Feast Of All Saints And The State Of Holy Mother Church

Today, Saturday, is the Feast of All Saints  I just attended a Traditional Latin Mass in its commemoration.  I consider it a blessing to do so.  Usually, this Feast is on a weekday, and I can never get to a Traditional Latin Mass from my office in time.  Thus I will attend at my Novus Ordo parish because that feast is a Holy Day of Obligation.

I was saddened to see an email a few days ago from that parish.  The pastor stated the Mass times for today, and encouraged people to attend even though this year, the feast day was NOT a Holy Day of Obligation.  Why isn't it so?  Because the feast day happened on a Saturday or Monday.  Heaven forbid that Catholics should be so inconvenienced as to attend Mass two days in a row!  The horror!

No one with two brain synapses firing in synchopation can't help but notice how faith and piety have degraded since the "spirit of Vatican II" was thrust upon the Catholics in the pew.   We see carelessness and sloppiness in the congregation during Mass, both in dress and demeanor.   We often see the same in the sanctuary and the altar.  The various fasts and disciplines of Lent have become, to coin a phrase, wimpified.  Holy Days of Obligation have become Holy Days of Option (as has happened today).  If ever a change is announced, it's always to lower the bar regarding the disciplines of prayer, penance, and piety.  Never is it raised.  The effect has been to corrode the faith and morals of the Catholics.  That is by design, and it is succeeding.

That degradation is being thwarted at the Traditional Latin Mass.  That is why the progressives in the Church, from Leo on down, are doing their damndest to combat and kill the Traditional Latin Mass, in blatant disobedience to Quo Primum by Pope St. Piux V.

Today is also First Saturday.  In obedience to Our Lady of Fatima, please be praying your Rosaries is reparation for sins of indifference.  Ask the Saints, too, for their intercession.