Priest wants Chartres Pilgrimage to accept Ordinary Form which killed his own pilgrimage

Father Benoist de Sinety, the parish priest of Saint-Eubert parish in Lille and former head of student chaplaincies in the Ile-de-France region, has written an article for Aleteia about the Christian pilgrimage to Chartres. Clearly not bothered by the principle of non-contradiction, he fails to see the relationship between cause and effect in his own analysis. He writes of the success of the Chartres pilgrimage:

For eleven years I had many opportunities to reflect on this growing success, while I was looking after the student chaplaincies in the Île-de-France region, and we saw the spectacular decline in student pilgrimages to Chartres during Palm Sunday, without being able to reverse the trend. With the chaplains and leaders, and with the bishops too, we came up with many theories and explanations. To no avail.

And, complaining that this pilgrimage does not adopt the ordinary form, he writes below:

The undeniable success of the Pentecost Pilgrimage will only bear fruit if it opens up to the ordinary form of what the Church offers. Failing that, there is a strong risk that it will maintain an illusion of catholicity distorted by an entre-soi that is ultimately mortifying for the body as a whole.

Abbé de Sinety doesn't have much to teach us about the fruits of a pilgrimage when he hasn't been able to understand why the student pilgrimage disappeared for lack of pilgrims. Perhaps it's precisely because young people want the Extraordinary Form and virile priests like Abbé Raffray?

And the comments under the article underline this:

Why is it so difficult to have Mass in the Extraordinary Form on the other 362 days of the year throughout France this time? Many of the participants in this pilgrimage are parishioners in the ordinary form. What they are looking for at this pilgrimage is precisely the Extraordinary Form.

And this other one:

As a Diocesan priest who regularly celebrates in the same parish in both liturgical forms, I can understand Father Sinety's bitterness; and I must say that I appreciate his sense of analysis in most of the articles that appear in Aléteia. However, here, I no longer share his argument at all: where is the problem, if a fringe of the Church, which intends to remain Church, but which is increasingly ostracised by its own institutions, where is the problem, if, for once, it can bear witness that its own particularity (the pre-Vatican II liturgy) is not an obstacle to expressing its faith, in the effort of walking and in joy, in the contemporary world?

And again:

"dangerous areas, is a source of concern. ". Uh.... churches emptying out, with an average age of 70, isn't that what's worrying him? Nor is the loss of faith, let alone the salvation of souls? No, what's serious and "dangerous" are fervent, young and dynamic believers who love Latin and the solemn beauty of celebrations, because Latin necessarily equals Pharisee and fascist?

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The Palm Sunday Pilgrimage lasted from 1935 until 2022.

Two pictures show the spiritual difference between the two pilgrimages.  One is a ramble, the other a pilgrimage in Christ under the patronage of Our Lady and All Saints of France and beyond, lifting high the Cross on which hung the Redeemer of the world.