The Assumption

So it is written in the church bulletin:

The 5:30PM Mass will be celebrated according to the
Latin Tridentine Rite for
which Pope Benedict XVIth has given world wide
approval for all priests to
celebrate the Liturgy of St. Gregory the Great codified
by the Council of Trent.

This is heart warming and hopeful, but there is no doubt the battle waged against this Mass will begin again; The battle that was waged in the Council of Vatican II; The battle that Paul VI pushed from Rome and Catholic followed through on on the parish level. The battle that successfully banished the Tridentine Mass from most Latin Rite Catholic Churches until this year when Pope Benedict reopened the doors for the Mass, again. Christ is the Center of the Church. He can never be removed from the Heart of His Church, but that doesn't mean that people will not try to dispose him, consciously or unconsciously. Of course, Satan is continuously, desperately spurring all to turn on Christ.

Still on this feast of the Blessed Mother Mother's Assumption there is much to be thankful for and to take hope in. It is nice for me to have a parish to fulfill my obligation to attend Mass on this Holy Day. I look to St Pius V to St. Gregory the Great to St John to St. Joseph and to the Blessed Mother to nourish me an prepare me for what lies ahead. Laus tibi Christe!