Traditionis custodes years later

It’s been two years since Bergoglio published Traditionis custodes, spitting on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, that is, on Jesus, in the Face.

At the time, July 16, 2021, I was the only one, and still am the only one as far as I know, to interpret the obvious meaning of one particular sentence with it’s… obvious meaning… Right at the start, in article one of that diatribe, Bergoglio had it that:

  • Traditionis custodes – Art. 1. “The liturgical books promulgated by Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II, are the unique only [“l’unico”] expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.”

Let’s define some of the terms:

  • “The unique…” Wait… what? That’s, like, a malicious translation. The original Italian says “l’unico,” that is, “the only” as in sole, just one unit, no others.
  • Lex orandi…”, the “Law of praying” is an inescapable reference to a more fulsome doctrine, summarily presented as Lex orandi lex credendi, that is, The law of praying is the law of believing.
  • In the accompanying letter to the bishops, there is, immediately, a citation of Benedict XVI, who defines the Lex orandi as the very Sacrifice of Jesus, i.e., the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Thus, the praying wrought in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is that which we are believing. Christ Jesus draws us to the Cross and offers us with Himself to the Father.

But Bergoglio reduces the Law of praying in the Latin Rite to one set of “Novus Ordo” Roman rubrics, thus eliminating other presentations of rubrics such as is found in Milan with Saint Ambrose, or say, to the point, as found with the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM). The Novus Ordo is ALONE in presenting the Law of Praying. The Novus Ordo is ALONE in proffering the Law of Believing. So, if you have a blashemous Pachamama “Mass”, it’s that kind of idol worship in which we are to believe.

Because of this lockstep logic, I’ve said that Traditionis custodes declares the TLM to be invalid, which simply cannot be. The TLM is a valid Mass and Traditionis custodes is a bad and evil document.

The Novus Ordo Mass, for the present leadership in the Church, is just a vacuous shell which holds up the ever shifting paradigms of understanding in the rivers of all that is Hegelian-Rahnerian dialectic: what we believe is ever shifting in a Synodal Church with its Synodal Mass. That’s the purpose of Traditionis custodes. Some people are catching on to this fact of Bergoglian slight of hand, the prestidigitations of jesuitical tomfoolery, not because of any re-read of Traditionis custodes, but just because that’s the way things are.

What chaos, what confusion, what consternation. It’s like wolves trotting among the sheep and lightly tossing the lambs spinning into the air only to be caught by another and ripped to pieces. So kind, so merciful, so given to accompaniment…

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  1. For what it’s worth, two years later, most dioceses have simply ignored Traditionis custodes. Yes, there have been the outliers that used it as a hammer, and a few that felt they had to pay it lip service, but in most places, the TLM has gone on as before. This isn’t 1970 and what happened then won’t be allowed to happen again, not if the bishops want any money donated to their annual appeals.

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