Where Do TLM Devotees Go When Their Liturgy Gets Banned?

[Michie]

Members of Charlotte’s Latin Mass community are torn between the liturgy they love and the parishes they belong to

What does a Catholic do when the liturgy he or she has attended — in some cases, for more than a decade — is banned from their parish church?

That’s a question that is being answered in different ways by the roughly 1,500 Catholics in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, who, until last week, regularly attended the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) at one of four parish churches.

The practice came to an end on Oct. 2, when Bishop Michael Martin, Charlotte’s leader for less than a year and a half, restricted celebrations of the form of the Mass used before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council to a single chapel just over 30 miles north of Charlotte.

Bishop Martin said the move was about bringing the diocese into compliance with Traditionis Custodes, a 2021 apostolic letter from Pope Francis that called for severely restricting the TLM for the sake of Church unity.

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Where Do TLM Devotees Go When Their Liturgy Gets Banned?

Members of Charlotte’s Latin Mass community are torn between the liturgy they love and the parishes they belong to

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[chevyontheriver]

Members of Charlotte’s Latin Mass community are torn between the liturgy they love and the parishes they belong to

What does a Catholic do when the liturgy he or she has attended — in some cases, for more than a decade — is banned from their parish church?

That’s a question that is being answered in different ways by the roughly 1,500 Catholics in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, who, until last week, regularly attended the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) at one of four parish churches.

The practice came to an end on Oct. 2, when Bishop Michael Martin, Charlotte’s leader for less than a year and a half, restricted celebrations of the form of the Mass used before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council to a single chapel just over 30 miles north of Charlotte.

Bishop Martin said the move was about bringing the diocese into compliance with Traditionis Custodes, a 2021 apostolic letter from Pope Francis that called for severely restricting the TLM for the sake of Church unity.

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Where Do TLM Devotees Go When Their Liturgy Gets Banned?

Members of Charlotte’s Latin Mass community are torn between the liturgy they love and the parishes they belong to

www.ncregister.com

I guess I would think it appropriate if all 1500 of them, and well wishers too, went to that tiny little remote chapel on a given Sunday. With media in tow to report on how the bishop failed to provide for these people in his fake solicitude.

Actually they are between a rock and a hard place. The bishop won. But then again that bishop will face a judgment some day. Their obedience to this bad bishop will be rewarded. His hatred of his sheep might not be rewarded.

 

[RileyG]

So happy to live in a diocese that has an FSSP chapel. Praying the TLM is continued to be preserved for generations to come. It's historic and beautiful.