At NLM there is a good entry by Peter Kwasniewski about implementing Summorum Pontificum where you are.
He makes some practical points which I endorse… as one would expect since I also have made them.
WARNING: Peter links to a dangerous video that may make your ears bleed. (Hint: David Haas… sapienti pauca….)
Do you want the Extraordinary Form where you are?
He rightly advises taking action, rather than just wishing.
Peter also wisely warns people off the trap of an “indult mentality”. Summorum Pontificum was a game-changer, people. Priests don’t need permission to use the older books. Pastors don’t have to crawl with their trembling beggar bowl and cringe before the lord bishop.
I also like his point about not hitching your hopes only to specialist priests of the FSSP or ICK. As good as they are, and they are great fellows and the groups are wonderful. I hold that the real reform will being when more diocesan priests learn the older, traditional Form and use it regularly in their parishes.
MORE MORE MORE! That’s what we need.
We must NOT be complacent with one Mass at a reasonable time at one parish. We must NOT allow ourselves to be put into ghettos or concentration churches. No. Take it over the borders into new territories. Invade! Be the maquis!
And to you who haven’t yet been to Holy Mass in the traditional, Extraordinary Form… what are you waiting for?
As I have written in the past, you have been given what you need to get what you long for. Stop moping about and RIDE THE BIKE!
