{"id":1203,"date":"2016-09-24T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2016-09-24T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T19:54:14","slug":"in-every-dictatorship-the-past-is-censured-from-the-life-of-a-diocesan-priest-who-discovered-the-immemorial-mass-of-all-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/2016\/09\/in-every-dictatorship-the-past-is-censured-from-the-life-of-a-diocesan-priest-who-discovered-the-immemorial-mass-of-all-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"“In Every Dictatorship The Past is Censured” — From the Life of a Diocesan Priest Who Discovered the Immemorial Mass of All Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Eponymous Flower Site. Although this article is three years old, it continues to have meaning today.<\/p>\n

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(Milan) Don Alberto Secci, born in 1963, ordained in 1988, is a priest of the Diocese of Novara on the border with Switzerland.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Don Secci became famous when he announced with two other diocesan priests, that he was bringing the traditional form of the Roman Rite back according to the Motu Proprio\u00c2\u00a0Summorum Pontificum<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0of Pope Benedict XVI..\u00c2\u00a0The result was great resistance from the diocesan leadership, the rest of the clergy and public hostility.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Today he may celebrate the Old Rite and proclaim the undiminished faith – in a tiny mountain village with a few hundred inhabitants.\u00c2\u00a0In an interview, he talks about the crisis in the Church and the importance of tradition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As the three priests announced their decision according to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Summorum Pontificum,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0there was massive resistance in the diocesan leadership and the rest of the clergy of the diocese who immediately stirred up \u00c2\u00a0sedition \u00c2\u00a0of \u00c2\u00a0the parishioners against their pastor.\u00c2\u00a0The priests became a national news story.\u00c2\u00a0The entire press of Italy reported about them.\u00c2\u00a0They were described as “stubborn” and denounced as “agents provocateurs”.”We had become a scandal overnight, for the world and the diocese,” said Don Secci.\u00c2\u00a0The Pope generously granted the Motu Proprio “and for that, the Church can’t thank him enough,” said the priest.\u00c2\u00a0However, Rome was unable to prevail against the selfishness of some bishops who consider their diocese as a private fief.\u00c2\u00a0Two Priests are active today in the Southern Alps at Domodossola Verbania and close to the Swiss border, a pastors.\u00c2\u00a0To expand its reach, they run the Internet apostolate\u00c2\u00a0Radicati nella Fede<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Rooted in Faith) and \u00c2\u00a0seek the instruction of the faithful in the Church’s teaching of all time in their parish boundaries.\u00c2\u00a0In January, the fourth annual “Day of the Tradition” will take place, which Don Secci organizes once a year.\u00c2\u00a0The theme for 2014 is: “Winter in the Church after the Second Vatican Council”.\u00c2\u00a0The topic is taken from the book by Cristina Siccardi (see separate article\u00c2\u00a0The Winter of the Church after the Second Vatican Council – The new book to an open question<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0) \u00c2\u00a0who will be present as a speaker.<\/div>\n
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The interview with Don Alberto Secci was conducted by\u00c2\u00a0Riscossa Cristiana<\/em> .<\/div>\n
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1) It is becoming increasingly apparent, even in relation to the celebration of the Holy Mass (Old Rite and New Rite) that there are two different ways to live the Catholic religion: priests and faithful, are oriented to lessons that are subject to the modern revolution, and other priests and faithful who adhere to the teachings and principles of the Church’s tradition.\u00c2\u00a0How do you think it will be possible one day to resolve this dichotomy again?<\/div>\n
