Holy Mass: “There Was No Room for Them in the Inn“

 

Christian Marquant wrote a Christmas message on PaixLiturgique.fr (27 December) about the situation of the Holy Mass in Paris.

This week, with the exception of Christmas Day, we will continue to hold vigils, pray and protest to the bishops, all the more so because we are experiencing once again what Luke 2:7 says: "Mary gave birth to her first-born son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

There was no room for them in the inn.
Paris is a sad example of how the Catholic liturgy is treated, as was the Son of God when he came to earth. In Saint-Georges-de-la-Villette and Notre-Dame-du-Travail, where simple people used to come to pray 'as always', there is no place for it.

There was no room for them in the inn.
In Sainte-Odile, there is no longer room for the weekday Mass. There is only very limited space at Sainte-Jeanne de Chantal, where Holy Mass fills the church every day and several times on Sundays.

There was no room for them in the inn.
As in the days when Mass was celebrated in barns and garages, it is now held in the Centre Saint-Paul, in a former business premises, when the nearby Basilica of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Place des Petits Pères, could so easily open its doors to it.

There was no room for them in the inn.
In Notre-Dame, rebuilt from its ruins, in the Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre, in Saint-Sulpice, in the great churches of Paris, there is no small place left, even once a month, for the masses who have lived in these buildings and kept them alive for so long.

There was no place for them in the inn.
Always and everywhere, distrust of the Roman liturgy, refusal, the most restrictive concessions. It's as if the men of the Church were ashamed of their venerable liturgical tradition, or rather afraid of it, afraid that if it were to grow and spread it would expose the failure of their destructive reform.

So this Christmas week, like our Master, we'll be on the outside. We'll be praying the rosary in the streets of Paris, in front of the Archbishop's office, 10 rue du Cloître-Notre-Dame, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 1 pm to 1.30 pm.

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