Unfortunately for me (and my conscience), your July 24, 2014, Precept contains an order which is “problematic,” to say the least. It is my firm and sincere intention to be obedient to you. You are my bishop, and thus, I have promised obedience to you. I am 100% committed to my priestly promise of obedience. The following is a sample of this correspondence it is an excerpt from a letter which I wrote to him on September 8, 2014, the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God, intercede for me, a poor sinner. O Lord, make haste to help me.” The decision I had to make was my most difficult one yet as a priest. Dómine, ad adiuvándum me festína.” “O God, come to my assistance. Hence God loves your tiniest act of obedience more than all other homages you might think of offering Him.” What was I to do? Never before had the opening words of the prayer from the Divine Office struck a deeper chord in my soul, “Deus in adiutórium meum inténde. John of the Cross teaches, “Obedience is a penance of the intellect and therefore a more acceptable sacrifice than all corporal penances. Throughout my nineteen years as a priest, I have always done my best to practice the virtue of obedience, but now I was put in an impossible situation. The Mass and the Sacraments must be celebrated in the vernacular of the people (English or Spanish) and not Ad Orientem.” On July 24, 2014, my Bishop issued a Personal Precept which included the order, “I enjoin you to celebrate the Mass and Sacraments according to the Novus Ordo in the Mission of Shafter. At the time, I had already been offering the Traditional Latin Mass exclusively for almost three years!
However, as a sine qua non condition of the assignment, he insisted that I offer the Novus Ordo Missæ. Seitz, had appointed me as the Administrator of Sacred Heart Mission in Shafter, Texas (a small mission in one of the most remote parts of the diocese), effective July 11, 2014, for a term of three years. Rodriguez: At present, January 2016, I am a priest in good standing of the Diocese of El Paso, TX, with no pastoral assignment. LV: Can you bring us up to date on your status with respect to the Diocese of El Paso?įr. In fact, I believe that entering Amazon via one of these links can benefit us regardless of what you purchase once there.) (Please note: purchasing them via these links will help support akaCatholic. You will find links to these books throughout. Rodriguez recommended a number of books by name each of which may make for good Lenten reflection material.
Lastly, during the course of the interview, Fr. If you’re not already a subscriber to CFN, you may do so HERE. Rodriguez’s insights and reflections deeply moving and of great benefit. The complete interview (over 6,000 words in length) will be published in the next print edition of Catholic Family News, wherein Father discusses his journey to tradition, explains why he is no longer able to celebrate the Novus Ordo in good conscience, and gives valuable advice to both laypersons and his brother priests, and a great deal more.
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Michael Rodriguez including an update on his current situation. I’m pleased, and honored, to share below brief excerpts taken from an extensive interview that I recently conducted with Fr.
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