Homily by St. Augustine on John 7
Already He signified what He is to do with the quick and the dead.
Already He signified what He is to do with the quick and the dead.
In virtue of this decree, each of these fifteen days was considered, as far as the courts of law were concerned, as a Sunday.
From the pre-Lent Sundays onward, Holy Mother Church has led us into a liturgical dying. First there was the silencing of the Alleluia and the Gloria. Violet appeared on Sundays as a herald of the coming fast. Then Lent itself deepened the deprivation day by day, save for the interruption of the greater feasts. Flowers…
The SSPX situation is intelligible within these Catholic categories.
I do not agree with the SSPX but I recognise the validity of their stand.
The "Doctors of the Church in the Modern Period."