The blog Rorate Caeli has a post on it today about an ordinary apostolic visitation of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter that the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei" has directed to be performed. The visitation will be conducted by a three-member group consisting of the Bishop of Chur, Switzerland (principal visitator), with the Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Triors, in France (a daughter-house of Fontgombault), and the Most Reverend Fabian W. Bruskewitz, Bishop Emeritus of Lincoln, Nebraska.
This visitation should be embraced and welcomed by the Fraternity and its supporters.
It is the intention of this blogger to share his concerns about the Fraternity's preference for silent-spectator Low Masses instead of the Dialog Mass with Bishop Bruskewitz. Given the clear teaching of the Second Vatican Council, it seems to him, as it always has, that read Masses under the Extraordinary Form of the Latin rites should be celebrated as Dialog Masses of the highest degree that the particular congregation is capable of attaining. Cf. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Address on the Tenth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Moto Proprio "Ecclesia Dei". It is the right and duty of the faithful to participate fully, consciously, and actively in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Mother Church does not want them to be at Holy Mass as silent spectators.
Rorate Caeli's post reports that other institutes under the jurisdiction of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei" (such as the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest) will have similar ordinary visitations shortly.
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