A Bad Rap While Praying In Reparation For Rap

by Thomas A. Droleskey

Each of us is a sinner in need of making reparation for our sins. One of the prayers contained in the Miraculous Medal Novena asks Our Lady to:

Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial that we may recover by penance what we have lost by sin and at length attain to that blessed abode where you are the Queen of angels and of men.

No faithful Catholic can live his life without understanding how necessary it is for him to try to undo the damage to his soul by means of his sins. No faithful Catholic can live his life without trying to help the Poor Souls of the Church Suffering in Purgatory to make reparation for their sins by means of saying prayers and having Masses said for them. No faithful Catholic can live his life without being conscious of the horror of sin, consecrating himself totally to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary to offer her all of the merit he gains from his prayers and indulgenced acts, trusting that she will use those merits as she sees fit for the honor and glory of God and for the good of the conversion of sinners.

Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary and her Miraculous Medal were two of the spiritual weapons, for example, that Saint Maximilian Kolbe promoted to be used against the evils of the early Twentieth Century, evils that were fostered by Judeo-Masonry and its ideological allies in both the Nazi and Communist camps. Saint Maximilian Kolbe founded the Knights of the Immaculta in early 1917, the same year as Our Lady appeared in the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal, anticipating Our Lady’s Fatima Message to do penance for sins and to pray for the conversion of sinners.

The need for reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world is very urgent in our own days. It was just about five months ago now that His Excellency Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society of Saint Pius X led a Pilgrimage of Reparation for the abomination that took place on May 5, 2004, at the Chapel of the Apparitions in Fatima, Portugal, when a Hindu “priest,” standing in the same place as a Catholic priest at a Novus Ordo altar, offered prayers to their false gods. Those who run the Fatima Shrine attempted to use thuggery to interrupt the pilgrims as they prayed the Rosary, as John Vennari, whose initial reporting on the Hindu abomination was unjustly dismissed as inaccurate by various and sundry unthinking apologists for the Vatican and the Second Vatican Council, wrote in a dispatch from Fatima in August of last year.

Additionally, Rosaries are prayed in reparation in front of abortuaries by faithful Catholics every day of the year in this country and around the world. Many traditional Catholics are constantly making reparation for the outrages associated with the greatest liturgical abuse in the history of the Church, the Novus Ordo Missae. Any Catholic who dearly loves the Church understands the importance of doing penance for his own sins and those of the whole world, thus planting the seeds for the restoration of right order in the Church and the Social Kingship of Our Lord and Saviour in the midst of the world.

It was with this spirit of love of the Church in mind that Mr. Stephen P. Dailey, who assists at Holy Mass offered by the priests of the Society of Saint Pius X at Saint Vincent de Paul Church in Kansas City, Missouri, agreed to a request made of him by a coordinator of the Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne Latin Mass Community in Kansas City, Kansas, to help organize a peaceful Rosary in reparation for an abomination called “Rap of Redemption,” a “concert” that was held at Blessed Sacrament Church in Kansas City, Kansas, on Sunday, January 8, 2006. The Communique that was featured on the website of The Remnant newspaper noted the following:

Dear fellow Catholics,

I talked with [coordinator for the Latin Mass community at Blessed Sacrament] this morning concerning the awful event planned for Sunday at 4:00 p.m. They (The Latin Mass Community) are asking for our help. They would like us to join them in the spirit of peacefully consoling our Blessed Lord for the abomination that is scheduled for Sunday at 4:00 p.m. and to demonstrate to the Archdiocese that this type of blasphemous "musical performance" is not Catholic and cannot be tolerated in a Catholic place of worship.

The plan is to show up around 3:45 p.m. at the front and side entrances OUTSIDE of Blessed Sacrament Church where the Rosary will be led by 2 FSSP priests.

In the meantime, please take the time to call (913-721-1570), or fax (913-721-1577) and express your displeasure of this event to Archbishop Naumann in hopes that he will be moved to cancel or change it to a different venue -- I'm not sure an e-mail to the Archbishop would be read in time.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO (AND CALL) AS MANY CATHOLICS AS YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY TO OBLIGE THEM TO JOIN IN THE ROSARY AND TO IMMEDIATELY CONTACT THE CHANCERY. Thanks and God bless you for your help. Your reward will be great.

