Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Six months and no Traditional Latin Mass in Rome :misconception over Holy Mass being ideological must be removed

It is over six months and I have not been able to attend Sunday morning Holy Mass in the Traditional Latin Rite offered by the Franciscans of the Immaculate at the church near the Vatican.
 
I don't know why there still has to be all this confusion over the 'ideology' of the TLM when I also attend Holy Mass in Italian and affirm traditional ecclesiology and salvation theology in perfect agreement with Vatican Council II. The Council for me is in accord with extra ecclesiam nulla salus as interpreted by Fr.Leonard Feeney in which the baptism of desire, is unknown, invisible and hypothetical for us and so not relevant or an exception to the traditional interpretation of the dogma according to the saints.
 
So why is this still being made an issue to prevent the TLM being made freely available in Rome for those of us who affirm Tradition and do not consider Vatican Council II as being ambigous ?
 
The Franciscans of the Immaculate accept Vatican Council II as a historical reality. They accept the Novus Ordo Mass. I attended the Novus Ordo Mass numerous times at this church on Sunday mornings offered  by the F.I priests. The Franciscan priests accept the Council which says all need faith and baptism for salvation. They can accept LG 16 as being invisible, hypothetical for us and known only to God and so not an exception to AG 7 which is in agreement with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
 
So they can choose to offer the TLM with the traditional ideology of Vatican Council II.
 
Those 200- plus priests who asked Ecclesia Dei for permission to continue to offer  the TLM could also ask permission to interpret Vatican Council II in which there are no known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as interpreted by St. Alphonsus Ligouri and St.Maximilliam Kolbe.
 
Please make a public and formal request which shows that the Holy Mass, in any Rite, is not ideological and should not be suppressed for this wrong reason. Also the ecclesiology and traditional theology is there in Vatican Council II when LG 16 is considered invisible and not visible for us.With implicit and not explicit for us LG 16, Vatican Council II is not 'ambigous' but traditional.
-Lionel Andrades

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