LETTER OF THE FAITHFUL ATTACHED TO THE TRADITIONAL MASS TO THE CATHOLICS OF THE WHOLE WORLD
by VP
Posted on Wednesday September 08, 2021 at 09:32PM in Documents
What father, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? (Mt 7:9)
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
It is with great sadness that we learned of Pope Francis’ decision to abrogate the main provisions of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI on July 7, 2007. After decades of divisions and quarrels, that Motu Proprio was, for all the Catholic faithful, a work of peace and reconciliation.
Rome violates the word given by Pope Benedict XVI with brutality and intransigence, far from the much vaunted fraternal welcoming.
The explicit will of Pope Francis, stated in the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, of July 16, 2021, is to see the celebration of the Mass of the Tradition of the Church disappear. This decision drives us to great dismay. How can we understand this rupture with the traditional Missal, a “venerable and ancient” actualization of the “law of faith,” which has bore fruit through so many nations, so many missionaries, and so many saints? What harm is done by the faithful who simply want to pray as their ancestors had done for centuries? Can we be unaware that the Tridentine Mass converts many souls, that it attracts young and fervent assemblies, that it arouses many vocations, that it has given rise to seminaries, religious communities, monasteries, that it is the backbone of many schools, youth groups, catechism activities, spiritual retreats, and pilgrimages?
Many of you, Catholic brothers and sisters, priests, and bishops, have shared with us your failure to understand this and your deep sorrow: thank you for your many testimonies of support.
To promote peace within the Church, in order to build unity in charity, and also to lead Catholics to reconnect with their own heritage by making as many people as possible discover the riches of liturgical tradition, the treasure of the Church: those were the goals pursued by Summorum Pontificum. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI witnesses his work for reconciliation destroyed during his own lifetime.
In a time steeped in materialism and torn by social and cultural divisions, liturgical peace appears to us as an absolute necessity for the Faith and for the spiritual life of Catholics in a world that is dying of thirst. The drastic restriction of the authorization to celebrate Mass in its traditional form will bring back mistrust, doubt, and it heralds the return of an agonizing liturgical war for the Christian people.
We solemnly affirm, before God and before men:
We will not let anyone deprive the faithful of this treasure which is first of all that of the Church.
We will not remain inactive in the face of the spiritual suffocation of vocations laid forth in the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes.
We will not deprive our children of this privileged means of transmitting the faith which is faithfulness to the traditional liturgy.
As children to their father, we request Pope Francis to reverse his decision, by abrogating Traditionis Custodes and restoring full freedom to celebrate the Tridentine Mass, for the glory of God and the good of the faithful.
Bread rather than stones.
September 8, 2021,
on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Signatories:
Bernard Antony, Président de l' AGRIF
Xavier Arnaud, Forum catholique
Victor Aubert, Président d'Academia Christiana
Moh-Christophe Bilek, Notre Dame de Kabylie
François Billot de Lochner, Président Fondation de Service politique
Benjamin Blanchard, Délégué général de SOS Chrétiens d'Orient
Anne Brassié, Journaliste et écrivain
Jacques Charles-Gaffiot, Historien d'art
Thibaud Collin, Professeur agrégé de philosophie
Laurent Dandrieu, Journaliste
Yves Daoudal, Journaliste - Directeur de Blog
Marie-Pauline Deswarte, Docteur en Droit
Stéphane Deswarte, Docteur en Chimie
Cyrille Dounot, Docteur en droit, licencié en droit canonique
Alvino-Mario Fantini, The European Conservative
Claude Goyard, Professeur des universités
Max Guazzini, Avocat
Michael Hageböck, Summorum Pontificum Freiburg
Maike Hickson, Docteur en Littérature, écrivain
Robert Hickson, Professeur, écrivain
Michel De Jaeghere, Journaliste et essayiste
Marek Jurek, Ancien pdt de la Diète de Pologne
Peter Kwasnieswki Ecrivain
Philippe Lauvaux, ULB Paris Assas
Pierre de Lauzun, Haut fonctionnaire Ecrivain
Massimo de Leonardis, President International Commission of Military History
Anne le Pape, Journaliste
Christian Marquant, Président de Paix Liturgique
Michael Matt, The Remnant
Roberto de Mattei, Ancien président du CNR (CNRS italien)
Jean-Pierre Maugendre, Renaissance Catholique
Philippe Maxence, Rédacteur en Chef de L'Homme Nouveau
Charles de Meyer, Président de SOS Chrétiens d'Orient
Paweł Milcarek, Christianitas
Jean-Marie Molitor, Journaliste
Martin Mosebach, Ecrivain
Hugues Petit, Docteur en Droit
Philippe Pichot-Bravard, Docteur en Droit
Jean-Baptiste Pierchon, Docteur en Droit
Hervé Rolland, Vice-Président de ND de Chrétienté
Reynald Secher, Historien
Jean Sévillia, Journaliste, Historien, Ecrivain
Henri Sire, Ecrivain, compositeur, chercheur
Jeanne Smits, Journaliste - Directrice de Blog
Jean de Tauriers, Président de Notre Dame de Chrétienté
Guillaume de Thieulloy, Editeur de presse
Jérôme Triomphe, Avocat
Philippe de Villiers, Ancien ministre, écrivain
Source: Rorate Caeli , Liturgy Guy et Forum Catholique
