The faithful are not ready to give up the extraordinary form

Extract from an interview given by Father Louis Le Morvan, priest of the Fraternité Sacerdotale Saint -Pierre, in Aleteia :

”The Holy Father believes that the Catholic faithful“ rooted ”in the ancient missal simply need time to“ come back ”to the 1970 missal. Personally, I think this is unrealistic. On the contrary, the last years have shown that the roots of which he speaks are deep and nourishing for the soul of the faithful who live on Christ in the extraordinary form, they are not about to give it up. And if we approach the question correctly from a statistical point of view, these authentic Christians generally retain their religious practice well during their life, pass it on to the following generations and are apostles of Jesus, which explains the strong development of so many. priestly and religious communities than the simple number of lay faithful, former infants fed in the extraordinary form or adults coming from the ordinary form.

The Pope obviously expects the use of the old missal to end in the long term. I don’t think that will happen. It should be noted, moreover, that it does not prohibit it any more than its four predecessors and even recalls that it has never been repealed. Our right to use it remains, but the possibility of sharing it with God’s people is becoming more difficult..”

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