Say a prayer for Benedicat, author of the blog Catholic Tradition. He has just sent off an application for the Seminary of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.He went on a visit to Gricigliano in February and has an interesting post describing the daily timetable at the seminary.
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What language do they study in? Italian or Latin?
French actually- it's a French enclave...
Life in Seminary is in French. There is a prep year in US where student learn both latin and french to prepare.
Sounds wonderful! Thank you, Father.
From what I've heard, the seminary is full, even to the point where so of the seminarians don't have a bed to sleep on.
The Institute has candidates in the US that are just waiting for a spot to open in the seminary.
Of course, this is great news!
My daughter is joining a very traditionalist convent in about forty days, so naturally I am interested all these kind of developments.
However I am greatly concerned because I see another division opening up after the great conservative/liberal divide of the past forty years, and that is the fissure between two increasingly large and dynamic groups within the Church, the traditionalists and the charismatics. My experience has been that these two are mutually incomprehensible.
The onus for intra-mural ecumenism is naturally on the traditonalist side because of a deeper appropriation of the intellectual patrimony of the Church. At the same time, I'm sorry to say, I doubt very much that any such contacts or conversations would be greatly encouraged in traditonalist circles, still less that they'd be apt to be found reading or talking about Yve Congar's book on the Holy Spirit at Gricigliano Seminary.
IMHO there is a hermeneutic of discontinuity here as well, not that everything began with Vatican II, but that everything ended with it. Perhaps I've got it wrong, but that is my impression.
I just wanted to say to Lee (and I'm no one to say anything) that it is my impression as well that there are two groups who believe in the hermeneutic of discontinuity--those who fear the Church broke from the past, and those who celebrate that the Church broke from the past and are proud they helped do it. I never know whom the Holy Father is talking about when he uses the term until the moment is long past when I could understand what he is talking about.
The insistence that there was no break, however, makes me feel dizzy and ill. Since we so clearly did.
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