Steve Dailey (SSPX parishioner)

The story in the Kansas City Kansan newspaper that alerted the public to the travesty of “Rap of Redemption” included the following description of the combination of “rap” music with the strains of Gregorian chant:

The "Rap of Redemption" will be performed at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 8, at the Blessed Sacrament Church, 2203 Parallel, in Kansas City, Kan. The rap/chant performance is part of "How Can I Keep from Singing," will also be performed at 4 p.m., Jan 22 at First Presbyterian Church in Lawrence. The powerful rap message of the "Rap of Redemption," deals with a prison inmate's pain and regret for the damage caused to others.

The performance comes from the heart of the entertainers, who are themselves, inmates at Lansing Correctional Facility's East Unit - the minimum-security unit where the performing inmates are housed.

The lyrics of the "Rap of Redemption" were created by a maximum-security inmate, Essex Sims, at Lansing Correctional Facility, with the arrangements done by the East Hill Singer's conductor, Elvera Voth. The idea of mixing the chants of the third century with modern rap was Voth's.

"I wish I'd never hurt you, hurt you," Sim's lyrical refrain proclaims.

The Gregorian chants are the "Kyrie; and the ‘Angus Dei." The text of the "Kyrie" means "Lord have mercy," and the text of the "Agnus Dei" says "Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us."

“Essex was written up in the Lawrence Journal World as being a rapper," Voth said. "He is a talented poet. I thought it would be interesting to combine this latest form of musical expression with the earliest form of musical chants from the third century, so while he is rapping his remorse, we are singing, underneath, very softly, a Gregorian chant.”

Although the Catholics who objected to this performance inside of a Catholic church were careful to praise the good intentions of those who were sincerely sorry for the crimes they had committed, they nevertheless attempted to stop the performance of offensive secular music inside of Blessed Sacrament Church. Numerous facsimile transmissions were sent to the office of the Most Reverend Joseph Naumann, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas prior to the performance, hoping against hope that the above-described Rosary of Reparation would not be necessary.

Mr. Louis Tofari, who is a parishoner at Saint Vincent de Paul Church in Kansas City, Missouri, sent a private facsimile transmission to the chancery office of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas:

I have just read of an event that is due to be held at Blessed Sacrament Church in Kansas City, KS this coming Sunday, which "will combine modern rap with classical Gregorian chants" within the confines of the church. (cf. http://www.kansascitykansan.com/articles/2006/01/04/news/local/news13.txt)

I am glad that the prisoners involved are eager to spread the Good News and to assist others (myself included) in obtaining their redemption, however despite their zeal for the salvation of souls, the context is improper and for the following reasons.

When the Second Vatican Council stated (following nearly 2000 years of precedence) in Sacrosanctum Concilium that the use of Latin and Gregorian Chant should have "pride of place" in the Liturgy (even if the vernacular is allowed; cf. my footnotes below), I am sure that they did not intend the format that the ‘sacred’ music concert will demonstrate this Sunday.

In fact, such a concert makes a mockery of one of the Church’s most ancient and greatest liturgical treasures. There is little doubt in my mind what the Holy Apostles, the Church Fathers, numerous holy monks and composers of chant, Pope St. Gregory the Great, St. Bernard of Clairvaux and finally, the great reformer of chant, Pope St. Pius X, would have to remark about such a planned production.

Finally, keeping in mind that rap music is considered by many musicologists, both secular and ecclesiastical alike, to be the lowest standard of music on the scale (because it is based on pure beat), the confines of a church, which is supposed to be set apart for use of the highest and choicest fruits that we can give to God, is not an appropriate venue for this experimentation.

As a result, I am requesting as an active voice of the People of God that His Excellency, Archbishop Joseph Naumann, either: a) cancel the concert completely, or, b) at least have it relocated to another building (e.g., the parish hall or like).

Thank you for your attention to this matter, God bless, and I remain to His Excellency honorably his, Louis J. Tofari. (Mr. Tofari’s footnotes are listed at the end of this article.)

The pleas fell on deaf ears. Archbishop Naumann did not respond to any of the facsimile transmissions. He did not respond to any of the requests from the secular media for comment on the matter. Archbishop Naumann let the abomination take place.

