the Cure of Ars, St. John Vianney.

The church was standing room only.

The incorrupt heart of St. John Vianney in its reliquary on the altar

The schola performed Palestrina’s beautiful Missa Papae Marcelli

Fr. George Rutler was the homilist

Venerating the incorrupt heart of St. John Vianney this evening at St. Mary Church Greenwich, CT. The relic will be at the church until Thursday morning. Tomorrow night there will be a Solemn Extraordinary Form Mass at 7:30 pm, with Fr. George Rutler as homilist.
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