ABS time travelled to Miami yesterday and he arrived in time for The Real Mass at La Milagrosa Mission Chapel, 1860 NW 18th Terrace, Miami.
Fr. Romanoski, FSSP, was the masculine celebrant and it took this trip for ABS to leave the fake world of phonies, liars, salesmen, car dealers, actors, and politicians, and arrive at the Reality of The Real Mass with its good, true, and beautiful reality in which The Holocaust is Sacramentally re-presened to us in all of its puissant truth and powerful solemnity.
Unlike so many of the epicene ecclesiastics who have been formed in the secular Florida seminaries to be alter Social Workers, Fr. Romanoski is a man in stature, bearing, and action.
His sermon was smashing as he warned we communicants not to read the seditious sedevacantist literature surreptisiously seeded in this sacred place and he invoked St. Robert Bellarmine's definition * of what it means to be Catholic and, thus, concluded the Sedevacantists are not Catholic (and by extension, neither are the SSPX).
He quoted several saints during his recapitulation of the Lesson and The Gospel and it was so bracing to see him doff his Biretta every time he spoke the Holy Name, Jesus.
If any man reading this crummy Blog wants to see and hear a real masculine Priest in a rare setting of reality, he must make it down to reality town -The Real Mass in Miami.
* Fr. Romanoski only quoted the essence of the first paragraph (perhaps he wanted to avoid directly denouncing the SSPX schismatics).
"Now, our opinion is that the Church is only one, and not two; and that one and true [Church] is the assembly of men gathered in the profession of the same Christian faith, and in the communion of the same sacraments, under the reign of legitimate pastors, and especially of the one vicar of Christ on earth, the Roman Pontiff. From which definition, one can easily gather which men pertain to the Church, and indeed those who do not pertain to her. For there are three parts of this definition: the profession of the true faith, the communion of the sacraments, and subjection to the legitimate shepherd, the Roman Pontiff. By reason of the first part all infidels are excluded, both those who were never in the Church, such as Jews, Turks, and pagans; and those who were, and went back, such as heretics and apostates. By reason of the second part catechumens and excommunicates are excluded, the former because they are not admitted to the communion of the sacraments, and the latter because they are cast out. By reason of the third part are excluded schismatics, who have faith and sacraments, but are not subject to the legitimate pastors, and therefore they profess the faith and receive the sacraments outside [of the Church]. But all others are included, even the reprobate, the wicked, and the impious.
"And so there is this difference between our opinion and all others, that all others require internal virtues to constitute someone in the Church, and on that account they make the true Church invisible; but we, although we believe that all virtues, such as faith, hope, charity, etc., are found in the Church, yet that anyone can in some way be called a part of the true Church, about which Scripture speaks, we do not believe any internal virtues are required, but only external profession of the faith, and communion of the sacraments, which are perceived by the senses. For the Church is a assembly of men as visible and palpable as is the assembly of the people of Rome, or the kingdom of France, or the republic of Venice."