It'll never work...

"...of course, the other thing to remember is that those who have been steadfastly opposed to the Trid Mass will continue to oppose no matter what. They'll come up with any number of clever gambits to stop it in parishes and dioceses. If having the Pope make some decision on high was going to work, John Paul the Great could have done it in a second. The fact that in the 26 years of his papacy he didn't do it is indication enough that he knew that he would simply be disobeyed...."


Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: new TLM in Orange County, CA

> At least one O.C. parish has already taken advantage of Pope Benedict
> XVI's decision to give lay Catholics worldwide the power to request
the
> Latin Mass.
>
> In a message to his flock this week, Rev. Martin Tran, pastor of St.
> Mary's by the Sea in Huntington Beach, noted the pope's direction to
> pastors that is their "prerogative to willingly accede to (the
laity's)
> request." Wrote Tran: "I wholeheartedly 'accede.' We will have the
> Tridentine (Latin) Mass officially started on Sept. 16 at 12 noon
Mass."
>
> That's the first Sunday after Benedict's ruling takes effect. St.
Mary's
> was one of the few O.C. churches once allowed to have a Latin Mass,
but
> that ended when the priest who officiated it retired in 2004.