06-03-2023, 05:13 AM
Francis Fights against “Sterile Traditionalism”
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gloria.tv | June 3, 2023
In a message to the May 28 Festa del Voto in Sassari - celebrated since 1943 when a vigil to Our Lady of Grace protected Sassari while other Sardinian cities were bombed - Francis mentions the Mediatrix of all graces which in December 2019 he called "foolishness."
He added his inevitable buzzwords ("pastoral conversion", "spiritual renewal", "synodality") and then threw a tantrum, “Do not give in to the temptation to remain anchored in a nostalgic popular piety that consists only of external rites or omin a sterile traditionalism that is rather the expression of the dead faith of the living.”
For Francis, there is at currently a great danger of "going backwards” that "leads us to think according to the logic: it has always been done this way.”
This was obviously a reference to a rampant Vatican II nostalgia that insists on liturgical forms that have failed for more than half a century.
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre