1. Intensify your prayers for Pope Francis and especially the bishops/priests most hostile to your liturgy. Enhance ands express your esteem and affection for them even as you correctly retain your intellectual judgment. Your intellect is strong in Truth; your heart can grow stronger in love.
2. Clearly affirm your acceptance of the Novus Ordo as normative, of the authority of this pope, of the divine inspiration of the Vatican Council. Restrain one another in speech that can be heard as resentful, polarizing and disrespectful, especially in social media and public discourse, even in the face of official persecution.
3. Continue your generosity, which is obvious, including financially. Perhaps each community might take on a specific action of mercy: visiting those sick, in prison or homebound; catechizing youth; mentoring young men; feeding the hungry; giving retreats.
4. Participate joyfully in normal parish life including the Novus Ordo and especially daily mass. Share your love for the Eucharist especially in adoration and holy hours.
5. Consider celebrating some or all of the Easter rituals with the broader parish in the Novus Ordo as an act of humility on behalf of Church unity.
I offer this in fraternal affection and esteem. Your love and devotion to the Eucharist of the centuries is a precious and necessary gift for the Church. Your witness is at times blurred by resentment, anxiety, defensiveness, and pride. You are, as a group, intelligent, creative, dynamic, fervent, devout...often in eccentric, delightful ways. May our Lord bless you and your families in your Eucharistic devotion. And the Church through your witness.
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