Andrew Burch 🇻🇦

Catholic. Liturgy nerd. Taking the Bar Exam in July…….

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

@Giorgio_Sel @RichRaho Yes. Video here: https://t.co/59WT5jp37X

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV on the upcoming SSPX Episcopal Consecrations:

“I am considering making another appeal saying don't do this, let's try to live the communion of the Church. But it's their choice. One must realize what it means for them and for the Church. Certainly, the division among Christians is a painful point. However, they refuse to accept some fundamental elements of the Church, starting with several points from the Second Vatican Council. If they make that decision, I'm sorry but we have to move on.”

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV on the upcoming SSPX Episcopal Consecrations:

“I am considering making another appeal saying don't do this, let's try to live the communion of the Church. But it's their choice. One must realize what it means for them and for the Church. Certainly, the division among Christians is a painful point. However, they refuse to accept some fundamental elements of the Church, starting with several points from the Second Vatican Council. If they make that decision, I'm sorry but we have to move on.”

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

RIP SSPX, maybe. But not the TLM. As recently as March 18 (after the SSPX announced its intent to consecrate four bishops), Pope Leo asked the French bishops--through Cardinal Parolin(!)--to generously include those sincerely attached to the Vetus Ordo. And it's notable that in his Wednesday audiences on Sacrosanctum Concilium, he's refrained not only from doubling down on TC but also from equating the will of the Council Fathers with the liturgical reform we actually got.

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

Perhaps they could've accomplished a lot of good if not for their excesses... but their excesses were no small issue. When it comes to liturgy, for instance... it's one thing to hold that it would be prudent for the Holy See to facilitate, through certain reforms, the vocal participation of the faithful. But to assert that “it would be against apostolic practice and the plans of God, unless easier ways were prepared for the people to unite their voice with that of the whole Church”? It's no surprise that such a claim was met with condemnation.

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

Just the opposite--religious submission to the doctrines of Vatican II is necessary precisely because this is the very same Church that existed before.

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

Enough with the liturgy wars!… but the usus antiquior isn’t inextricably tied to them, and I don’t think it’s going away anytime soon (in fact, I wouldn’t be too shocked if it stuck around in some form for the rest of history, whether by living alongside the usus recentior or by merging with it in a future reform).

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

"A childlike trust in God’s providence over His Church working through simple obedience would suffice to satisfy the duties of any cleric or priestly society. Individual clergy cannot see distant, contingent spiritual realities such that they could prudently sidestep commonsense obedience to those who have the office and mandate to care for the whole ecclesial community, and this is why God does not want them to do so."

@EamonnClark - “My Will Be Done”: On the SSPX Consecrations

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

@RonSelgrat2ddg @cath_menarion If we’re talking about particular Churches, those might as well be synonyms, no? Or do you mean the Church IN ROME?

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

@hollis40304 @dondacamara @joaosilveiraaa It can look like that in some online spaces. I’m not convinced it’s the case in real life (though the problem certainly exists to SOME extent).

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

In message for 6th World Grandparents Day, Pope Leo XIV says: “The Church understands the suffering of her elderly members; she knows full well that they are all too often viewed through the lens of stereotypes and considered a burden; she is aware that a profit-driven economy weakens family ties; she knows that many elderly people are left behind by children who are forced to migrate or, in some cases, to fight in wars. For each of these reasons, she joyfully proclaims the Lord’s promise: “But I will never forget you!””

Full text here: https://t.co/kH16pxXWa1

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

It’s the Latin Church’s PRIMARY authorized liturgy at the moment, but it’s certainly not the only one when the Ambrosian and Mozarabic Rites exist and the Cistercian Use lives on (with many differences from the Missal and Liturgia Horarum of St. Paul VI!). And while the 1962 Missal is treated as an extraordinary concession for diocesan priests, that’s not how I would characterize its status in the Ecclesia Dei institutes.

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

@Redfella0115 @VGC_News If there hadn’t been any leaks AND Nintendo had saved Star Fox for that Direct, it would’ve been great. Some Ocarina of Time gameplay could’ve helped too.

[U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops @USCCB]

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

@SnekMedu @NintendoStoreDE I’m guessing Nintendo knows the release date (or window) and is just waiting for the full reveal (in a Zelda Direct?) to give it to us.

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

@Maribet62481007 @ravenousreader That’s more often than you’d have heard it in the old days! (I love the silent Canon, though.)

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

@ravenousreader “Prayers have been steadily put back in and revised to align better with the Mass of the Ages.” Are you talking about the English translations? I’m not aware of any recent (post-1969) changes in the Latin text of the Canon.

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

@RogersBase The first sentence is true but doesn’t mean OoT is better. But I agree with the rest. Ocarina is more consistently PEAK.

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@RespectfulMemes

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

@RonSelgrat2ddg @cath_menarion There’s no need to WORRY about these things, and we certainly have no business condemning as evil something which the Church has approved, but that doesn’t mean all discussion is wrong.

[Andrew Burch 🇻🇦 @AndrewBurch14]

They supported more frequent concelebration (no longer reserving it for priestly ordinations/episcopal consecrations), but whether it’s best for ALL priests present at a Mass to concelebrate, even if many of them are far from the altar, is a separate question (though I don’t doubt that it’s at least legitimate). It wasn’t permitted by the 1965 rite of concelebration.