After saying the Novus Ordo in not valid.
Altman wrote the following yet celebrated the Ordinary Form of Mass with Strickland, as seen in the photo accompanying this post. That tells me he either doesn't believe what he wrote or, since Altman was restricted to saying Mass in private - he celebrated illicitly in a rite he considers NOT valid.
You see the lie? Do you see how these men are indeed manufacturing scandal and leading Catholics away from the Church and establishing what may be the Anti-Church, something St. John Paul warned about? They are (unwittingly?) creating the so-called counterfeit Church they accuse Vatican II of creating, based upon their searching private revelations and locutions and an assortment of interpretations of approved apparitions.
Fr. James Altman
@FatherAltman
The TLM is DOGMATIC.
The novus ordo new world order service was concocted by a not-infallible committe of lavedar mafia Masons and protestants. Their stated objective was to remove from Catholic Sanctuaries and from The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - QUOTE- "anything that would be even a shadow of a stumbling block to [protestants]
In other words, make it just another of the 40,000+ protestant denominations. it was damned from the start AND, when half or more of priests, bishops, cardinals and Bergoglio do not believe in the Real Presence, it is NOT valid.
Quit pretending that the handful of believing priests who validly and intentionally consecrate, using proper form and matter, The Holy Eucharist, that that somehow validates the Sacrileges of the new world order service.
As Jesus said, judge it by its fruits. The reason why up to 90% of "Catholics" do not go to Holy Mass and do not believe in the Real Presence is because of the new world order service destroyed it.
Go read Exodus 25-31, how Almighty God commanded us to worship Him, and then quit pretending that the protestant new world order service is valid because the rare experience we have with a reverent priest somehow validates it.
For the record, no bishop, cardinal nor pope can deny us reasonable access to the Dogmatic TLM, nor deny anyone the right to receive Holy Communion kneeling and on the tongue. End of debate.
When they protest too much, they often “project” their own fears and inclinations.
Don't follow their lead.
I'm really fed up with recalcitrant priests/bishops who continually accuse everyone they disagree with, and/or those who may have had to discipline them, as sodomites and groomers. They contradict the teaching of the Church in the process. They defend their choice of words as speaking the 'truth in charity'. It's not charitable at all. Their contempt reveals much more about their character than those they slander and calumniate. They lack meekness and have no depth of charity. Their humility is feigned. Their piety is for show. Their followers who cheer and repeat their rhetoric, are often more experienced in vice than any of those whose humanity and reputation they attempt to destroy.
They pretty much preach an anti-Gospel.
Thank you for your witness, Terry. I am a bit pained by the lack of comments to your posts, but that doesn't mean people aren't reading them.
ReplyDeleteYou have been talking about certain tendencies on the right/trad movement that is currently having its day. Freya India has a brilliant reflection. She has nailed the bigger issue here (or in First Things, but there's a paywall on both places): https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/the-right-has-forgotten-feeling
Which is why I have never felt at home with this mindset, regardless of whatever we are dealing with in terms of gender confusion or family decline. I am hoping that the current upsurge of interest in things of the spirit (especially among younger people) can avoid these pitfalls. Paul Kingsnorth, author of the Abbey of Misrule (hey, another 'abbey-blog'!) is also a good place to start.
ReplyDeleteI should add a selection of what Freya India wrote. She is speaking about the hardness, the lack of empathy, among so many conservative / traditional commentators:
"But I also lived with a feeling of something missing, a gaping hole. A hunger; a hollowness. I was sensitive and sentimental, as many young girls are, and had this idea of love, of life, that kept getting broken and beaten out of me. My family fell apart and so did I. Dating was disorienting and inhumane; I felt things far too deeply to handle it. I was disheartened by the commodification of everything, and felt that some things—my face, my body, friendships, falling in love—had to mean more, somehow. I wanted vows and commitments. I wanted guidance and guardrails. I wasn’t cut out for a world that offered no refuge, no haven or hiding place, and I thought the problem was me. I’m not sure anymore...
Those feelings I had, which many girls and young women live with today, have no answer in the modern world. Only in the past year have I found myself drawn to Christianity and more sure of my conservative instincts—not through reason or intellect, but through feeling. And by feeling I mean not just emotion but intuition, a nagging sense that something was wrong, that my needs weren’t being met. I’m becoming convinced that the answers I was looking for—for community and belonging, certainty and stability, love and attachment, dignity and worth, purpose and fulfilment—can be found in the Christian faith and a more conservative way of life....
When I listen to conservative commentators today—columnists, podcasters, media personalities, some older than I am but many my own age—I notice an overreliance on intellect and argument, on numbers and logic. Charts on pornography use; statistics on loneliness; facts about birth rates. But the young women I’m talking about don’t care about your statistics on divorce. I know I wouldn’t have. They don’t feel anything from your graphs on fertility rates. What they care about is the pain of their own families falling apart. They know how they feel, and they are hurting. I knew nothing about Burkean philosophy or social conservatism, but I knew that feeling of loss, knew it intimately. Dry lectures about social decline do not cut through. Describing feelings of hurt and homesickness might."
This has left a huge spiritual void. And it's not recent. It goes back to the Moral Majority days.
Thanks for reading and thanks for the thoughtful comments. I have posted these things on FB but get little response as well. I need to gather my thoughts these days to help me have a better perspective and understanding of what's going on and just to crystalize my thoughts. I hope to document it here, so what I post elsewhere, I'm transferring here and sharpening what I have to say. If that makes sense. I will look into Freya India - thank you. You are right when you say, "It goes back to the Moral Majority days."
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