After eight years of "loyal" service, the Priestly Fraternity of Saint
Peter has been expelled from the diocese of Quimper-Léon, France.
Abbé
Courtois - whom Abbé de Giacomoni, the new superior of the French
District of the FSSP, assisted as deacon - celebrated his last solemn
Mass on Sunday 25 August in the church of St Matthieu in Quimper.
After Mass, there was a farewell picnic for Abbés Courtois and Télisson.
Monsignor
Dognin, the local bishop, decided that in future Sunday Masses would be
celebrated by diocesan priests whom he could not find.
However,
Mgr Dognin also asked the faithful to participate in the Eucharist "on
certain important feasts as a sign of recognition of the validity of the
sacraments celebrated in the universal Church", which means that there
will be no Mass on these days.
Mgr Dognin also forbids the celebration of baptisms, marriages and confirmations according to the Roman rite.
Jean-Pierre
Maugendre writes on PaixLiturgique.fr (2 September) that it is
astonishing that 60 years after the conciliar declaration Dignitatis
Humanae this can still happen.
Dignitatis Humanae states: "In
religious matters, no one should be compelled to act against his or her
conscience, nor should anyone be prevented from acting in accordance
with his or her conscience within reasonable limits, whether in private
or in public, alone or with others."
This insistence on the
failed Novus Ordo is all the more surprising because 60 years ago there
were 1,000 priests in the diocese of Quiper. After 60 years of the Novus
Ordo there are 80 active priests left, including many imported from
Africa.
In the eight years of its existence, the FSSP parish of
Quimper has baptised 40 children and 15 adults and celebrated 22
marriages. It has produced 5 vocations (4 seminarians and 1 nun).
Maugendre
stresses that unconditional obedience to the Novus Ordo begins with the
acceptance of liturgical changes and ends with the pseudo-blessing of
homosexual concubines.
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