tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post2826439667990105252..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: A priest who was not afraid to stand up to his BishopRichard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-69769757702277791102013-12-19T07:33:54.836+00:002013-12-19T07:33:54.836+00:00I have never understood why the Latin Mass is so t...I have never understood why the Latin Mass is so threatening and considered unacceptable amongst the heirarchy. It does not make any sense considering the missals are bilingual. I would like to know the reasons given.<br />I agree with Cardinal Lefebvre. All Catholics know that when harm is being wreaked on the Church it is our duty to resist no matter who the perpetrator is.This is one of the great aspects of Catholicism. The truth is the truth is the truth, no matter what! Catholic Supporternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-72370760207680743242013-12-13T02:34:57.647+00:002013-12-13T02:34:57.647+00:00Thank God for Archbishop Lefebvre. I'm sure th...Thank God for Archbishop Lefebvre. I'm sure that when this crisis is over he will be canonized.<br /><br />-HannahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-9779297150565898962013-12-12T17:06:18.315+00:002013-12-12T17:06:18.315+00:00Those in the Church who have persecuted good pries...Those in the Church who have persecuted good priests like this and forced some of them into sedevacantism will pay for their actions one day. They will not pay in this life, of course, but they will pay when they face their Judge. Now they strut about like proud peacocks as they lay waste to the smouldering remnants of the Church but when the time comes for them to give an account of their stewardship...well, God help them.Aged parenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217229048176272954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-62363739279481661542013-12-12T13:31:25.021+00:002013-12-12T13:31:25.021+00:00Thank you for posting this article. It is a privi...Thank you for posting this article. It is a privilege to read about those who in every age have paved the road for us. Their sacrifice in spite of persecution gives us strength to persevere, especially today, when we must at all times discern 'truth' from 'error', regardless who is speaking (the Pope, the bishop, the priest, the Catholic Media). <br /><br />......from the last interview by the Superior General of the SSPX, Bishop Fellay:<br /><br />"We must keep the faith, imbued with charity. If we want a restoration of the Church, and certainly we do want it, that is where we must go. To the source, and the source is the Mass. Not just any liturgy, but rather, I mean to say, an extremely holy liturgy. One that is holy to an unimaginable degree. One that has an extraordinary sanctity that was truly forged by the Holy Ghost over the centuries, composed by the holy popes themselves, and therefore having an extraordinary depth. There is absolutely no comparison between the New Mass and that Mass. They really are two different worlds and, I was about to say, Christians who are in the least sensitive to grace realize it very quickly. Very quickly. Alas, today, we observe that many people do not even see it any more! But for me it is obvious that the restoration of the Church must start there. Therefore that is why I am profoundly indebted to Pope Benedict XVI for having reinstated the Mass. That was of capital importance. It is of capital importance."<br /><br />Hail, O Virgin of Guadalupe, Empress of America! Keep under your powerful patronage the purity and integrity of Our Holy Faith on the entire American continent. Amen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-40357491905191174862013-12-12T13:16:51.727+00:002013-12-12T13:16:51.727+00:00I will pray for Fr. Baker but...
RIGHTEOUS
THUNDE...I will pray for Fr. Baker but...<br /><br />RIGHTEOUS<br />THUNDER<br /><br />Five times banished<br />Exiled seventeen<br />Excommunicated champions<br />God puts at each scene.<br /><br />Saint Athanasius,<br />Feast day of worth<br />On the second of May<br />The month of great mirth.<br /><br />Out in the deserts – <br />As history has charted – <br />You preserved the true Mass<br />Great lion-hearted.<br /><br />Now Lefebvre<br />And the sixties egalitarians<br />Like Athanasius,<br />His time his Arians.<br /><br />For He who abolished<br />Death by death<br />Sent him to absolve<br />Sin width and breadth.<br /><br />And yes the same moon<br />The same sun we're all under…<br />We venal rain - but Lefebvre<br />Righteous thunder!! <br />Long-Skirtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00791967605782446951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-57593290476433592632013-12-12T11:21:40.156+00:002013-12-12T11:21:40.156+00:00Pelerin and Anon, thank you for your comments. I h...Pelerin and Anon, thank you for your comments. I have now added a link to a BBC piece on Fr B. (at the end of the post).Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-42212750881343287982013-12-12T10:37:49.758+00:002013-12-12T10:37:49.758+00:00Your post has prompted me to read some of the item...Your post has prompted me to read some of the items on the Catholic Herald Archive website referring to Fr Baker. I do not remember reading anything about him at the time (family matters probably took precedence then) and indeed had no idea that there were still priests celebrating the Tridentine Mass. <br /><br />Like many people we accepted the changes out of obedience as the Old Mass became just a cherished memory from the past.<br /><br />I often wonder if we had had the world wide web in those days how different things might have been.Pelerinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243859145007696053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-58421903085038620662013-12-12T09:21:07.358+00:002013-12-12T09:21:07.358+00:00I'm very thankful that you've written abou...I'm very thankful that you've written about Fr Baker, a one-time priest of my former diocese, sadly expunged, as he is, from their necrology. He was, no doubt, a controversial character, and it is unfair to judge people from the past by our standards; they were difficult times, and if I were alive in the 70s, would have been thankful that someone hadn't given up the ghost so readily. Even though he perhaps may have stepped a little too far - becoming a Sedevacantist and all (although, given the circumstances, I'm not surprised he was!) - there is no excuse for the manner, in my opinion, in which he was treated by Bishop Alan Clarke, and Fr Baker's successor (de facto or de jure depending on your opinion!) in Downham Market, the late Fr Sketch. Fr Baker's memory is still much maligned in idle chatter (as well as in Fr Sketch's recent obituary, painting the situation as a battle between good and evil, David and Goliath), and few people indeed know how realistic, and, indeed, prophetic, Fr Baker was. Yes, please pray for him. A religious. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com