This just in from one of the four Barnhardt Benefactor Mass priests:
Ann,
I will not be naming the Pope at the Te Igitur today.May the spiritual fruits of the Mass be applied generously by our Lord to you and your benefactors.
I think this might be something that other priests who are out there reading and are feeling the pangs of conscience with regards to calling “Franciscum” Pope might consider. Leave out the name.
Here is the text of the Te igitur, which happens before the consecration, just after the Sanctus (Holy, holy, holy…). Remember the saying “Say the black, do the red!” Black is text of the Mass in the missal, red are the actions that the priest does printed in the missal – printed in red. Get it? RUBRICS. Like ruby. Ruby like red. Say the black, do the red….
Te igitur, clementissime Pater, per Iesum Christum Filium tuum Dominum nostrum, supplices rogamus, ac petimus
(We, therefore, humbly pray and beseech Thee, most merciful Father, through Jesus Christ Thy Son, our Lord)
(We, therefore, humbly pray and beseech Thee, most merciful Father, through Jesus Christ Thy Son, our Lord)
Then he kisses the altar, joins his hands before his breast and continues:
uti accepta habeas, et benedicas
(that Thou wouldst accept and bless)
(that Thou wouldst accept and bless)
Next he makes the sign of the cross three times over the host and the chalice, while saying:
hæc dona, hæc munera, hæc sancta sacrificia illibata
(these gifts, these presents, these holy unspotted sacrifices)
(these gifts, these presents, these holy unspotted sacrifices)
He then opens his arms keeping his hands before his breast, neither higher nor wider than his shoulders, with fingers joined and the palms facing each other, and he continues:
in primis, quæ tibi offerimus pro Ecclesia tua sancta catholica: quam pacificare, custodire, adunare, et regere digneris toto orbe terrarum: una cum famulo tuo Papa nostro N. et Antistite nostro N. et omnibus orthodoxis atque catholicæ et apostolicæ fidei cultoribus.
(which, in the first place, we offer Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church, which Thou mayst vouchsafe to pacify, guard, unite and govern throughout the world: together with Thy Servant N., our Pope, N. our Bishop, as also all orthodox believers and promoters of the Catholic and Apostolic faith.)
Those Ns are where the priest says the first name of the Pope, and then the local Bishop. Given the situation in the Church today, what Father is now going to do is simply not say the name of the pope at the first N, so that the he is simply praying for “the Pope”, but still saying the name of the local bishop, because there is absolutely no doubt who the local bishop is.
I hope this helps, especially any other priests out there reading. It is an elegant solution, because it cannot be said that Father is even mistaken. He is praying for The Pope. There is no mistake there. And please remember in prayer this priest, and the other three Benefactor Mass priests, and the weekly Requiem Mass priest, and all seminarians, priests, bishops and Pope Benedict. And remember the Matthew 17:20 intention (full fast Tuesdays and Fridays!), that Antipope Bergoglio be publicly denounced and deposed and that his antipapacy be publicly nullified, and that Jorge Bergoglio repent, revert to Catholicism, make a good confession, eventually die in the state of grace, and someday achieve the Beatific Vision. Anything less is uncharitable toward all of humanity, and uncharitable towards Bergoglio himself.