The total failure of Traditionis Custodes to suppress the Latin Mass

The faithful from whom Archbishop Aupetit has taken away their traditional Masses - at Saint Georges de la Villette, Notre Dame du Travail and elsewhere, communicate:

"Traditionis custodes has failed. The traditional Mass will not disappear; on the contrary, it will continue to spread, especially among young people. We need to look back at the astonishing awareness of this issue revealed by the reactions of the official Catholic media on the occasion of the last Pentecost pilgrimage organised by ND de Chrétienté.

On 6 June 2023, Élisabeth Geffroy wrote in La Nef that the pilgrimage's liturgical specificity had been shattered (Pèlerinage de Chartres : une polémique dépassée ? - La Nef).

Let's take a look instead at what another contributor to La Nef, Jean Bernard, had to say in an article in La Croix on 6 June, "Le pèlerinage de Chartres est devenu le symbole d'un mouvement de fond" (The Chartres pilgrimage has become the symbol of a fundamental movement): the attempt by Traditionis custodes to take back what had been granted by Summorum Pontificum, and which had allowed a new progression in the traditional liturgy, has failed.

Jean Bernard writes: "The question is therefore no longer whether and when the traditional Mass will be definitively replaced by the 1969 missal. As the results of the survey commissioned by La Croix on the attitudes of young Catholics in France clearly confirm, not only will the traditional Mass not disappear, but there is every reason to believe that it will continue to grow, not only in absolute terms but above all in relative terms, given the gradual attrition of a number of ordinary-rite parishes.

The main thrust of Traditionis custodes was to isolate the traditional faithful from the parishes, and they became, as is logical, even more unmanageable since they were refused management.

What's more, this policy has led to a further drop in the number of people entering the seminaries (and, we forget to mention, in the income from the state contribution to parish upkeep) and has, on the contrary, led to greater recruitment in all the traditional communities.

Jean Bernard concludes: "It is therefore urgent, contrary to the approach adopted by Rome, to bring the traditional Mass back into the bosom of the dioceses and to allow it to be celebrated once again by diocesan priests, in conjunction with priests from traditionalist institutes". This freedom will give rise to a new explosion of traditional celebrations, which will respond to the wish of a significant proportion of the faithful in ordinary parishes, a wish continually revealed by a string of Paix Liturgique polls.

We will not cease to repeat that the main argument in favour of this freedom, which will necessarily be imposed, is that the reform of Paul VI radically overturned the Roman rite, which leaves intact the rights of what it sought to destroy, insofar as it created, as Joseph Ratzinger wrote in My Life, "a new edifice".

It is becoming clear today that this reconstruction has emptied the Roman liturgy of its substance, and in so doing has contributed to emptying the churches of their parishioners. Attempts to compensate for the inadequacies of the Paul VI Mass, such as that made by Abbé Jean-Baptiste Nadler, a priest in the Diocese of Vannes and member of the Emmanuel community, in his book L'esprit de la messe de Paul VI (Artège, 2023), which is very sympathetic insofar as it prepares the "ordinary" faithful for a return to truly traditional forms, show that this movement is inevitable.

The traditional Mass will not disappear and will regain its full freedom.

We continue to say these Rosaries "for freedom", every Wednesday at 5pm at Saint-Georges de La Villette, every Sunday at 6.15pm in front of Notre-Dame du Travail, and every working day, from Monday to Friday, in front of the offices of the diocesan administration, 10 rue du Cloître-Notre-Dame, from 1pm to 1.30pm″.

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