Francis Was a Faithful Son of the Vatican II Revolution

Quote:“My own feeling is that all the changes ushered in by Pope John XXIII were made possible by the forty years which preceded him. But how fast and furiously they have come. Consider how things would strike a Catholic wrecked in 1957 on a desert island and only just now brought home. His Catholic friends have him in their houses. In all of them he finds the conversation beyond him. It circles, sometimes heatedly, around two words which mean nothing to him — Ecumenism and the Pill.” (p. xi)

Quote:“The weeks that follow are full of shocks. The priest facing the congregation takes some getting used to. And Mass in English even more. He remembers arguments with Protestants in which his trump card had been the use of Latin as proof of the Church’s Catholicity — ‘one language everywhere in the world.’ . . . Whichever way he looks, the Catholic world he knew seems to have turned upside down — and so quickly: after all, he was only away ten years. He hears of priests getting married, with other priests performing the ceremony. He hears of nuns in picket-lines, nuns marching with Negroes and communists in Alabama; of seminarians picketing Cardinals, refusing daily Mass, declaring the Pope unfitted for his primacy.’ (pp. xi-xii)

Quote:“(1) The election of the Pope by the Cardinals; . . .
(2) The appointment of all Bishops by Rome;
(3) Clerical celibacy;
(4) The obligation of Sunday Mass;
(5) Diocesan seminaries;
(6) Communion in one kind only;
(7) Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament;
(8) Marriage in the presence of the priest;
(9) Vestments, special clerical dress, various titles and insignia;
(10) Censorship, the Index, Imprimaturs, etc.” (p. 9)

Quote:“And this continued throughout the Council: small-scale meetings with peers from other countries. Thus I came to know great figures like Father de Lubac, Daniélou, Congar, and so on.”

Quote:“By the frankness and openness of its debates, the Council has put an end to what may be described as the inflexibility of the system. We take ‘system’ to mean a coherent set of codified teachings, casuistically-specified rules of procedure, a detailed and very hierarchic organization, means of control and surveillance, rubrics regulating worship — all this is the legacy of scholasticism, the Counter-reformation and the Catholic Restoration of the nineteenth century, subjected to an effective Roman discipline. It will be recalled that Pius XII is supposed to have said: ‘I will be the last Pope to keep all this going.’” (Congar, Challenge to the Church: The Case of Archbishop Lefebvre, pp. 51-52)

Quote:The Holy Spirit guides us where God wants us to be, not to where our own ideas and personal tastes would lead us. Father Congar, of blessed memory, once said: ‘There is no need to create another Church, but to create a different Church’ (True and False Reform in the Church). That is the challenge.  For a ‘different Church,’ a Church open to the newness that God wants to suggest, let us with greater fervour and frequency invoke the Holy Spirit and humbly listen to him, journeying together as he, the source of communion and mission, desires: with docility and courage.”

Today is the feast of St. Louis de Montfort, Co-Patron of our Chapel and Patron of the French Resistance.

Father Louis-Marie Grignion, a priest for just 16 years, died young at the age of 43 from the effects of being poisoned by some wretched Jansenists at his La Rochelle mission.

On today's feast, a Plenary Indulgence (under the usual conditions) is available for any of the faithful who have made the Total Consecration: To Jesus through Mary by simply renewing that act of consecration.

A Plenary Indulgence is also available to those souls on their consecration's anniversary date by the renewal of that same act of consecration. 

St. Louis de Montfort, pray for us