Christopher at Lost Lambs writes:

As some of you may or may not know I have created a group called the "St Gregory the Great Society" for Catholics in Johnson County KS to organize and request a traditional Mass for the Johnson County Area in accordance with article V of Summorum Pontificum, while we have the ICRSS and the FSSP in the area neither are in Johnson County. The Facebook group can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19037047591 and we will have a web site up soon.

Today I made a formal request to use the chapel pictured above, as all in the group had thought that it was the perfct place in the area to hold the mass. Unfortunately we were denied. The meeting lasted less than two minutes I first inquired what would it take to use the chapel, he seemed open and willing but once the Pastor was aware that our group promoted the Ancient Mass, the Pastor felt inclined to tell me about his Love for Vatican II, his hatred of the Latin Language, he stated that Latin has no place in the Mass that Vatican II was the best thing for the church, that the Latin mass was divisive and he would NEVER allow any Latin mass at any of his parish facilities. I knew none of my arguments or discussions would change his mind, I thanked him for his time and left.

Well, we'll keep on trying.

Most of Johnson County is full of either round spaceship churches or square auditorium churches. The few old church buildings that survived the 60's were pretty much wreckovated, lest someone think that Catholics are inside.

Truthfully, the perfect location would only be icing on the cake. After all, generations of servicemen were able to worship on their knees in the mud with a crucifix on top of a munitions box, certainly we can find a place to glorify the Lord too.

Hopefully in a proper church, of course. My wife would be very upset to go to church every Sunday in the mud!

Still, it's a discouraging setback.

It's easy for people like me who read the Catholic news and blogs that seem to point to a resurrection of Tradition in the Church-- yet face such blunt oppostion; it's easy to get to thinking that everyone agrees with you on this stuff.

Indeed not.

It's okay though, we'll make it. But this might be the first a few places where we have to shake the dust from our sandals.

"He who would climb to a lofty height must go by steps, not leaps."
-- Pope St. Gregory the Great

The organization will be found online at http://www.GregoryTheGreat.org as soon as I get to working on that website.