It is often argued that the new rite of ordination of bishop lacks the essential idea to constitute the making of a bishop, but when we read the whole prayer of ordination in usage since 1968, we see that is not the case.
Here’s why.
A recent commentary by a person suggests to us that: “the sedevacantist thesis will fall, (not that the Conciliar popes will not be condemned or Vatican II cannot be revoked), but sedevacantism is a matter of private judgment that is fallible, because it’s based on non-credible sources. But you know what, if I had lived during the Borgia papacy and witnessed the corruption of Rome and in the hierarchy, I would have been a sedevacantist too.
Believe me, it pains me to see what has happened since the 60’s and I really believe either we are heading toward the final end or there will be a restoration, but not the one envisioned by sedevacantist.
My concern with this is to show that Paul VI could have been mistaken on the essential form for the new rite of episcopal ordination. A sedevacantist told me distinctively that he agrees that the latter part of the whole form of the new rite of ordination of bishop would constitute as an equivalent for the order of bishop (the ministry of the high priesthood), when it says “Serving you night and day, may he fulfill before you without reproach the ministry of the High Priesthood;”. This has been the particular translation used for many dioceses since the change by Paul VI. BUT, he [the sedevacantist] says that it is not what Paul VI has declared as the essential form, the bare minimum. Ridiculous.
That is without a doubt the same equivalent of “fulfill in thy priest the completion of thy ministry… raiment of all glory”. Notice “raiment of all glory” is a literary abstraction.
And we are told that the whole rite of the traditional form is necessary. I agree, and so is the whole of the new rite.
I believe one day, the new pope, or anyone who will ascend will make the necessary correction from what was believed by Paul VI to what I have shown as the essential form (bare minimum) for validity. When you look at the whole of the new rite of prayer of ordination of bishop, it’s very beautiful and clear. The essential form cited by Paul VI would have endowed (implicitly) the power in context with the preceding prayer request for the “power flowing from the horn of priestly grace” which is the literal translation of the source of the fullness of the priesthood. The form of Paul VI gives explicitly the idea of the source of power, so the latter part would have confirmed it.”
the Abbé de Nantes never seemed to realize that there was a reason for the total futility of his well-intentioned efforts: He wasn’t dealing with Catholics. While praying for the repose of his soul, let us be grateful for the many good writings he’s left, but follow neither him nor the SSPX down the dead ends they travel in their dealings with Modernists.