This is not my Mass #2 (H/T Paulinus)
Further thanks to bloggers for their kind support:
The Token Catholic (CBF Papist blog)
Dantes nyheter
Christus Vincit (Brian Michael Page)
Torch of the Faith
Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland
All the little epsilons
Sober Inebriation (Michael Tober)
See also a letter from James MacMillan reported on Holy Smoke.
15 comments:
Father Tim - I have been following this and have felt such great sorrow for what you are going through that it actually brings a pain to my chest.
I am pleased that the Catholic bloggers have stood behind you.
I would love to be part of a parish such as yours. You just keep doing what you are doing and know that when we are attacked it is most often because we are doing the right thing.
God bless you ...
Dear Fr Finigan, although I've never had the privilege of visiting Blackfen, the more I read about your wonderful parish, the more it sounds to me like the archetypal Benedictine parish - a true template for the Benedictine reform, not just liturgically but in many other ways as well.
I guess it's the very success of your parish that poses such a threat to the eyes of some of those involved with The Tablet, who are presumably terrified that, in course of time, hundreds of such parishes could spring up all over the country - which would surely pave the way for the kind of renewal envisaged by the fathers of Vatican II
At least they don't have rock band paint on their faces, like Kiss.
Dear Revd. Father,
I am a lapsed Catholic who looks at your blog. I was a one time seminarian at Ushaw in the early 1990's. I have been following your blog especially since the Pope issued SP.
For myself I am more liberal in thinking- more Rahner the von Balthsar - although VB has got to be read and read again like Rahner. When I was a seminarian the local Bishop Hugh Lindsay had offered in line the Indult a mass at Esh Laude which lets say is as far from the Roman empire as you could get! Long before I was at seminary I had participated in the 'old mass' - the beuaty of which no one can deny - whether you can understand Latin or not.
As I said I was a liberal and I shall make some points:
1. The great vice of those who are liberal is that they are not liberal, and more than that they are lacking in charity.
2.The Tablet had a real opportunity to report on how SP has worked out in parishes. The Tablet has missed out on a real opportunity to see how SP works out on the ground.
3. People talking before mass - you are quite within your rights as a preist to tell them to be silent - the mass is not a bingo hall - I went to mass not long after my mother died and sat at the back with the chatting going on in the front. I was sitting there at the back of the church in tears inconsolable - and the woman at the last pew was saying the rosary. She stopped and comforted me. She said sit with me during the Mass. There was no chatter between us but she was Christ for me.If you want to socialise go to the pub.
4. There is an intimation of in approriate spending on vestments - well you could always plead the charism of St.Francis and get your kit off! The Tablet would probably like the Mendicant of Blacfen. When in Rome do as the Romans do! How much money was spent on the re-ordering of churches after VII? - I ask this question and I am a liberal! Tell your Bishop how much you have spent on Vestments and ask you bishop to sue the Tablet for defaming a priest of his diocese.
I wish you well -
A liberal catholic - rather lapsed
Stuart Gardner
seg@refugee.org.uk
Have you read Fr Hunwicke's Letter to you on http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html ?
Read and enjoy.
Please also see Fr Hunwicke's Liturgical notes
Dear Fr Finigan ... AN OPEN LETTER
http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2009/02/dear-fr-finigan.html
Sue & Mark - many thanks, just read that :-)
Dear Father Finigan
YESTERDAY I POSTED A COMMENT HERE THAT APPEARS NOT TO HAVE PASSED THE CENSOR/MODERATOR :-(
If truths suppressed could take to wing.
To Maria Assumpta like birds they'd sing.
No longer numbed by vespine sting.
An Evening Star still shines :-)
In XtO "Vesper" Y2K9
Our Lady of the Rosary pray for us in "Responding to the Tablet" international development times Amen.
Dear Fr.Finigan, there is a little mistake in the caption of the picture. You should have written
"This is not A Mass".
What I see in the picture is just a sacrilege.
Thank you for keeping Tradition alive.
Paolo
Roy - sorry about that. I can't necessarily publish all of your comments as they are sometimes rather long and not always strictly related to the matter being discussed. I hope you understand. God bless.
Dear Father Finigan
As a highly qualified Surveyor,and an active Christian City Challenge developer,I think that you are being rather unfair,and the concise,pertinent comments that I made concerning this post will I think be missed by other men like me who have teenage children keenly interested in Rock Music.
At least you have not completely banned my comments from your Internet site as has www.hof.org.uk (because I oppose the racist drivel that populates much of it in the name of Millwall FC),and as has Robert Plant's ex drummer www.chrisblackwell.co.uk (because he doesn't like being challenged with regard Rock Music's links to occult practice)
Our Lady of the Rosary is your Parish Church,the hermeneutic of continuity is your Blog,I accept your authority,but I donot always agree with you.
I challenge you to publish yesterday's censored message so that the Anglo-Catholic world can decide if it is indeed "rather long and not......strictly related".
PAPA RATZI ORA PRO NOBIS!
Our Lady of the Rosary pray for us in "Responding to the Tablet" international development times Amen.
Dear Father, i fully support you and your ministry and your Blog. I could not do this publicly on my Blog however because of its theme and narrow focus.
juts wanted to let you know
in Communion of prayer. Hermit.
Good comments from Stuart who says he's a liberal and lapsed Catholic. You make such good points Stuart that I can't for a moment believe you've ever abandoned the Faith.
Come on over to Blackfen some time you'll find ALL the Holy Masses celebrated in the most reverent manner Latin or NO. God Bless and may Mary our Mother keep you in Her care.
Dear revd. Father,
So The Tablet insists on copyright law- fair enough. But you are subject to Canon Law - as far as i know SP is a MP which is an instrution from the bishop of Rome of his own authority to the whole church. You are simply abiding by the MP. You are in communion with the Bishop of Rome and your own Bishop and with your parish. There will be some in your parish who dont like the situation but you are still their priest who is madated by your bishop who in turn derives his authority as bishop from the see of Rome. And The Tablet can have no argument with this. There are no doubt parishoners who are troubled by the SP and its implementation but if they are Catholic what does one do? "To whom shall I go?" Not my words if I remember rightly.
with kind regards
Stuart - Lapsed Catholic
Dear Father Finigan
I'm sorry to see that as yet,you haven't accepted my FARE Londoner's Anglo-Catholic City Challenge 2008/9 :-(
I think it is fair to say that the Holy Spirit has in the past,chosen some unusual channels and tactics,to convey God's will to ONE RACE THE HUMAN RACE.
In XtO "Vesper" Y2K9
Our Lady of the Rosary pray for Pope Benedict XVI,the hermeneutic of continuity,and Blackfen too Amen.
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