Must We Hide In The Walls Again?

Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

Well, I am not sure how to begin. The website, "Rorate Caeli" has just posted yesterday the grim news of a "possible" maybe "probable" new Vatican document to suppress the Latin Mass. YIKES! Are we really here? Are we to see history repeat itself but now through Rome itself and throughout the world?

Many should study Church history. In many parts of the world and in many lands, the Catholic Latin Mass has been under attack. Why? Because it is the unbloody sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus Christ offered to the Eternal Father for the sins of the world. If you were Satan and in battle against God, you would attack the Mass!

When Pope Benedict gave us the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum in 2007, I did extensive study on the difference between the two Masses. I was raised with the Novus Ordo my entire life and was told it is the SAME Mass just in English. WRONG! When I found out what they did to the Mass and who did it, I immediately stopped the Novus Ordo and only attend a Latin Mass. There is a link on this website under "Devotions" for more information of what I found to make this decision. As I was doing my studies, I saw an ad in the Church bulletin of where I was holding my Carmelite meetings for someone to help teach a homeschool group that meets there throughout the year. I volunteered and was told to help teach junior high and high school kids about the Elizabethan Era. I must admit, I had to do some preliminary studies. HOW PROVIDENTIAL! I came to know the saints of England who died for the Latin Mass rather than going to the Anglican Mass which was just created. (Which, by the way, looks a lot better than the Novus Order that we presently have today.) Edmund Campion was one such saint; and I will post below his "Campion's Brag" before he was hung, drawn and quartered for offering the Latin Mass to his English people in hiding.

The English Catholics would hide the priests and the sacred vessels in secret walls in their homes. St. Margaret Clitherow (pictured above) was one who would offer her home. Clitherow allowed secret Masses to be celebrated in her home, where she also hid Roman Catholic missionary priests. After further imprisonments and releases, she was seized on March 10, 1586, during a raid on her home. Her fate was sealed, for a law of 1583 made aiding priests punishable by death. She refused to plead guilty or innocent, stating that only God could judge her, and was executed by being slowly crushed to death with an 800-pound weight on March 25, 1586.

On June 17, 2024, this is what is posted on Rorate Caeli  ..........

An attempt is being made to implement, as soon as possible, a Vatican document with a stringent, radical, and final solution banning the Traditional Latin Mass. The same ideologues who imposed Traditionis Custodes and its implementation, and who are still frustrated with its apparently slow results, especially in the United States and France, want to ban it and shut it down everywhere and immediately. They want to do it while Francis is still in power. They want to make it as wide, final, and irreversible as possible.

These rumors come from the most credible sources,* in different continents, and we urge you to take them as seriously as possible, and do what you can in your station, as laity, priests, bishops, cardinals, religious men and women, to prevent the ban from becoming a concrete measure.

Can we stop it from happening? Yes, we can: by prayer, sacrifice, penance -- and influence and pressure, of whatever sort we can manage to put forward. The enemy is strong, but Our Lord and Our Lady are mightier. 

A note for all Catholics who feel called to go to the Latin Mass but just can not. I encourage you to find a Monastery or Convent that offers Latin Mass in their chapels. I go to one that is one hour from my house and on Sundays there are even families there with small children. This is very heroic as the exposure to the Novus Ordo for children will hurt their faith. There is evidence of this.  Going to Monasteries may be outlawed soon but until then, I will go. Also, there is a website offered by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter called LiveMass.net    I do use this site for weekday Masses when I can not go and I then offer a Spiritual Communion. In countries where the Latin Mass was suppressed, the Catholics had to wait for a priest to get their Latin Mass. It may come to this again when obtaining a priest to offer a Latin Mass will be a great grace and privilege.

Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, pray for us!
St. Edmund Campion and St. Margaret Clitherow, pray for us!

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Rorate Caeli Article June 17, 2024

Motu Proprio allowing the Latin Mass

Campion's Brag