A reader writes

As a reader of your website over the last three years, though I admit few comments, I want to remind that I read you that I read your site, and I continue to do so, and of course, I pray you have a happy Easter. (As opposed to exreaders reminding you how they don’t read you, but instead write you.) Anyway, have you heard about the Solemn High Pontifical Mass at the Shrine of National Basilica in Washington, DC?

On Saturday April 24, at 1:00 p.m. there will be, in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, a Solemn High Pontifical Mass, (which means a subdeacon, deacon, and bishop) celebrating mass in honor of the continuing reign of Pope Benedict XVI. It is to be fully sung by multiple choirs, celebrated by none other than His Eminence, Darío Castrillón Cardinal Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy and President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. The location is the only church in this country large enough to fit such a crowd, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in the District of Columbia. It will be the first such mass at the Shrine in decades.

I know that some have battered you in the past for a perception of coolness towards church tradition, but that’s false, you have stated time and time again you became Catholic fully intending to enjoy the treasures of the Church’s heritage. What better way then to perpetuate such riches than through the continued celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass following the Pope’s wishes in the mortu proprio?

Please check out our website and one better would be our widget for promotion. It would be wonderful if you would please unleash the power of the blog in support of the mass by posting about its celebration. Furthermore, would you please post our widget on the side of your site? It would only be for a month, but would tremendously help the Paulus Institute through donations and publicity. This liturgy, will be a well-done first step in restoring a stronger Catholicity to our nation’s capitol.

Well… okay. But I’m only doing it because I want to be *perceived* as not hating the Traditional Latin Mass. Everybody knows I really do and that I am bent on subverting the Church. Nothing would please me better than to thwart the will of the Holy Father. Why else do I do what I do?