Don Alberto Secci: It is necessary that those who have the grace to recognize this terrible dichotomy, have to choose for God, to live in complete catholicity \u00c2\u00a0according to Catholic tradition.\u00c2\u00a0This is the crucial point.\u00c2\u00a0In Christianity there is nothing abstract.\u00c2\u00a0You said: “also in relation to the celebration of the Holy Mass in the traditional rite”. \u00c2\u00a0I’d rather say they remain Catholic, believers hold fast to the teachings and principles of the Church’s tradition..\u00c2\u00a0The believers who are \u00c2\u00a0held by the revolution, however, have only a vague Christian inspiration and the only in the best cases.\u00c2\u00a0To be precise, you said: “in reference to the Mass.” \u00c2\u00a0Allow me to emphasize this “also”.\u00c2\u00a0Why?\u00c2\u00a0Not in the sense, as if there were just the Mass, because the Doctrine of the \u00c2\u00a0Faith is inseparable from the Mass and \u00c2\u00a0connected to the entire apostolate.\u00c2\u00a0But it is much more in the sense that the Catholic life is the continuation of grace, which comes above all through the sacraments, and thus is the center of the Holy Mass, indeed a Mass without an ambiguous rite.\u00c2\u00a0Therefore, If \u00c2\u00a0someone had the grace to understand the dramatic situation, \u00c2\u00a0he would not trade his \u00c2\u00a0 conscience for personal acquiescence.\u00c2\u00a0One must look for a traditional Mass site and make this the comprehensive place of education in the faith, in the broadest sense of the word, not just intellectually.\u00c2\u00a0Small centers of the normal Catholic life, quite modest and perhaps even quite poor, but largely because of the graces that they convey.\u00c2\u00a0This will be the solution, God willing.\u00c2\u00a0It is our duty to decide whether we want to tread a path of grace and therefore, tradition by loving the Church in Her suffering.\u00c2\u00a0God is the solution to this mystery ailment.\u00c2\u00a0But God has already solved everything.\u00c2\u00a0We are to lovingly care about the Church and not “politically.”<\/div>\n
<\/a>2) The “Day of the Tradition” in Verbania will take place this 19th\u00c2\u00a0January 2014 for the fourth time.\u00c2\u00a0Can you tell us what will happen and how the initiative was created?<\/div>\n
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Don Alberto Secci: It is simply a Sunday afternoon, which is entirely devoted to a burning topic of the faith.\u00c2\u00a0The day ends with the celebration of a singing show.\u00c2\u00a0For years, Don Stefano and I \u00c2\u00a0have endeavored to move forward with a serious study of Christian doctrine for the faithful of our churches.\u00c2\u00a0The meetings are \u00c2\u00a0held fortnightly.\u00c2\u00a0We place great value on them.\u00c2\u00a0The confusion that prevails today among Catholics is so great that we simply can not imagine standing aside, just because we love the tradition.\u00c2\u00a0It is necessary to know the Christianity, Church history, the Church teachers and the great spiritual Master.\u00c2\u00a0Christianity is so sublime and so beautiful because the whole work of God is unsurpassable and perfect.\u00c2\u00a0How could we not feel the desire to get to know it better and better?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I’m worried about those believers who move from one church to another in order to always something “more traditional “, but do not have the desire to be led in doctrine and spirituality.\u00c2\u00a0Sooner or later they will adopt a secular mentality again, \u00c2\u00a0one perhaps \u00c2\u00a0sooner than the other.\u00c2\u00a0I’ve met some people who were arrested by the Old Rite, but in their judgments and their behaviors were liberal.\u00c2\u00a0However, the truth of the faith must be the measure of our judgment and our actions.\u00c2\u00a0In order to give other people from further afield the opportunity to participate in our ministry that takes place for us throughout the year, we launched the “Day of Tradition”.\u00c2\u00a0It is a day that is dedicated to the Catholic doctrine, specifically a particular topic.\u00c2\u00a0It is also an opportunity to meet again, keep in touch, meet new people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3) Does the life in the countryside as opposed to living in the city facilitate the understanding of the tradition?<\/div>\n
