From d36205e34045a4d24417e235370562d0bdede3f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nicol=C3=A1s=20Ortega=20Froysa?= Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 09:23:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added two new blog posts. --- .../0138-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.cfg | 5 ++ .../0138-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.html | 51 ++++++++++++ blog/posts/0139-traditionis-custodes.cfg | 5 ++ blog/posts/0139-traditionis-custodes.html | 82 +++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 143 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/posts/0138-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.cfg create mode 100644 blog/posts/0138-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.html create mode 100644 blog/posts/0139-traditionis-custodes.cfg create mode 100644 blog/posts/0139-traditionis-custodes.html diff --git a/blog/posts/0138-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.cfg b/blog/posts/0138-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.cfg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f3e108 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/posts/0138-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.cfg @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +filename = 2021-07-20-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.html +title = To Love Everyone Means Everyone +description = In my trip back to the United States, I found myself in the sad reality that those who boast the most of love and tolerance for all, typically only mean it for a select group. +created = 2021-07-20 +updated = 2021-07-20 diff --git a/blog/posts/0138-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.html b/blog/posts/0138-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..545d725 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/posts/0138-to-love-everyone-means-everyone.html @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +

Currently I am on vacation back in the United States, visiting family. We +live in Minnesota. In the city many people boast of being open, accepting, +tolerant and loving. There are signs about love and social justice on every +block, if not every house. One would think this should be a good sign, of a +loving community that wants to welcome everyone; I even remember seeing one sign +that said "Wherever you're from, we're glad you're our neighbor." But in Spanish +we have a saying: dime de lo que presumes, y te diré lo que te falta +(tell me that which you boast of and I will tell you what you lack).

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Unfortunately, the attitude I often see is that these very same people are +only loving and tolerant of those that agree with them. In other cases, it often +borders on hatred, wishing ill upon them, insulting them, degrading them, and +refusing to even attempt to understand their concerns.

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All this is not to say that the people they despise are saints with no fault, +or that they themselves aren't committing heinous crimes against charity. But to +respond with evil out of vengeance is not a solution, as it is not love but +hatred. We must remember that as Christians our model is Jesus Christ, and +Christ made it absolutely clear how we are supposed to treat those who abuse us: +we're supposed to love them, to pray for them, and to do good to them:

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+ But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray + for them that persecute and calumniate you: That you may be the children of + your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and + bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust. For if you love them that + love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this? + And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the + heathens this?
+ - Matthew 5:44-47 +
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It is completely unacceptable for us to wish ill upon those who wish ill upon +us or others, for that makes us no better than them. This is an +extremely difficult teaching, without a doubt, but God demands many hard things +of us, many of which we probably won't even like. Yet He will always provide us +with the necessary grace to live in His commandments, which are commandments of +love. This means that we must think of the person we despise the most, the +person that gets on our nerves the most, or (even more difficult) the person +that has done us most harm, and we must be able to love that person, and pray +for them, and do good to them.

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I do not write any of this in order to degrade the wonderful work these +people may be doing in making others feel welcome in their communities. +Especially when talking about immigrants who have left their homes by force, and +are in a strange land they don't even want to be in, knowing that you're welcome +can make that burden just a little lighter. Rather, I simply wish to fraternally +correct in hopes of change. Ultimately, hatred will always exist so long as we +are pilgrims in this world. It is not until we enter into the Beatific Vision +that we may finally rest in peace in our Lord's Kingdom, where hatred has no +place; as God is Love (1 John 4:8).

diff --git a/blog/posts/0139-traditionis-custodes.cfg b/blog/posts/0139-traditionis-custodes.cfg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..77b5069 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/posts/0139-traditionis-custodes.cfg @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +filename = 2021-07-31-comment-on-traditionis-custodes.html +title = Comment on Traditionis Custodes +description = A comment on "Traditionis Custodes", the tridentine communities, and a sentiment of injustice among traditionalists with regards to treatment of the traditional liturgy in comparison to the handling of liturgical abuse. +created = 2021-07-31 +updated = 2021-08-02 diff --git a/blog/posts/0139-traditionis-custodes.html b/blog/posts/0139-traditionis-custodes.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..111918d --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/posts/0139-traditionis-custodes.html @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +

I hadn't wanted to comment on this for a while, especially to see how it +actually ended up playing out, but finally I believe it's time to bring up the +elephant in the room.