Thus, parishioners from both the Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne Latin Mass Community of Kansas City, Kansas, and Saint Vincent de Paul Church in Kansas City, Missouri, gathered together outside of Blessed Sacrament Church at 3:45 p.m., Central Standard Time, on Sunday, January 8, 2006, to be led in prayer by Father Philip Wolfe of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. It had been determined that it would be best to hold the Rosary for Reparation outside of the Church rather than inside.

Mr. Dailey wrote the following description of the amazing sequence of events:

I'd say there were about 120 people outside the Church, comprised of old and young alike. There were also 4 TV stations I told Father Wolfe at the outset that several people, in addition to making reparation, would also be offering the Rosary for him. He told me he could see Providence at work with this whole ordeal.

Fr. Wolfe initiated the prayers by reminding the faithful of the necessary requirements to gain a plenary Indulgence and that the purpose of the prayers he was about to lead was to make reparation for what was about to take place inside the Church. Fr. Wolfe then led 15 decades of the Rosary, Fr. Orlowski sung and the faithful made the responses to the litany of the saints (in Latin), Fr. Wolfe led another prayer in Latin (I'm not sure of the prayer but he chanted several lines) and then 5 more decades of the Rosary before giving his priestly blessing. All told, the faithful and both priests were on their knees on the concrete steps and sidewalk for about 1 hour and fifteen minutes. As a parishioner at Saint Vincent de Paul noted after morning Mass on Sunday, January 8, 2006, the Evil One is not going to be at all happy with the reparation prayers and we can expect nature to be disturbed. After Sunday Mass it was about 50 degrees and the sun was shining -- very nice indeed I told her for the afternoon rosary. The nice weather continued until 4:00 p.m. when the prayers started. I kid you not, the sun was shining and it was a little cool and slightly breezy beforehand, but as the prayers continued, the dark clouds rolled in, the temperature dropped and the wind became gusty -- additional penance besides just the knees.

At the conclusion of the prayers Fr. Wolfe obliged the faithful to keep the spirit of the reparation and proceed back to their cars in silence and not to speak with anyone (he told the people that the assembled reporters were not their friends and would distort anything that they had to say). I was told by a friend of mine that goes to Blessed Sacrament that Fr. Wolfe made no mention of the reparation gathering at the morning Mass other than he told them not to not talk to any members of the press. My friend said this was confusing to a lot of Blessed Sacrament parishioners because they didn't even know there was going to be a gathering for reparation (apparently, those who attended from Blessed Sacrament were only a select constituency). The rap performance had not ended at the time the reparation gathering was dispersing.

[Saint Vincent de Paul parishioner] Steve Sanborn spoke to one of the TV stations afterwards and this interview was on the news yesterday evening. I talked to Steve this morning. He was perturbed that Fr. didn't take the time to be interviewed and explain why we did what we did. He felt like Father is too much worried about what the archdiocese might do to him and the indult situation.

I'm glad Fr. Wolfe led this initiative. I hope this doesn't get him in trouble, but if it does, that's the fruit of living his Catholic Faith. We will be judged by God, not man. I told Steve to pray for Fr. Wolfe--that I was not sure he would have done even what he did a year ago and next time he might even go further. We'll see.

Well, as could be expected, Father Wolfe, who is an exemplary priest concerned about getting his flock home to Heaven safely, and the Catholics who prayed Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary with him have become the focus of white-hot rage in the Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas, metropolitan area. Saint Vincent de Paul parishioner Mr. Louis Tofari sent a private e-mail to one radio station, explaining that an employee of The Angelus magazine had listened to the “rap performance” in person and found “the single piece of rap (as opposed to the entire concert as was advertised) that was sung with Gregorian chant in the background was actually well-done and not what was expected.” He added immediately thereafter, though, "that the context of making use of the Latin Rite's greatest liturgical musical treasure in conjunction with what is considered by many to be the lowest form of secular music, was still inappropriate.” One can add that no amount of musical talent and good intentions can make any form of “rap” music acceptable to be listened to by anyone at any time in any place, no less a Catholic Church.

With the Rosary of Reparation becoming the focus of various radio talk show programs in Kansas City in the past two days, Stephen Dailey telephoned one program on Monday, January 9, 2006, to explain quite patiently and eloquently that a Catholic Church, which houses Our Lord’s Real Presence, is not an appropriate place for the performance of “rap music.” Mr. Dailey said that the Catholics who prayed in front of Blessed Sacrament Church were not condemning the good intentions of the inmates, only seeking to console Our Lord for the offenses being committed against Him in His church, which is consecrated to Him solely for worship.

