TLM in Archdiocese of Washington (Update)

Amid rumors that the traditional Latin Mass will soon be banished from every single parish in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., about seventy-five parishioners from Saint Francis de Sales Church met for a prayer vigil on May 14 outside the local Synodal Listening Session with Wilton Cardinal Gregory. There, it was hinted, our fate would be decided. Mothers, fathers, and children stood for long hours in a gray drizzle, praying rosaries and singing Latin hymns: especially Veni Creator Spiritus, which we have sung after every Sunday Mass as a votive prayer for our community’s survival since Traditionis Custodes was issued.

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Was McCarrick a Soviet Union Plant?

Very interesting.  It seems to me to be very plausible.  Watch the video by Church Militant.  

What will the Synod bring to us...

Recently, Cardinal Wuerl announced the First Synod of the Archdiocese of Washington.  Most people in the Archdiocese probably said: "Oh, that is nice." and went back to drinking their coffee, etc. 

I can understand that. For most Catholics, it is something that will immediately impact only a small number of Catholics in the Archdiocese, provided they understood what it is.

What they did not notice, was that this is a plan for the FUTURE. Not one or two years down the road, but the plan which will guide the Archdiocese of many years.

To that end, as you may have read or maybe even participated in, "listening sessions" (oh, how I hate that phrase), in your local parish. These sessions, are to take a "pulse" of parish life and then report them to the Archdiocese. (I participated in my parish event, but more on that at another time).

However, what one of my regular readers pointed out to me, and I am sad to say that I did not think of this, was that this may be setting the stage for the closing of parishes.

Think about it.

You take the "temperature" of the various parishes to see how things are going. Combine it with the closing of Catholic schools over the last few years and a smaller number of priests for the next few years. Then add to that the financial picture of the Archdiocese and parishes (a number of which are not in good shape) and you have a ready made opportunity to consolidate.

Remember, Cardinal Wuerl did close a number of parishes in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Before he retires in a few years, it would be good to get the Archdiocese house in order, before the new guy comes along. Save him a lot of grief.

Now, we will not know this for at least another one to two years, but it is something to look out for in the future. 

What do you think?


http://site.adw.org/pdfs/ADW-Synod-Letter-and-Decree.pdf