"I
do not want ever to shut down the Church again."
So said, Toronto Archbishop
Thomas Cardinal Collins on November 13, 2020 only to go against his own words
by doing exactly that on November, 23. Ah, wait, he is correct, he did not
"shut down the Church again," he only banned the public worship of
God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The good Cardinal left the churches open
for private prayer to a maximum of ten established by the Ontario politburo
diktat of General-secretary Douglas Ford after being advised by the same
"virtuous" medical professionals spoken of by our good Cardinal. The
same ones that recently murdered a woman by lethal injection, an elderly woman
now before God and one who could not bear another shutdown. The Cardinal
said he "did not want collateral damage." Well, he got it
bigtime.
So, the Cardinal can make a
distinction. He did not "shutdown the Church again." He only
shutdown the Holy Sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
How does this make sense and
why has he done this?
If the church can have ten
people, why can it not have eight faithful, a priest and one server to make up
those ten. I am not trying to justify General-secretary Ford's diktat, but
let's just try for a moment to work within the decree.
If ten can gather and distance
and mask and sanitize at St. Clare of Assisi Woodbridge which holds over 1,000
to recite the rosary, why can they not gather for Mass? It hurts the brain to
try to unravel this riddle.
It is simple.
As I have been told by more
than one who would know, "It is just not worth it." That is the view
of the Cardinal, his Auxiliaries, the chancerycrats and the close circle of
priests around him. It's just not worth it. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is
just not worth it.
Christ, is not worth it.
You, are not worth it.
You, my friend, you are not worth
the trouble of figuring out which ten. But hey, the priest has his Mass. Talk
about clericalism.
Is part of the riddle, the
distribution of Holy Communion? We know he has violated the rights of the
faithful to receive on the tongue and has approved the dropping of the Host in
one's hands, where it may fall on the floor and particles, each of which
contains Christ, scatter. We know that without authority, Toronto Public Health
and presumably others, have threatened the Church over this matter. It is not
acceptable.
So, let us work for a moment
again within the politburo diktat. After all, what would St. Thomas More, who
Cardinal Collins so often quotes praises, do?
"I'd give the Devil the
benefit of law, for my own safety's sake."
The Cardinal has the authority
to say that there will be no distribution of Holy Communion at Mass. The
faithful do not need to receive the Eucharist at Mass. The priest must, as the
Levitical priests old, consume the Holy Sacrifice. It was later, distributed
the Hebrew people. Holy Communion can be received by appointment (contact
tracing) on the hand or tongue alone as an individual or family circle with
proper sanitizing measures before and after.
If this little layman can
figure this out, why can't the Cardinal.
My friends, as Ontario
politburo General-secretary Ford is wont to say, my friends, I can only do so
much. I am one person, what are you doing? What has happened to us. Do we need
to use Adam
Skelley as our role model?
I wrote yesterday that we will
back the Cardinal, we will defend his priests, our priests.
Cardinal Collins, you wear red
for a reason. You have forgotten. You will be judged by Jesus Christ for this.
Imagine if Our Lord Jesus Christ said in the Garden, "Father, its just not
worth it!"
Restore the public Mass in
Toronto and Peel now. Do it, now and do not do what you have done again.
Advise the Premier today that
as of next Sunday, we will return to 30% and in order to increase the number of
Masses, limit homilies to five minutes and eliminate the distribution of
Holy Communion in the Mass and do it by appointment.
Advise the Premier and the
Medical Officers of Health that they can issue whatever citation, or fine, or
penalty they wish. They can even arrest you and your priests as they did Mr. Skelley, who as of this
writing has in his war chest $229,229.00.
Let them drag you in handcuffs
from the Cathedral.
Yesterday, I visited Adamson's
BBQ. It was barricaded with concrete barriers and there were over fifty police,
none of whom wanted to be there. They were borrowed from across the city. I
asked an Officer, "what would happen if 100 or more did this as a
protest." He told me, "absolutely nothing, we could not handle it."
Bullies back down.
Unless the coward lets them
continue.
Cardinal Collins, you speak
much of More and Fisher as you did at the Oratory last Saturday and your Sunday
homily from the same Ambo disgraced a few weeks ago by Justin Trudeau, whilst
you the servant of us and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, sat behind a pillar,
muted and struck dumb with a face mask. You, were silent whilst Justin
Trudeau seized the place of the Word of God and received the Holy
Sacrament whilst the cameras panned to the ceiling and for which I have
witnesses.
Enough!
As St. Catherine of Sienna
said, "We've had enough exhortations to be silent."
To my fellow Catholics, she commanded us, "Cry out with a thousand tongues
- I see the world is rotten because of silence!"
neilm@archtoronto.org
archbishop@archtoronto.org
icamilleri@archtoronto.org
bishop.boissonneau@rogers.com
central.region@archtoronto.org
eastern.region@archtoronto.org
northern.region@archtoronto.org
See also:
https://rumble.com/vbg8lv-archdiocese-of-toronto-webinar-friday-november-13-2020.html
Vox Cantoris:
REPORT: ONTARIO GOVERNMENT WAS PREPARED TO LIFT CHURCH RESTRICTIONS AS EARLY AS
LATE APRIL INTO MAY - WHY DID CARDINAL COLLINS DELAY UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF JUNE?
Vox Cantoris: AN
OPEN LETTER TO THOMAS CARD. COLLINS ON THE CESSATION OF PUBLIC DIVINE WORSHIP
IN PARTS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO.