Truth be told, however, offenses against Our Lord are committed all of the time at Blessed Sacrament Church. Hosts consecrated at the Traditional Latin Mass there are placed in the tabernacle and then distributed in Novus Ordo Masses, where it has been reported by eyewitnesses that some have fallen to the ground by those who have attempted to receive Communion in the hand, itself a grave sacrilege against Our Lord. As commendable as it was that Father Wolfe and parishioners of the Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne Latin Mass Community prayed the Rosary in reparation for the offenses taking place in the “Rap for Redemption” concert, it is disingenuous not to point out that the Novus Ordo Missae itself, an abuse against the Tradition of the Catholic Church and against the fullness of the worship that God is due, engenders such things as Rap of Redemption. After all, “rock music” has been played regularly during Catholic Masses in the past thirty years, including a horrific display of this abominable noise in a Mass celebrated by the late Pope John Paul II at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in 1995. I have heard ear-splitting hard-rock music at a Catholic funeral Mass at Saint Hugh of Lincoln Church in Huntington Station, New York, in September of 1982. “Lifeteen Masses,” featuring the horror of “rock” music, are said in many churches around the nation. World Youth Day features said music as an important part of its various events. Anyone who thinks that “Rap of Redemption,” as horrible as that is, is an anomaly in the world of the Novus Ordo Missae is deceiving himself.

There is also a great deal of fear within the indult community in Kansas City, Kansas, about losing the “approved” offering of the Traditional Latin Mass. Thus it is the case that many good and sincere people want no further publicity about the matter, including this particular article, in the belief that “everything is going to die down” and the Mass will no longer be in jeopardy. The fear bred by the indult mentality leads well-meaning traditional Catholics to shoot at other traditional Catholics when the focus should be on the cowardice of Archbishop Joseph Naumann, who, as we know now, permitted Our Lord to be offended by “Rap of Redemption.” The focus here is not on the messenger who is merely reporting about an event that has taken place and is causing great waves at the present moment. The focus here must be on how the Novus Ordo establishment institutionally promotes offenses against Our Lord because of the entire ethos of the doctrinal and liturgical revolutions of the past fifty years.

The Society of Saint Pius X has made the argument for the past thirty years that the Traditional Latin Mass does not depend upon any papal or other episcopal “indult” for its valid and licit offering. The erroneous belief that the offering of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition depends upon the “generosity” of a pope or his bishops leads to the same sort of paralysis of fear that is exhibited by bishops and their chancery factotums in the wake of offenses against Our Lord’s Real Presence. It was an extraordinary act of courage for Father Wolfe to lead the Rosary of Reparation on January 8, 2006. It will take more courage now to stand up publicly to Archbishop Naumann, even more yet to denounce the indult as unjust and illicit on its very face.

With this in mind, I posed a series of questions to Archbishop Naumann via e-mail on Monday, January 9, 2006. Three phone calls were made to his office, one on January 9, two on January 10, 2006. Unreturned messages were left on His Excellency’s secretary’s voice mail in the first two phone calls. The third call, on January 10, 2006, resulted in my reaching the secretary, who informed me that the Archbishop was on retreat and would not be available for comment until sometime next week. The secretary, Mrs. Joyce Klingele, was unable to direct me to someone else in the chancery office who could address the questions I had posed to the Archbishop, telling me that he had not told her that anyone else was to handle questions about this matter. A follow-up phone call was made to ascertain what had happened to the facsimile transmissions that had been sent to the Archbishop’s office. The secretary, who had protested in my conversation with her that no one from the secular media had called the Archbishop’s office, was unavailable. Yet another message was left for her seeking information about the disposition of the facsimile transmissions. Her voice mail, which was reached minutes after our first conversation, indicated that she was “on another line” at the time of my follow-up phone call.

