Vatican: 57 Parishes Authorized to Offer the Traditional Mass in 2022
The website Zenit reports on the publication of Notitiae for the year 2022, the official publication of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, which contains the Constitution Praedicate Evangelium on the Curia reform, the Apostolic Letter Desiderio desideravi on the liturgical reform, but also the decrees issues by the Dicastery during the year covered.
Traditionis custodes, of Pope Francis, restricted the celebration of the Tridentine Mass: the bishops had to designate specific places for these celebrations, at the exclusion of parish churches, and according to meticulous norms: this is the whole irony of the title of the motu proprio, because in fact the bishops were restrained.
In December 2021, in a “Responsa ad Dubia,” Cardinal Roche authorized the bishops to designate a parish church for the celebration of the traditional rite “according to the Missale Romanum of 1962 only if it is established that it is impossible to use another church, oratory or chapel,” through a dispensation requested from Rome.
The response adds that this Mass must not be included “in the parish Mass schedule,” because it is only attended by a group. And it is important that “it should not be held at the same time as the pastoral activities of the parish community.” Finally—in cauda venenum—”It is to be understood that when another venue becomes available, this permission will be withdrawn.”
Recently, as reported by The Pillar, a Curia official admitted that some wanted “force them [traditionalist Catholics] onto reservations,” through a new document, and to thus allow total control by the Curia. But this text seems unnecessary.
These 57 authorizations therefore represent the temporary provision of a parish church to celebrate the traditional Mass in a diocese, in the absence of another available place, which requires the placet of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments—the bishop cannot act alone—and which must be withdrawn as soon as another solution is found...
This Mass must not appear anywhere in the parish papers, must not be known to the Novus Ordo parishioners, and must not even be seen, for fear that it might attract: if this is not a reservation, it strongly resembles one.
There are indeed Masses celebrated for groups—such as Masses in a language foreign to the country and many others—which appear in the parish bulletin, but especially not the Tridentine Mass, a further indication that Cardinal Roche and his Dicastery absolutely want to hide this celebration, doubtless for fear of contagion...
All things considered, 57 is indeed a very small number, but this will not prevent the Mass from triumphing.
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(Sources : Saint-Siège/Zenit – FSSPX.Actualités)
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