After only one week, it appears that the Chief Medical Officer of Health in Simcoe County, part of the Archdiocese Toronto, has developed irritable bowel syndrome and has ordered General Secretary Ford of the Ontario Politburo to deploy what His Excellency, Mister MacCarthy calls in his latest memo to all clergy and parish staff, the "emergency brake." Thus, after only one week, in Simcoe County, there is now:
Of course, Comrade Ford has actually not banned the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in public, he has insanely and simply and arbitrarily with no basis in science, reduced religious services and ritual to a maximum of ten. This means that with a little work and creativity, Mass could go on, publicly, to a maximum of ten. However, never to be outdone by political fascists, our episcopal fascists have once again, doubled down and shut down entirely, the public celebration of Holy Mass. After only one week!
There is no other phrase to describe this action on the part of His Eminence Mr. Neil MacCarthy, Thomas Collins as spiritual abuse!
The Cardinal, in a letter earlier this week, seemed to threaten that he might, in a rare moment of courage, just perhaps, possibly could just might actually, consider and actually may beg, plead or ask, Comrade Ford and the Ontario Politburo to relent. He then had the temerity to ask the good people of the Archdiocese of Toronto to engage in a letter or telephone campaign to implore, beg, cajole, beseech and otherwise grovel to our politburo masters if we could "please, Sir, may I have some more," Mass when it was he, himself, that shut it down.
The Cardinal, who cancels priests and then waxes on in homilies online about being cancelled and begs the laity to back him up and write to demand answers when he refuses to respond to the laity and their emails, letters and phone calls, has quite the nerve.
There is a word that our Lord Jesus Christ used for this.
"But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter." Matthew 21:13
The effect of this on the people of Simcoe will be profound. The future economic survival of our parishes to say nothing about the loss of faith is now at greater risk.
It is the legacy of Cowardinal Thomas Collins.