Let's apply the principles of the French Revolution to the Latin Mass
Some churches in France still bear the revolutionary slogan
Liberty for the Latin Mass.
Equality between the "extraordinary" and "ordinary" forms- putting to one side that the extraordinary form is in a superior class of its own.
Fraternity directed towards those that seek to attend or celebrate the Latin Mass.
There again perhaps more Faith, Hope and Charity should be preferred to all things and charity above everything. There is always the danger in the secular world to degeneration into the the liberty of wolves, the equality of sheep and the fraternity of dogs. Indeed also in the Church today, the wolves are rampant in the sheepfold.
Cardinal Lehmann was shocked that some in the Society of Saint Pius X did not accept the principles of the French Revolution. If Cardinal Lehmann wanted to live the principles of the French Revolution, he should give greater mind to the consequences.
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French Revolution is very terrible, the liberal demo(n)cracy has been created on the blood of our catholics ancesters ...
No revolution in the Church ! TRUTH AND TRADITION !
Bonne soirée ;)
In Christo Rege et Maria Immaculata
perhaps someone could send His Eminence a copy of Michael Davies’ book “For Altar and Throne: The Rising in the Vendee.” I am sure he would find it instructional about life in France during the Revolution. The back cover includes this comment from Pope JP II when he said, “You who are born in the land of Vendee…. are the heirs of men and women who were courageous enough to remain faithful to the Church of Jesus Christ at a time when her freedom and independence were threatened. In the numerous acts of witness that have come down to us, it is moving to see that the people of the Vendee remained attached to their parishes and their priests in spite of the cruelty of persecution.” Perhaps His Eminence could enlighten everyone which principles of the French Revolution he had in mind? Threats to freedom? Cruelty of persecution?
You will be interested to know that Angelus Press will imminently be re-publishing the Michael Davies ‘Pope Paul’s New Mass’ to complete the republication of his trilogy Liturgical revolution.