Further telephone calls were made to the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas chancery office on Wednesday, January 11, 2006. Messages were left for the Vicar General and Chancellor, Monsignor Thomas Tank, and his secretary. It was several minutes later that another telephone call was made to Mrs. Klingele’s office. A woman named Beth answered the phone, explaining that she would have Mrs. Klingele telephone me concerning the disposition of the facsimile transmissions that had been sent to the Archbishop last week. I explained to Beth that I had been made aware of the fact that His Excellency had a previously scheduled meeting with Father Wolfe on his calendar for later this week, thus indicating that he will be back in the office earlier than Mrs. Klingele said was the case. Yet another attempt to reach Mrs. Klingele was made on Thursday, January 12, 2006. She answered the phone, saying that the Archbishop was back in the office but that he had no comment to make on the matter of the “Rap of Redemption” performance at this time.

As it turns out, though, all of the effort to reach Archbishop Naumann was an exercise in the proverbial closing of the barn door after the horses had left. An article in the January 10, 2006, issue of the Kansas City Kansan noted the following:

Prior to their gathering, the group that formed outside the church had petitioned Bishop Naumann, Kansas City, Kan., archdiocese, asking that he cancel the planned rap performance.

"The archbishop's office gave approval for the concert," said Nancy Meis, the executive director for the Arts in Prison.

Well, there you have it.

These are the questions that I sent Archbishop Naumann, at least one of which is now answered as a result of the January 10, 2006, Kansas City Kansan newspaper article:

Your Excellency:

As your Excellency is aware, a "concert" called "Rap of Redemption" was performed inside of Blessed Sacrament Church at 2203 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, Kansas, yesterday, Sunday, January 8, 2006, the Feast of the Holy Family in the calendar of Tradition. I am in possession of facsimile transmissions sent to you by Mr. Louis Tofari, who quoted from Sacrosanctum Concilium about the inappropriate nature of the "music" performed yesterday. Mr. Stephen Dailey, among many others, has also communicated with you.

As I am working on a time-sensitive story on this matter to be posted on my own Christ or Chaos.com website, I have the following questions to pose of your Excellency:

1) Did you receive the facsimile transmissions calling upon you to cancel the "Rap of Redemption" concert inside of Blessed Sacrament Church?

2) Did you have foreknowledge of the "concert" prior to being notified of it by the aforementioned facsimile transmissions? If you did, did you approve of it?

3) Is "rap" music an "art form" that is considered to be acceptable at any time in a Catholic church, whether during a concert, or in the context of Holy Mass?

4) If your Excellency believes that ‘rap’ music is acceptable in a Catholic church, can you cite one Church Father or doctor, including Pope Saint Pius X, who would agree that profane music with a beat appealing to the passions alone is indeed acceptable to be heard by any Catholic's ears, no less played in a Catholic church?

5) We believe that Our Lord is present in the Real Sacrament, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. His Sacred Ears had to listen, therefore to "rap" music. Do you believe that Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is pleased with the beat of ‘rap’ music?

6) Do you believe that the Catholics who prayed the Rosary of Reparation were correct to do so?

7) Will you ban all such performances as "Rap of Redemption"-and all other forms of "rock" music from each of the venues under the authority of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas?

8) Would it be fair to say that your refusal to comment on this matter up to this point is an indication of your unwillingness to offend certain constituency groups rather than to defend what is appropriate in the sacredness of Our Lord's Real Presence?

I thank you in advance for your prompt attention to these questions. The questions as stated above will be published in the body of my article if no answer from your office is forthcoming.

Sincerely yours in Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen, Thomas A. Droleskey.

Prayers must be offered now for Father Wolfe and his assistant, Father Orlowski. Prayers must be offered for Archbishop Naumann. Prayers must be offered for the parishioners who fear losing that which is their absolute right as Roman Rite Catholics, the Immemorial Mass of Tradition. The enemy here is not anyone who is reporting the facts of the situation. The enemy here are those who are wedded to the doctrinal and liturgical revolutions of the past five decades.

Father Lawrence C. Smith made the following very pertinent observations:

Canon law, good taste, public decorum, the sensus Catholicus, and the virtue of piety forbid the use of rap music in a Catholic church building. Every effort conceivably possible was made to get the Archbishop to cancel the event. The public statements by the parties initiating the effort to protect the Catholic church building from sacrilege were nothing but respectful and even deferential. At no time and in no way was the Archbishop's authority in this matter denied. Father Wolfe and the people whom he led prayed a Rosary while kneeling outside of a Catholic church building. There was no violence. There were no confrontations between the people praying and the audience inside the Catholic church building.