Don Alberto Secci: No, today the disaster is global.\u00c2\u00a0It is not the mountain or the land itself which will help us, but the way you view the world, that is, whether they are really considered to have Catholic views.\u00c2\u00a0If so, whether the mountain or plain, small village or metropolis is the same.\u00c2\u00a0On the contrary, if a priest should be really determined to give his life in the grace received from Him, then the city offers even more opportunities for his apostolate.\u00c2\u00a0Personally, I must confess that I have always loved the solitude of the mountain, which always holds the same beauty and pain in itself and I have learned more and love more.\u00c2\u00a0For me anyway, it is the place where I live as a priest, which obedience to God.\u00c2\u00a0First, \u00c2\u00a0the faithful are entrusted to me.\u00c2\u00a0I’m not picking any particular place, \u00c2\u00a0that I’ve never done.<\/div>\n
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4) Why \u00c2\u00a0precisely are those who want the Creed of the Holy Catholic Church \u00c2\u00a0and are really serious to live it, are the only ones excluded from the discussion and public debate \u00c2\u00a0or kept to religious themes, but but everything else is approved?<\/div>\n
Don Alberto Secci: In every dictatorship, the past must be censored.\u00c2\u00a0No one must know how it once was before the dictatorship, which always claims to give new life to the world.\u00c2\u00a0And the dictatorships of the “liberals” are the worst and have always been the worst.\u00c2\u00a0When\u00c2\u00a0the schema of a dictatorship enters the Church, the censorship of the past is almost a dogma: “Today the Church has a new consciousness, you can not go back to the things of the past, even if they were sacred, but today they are no longer there, because the Church’s consciousness determines the truth in today.”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Something like that is thought by almost all today, and that is terrible.\u00c2\u00a0It is the fastest way to destroy the Church, as we see.\u00c2\u00a0The representatives of this thinking have access to almost all means of communication, because they are useful to “entertain” the people, they do not argue with the New Paganism, they do not startle, do not challenge them when they criticize, then only the Church, most of the time, but they just talk, they palaver and palaver and say this mostly nothing.<\/div>\n
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But it is enough that a child says \u00c2\u00a0in his innocence, see, the king is naked, and already breaks the spell of censorship that the past is hidden, it \u00c2\u00a0falls into place in a single moment.\u00c2\u00a0That’s why it will take more work from \u00c2\u00a0the traditional side and less “whining”, \u00c2\u00a0to help build the kingdom of God, according to the responsibility that God has entrusted to each of us objectively.\u00c2\u00a0There is no time to lose: Do all that stands in your way, so that the Catholic Church and the world is Christian.<\/div>\n
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5) What today indicts \u00c2\u00a0the Church \u00c2\u00a0of being in crisis?<\/div>\n
Don Alberto Secci: The priesthood.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0In the “modernized” Christendom, the \u00c2\u00a0priesthood \u00c2\u00a0has no place, because it is without meaning in \u00c2\u00a0the new religion ultimately.\u00c2\u00a0That is the terrible consuming of Protestantism in our house, that is, in the Catholicity.<\/div>\n
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6) What can teach the tradition of the Church teach to \u00c2\u00a0our time?<\/div>\n
Don Alberto Secci: Quite simply, Christianity.\u00c2\u00a0You must do nothing else.\u00c2\u00a0Christianity is not reduced to a purely earthly matter, as does the prevailing flow, but Christianity as God’s grace.\u00c2\u00a0Christianity, which is not ashamed of the cross and therefore builds upon and aims to \u00c2\u00a0grace.\u00c2\u00a0Christianity, which knows that grace is not a construct but is truly effective, and is capable of bringing about a civilization and high culture when man opens to her, as history has never seen.\u00c2\u00a0Tradition teaches the visible Church, that Christendom \u00c2\u00a0in order to save many souls brings forth \u00c2\u00a0Christianity, that is, a Christian society: therefore, if the Church of today wants the salvation of souls, then \u00c2\u00a0She should cease to be ashamed of Christianity .<\/div>\n
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7) What does tradition teach to the pathological modern world, which consists of many broken families, of sick political decisions of cultures and ideologies that are in open contradiction to the law of nature and no longer has \u00c2\u00a0clear goals and fixed points?<\/div>\n
