Many priests went physically alone up to the altar of God on this Lord's Day. And many of them, no doubt, offered the Church's ancient worship which, especially among the crop of younger priests, has never been so popular as in the 1970's where a failed attempt was made in so many places to snuff it out.
The swath of a winter storm currently blanketing a large part of the United States with snow and ice, accompanied by dangerously low temperatures, has rendered venturing out a forbidding prospect for man and beast alike. And thus there will be, in many places, no congregation gathered.
It is the congregation which the disrupters seek to separate from our immemorial worship. That is for the reason that, if they see it, they might want it. This would upset the 60-year struggle to change the Faith and to change the Church "so it can't be changed back" - the petulant cry of the modernists and their fellow travelers in the last pontificate.
The only liturgy that will successfully lend itself to the modernist campaign to change the Faith is the one that is only predictable in the sense that is unpredictable, and stable only in its instability: different in every place it appears and rendering itself a source of division in holy Church. This liturgy of which we speak is the "on the spot" product pasted together like a groovy collage in the 1960's in order to replace and cast the Catholic Mass into the dustbin of history.
The priest, when he is alone to pray the Mass, will naturally choose that worship which he holds most dear in this age of options, if nothing else. And the option of the Tradition, as Pope Benedict made so clear in Summorum Pontificum, remains as sacred today for all of us it has done so for the Catholics of the two millennia that preceded our moment.
Make an act of spiritual Communion with the many holy sacrifices of the rito antico offered today. The storm also brought many private TLM Masses to areas in our country especially beleaguered by modernists and heretics who vainly seek to stamp out forever the liturgy and the faith which it fuels supernaturally. Pray for the Catholics who are tragically being persecuted for their faith by their own bishops.
Ite Missa est. Oremus pro invicem.
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