Below is a letter I received from a mother of a large family. She and her husband gave me permission to publish it. I am keeping them anonymous, as well as their bishop and diocese.
The TLM community in my diocese is suffering greatly. We are still mourning the loss of our Latin Mass; that school of holiness, valor, beauty, and love. It was our identity; the light of our families and the means of constant conversion in which we were all deeply happy and experienced such sweet holiness. Totally erased in the blink of an eye. It has been viciously torn away from us with absolutely no concern about what that would do to the faith and hearts of the people of this diocese. Tossed into the diocesan garbage bin are entire communities wracked with sorrow, and that sorrow hasn’t diminished with time. After all the media frenzy has died down, we are still crying.
Our Latin Mass was stolen from us on a Thursday. We who would die for our King are now forced to watch as the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is dismantled piece by piece before our very eyes until all that’s left is an inferior, empty, heartbreaking disappointment, unworthy of Him. In its place, protestant-flavored liturgical norms are being fired at us like a gatling gun. Is this not the hostile transformation of our Catholic culture by our own bishop?
It is holiness in our worship that we crave so that we may better honor and adore Him whom we love, and it is holiness in worship that is being forbidden (!) by the man who is charged with guarding the sacred liturgy and defending our Catholic liberty. We are accustomed to having a normal, peaceful diocese with a loving bishop. This bizarre situation is completely unfamiliar and it’s beyond distressing to be under constant attack by our “father”. What’s so confusing is how callous the words and behavior of our current bishop are, and how careless he is with the souls entrusted to him.
Continue reading here… https://padreperegrino.substack.com/p/letter-from-a-catholic-mother-about