Don Alberto Secci: Tradition reminds everyone that one can not pretend that there is no original sin, when talking about the people and society.\u00c2\u00a0Man can not save himself, so he can’t \u00c2\u00a0build a just society on his own.\u00c2\u00a0He needs the grace of Christ and indeed absolutely, without exception.\u00c2\u00a0Without grace that comes from God, there is no healthy people.<\/div>\n
Tradition also points out that the Grace of God, the grace that Christ has given to us through the cross and conveyed to us through the Sacraments, can do all things.\u00c2\u00a0And if this is so, and that is so, then there is nothing that can prevent sanctity, if man does not reject it himself.\u00c2\u00a0Traditionalists are \u00c2\u00a0the kindest, friendliest people because, they are in the \u00c2\u00a0readiest place there is, \u00c2\u00a0because he lives on the primacy of the supernatural life.\u00c2\u00a0For where God lives, everything becomes new in \u00c2\u00a0true order.<\/div>\n
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8) Why should traditional people live better than a “modern” man?<\/span><\/div>\n
Don Alberto Secci: Because he does not support his life by himself, but depends on God.\u00c2\u00a0One must live so that he always looks for the grace of God and \u00c2\u00a0to do this with the joy of everything to His greater glory.\u00c2\u00a0The tradition is a way of simplicity, it does not look for luxury or \u00c2\u00a0false comfort: God is everything, and so I live for Him.\u00c2\u00a0It is a life, everyone in his state of life, as Saint Benedict says, because the monk is simply a Christian.\u00c2\u00a0In the Middle Ages it was quite normal that even princes and princesses went to the monastery when they came of age.\u00c2\u00a0This was not an early form of retirement home for rich and powerful who could afford it at that time.\u00c2\u00a0No, it was because of their salvation because they knew that this was the most appropriate way to do what they knew to do, namely, to seek the grace of God, having previously lived by their rank and position, performing with their responsibility in the world.<\/div>\n
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9) In view of the many people who groan under the daily loads that consume their days full of hustle and bustle and work for an ultimately pointless existence as it appears to them, have \u00c2\u00a0questions to which they can find no answer, how would you \u00c2\u00a0describe to them the beauty of life \u00c2\u00a0and also the beauty of death?<\/div>\n
Life and death becomes beautiful when \u00c2\u00a0one recognizes one’s own place and also lives: you belong to God and the whole of life has its meaning, and the questions suddenly get a clear answer when we recognize this commitment.\u00c2\u00a0And in God, in our Lord Jesus Christ, man suddenly realizes with astonishment that all is altogether well.\u00c2\u00a0One discovers the profound unity of everything.\u00c2\u00a0Life is \u00c2\u00a0will be understood \u00c2\u00a0in an entirely new depth and simplicity, it is wisdom.\u00c2\u00a0But that you do not get that without the Church, which of course was specially instituted by Christ with a clear task for It.\u00c2\u00a0But the Church is not a social, societal and thus horizontal means such as many others are\u00c2\u00a0The Church is the communion with Christ, It is the tradition.\u00c2\u00a0It is the tradition, because this bond with the Lord \u00c2\u00a0through the Apostles represents an unbroken line willed by Christ and therefore, the certainty of salvation is mediated through the sacraments.\u00c2\u00a0Is there anything more shockingly beautiful \u00c2\u00a0than that?\u00c2\u00a0Everything in this bond of grace with Christ, a bond that is historically observable \u00c2\u00a0because it acts in history, finds its place.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Nothing is free.\u00c2\u00a0If someone wants to live outside this order of God, which alone corresponds to the true nature of things and also of man, therefore following his true, unique development, he will eventually find only suffering and anguish, and finally death, with the real danger that this death is final, terrible and eternal.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>But God wants us in his own order, he wants to share with us the great beauty, the eternal life, in Him Himself.<\/div>\n
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