United States: Black Mass at Harvard canceled
The faithful of the chapel of the Society of St. Pius X in Boston.
Prestigious Harvard University on the East Coast of the United States had authorized an re-enactment of a satanic ritual on its property on May 12, 2014, until it was canceled as a result of pressure from Catholics.
The sacrilegious ceremony was planned by an association of students on the university campus, The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club, conjointly with the organization of the Satanic Temple. According to an article published by the American newspaper National Catholic Reporter (NCR) dated May 8, 2014, this student association insisted that the event “was meant to be educational, not offensive”. Nevertheless, according to a report by Fox News, these students did intend on that occasion “to reaffirm their respect for the satanic faith”.
According to the article in the National Catholic Reporter, when the Catholic chaplain on campus, Father Michael Drea, complained to the authorities about an attack “on the dignity of the Catholic faith”, the university administration indicated that it supported the “right of the students to express themselves and to gather freely.” The Archdiocese of Boston regretted that there was to be “an activity that separates people from God... and brings the participants dangerously close to the destructive forces of evil”.
Catholics stressed, furthermore, that a black mass was “by nature a parody of a Roman Catholic ritual including the profanation of a consecrated host”. When questioned by the American weekly newspaper on this subject, the Satanic Temple replied that “anyway, no one would notice the difference” since it was only a “piece of bread”. The fact that satanists profane consecrated hosts in black masses is proof positive that for them it is not just a “piece of bread”.
The Archdiocese of Boston had urged Catholics not to respond by demonstrating in the street, but instead with a prayer vigil that was attended by 1,500, on May 12, in a church near the place where the black mass was to be held. The faithful of the chapel of the Society of Saint Pius X also reacted by organizing, that same evening, a procession behind the statue of Our Lady of Fatima. The procession, led by Father Nicholas Gardner, stopped in front of the place where the satanic ritual was to take place. Many hymns in honor of the Blessed Virgin were sung and a Rosary was recited.
At the same time, from May 11-13, at the school of La Salette in Georgetown, in Northeast Illinois, where a Eucharistic Congress was being held, with Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais presiding, ten priests, several seminarians, the students of the school and around a hundred faithful observed three days of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament exposed, in reparation for the black mass which finally was canceled. No doubt the fervor of the Catholic reaction helped to win this victory over the forces of evil.
(Soucres: apic/National Catholic Reported/Fox News/Le Figaro/sspx.org – DICI no. 297 dated June 6, 2014)
