Limericks on Liberal Liturgists... More Analysis of the Rumors... Some Prayers... and more!

A Leninist poster, tweaked a bit by Matthew Hazell

Limericks on Liberal Liturgists

If hunger is the best sauce for food, one might say humor is the best antiseptic for nasty microbes.

A few years ago, Andrea Grillo published a self-important “Open Letter on the ‘State of Liturgical Exception’” that garnered the signatures of progressive liturgists across the world — all 138 or so of them. (One of them was Fr. John Baldovin, SJ, a scholar who wrote a book l aying out plainly how radical the liturgical reform was against all who attempt to downplay that fact.)

In response, I wrote a series of limericks. I also wrote a more serious reply here, if you are interested; but come to think of it, the limericks are a sufficiently serious reply.

So today, given how much A.G. has been in the news lately, I have decided to share a poem cycle from 2020 with my Substack readers.

There once was a man named A. Grillo
Who went at the trads with a will-o:
He cried out with dismay
“They will not go away!”
And wept on his scholarly pillow.

Sant’Anselmo is raging with scholars
Demonstrably hot round the collars,
“Lefebvrists are naughty,
The CDF’s haughty!,”
Their principal Grillmaster hollers.

Their impression of us: “We deplore ’em!”
Their advice to the Pope: “Don’t restore ’em!”
A pandemic of Latin
Is a curve they would flatten:
“Quarantine that contagious Summorum!”