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It is probably to no one's surprise that I am fond of the Tridentine Mass. As +such, I was well aware of what was coming with regards to Pope Francis' new +motu proprio, "Traditionis Custodes" on the Traditional Latin Mass, and +like many I was afraid of what it may entail. That being said, at least for now, +the Tridentine Mass will continue to be celebrated in Seville the same as it has +been since last November. For this I am very grateful for our new bishop for +allowing us to continue the celebration of such a beautiful liturgy.

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I don't want to comment so much on the motu proprio itself, but rather +on the general sentiment surrounding it, and what seems to have been the cause +for it based on Pope Francis' letter explaining his +decision.[1]

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Firstly, I would like to speak to what Pope Francis is trying to tend to with +this new motu proprio, being the political use of the Traditional Liturgy +as a means of causing division within Christ's Church, and as a statement of +rebellion against the Second Vatican Council. This is a serious problem that we +have within the traditional communities, and one that is wholly incompatible +with the mission of Christ's Church. This is something we've been warned about +before, but in lack of any progress made, the Holy Father has seen it necessary +to force the occasion, such that all Tridentine Masses celebrated must be under +the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese. Although, depending on one's +diocese, this could mean the end of the Traditional Latin Mass, we also must be +fully aware that this is more in consonance with the traditions of the Church, +where all faithful must operate in unity with their bishop. What we need to do, +as Catholics, if we wish to preserve the Tridentine Mass is to be reasonable and +submissive to our authorities. We must reject any spirit of rebellion, and +always search for a charitable interpretations of our differences.

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Secondly, I would like to be fair to the indignation that many of those in +the traditional communities may be feeling now, as I too feel this indignation. +We must recognize the flaws among many of those in our community, and the +rebellious spirit many demonstrate. However, it always seems that our defects +are in the spotlight of the Church's hierarchy, while the arguably more severe +offenses which are commonly found in many novus ordo communities seem to +be completely ignored. The liturgical abuse that occurs is a constant, which is +something that even Pope Francis comments on in his letter regarding +"Traditionis Custodes" despite no action being taken to stop it. Yet this never +seems to be officially addressed. It's something that seems rather unfair +considering the severity of the matter. And as though this weren't enough, when +it comes to adherence to the Church's teachings, the novus ordo +communities clearly present much more higher rates of +rejection.[2] This is not a question of being +perfect and without sin, nor even about maintaining a community of puritans, but +if the real rebellious spirit found in the traditional communities is enough to +merit this kind of a response from the Church, why is nothing being done about +the even more extreme rebellion of those who publicly deny Church teaching on +such important matters of our faith and to abuse the liturgy?

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Those of us in the traditional communities must learn to submit to our +authorities, and to be more charitable with the recent developments of the +Church. And despite this adversity we are facing with the new motu +proprio, we must continue to trust those who have authority over us and +their decisions, pleading with them and in submission to them, while continuing +to pray for the continuation of this form of celebration of the Divine Liturgy. +But I believe it's also important that our superiors begin to treat us in equal +dignity and charity as they do the novus ordo communities, as their +denial has only caused more frustration among Traditional Catholics.

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Let us continue to pray for the unity of Christ's Church, and that we may be +able to continue celebrating such a beautiful Liturgy as is that of the +Tridentine Mass.

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  1. + + https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/es/bollettino/pubblico/2021/07/16/carta.html + +
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  2. + + "New Survey Shows Disparity of Beliefs Between Latin Mass, Novus Ordo + Catholics" from One Peter Five + +
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