A Vocation – Despite Traditionis Custodes
Testimony against Francis rigid restrictions. Father Laurent Demets who was ordained a priest for the Fraternity of Saint Peter in 2000, offered his testimony after Francis used Traditionis Custodes to introduce rigid restrictions against the Roman Mass. Demets has been working in France, the United States and Canada, and is now based in Saigon, Vietnam.
A big gap. Demets grew up in France, in a non-practising Catholic family. As a child in the 1970s he liked to read a children's Bible and to go to church sometimes when accompanying his grandmother to the Novus Ordo. His interest in spirituality continued into his adolescence but he wasn’t satisfied with the New Rite without knowing why. At 18, he devoured a book about the life of Charles de Foucauld discovering his thirst for God. But he noticed the gap between what he had read and the parish liturgy which he attended from time to time.
A spiritual shower. In the year of his baccalaureate, he …More