We're living Salvation History, Amici, and it ain't easy.
Particularly being in Judah with Ahaz as a king.
That's where we're at now. We're the True Church as Judah was the true remnant of Israel, and we (with the Orthodoxies: Eastern and "Oriental" and the Eastern Liturgy Churches in Communion with Rome) are full inheritors of the Covenants, especially the Seventh one, the New Covenant, the Holy Eucharist. But we have Ahaz as a king. We've Manasseh, we've a new Amon.
And while we prayerfully await a Hezekiah or a Josiah, a restitutor orbis, we're watching the kingdom fall to pieces. (Or to metaphor it in another way, we're coming to the end of our Babylonian Exile, which was what Vat II did to us Traditional Catholics: exile us to the far Euphrates.)
Whether our Peronist Caudillo is actually pope or not, he's in the driver's seat and he's shifting into ever higher gears as we near the cliff. Long, involved arguments are going on as to whether Bergoglio is a valid pope, and whether Ratzinger resigned validly, etc. In a sense, it doesn't matter what he does or who he is. This was all set in motion when the Vat2 Fathers voted their first vote, when they overthrew the Council's managers Ol' Roncalli had installed and inserted their Modernists revolutionaries.
This is especially true when, in the "Animus" of Vatican II, they went to the vernacular. There's really no escaping a total Church break up now into constituent language-based Churches. No. Escape. That's happened before, too. First with the Copts and Syrians before the Muslims came, then with the Greeks in 1054. That's also really what the Protestant Revolution was: a language-based breakup. (As well as being the Northern Kingdom of Israel breaking off of Judah. The parallels are fascinating and striking.)
So, here we are. All those groanings and creakings you hear, all the shudders and thuds and reverberations, are the Barque of Peter breaking up on the rocks. Of course, the Good News is there'll be one Church out of the plethora of flotsam and jetsam that has the ancient Traditional Mass and it'll keep the Latin for everything else -- theology, music, etc., as well. The "nationalist-language Churches" nightmare won't affect it at all, and all will be able to see that. In comparison to the cacophonous horde of snarling combatant national Churches, this TLM-based Church will be clearly the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
And it will be a "Reconquista Church", too, I think, slowly but surely bringing back a lot of otherwise fallen-away Catholics. Maybe even a few of these "bottom-line" stone-hearted bishops, as well. The Holy Spirit can do anything.
Beáti qui hábitant in domo tua, Dómini, in sæcula sæcúlorum laudábunt te. (The Gradual from the Feast of the Holy Family.)
An Préachán
Particularly being in Judah with Ahaz as a king.
That's where we're at now. We're the True Church as Judah was the true remnant of Israel, and we (with the Orthodoxies: Eastern and "Oriental" and the Eastern Liturgy Churches in Communion with Rome) are full inheritors of the Covenants, especially the Seventh one, the New Covenant, the Holy Eucharist. But we have Ahaz as a king. We've Manasseh, we've a new Amon.
And while we prayerfully await a Hezekiah or a Josiah, a restitutor orbis, we're watching the kingdom fall to pieces. (Or to metaphor it in another way, we're coming to the end of our Babylonian Exile, which was what Vat II did to us Traditional Catholics: exile us to the far Euphrates.)
Whether our Peronist Caudillo is actually pope or not, he's in the driver's seat and he's shifting into ever higher gears as we near the cliff. Long, involved arguments are going on as to whether Bergoglio is a valid pope, and whether Ratzinger resigned validly, etc. In a sense, it doesn't matter what he does or who he is. This was all set in motion when the Vat2 Fathers voted their first vote, when they overthrew the Council's managers Ol' Roncalli had installed and inserted their Modernists revolutionaries.
This is especially true when, in the "Animus" of Vatican II, they went to the vernacular. There's really no escaping a total Church break up now into constituent language-based Churches. No. Escape. That's happened before, too. First with the Copts and Syrians before the Muslims came, then with the Greeks in 1054. That's also really what the Protestant Revolution was: a language-based breakup. (As well as being the Northern Kingdom of Israel breaking off of Judah. The parallels are fascinating and striking.)
So, here we are. All those groanings and creakings you hear, all the shudders and thuds and reverberations, are the Barque of Peter breaking up on the rocks. Of course, the Good News is there'll be one Church out of the plethora of flotsam and jetsam that has the ancient Traditional Mass and it'll keep the Latin for everything else -- theology, music, etc., as well. The "nationalist-language Churches" nightmare won't affect it at all, and all will be able to see that. In comparison to the cacophonous horde of snarling combatant national Churches, this TLM-based Church will be clearly the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
And it will be a "Reconquista Church", too, I think, slowly but surely bringing back a lot of otherwise fallen-away Catholics. Maybe even a few of these "bottom-line" stone-hearted bishops, as well. The Holy Spirit can do anything.
Beáti qui hábitant in domo tua, Dómini, in sæcula sæcúlorum laudábunt te. (The Gradual from the Feast of the Holy Family.)
An Préachán
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