The Modernist Spanish Queen Sofia demonstrates her low opinion of the pope's "Reform of the Reform".
This image demonstrates just how fragile the Holy Father's "Reform of the Reform" is. Imagine how much better the Church would be today if Pope Paul VI had "proposed" the novus ordo instead of promulgating it!
If the "Reform of the Reform" incrementally moves the faithful back to the Traditional Latin Mass, then it can be considered laudable to a degree. However, if considered within the context of the novus ordo alone, the "Reform of the Reform" is just another option among many, that can be opted away, even in the presence of the pope who "proposes" it.
Another view provided by someone who left a comment:
Caption call?
"Queen Sofia Sidesteps the Reform of the Reform"
"Queen Sofia Sidesteps the Reform of the Reform"
You seem to have no idea what you are talking about. If you knew more about Queen Sofia you likely would not be making such a hyperbolic commentary about her and say, in apparent seriousness, that she has (or even would have) "made the pope to look like a fool." I usually enjoy your blog and visit it often but once every couple of months your posts remind me of what I dislike so intensely about the so-called "Traditionalist" movement --- its unrelenting sanctimony and willingness to calumnize from behind the safety of a computer screen. Could you not, perhaps, have posted about some other aspect of the pontiff's visit? (Say, the dedication Mass at Sagrada Familia, where this was taken, and where the Holy Father gave a marvellous discourse of sacred architecture.) I have been a daily reader of your blog for over a year, and an occasional one before that. However this is the last time I will overlook your self-indulgent cattiness, as now it has been directed at a woman who I admire and respect and yes, even know on a personal level.
ReplyDeleteCan't please everyone all the time. Sorry that you think I'm sanctimonious. If I had a dime for every time that accusation has been leveled against a traditionalist, I'd have a lot more time to be sanctimonious on line! It's an old canard that simply doesn't hold water, pulled out whenever someone doesn't like a traditionalist's criticism. Instead of broaching the actual criticism (in this case the inherent weakness of the "Reform of the Reform"), you level the sanctimony canard. Well, I can't do anything about that, and there isn't a response in the world that would suffice.
ReplyDeleteHowever, "calumnize"? Really? Given the recent events in Spain, the complete cultural collapse of the once great Catholic nation, am I to take that accusation seriously? After all, isn't it the responsibility of the royal family to preserve the cultural heritage of their country? Did Queen Sofia do that in the presence of the pope, so obviously thwarting the pope's desires? The image says it all! Did she publicly thwart the pope's desire for her to receive kneeling and on the tongue. Yes! How then did I "culmnize" her? I didn't right anything false, nor did I defame her in anyway that she hasn't already done to herself publicly.
Perhaps the difference between you and I here is that I actually care more about the pope's desires, and reverence for the Eucharist, than I care about Queen Sofia and her irrelevant family.
I also admired the Queen Sofia. Just as the king Juan. But lately only deserve our prayers for them to review their actions and repent while they can.
ReplyDeleteThe king not communed because obviously he was warned not to do it because he is excommunicated. Thank goodness, because the embarrassment and disrespect to His Holiness would be even greater, than the act of a scatterbrain.
And she is so vain and arrogant, who insisted on using white robe before the Pope, which is a privilege of the Catholic women of the Royal House. The Queen of England, who is Protestant, and therefore a heretic, demonstrates greater respect for the Pope when she accepts the protocol does not wear white (she wears black) before him. The Spanish queen wants the privileges that the Catholic royal blood gives her, not the obligations, for example, the duty of obedience to the Pope. You can clearly see the smoke of the devil walks the halls of the palace of Madrid too.
Regarding criticism of the traditionalists ... "the caravan passes and the dogs bark"! Let the dogs bark ... because this caravan nobody stops!
Hail Mary! Save Christ the King! Long live the Pope!
Julia from Brazil
This picture has landed on a number of websites and is doubtless going to stir the pot and become an occasion to rant, among other things.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what was in the heart of the woman pictured receiving Holy Communion, and I think it's safe to say that only God knows for sure.
As inappropriate her posture in receiving may be, and while it may have been wrong of her not to kneel to receive the Lord, does it help to assume the worst? (and, David, I'm not saying you are doing that, okay?)
Can't we hope that she was well prepared and properly disposed to receive Holy Communion, and that perhaps she desired intimacy with the Lord in Holy Communion? We're all poor sinners, and it helps, I think, to be concerned with my own disposition in recieving the Sacrament before I presume someone else's disposition. (and again, David, I am not saying you are being presumptuous either).
It's just a thought.
No... I disagree, Bob. It's fairly obvious to me. Maybe she didn't realize that she was stepping up on a kneeler... Nope. Not buying it.
ReplyDeleteNo, sorry, it was statement, plain and simple, and she was heard loud and clear.
Davidd, you are absolutely right, I'm not a traditioalist or what. I'm simply a devout Catholic..
ReplyDeleteAnd for me.. obedience and total surrender to the Pope, to the magisterium and dogmas of the Church is the greatest act of loce i can render to Jesus..
If you dearly love your religion and your God.. won't you kneel out of love...?? LOVE..! LOVE..! LOVE..!
here's a photo from a different angle, she's not standing on the kneeler.
ReplyDelete'She has obviously moved round from her place at the prie-dieu; she didn’t go from sitting to standing either, but was already on her feet during the Holy Father’s own Communion.'
'Queen Sofia is generally pious and known as something of a “conservative” who has annoyed Prime Minister Zapatero with her opposition to his “modernisations”. Anyone who can do that cannot be all bad, eh?'
http://mystra.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/queen-sofia-receiving-holy-communion/
I wonder where her veil is though..