SSPX updates deeper into Vatican II
May 12, 2018 19:02:29 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 19:02:29 GMT
Here is another sspx product using the Vatican II liturgy to update itself more into conciliarism. Their new boss is the novus ordo Ecclesia Dei. Reminds me of the complacent Red riding hood and the big wolf in grannies clothes.
From: Father Thomas Asher | FSSPX
The question has arisen each year whether the obligation to attend Mass on Ascension Thursday is binding on our faithful in those places where the bishops have lifted the obligation on that day due to their transfer of the feast. The District Superior asked me to communicate the following to all of the confreres in an attempt to clarify matters. I am indebted to Fr. Christopher Danel and to Travis Rankin for their assistance in sorting all of this out.
In 2008, a dubium regarding this question was sent to the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” by the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales. The response from Msgr. Perl was:
“While in accordance with Canon 1246 §2 of the Code of Canon Law [cf. 1917 CIC 1247 – ed.] the Episcopal Conference can legitimately transfer Holydays of obligation with the approbation of the Holy See, it is also legitimate to celebrate the Mass and Office of those feasts on the days prescribed in the calendar of the liturgical books in use in 1962 with the clear understanding that, in accordance with the legitimate decision of the Episcopal Conference, there is no obligation to attend Mass on those days” (PCED, 20 Oct 2008).
Therefore, while in Tradition the Ascension is always celebrated on Thursday, the obligation to attend Mass is binding on Thursday only in the ten states where the feast has been retained on Thursday by the bishops. These states are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nebraska (which belong to the ecclesiastical provinces of New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Hartford, Boston, and Omaha).
Additionally, when the feasts of the Circumcision, the Assumption, and All Saints fall on either Monday or Saturday, all bishops of the USA have abrogated the obligation to attend Mass on those days, with the feasts remaining on their properly-assigned days without transfer. The obligation is never abrogated on the Immaculate Conception or Christmas.
The U.S. bishops long ago abrogated or declined four of the holy days observed in the universal Church: Epiphany, Corpus Christi, St. Joseph, and Sts. Peter and Paul. They have retained six holy days of obligation: the Octave of the Nativity, the Ascension, the Assumption, All Saints’ Day, the Immaculate Conception, and Christmas. (In Hawaii, only the Immaculate Conception and Christmas are of obligation, as Honolulu has aligned itself for this matter with the bishops of the Pacific Islands.)
Although we clearly do not wish either to be or to appear liberal, it behooves us to be honest with the faithful about these days' obligations just as we are about the penitential obligations: only the power of the keys can determine our concrete obligations, as Catholics, on any given day.
While we must urge and exhort the faithful to keep the traditional days of feast or of fast, it needs to be clear that they are not obliged under pain of sin to do so when the power of the keys has eliminated the obligation. Unfortunately, the faithful are sometimes convinced of an obligation that does not exist and then violate that "obligation" culpably. The sin is real in that case, despite the fact that the obligation is not. Let us not be the cause of such sins by being unclear or culpably wrong about these points ourselves in our communications with the faithful.
The question has arisen each year whether the obligation to attend Mass on Ascension Thursday is binding on our faithful in those places where the bishops have lifted the obligation on that day due to their transfer of the feast. The District Superior asked me to communicate the following to all of the confreres in an attempt to clarify matters. I am indebted to Fr. Christopher Danel and to Travis Rankin for their assistance in sorting all of this out.
In 2008, a dubium regarding this question was sent to the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” by the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales. The response from Msgr. Perl was:
“While in accordance with Canon 1246 §2 of the Code of Canon Law [cf. 1917 CIC 1247 – ed.] the Episcopal Conference can legitimately transfer Holydays of obligation with the approbation of the Holy See, it is also legitimate to celebrate the Mass and Office of those feasts on the days prescribed in the calendar of the liturgical books in use in 1962 with the clear understanding that, in accordance with the legitimate decision of the Episcopal Conference, there is no obligation to attend Mass on those days” (PCED, 20 Oct 2008).
Therefore, while in Tradition the Ascension is always celebrated on Thursday, the obligation to attend Mass is binding on Thursday only in the ten states where the feast has been retained on Thursday by the bishops. These states are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nebraska (which belong to the ecclesiastical provinces of New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Hartford, Boston, and Omaha).
Additionally, when the feasts of the Circumcision, the Assumption, and All Saints fall on either Monday or Saturday, all bishops of the USA have abrogated the obligation to attend Mass on those days, with the feasts remaining on their properly-assigned days without transfer. The obligation is never abrogated on the Immaculate Conception or Christmas.
The U.S. bishops long ago abrogated or declined four of the holy days observed in the universal Church: Epiphany, Corpus Christi, St. Joseph, and Sts. Peter and Paul. They have retained six holy days of obligation: the Octave of the Nativity, the Ascension, the Assumption, All Saints’ Day, the Immaculate Conception, and Christmas. (In Hawaii, only the Immaculate Conception and Christmas are of obligation, as Honolulu has aligned itself for this matter with the bishops of the Pacific Islands.)
Although we clearly do not wish either to be or to appear liberal, it behooves us to be honest with the faithful about these days' obligations just as we are about the penitential obligations: only the power of the keys can determine our concrete obligations, as Catholics, on any given day.
While we must urge and exhort the faithful to keep the traditional days of feast or of fast, it needs to be clear that they are not obliged under pain of sin to do so when the power of the keys has eliminated the obligation. Unfortunately, the faithful are sometimes convinced of an obligation that does not exist and then violate that "obligation" culpably. The sin is real in that case, despite the fact that the obligation is not. Let us not be the cause of such sins by being unclear or culpably wrong about these points ourselves in our communications with the faithful.
