Paris: the fight for the restoration of the suppressed Tridentine Masses continues

While the liquidator of half of the Tridentine Masses in Paris, the former bishop Monsignor Aupetit, is the subject of a new judicial investigation for an old affair had not prevented him from becoming Bishop of Nanterre, then Paris - one wonders if anyone can become a bishop if he gives proof of hostility to the Mass of all time? - the struggle of the faithful of the suppressed Masses in Paris continues.

"We are still immersed in the emotion of the death of Pope Benedict XVI, at whose funeral I was able to attend in Rome, in St Peter's Square, in the midst of a very fervent crowd of priests and faithful, last week. His body was buried in the crypts of the Basilica. Pope Benedict is now like a seed thrown into the earth to bear much fruit.

Liturgical fruit. The Pope of Summorum Pontificum has opened up a path in which, despite the present vicissitudes, we will continue to advance and which we will even extend: it is for the full and complete freedom of the traditional liturgy that we are fighting!

In Paris, we learned of the meeting of the Sainte-Geneviève Collective, on the feast day of the patron saint of Paris, January 3, a Collective intended to establish relations, consultations, between all the groups of liturgical resistance in the capital and to circulate information between the network of these groups. We will talk more about this later. It is clear that the discontent caused by the absurd policy of the archbishopric will meet with ever more determined resistance.

We are closely following the resistance that is taking place in the neighbouring diocese of Versailles with the Saint-Germain-en-Laye affair. The Bishop, Monsignor Luc Crepy, has taken a first step by granting the faithful who have been attending Mass for the past two years, in the open air, in front of the closed door of the empty church of the hospital, by having two sung Christmas Masses celebrated in the chapel of the Franciscans, and has promised to continue the dialogue.

In the meantime, the faithful, ever more numerous, met the following Sunday for their mass "outside the walls", at 11am, in front of the locked door of the empty hospital chapel, 20 Rue Armagis. They will be there next Sunday and so on until the doors of a church open for them.

In Paris, the faithful dispossessed of the Mass at Saint-Georges de La Villette recite a vigil Rosary in their church on Wednesdays at 5pm. Likewise those of the courageous Paris Tradition 14 Collective, every Sunday at 6.15pm, outside the walls, in front of Notre-Dame du Travail.

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