Standing on the precipice

Our Lord may have given St. Peter the keys of the kingdom but it appears some of his successors have like the scribes of old taken away the keys, not entering therein themselves and hindering those who were entering. And the key which has been taken away is none other than sacrifice of the Mass, which has been reduced from a mystery to a mockery, from an act of worshipping the Most Holy Trinity to an act of warfare upon everything the Church once held so dear.

Elsewhere our Lord spoke of those instructed in the kingdom of heaven as like a householder who brings forth out of his treasure new things and old. Yet today we find the greatest of all treasures, the most beautiful thing this side of heaven, not brought forth in many places and even where it is, carefully placed amidst the shadows, so that only those who truly seek the kingdom of God and his justice are able to find it.

If all this seems like the rantings of a "fundamentalist", "sentimentalist" or "traditionalist", in short a madman, I say with St. Paul, "I am not mad, but I speak words of truth and soberness. For the king (read popes) knoweth of these things ... For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him. For neither was any of these things done in a corner."