H/T Dale Price jr.
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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.”
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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?
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:
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 will institute 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, ABS 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, we Catholics no longer desire a Triumphant Church robed in splendor. No, we 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 ABS, you Satans. You sicken and disgust me .