On what grounds could any kind of disciplinary action whatsoever be levied against the priests or laity involved? What other than a history of capricious abuse of power on the part of chancery officials leads anyone to think that this set of circumstances could result in sanctions against the individuals or groups involved? How is it within the realm of reason that respectful, pious, loyal Catholics would feel threatened for asking Church authorities to enforce Church laws; while those who broke the laws, who stood by while the laws were broken, who deny the legitimacy both of the laws and of the persons responsible for carrying them out, are in absolutely no danger of any untoward actions being taken against them?

I am at a loss as to what would be accomplished by waiting until "the fire dies down". That would play right into the revolutionaries' hands. The passage of time will allow people to forget the issues at stake. It will not result in an examination of Archdiocesan policy. No apologies will be forthcoming. No assurances will be made that such will not happen again. All that would be accomplished would be the opportunity for the indult community to register impotent anger, reaffirm their craven willingness to accept whatever moldy crumbs of bread are offered to them by the power structure, and demonstrate their willingness not to pose any threat to the horrid status quo.

In my opinion, the best thing for Father Wolfe and the lay faithful attending his indult Mass would be to say thanks-but-no-thanks to the Archdiocese and to refuse to hold Mass at Blessed Sacrament at any time under any conditions. Endless sacrileges are committed against Our Lord there on a daily basis, not the least is the distribution of Holy Communion in the hand. The absolutely best thing for Father Wolfe to do would be to inform the Archbishop that Catholics have a right to worship according to the Latin Rite and they, the indult group, will no longer rely on the "generosity" of capricious authorities, but instead will appeal to the constant authority of the Magisterium as defined in Quo Primum and by the age-old practice of the Church from Apostolic times. Then, they should hold Mass at a place where the sacrileges and abominations associated with the Novus Ordo Missae and its entire ethos do not occur unchecked on a daily basis.

Mr. Stephen P. Dailey, who helped to spearhead the effort to bring Catholics from Saint Vincent de Paul Church to the Rosary of Reparation, added the following comments after reviewing this article:

Your article is an article that is truthful. What kind of example do we set for our children if we do not show respect for our God whom we claim to worship? The answer is obvious: they will grow up confused, having a weak faith or no faith and that is exactly what will be passed along to their children.

Actions have consequences and the abomination that was permitted by the local church authorities in Kansas City, Kansas, obliged many Catholics of good will to make reparation to our crucified Savior while at the same time praying for those responsible for the abomination. It also obliges Catholics of good will to make others aware of the abomination and so they may pray for those who may suffer as a result of their consoling our Lord--as well as those who brought about the abomination--this is the glory of the Mystical Body and is our duty as Catholics. This is what I was taught from the time I was in grade school--to love the Lord thy God with thy whole mind, thy whole soul and thy whole strength and to love thy neighbor as thyself, including those who persecute you. Our Lord gave us that example while hanging on the Cross. It is also the example I would like to give to my children when they are instructing theirs knowing at the end of my life that God, and not man, will be my judge.

Let us continue to offer reparation to Almighty God for the recent event at Blessed Sacrament Church and for those who may be persecuted when the only thing they are guilty of is doing their Catholic duty.

Those desiring to contact Archbishop Joseph Naumman's office may do so by writing him at: abnoffice@archkck.org. His office may be reached by telephoning: 913-721-1570. Facsimile transmissions may be sent to: 913-721-1577.

Father Smith and Mr. Dailey have put things very well. We need to pray that all concerned will heed their wisdom and act accordingly.

Our Lady, Help of Christians, pray for us.

Saint Cecilia, pray for us.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great, pray for us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius V, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us.

Saint Philomena, pray for us.

Blessed Francisco, pray for us.

Blessed Jacinta, pray for us.

Sister Lucia, pray for us.

Mr. Louis Tofari’s Footnotes from Sacrosanctum Concilium:

36.1: …the use of the Latin language is to be preserved in the Latin rites.

54: Steps should be taken so that the faithful may also be able to say or to sing together in Latin those parts of the Ordinary of the Mass which pertain to them…

116: The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical services…

117. The typical edition of the books of Gregorian chant is to be completed; and a more critical edition is to be prepared of those books already published since the restoration by St. Pius X.