Pope Francis used his intervention at the Synod on Synodality to attack young priests who want to purchase dignified vestments to offer or assist the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: “It is the great defeat to which clericalism leads us. And this with a lot of shame and scandal, just go to ecclesiastical tailors in Rome to see the scandal of young priests trying on cassocks and hats or albs and surplice with lace. Clericalism is a whip, it is a scourge, it is a form of worldliness that soils and damages the face of the Lord's bride; and enslaves God's faithful holy people.”
The Bishop of Rome on the pact of The Catacombs, a conspiracy to deprive the faithful Catholics of the good, the true, and the beautiful
The signatories vowed to renounce personal possessions, fancy vestments and “names and titles that express prominence and power,” and they said they would make advocating for the poor and powerless the focus of their ministry.
In all this, they said, “we will seek collaborators in ministry so that we can be animators according to the Spirit rather than dominators according to the world; we will try to make ourselves as humanly present and welcoming as possible; and we will show ourselves to be open to all, no matter what their beliefs.”
The document would become known as the Pact of the Catacombs, and the signers hoped it would mark a turning point in church history.
Instead, the Pact of the Catacombs disappeared, for all intents and purposes...
The Pact of the Catacombs “was forgotten,” said Kasper, who mentioned the document in his recent book on the thought and theology of Francis. “But now he (Francis) brings it back.”
Let's think out loud about this in terms of Tradition and Ecclesiastical traditions; what will we, again, be wrecking for some anthropocentric/enlightenment reason and what more, intended for the poor, will be stolen from them so as to, supposedly, be in service to them?
This is all nonsense, these are not actions intended to assist the poor in worship, these are actions intended to serve the cause of the haughty ideologies of the wealthy and powerful (What, you think the Hierarchy is poor and weak?) Poor vestments are in vogue whenever Ecclesiastics repudiate the Kinship of Christ and consider Him a simple preacher wandering about the Holy Land rather than who He is - He who is King of Heaven and Earth; He who reigns in splendor; He who rose TRIUMPHANT from the grave. Modernists seek to inculcate in the minds of His disciples, the idea of Jesus as an itinerant do-gooder dressed in rags but that is not Catholic Tradition. This is....
Bishop Jerome Racozonus of Venice at the Council of Trent:
Since such is the nature of man that he cannot easily without external means be raised to meditation on divine things, on that account holy Mother Church has instituted certain rites, namely that certain things be pronounced in a subdued tone (canon and words of consecration) and others in a louder tone; she has likewise made use of ceremonies such as mystical blessings, lights, incense, vestments, and many other things of this kind in accordance with apostolic teaching and tradition, whereby both the majesty of so great a sacrifice might be commended, and the minds of the faithful excited by these visible signs of religion and piety to the contemplation of the most sublime matters which are hidden in this sacrifice.
Well, then, has the nature of man changed?
No.
And so what does it mean for Catholic man to have a Bishop of Rome who insists on instituting a mean minimalism in worship?
The results will be obvious - an ever-decreasing appreciation of The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and an ever-decreasing appreciation of the Holy Eucharist as the Real Presence of Jesus and, further, there will be an ever-decreasing appreciation of our Sacramental System as our Bishop of Rome will be speaking about the poor in a materialist manner and not in a spiritual manner.
Service and Ecumenism has supplanted Salvation and Sanctification in the new dispensation that was the still birth of Vatican Two.
As the Inertia Into Indifference intensifies, Ol' Mick half expects the Bishop of Rome to be standing beside a huge red kettle in Saint Peter's Square during Advent, ringing his little bell and talking about Tiny Tim.
Apparently, we are headed for a poor minimalist materialistic Church with a poor minimalist Lil' Licit Liturgy offered by a Bishop of Rome wearing poor vestments.
Even he who was involved in the Concilium of the execrable Annibale Bugnini, Fr. Joseph A. Jungmann, S.J. knew the mystical value of beautiful vestments.
Here he is on page 280 of his first volume, The Mass of the Roman Rite describing The Mass Ceremonies in Detail when he pens this most beautiful description of the Vestments worn at Mass:
Actually of course, there is a certain symbolism in the liturgical vestments. The fact that the priest wears garments that are not only better but really quite special, distinct from the garments of ordinary civil life, enhanced where possible by the preciousness of the material and by decoration - all this can have only one meaning; that the priest in a sense leaves this earth and enters another world, the shimmer of which is mirrored in his vesture.
But Catholic revolutionary modernists no longer desire a Triumphant Church robed in splendor. No, they are all about a mean minimalism and the destruction of all that is good, true, and beautiful.
The revolutionaries are dead, long live the revolution - so the revolutionaries say, let's collect them and bring them into our simple sanctuaries, denuded of high altars (representing Jesus Christ) and replaced by Faltars (tables for the anthropocentric happy meal that is the Lil' Licit Liturgy).
You fetid discredited revolutionaries, you have nothing to offer but empty inane platitudes and spiritual death. Get thee behind OL' Mick, you Satans. You sicken and disgust me .
Go on, talk all you want about the spirit of poverty this and church of the poor that while you ride around in an expensive Pope Mobile, while you lavishly spend the donations of the poor renovatingDomus Sanctae Marthae, (instead of living in The Apostolic Palace where previous Popes lived) and fly in luxury all over Hell and Half of Georgia on an expensive Jet.
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