Is the Vatican About to Destroy the TLM Once and for
All?
T. S. Flanders
June 17, 2024
As we approach the third anniversary of the new
iconoclastic regime in the Vatican (which began with
Traditionis Custodes), our friends at Rorate have put
out a significant and urgent appeal to Trads worldwide:
Dear readers,
Once again, as at least twice in the past (before the
crackdown on the Franciscans of the Immaculate, and in
the twelve months leading up to Traditionis custodes),
Rorate Caeli is sad to be the first bearer of grave,
heavy, and persistent rumors coming from the circles
close to Cardinal Roche and to the liturgical warriors
close to Casa Santa Marta in Rome.
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 Lady are mightier.
When we have further information that can be made
public, we will let you know.
*Note: What we can say is that these rumors come from
the very same sources that revealed to Rorate that the
Vatican had sent out a survey to bishops on Summorum
Pontificum (in preparation for what would become
Traditionis custodes), and Rorate was the first source
to post this; and the very same sources who first
revealed that a document like Traditionis custodes
would come (and Rorate was also the first to reveal it
at the time). With the addition of other credible
sources who have now mentioned the same present rumors
and whom Rorate was not acquainted with at the time of
Traditionis custodes, and who now corroborate the
persistent rumors.
Without a doubt, Rorate is a credible and trusted
source for this important news. And the recommended
actions can never be too frequently recommended. We can
prevent bad things from happening to our TLMs by
prayer, penance and whatever influence we can muster on
our priests and bishops.
The most important part of our spiritual preparation
for whatever comes next is twofold: 1.) to study the
lives of our Trad godfathers, who endured much worse
times than these (and probably worse than what comes
next – have you heard of the 1970s?). These Trad
godfathers are the ones we publish here at
OnePeterFive. For a look into the crusading spirit of
our Trad godfathers, listen to Fr. Charles Murray, who
laughs at the enemies of Christ and their filth in the
1970s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqkPtdWxXVg
The second thing is contained in our founding passing
from 1 Peter 5: Be you humbled therefore under the
mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in the time of
visitation (I Pet. v. 6).
The fact is, the Catholic response to evil is the
virtue of patience – to suffer evils well. In order to
do this, we must consider that the wrath of God is
being poured out upon us for our sins. We simply do not
deserve to have the TLM. But God deserves it, and our
children deserve it. So let us be purified by the wrath
of God, and beg His mercy, so that we may know again
His loving-kindness in the ancient rites of our
forefathers. As the apostolic Roman Rite says in the
collect of Thursday after Ash Wednesday:
O God who by sin art offended and by penance appeased,
graciously regard the prayers of thy people making
supplication to thee, and turn away the scourge of thy
wrath, which for our sins we deserve.
Stay tuned for a Trad roundtable discussion on this
critical moment since Traditionis Custodes tomorrow:
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