We are well beyond the parochial quarrel. Will the traditionalist pilgrimage of Chartres, created in 1983 and organized since the 1990s by the Notre-Dame de Chrétienté association, be prohibited from traditional mass (in Latin, back to the people) inside Notre-Dame of Chartres from Pentecost 2025?
In any case, this is the threat that looms, according to daily revelations The Crosshowever delayed by an article of the Figaroabout the largest pilgrimage between Paris and Chartres, which attracted some 18,000 walkers this year, during its 42nd edition, a record.
These pilgrims would then be relegated to the same rank as those of the Saint-Pius no longer have the right to celebrate mass in Chartres Cathedral, before traveling to Paris, also during the Pentecost weekend.
The Pentecost pilgrimage of Notre-Dame de Chrétienté would be, according to La Croix, “in the sights of the dicastery for divine worship and the discipline of the sacraments”, a sort of ministry of the curia in Rome, which would take a dim view non-compliance with Vatican law regarding celebrations.
On February 21, 2023, Pope Francis indeed confirmed that the use of parish churches for groups celebrating with the pre-Vatican II rite, as well as the use of the ancient Roman missal of 1962 by priests ordained after on July 16, 2021, “can only be granted by the bishop after obtaining authorization from the Holy See.”
