Is the SSPX Preparing to Ordain New Bishops?

Posted on April 20, 2023 | Leave a comment

The following link was forwarded to me.

VIENEN NOVEDADES IMPORTANTES EN LA NEO-FSSPX

Unless you count four years of Latin, I am not a polyglot so I ran this puppy through Mr. Google.

Point #2 comes back as the following:

“This week, Fr. Pagliarani has given this instruction to the priests of the SSPX: “Begin to prepare the faithful for eventual episcopal consecrations” (Non Possumus cannot reveal the source of this information, but it is certain).”

If this is true, it certainly seems to prop up the heightened invective being hurled against the Society. As I say this, I am aware that I am speaking only of my own experience, anecdotally. Perhaps any of the readership who also attend former Ecclesia Dei parishes can email me if they have also noticed this. From personal experience, though, I have heard not a few sermons preached and the odd “lecture” given to parishioners by well-known priests of tradition, expounding on the supposed dangers of associating with the Society. And that’s just in the past week!

Carmel of the Infant Jesus of Prague and of St. Joseph, Dallas, TX

Whether this story is true or not, one thing is absolutely certain. Whether or not the SSPX is ever “regularized” by Rome (if that’s even possible given the current state of the Vatican), the former EC communities had better find a way to play nice with the Society. To say nothing of the old cliche of circular firing squads, these are the clans that must unite!

St. Pius V, pray for us!

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Curiouser and Curiouser…

Posted on April 19, 2023 | Leave a comment

The headline on Canon212 tonight raises many questions. Take a look here. Apparently, Teddy is not only still living on Church property, but he’s doing so at the Redemptorist Mater Seminary in suburban DC – his old stomping grounds. Boy, the diabolical narcissism is strong with this one. They just love putting it right in your face, don’t they?

First, this seminary, if I’m not mistaken, is similar to the RM seminary in the Newark Archdiocese. It is a house of formation (malformation?) for members of the Neocatechumenal Way. Remember them? They were a favorite of Ted when he was serving as ordinary in both the Newark and Washington Sees. They were a favorite because they boosted his numbers and allowed him to claim that he ordained more men than any other bishop in the country each year. He forgot to mention that these foreign born seminarians were all released from service to the ordaining diocese after three years. He also forgot to mention that the whole thing was part of his intricate “pipeline”. Not sure what I mean? Look it up. I’ll wait. Back in the day, Gary and company in Ferndale actually did some decent reporting on this stuff.

Jesus Dies upon the Cross, Front Royal, VA

Second, they seriously stuck him right back in a seminary of all places?! I’ve got a better idea. Let’s take an inveterate drink on a field trip to the local tavern!

Third, I’ve raised the question before but here it is again. When a man is laicized and “returned to the lay state”, how does that man still have access to living arrangements furnished by the institutional Church? Why are they/we housing this bastard at all?

Final note… George Neumayr hinted before his untimely death that it was possible McCarrick has not been laicized after all. Now that George is gone, isn’t it odd that they put McCarrick in residence right in George’s old neck of the woods? It’s almost screaming, “There’s nothing you can do about it…”

All of this and we still haven’t begun to discuss the ritualistic nature of the alleged abuse in the Wisconsin case and the fact that the other man mentioned was almost certainly Joseph Bernardin.

God help us all!

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Victory!

Posted on April 18, 2023 | Leave a comment

I have made it home safely with my family and our travels are done at least for the moment. I’ll be back in the air in ten days for a baptism. Thank you kindly for all the prayers. This time I ordered the gin and I didn’t spill my drink. Also, does it make sense to anyone else that people seated in the exit row are given free liquor? To quote the Argentine, “Who am I to judge (so long as I’m the guy in the exit row)?”

IAD from takeoff

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Never Forget YOUR Non-Essential Status

Posted on April 17, 2023 | Leave a comment

I came across this fascinating article today from the Brownstone Institute.

I had a friend who heard through the grapevine that there was a warehouse in New Jersey that had a secret knock for the backdoor to a barber. He tried it and it worked. Not one word was spoken. The haircut took 7 minutes and he paid in cash, which is all the person would accept. He came and went and told no one. 
This is what it meant to be nonessential: a person or service that society could do without in a pinch. The lockdown order of March 16, 2020 (“indoor and outdoor venues where people congregate should be closed”) applied to them. But it did not apply to everyone and everything. 
What was essential? This is where matters got very complicated. Did one want to be essential? Maybe but it depends on the profession. Truck drivers were essential. Nurses and doctors were essential. The people who keep the lights on, the water running, and the buildings in good repair are essential.

Read the rest here.

And please do remember that your faith was absolutely considered non-essential; and not just by the government overlords either. Your bishops deemed you non-essential – many of them before any government agency even hinted that they would be asked to.

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A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever

Posted on April 16, 2023 | Leave a comment

Many of you know that I enjoy sharing pictures I have taken of the beauty of sacred art and architecture. So tonight, please enjoy the following for your edification and meditation on the Divine.

I could do without the Cranmer table up front. Maybe one day, it will be repurposed as a proper altar in a side chapel. Who knows? Chapel of Christ the King, Front Royal, VA

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My Dedication

Posted on April 15, 2023 | Leave a comment

At this very moment, I am reclining on a couch, covered in a blanket. It is not cold here. Rather, I have the chills. It turns out the one of the perils of travel is a greater propensity to falling ill. For this this is especially strange since I do not usually “get sick”. I feel bad that my daughter also caught this nasty bug that seems to be like a stomach flu. For her, she couldn’t hold anything down. For me, I just feel like my entire body – muscle, bone, joints – is under attack. I do not like this but I am attempting to offer it up. I take from this the valuable lesson that I should not travel without a stock of “Vitamin I”. A dose of that at the onset and I would be where I am supposed to be now, instead of lying on a coach.

As you may have been able to guess from the picture yesterday (and my blatant, naked words) that I am in Northern Virginia. If you have followed anything carefully over the past few years, you will note that there is a Catholic liberal arts college in Front Royal, VA, and that this college is dedicating a magnificent new chapel as we speak. I was supposed to be there. Along with many other souls, my wife and I gave toward the building of the chapel – not for personal glory, but for God’s glory and so that these young men and women students be inspired to right worship.

And then, last fall, the bishop began “moving things around”. I could have said “quashing the Latin Mass”. I am going to take him at his word. I am not worried. It is still beautiful. There is still incredible potential to inspire. And one day, I do believe that the Tradition Latin Mass will be offered on the high altar and I will hopefully be there.

But my real purpose in writing this post is to show you all something.

Clear glass for now.

Those two window arches will soon hold two windows of saints that are very dear to me and to our family. Primarily, one window will depict the Saint of the Impossible. I have always wanted to provide an image of my favorite Cascian saint to a church that maybe someone will see her and be inspired to read about her and pray for her intercession. Also, I do not mention any of this to brag. I really am humbled that we were able to be a part of the building of this structure and I am thrilled to have finally been able to adorn a church with a Rita!

So, God be praised! Prayers all around for the diocese!

St. Rita of Cascia, ora pro nobis!

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Strange Beauty

Posted on April 14, 2023 | Leave a comment

Friends, tonight I attended a Vespers service. His Eminence, Cardinal Arinze presided. It was Novus Ordo. I was here for a very good reason. I will report more to you tomorrow. The Shenandoah Valley is certainly beautiful this time of year and surely Our Lord is well pleased with this effort. Until I write again, enjoy a preview…

They don’t build them like this anymore? Hold my beer…

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