"Destroy the Mass"
What is the crisis we are
currently going through? It manifests itself, in my opinion, under four
fundamental aspects for the Holy Church. It manifests itself, at first
glance, I believe, and it seems to me that it is one of the most serious
aspects, because, for me, if one studies the history of the Church, one
realizes that the great crisis that it went through in the XVI, frightening
crisis, which snatched from the holy Church, millions and millions of souls,
entire regions, states in their entirety, this crisis was, more than
anything, a crisis of liturgical worship;and that, if there are
currently divisions among those who call themselves Christians, more than other
causes must be attributed to the way of celebrating liturgical
worship; and if the Protestants separated from the Church, the main reason
is that the instigators of Protestantism, like Luther, said, from the very
beginning: "If we want to destroy the Church, we must
destroy the Holy Mass." This was Luther's watchword.
He had realized that, if he
managed to get his hands on the Holy Mass, if he managed to reduce the
Sacrifice of the Mass to a mere
meal, to a commemoration or remembrance, to a significance of the Christian
community, to a remembrance or memorial of the Passion of Our Lord and,
as a consequence, if the most sacred thing in the Church were left weaker, the
holiest thing that Our Lord has bequeathed us, the most sacrosanct, he would
succeed in destroying the Church. And indeed, he managed, unfortunately,
to snatch entire nations from the Church, working in this way.
The Mass, a sacrifice
As well. Today there is a
tendency, which no one can deny, to lay hands on the Holy Mass. Things
that are essential in the Holy Mass are
altered. And what are these essential things in the Holy
Mass? First of all, the Holy Mass is a sacrifice. A sacrifice is
not a meal. But,
at present, they have wanted to banish even the word sacrifice. People
talk about "Eucharistic
Supper, they talk about Eucharistic Communion" ..., they
talk about everything they want, as long as they don't even mention the word
sacrifice, and, nevertheless, the Mass is, essentially, a sacrifice, the
Sacrifice of the Cross; it is nothing else. Substantially, the
Sacrifice of the Cross and the Sacrifice of the Mass are the same thing and the
same and Only Sacrifice.
There is no other mutation
than in the oblation form. Our Lord offered himself in a bloody, bloody
way, on the altar of the Cross, being Himself the Priest AND the
Victim. And on our altars, he offers himself, being equally the Priest and
the Victim, by ministry of the priests.
The priest is only the
minister consecrated by the Sacrament of Holy Orders, configured, by Character,
to the Priesthood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, offering the Sacrifice of the Mass,
in the person of Christ: "in persona Christi".
The Royal Presence
If
Transubstantiation is removed from the Mass... Since I have
spoken to you about Sacrifice, let us now speak of the second necessary,
essential thing, which is the Real Presence of Our Lord, in the Holy Eucharist. If
Transubstantiation is removed. . . This word is of capital
importance, because, by suppressing it, the real presence is omitted , and ,
therefore, there ceases to be a Victim.
There ceases to be a Victim
for the Sacrifice, and, therefore, there ceases to be a Mass. In other
words: Sacrifice ceases to exist And our Mass is vain. We are left without
Mass. (It has ceased to be the Sacrifice that Our Lord gave us, in the
Holy Supper and on the Cross, and that he commanded the Apostles to perpetuate
on the altar). It is the second essential element. First the
Sacrifice, then the Real Presence. Let us now speak of the priestly
character of the minister.
It is the priest, not the faithful
It is the priest who has
received the commission, from God Our Lord, to continue the Sacrifice. And
by no means the faithful.
It is true that the faithful
must unite themselves to the Sacrifice, unite wholeheartedly, with all their
soul, to the Victim, who is on the altar, as the priest must also do. But
the faithful cannot offer, in any way, the Holy Sacrifice, "in persona
Christi", like the priest.
The priest is configured to
the Priesthood of Christ, he is marked forever, for eternity. "Tu es
sacerdos in aeternum"... Only he can truly offer the Sacrifice of the
Mass, the Sacrifice of the Cross. And therefore only he can pronounce the
words of Consecration.
On knees!
It is not
normal for lay people to stand around the altar and say all the words of the
Mass, together with the priest. Because they are not priests in the proper sense in
which the consecrated priest is. Nor can we consider it normal to have
suppressed all signs of respect for the Real Presence. By dint of not seeing any
respect for the Holy Eucharist, he ends up not believing in the Real Presence. And who will
dare to approach, by, such a way, to something similar, after meditating the
divine Word, according to which "at
the name of Jesus, every knee bows, in Heaven, on earth and in hell" If at the name of Jesus
we have to kneel, are we going to remain standing, when he is present in
reality, in the Holy Eucharist?
The place where a sacrifice is
offered is called an altar. For this reason, it is not possible to accept,
as a substitute for the altar, an
ordinary table, destined for meals, which, as Saint Paul recalled, are found in the dining rooms of the
houses, to eat and drink. The altar must be a piece that does not
move and where blood is offered and spilled. The moment the altar becomes
a dining table, it has ceased to be an altar.
Borrowed from Protestantism
To suppress all the altars
that are truly such, to put, in their place, a wooden table, in front of the
altar that has been solemnly consecrated, is, precisely, to make the notion of Sacrifice disappear, which
we have seen is of capital importance for the Church. Catholic. And it is
in this way that Protestantism arrived and was consolidated. Because of
this disappearance of the idea of Sacrifice, the whole of
England passed into schism and then into heresy.
