NO IMMEMORIAL MASS OF ALL AGES FOR THE FRANCISCANS OF THE IMMACULATE, EITHER
( The Eponymous Flower) – Edit: we just received another, more recent update on the Franciscans of the Immaculate. Remember when all those people were saying that the FFI would have the option to say the Mass if they sent in requests? All the requests have been ignored. As the following shows, there are two hermeneutics at work here. One which opens new religious houses and the other which closes them.
March 10 2014
The Stakes are High for the Franciscans of the Immaculate
by Maurizio Grosso
Since the beginning of the external “commissioning” of the Institute of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, the new authorities have continuously repeated the same refrain: “Are you on the side of Father Stefano Manelli or on the side of the Pope?” … “If on one side there is Fr. Stefano and on the other the Pope, whom do you choose?” It was an external commissioning which started out on the wrong foot, and it soon caused the capitulation of any undertaking for unity.
Since the beginning of the external “commissioning” of the Institute of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, the new authorities have continuously repeated the same refrain: “Are you on the side of Father Stefano Manelli or on the side of the Pope?” … “If on one side there is Fr. Stefano and on the other the Pope, whom do you choose?” It was an external commissioning which started out on the wrong foot, and it soon caused the capitulation of any undertaking for unity.
In the name of the authority enjoyed by the Commissioner, the Capuchin Father Fidenzio Volpi wished to pressure the brothers, not so that they might recognize their mistakes and thereby correct them, but so that they might embrace the new line of thought proposed by him and abandon fidelity to the Founding Fathers. The Friars have not yet been officially notified of the infamous “reasons” for the necessity of an external commissioner. Were there serious crimes? No. This was merely a “benevolent attention that expresses the maternal care of the Church.” Such were the words of those “in the know,” who have constantly repeated the same lullaby, which at times has been extremely contradictory.