. .. Slipping, slipping, little by little, we are going to find
ourselves Protestants, without even realizing it.
The new rite of the mass is not mandatory.
Did the introduction of the
Novus Ordo Missae, crowning liturgical reform, really have the supposed
beneficial consequences? Or has it produced the disastrous effects that
were to be foreseen? The answer to this question will make us closely examine
the particular circumstances of this reform, unique of its kind in the history
of the Church, and give indications about our duty for the future.
In order to judge the dogmatic
and spiritual value of this reform, we must briefly recall the immutable
principles of the Catholic faith regarding the essential elements of the Holy Mass.
"In Missa offertur Deo,
verum et proprium Sacrificium" (De fide divina catholica
definita). ("In the Mass a true Sacrifice properly speaking is
offered to God." Of divine and catholic faith defined). Whoever
denied this proposition would be a heretic.
"Every sacrifice needs a
priest, a victim, and a priestly action for which the victim is offered."
"In Missa et in Cruce
eadem est Hostia et idem Sacerdos principalis". (De fide divina catholica
definita). "In the Mass and on the Cross, the Victim and the main
Priest are the same." (Of divine and catholic faith defined).
"Hostia seu Victima est
ipse Christus praesens sub speciebus panis et vini" (De fide divina
catholica definita). "The Oblate or Victim is Christ himself, present
under the species of bread and wine." (Of divine and catholic faith
defined).
It would also be heretical to
deny these last two propositions.
Three realities are thus
essential to the reality of the Sacrifice of the Mass:
• the priest
("Sacerdotes, íllíque soli, sunt mínístrí": de fide divina catholíca:
"The priests, and they alone, are ministers"; of divine and catholic
faith), who has a priestly "character";
• the real and substantial
presence of the Victim, who is Christ;
• the priestly action of the
sacrificial oblation, which is essentially fulfilled in the consecration.
Let us not
forget that it is precisely the three fundamental truths that are denied by
Protestants and modernists.
Let us not forget that, as an
expression of their rejection of faith in these dogmas, their masses were
changed into "worship", at
dinner or in a Eucharistic assembly, where the reading
of the Bible, the word, took place to the detriment of the offertory and the
Liturgy of the Sacrifice.
With the exception of some
accidental advantages of limited importance, or rather the only advantage of
reading the Epistle and the Gospel in the vernacular, it must unfortunately be
said that the entire reform pays attention, directly or indirectly, to these
three essential truths. of the Catholic faith. It is not, then, a
liturgical reform like that of Saint Pius X, but, without a doubt, a new
conception of the Mass.
Everything that is prescribed
in fact by the novelties refers to this conception, closer to the Protestant
than to the Catholic conception; The statements of the Protestants who
contributed to this reform naively and distressingly illustrate this
truth: "Protestants no longer see
what would prevent them from celebrating the new Ordo", that is, there is
no problem for them to celebrate the novus ordo.
One may then wonder if, as
Catholic faith in the essential truths of the Mass insensibly disappears, does
the validity of the Mass not disappear as well? The intention of the
celebrant will conform to the new conception of the Mass, which will soon be
nothing other than the Protestant one. At that time the Mass will no
longer be valid.
Now, we must realize very
clearly that the Mass is not only the most important religious act, but it is
the source of all Catholic doctrine, the source of Faith and morality: of
individual morality, of morality family and social morality. From the
Sacrifice of the Cross, continued on the altar, and from nowhere else flow all
the graces that allow Christian society to live and develop; to let this
source dry up means to annihilate its effects.
These effects, the fruits of
the Holy Spirit, which Saint Paul so eloquently describes to the Galatians (5,
22), are about to disappear from this society. All families are divided,
religious orders and parishes are affected by the virus of discord; the
bishops, the cardinals themselves are reached by him.
The Catholic Mass has always
had the effect - and still has - of raising men to the Cross and uniting them
in Our Lord Jesus Christ crucified and weakening in them the ferments of sin
that engender divisions. When the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ
disappears, when his Body and his Blood are no longer present among men, they
will only be found around a deserted and lifeless table; nothing will
unite them anymore.
Hence this discouragement and
this gloomy disgust that begins to spread everywhere, hence this crisis of
vocations that have no further purpose, hence this secularization and
desacralization of the priest who no longer finds his reason for being, hence this
appetite of the world. Because of this
Protestant conception of the Holy Mass, Jesus Christ gradually abandoned the
churches, which were often profaned.
The conception of this reform,
the way in which it has been published with a series of modified editions, the
way in which it has been made obligatory, sometimes in a tyrannical way as for
example in Italy, the definition of the definition of the Mass without any
consequence in the rite itself, constitute unprecedented events in the
Tradition of the Roman Church, which has always proceeded "cum consilio et
sapientia" (with reflection and wisdom). They authorize us to
question the validity of this legislation and to act according to Canon 23:
"In the case of doubt [about the validity of a law], the revocation of the
preceding law is not presumed, but that subsequent laws are they must be
compared with the previous ones and, as far as possible, they must be reconciled
with them".
Only one absolute duty and one
absolute right subsist, namely: the
preservation of the Faith. And the Holy Mass is its liveliest expression and
divine source; hence its paramount importance.
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