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There's a mistaken notion out there that the Traditional Latin Mass only came into being during the papacy of Pius V. It's not true and those who have swallowed the error need to rethink! While the Latin Mass was codified in 1570 by the pope, it is much older than that. The reason Pope Pius V codified the Mass at that time was -- Can you guess? It's not too difficult -- the Protestant Revolution.
The reality is quite different from the popular misconception. Elements of the Traditional Mass developed very early following the death of Christ. Think of His words at the Last Supper transforming simple bread and wine into His real presence - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. The Roman Canon (First Eucharistic Prayer in the Novus Ordo) was developed in the 300s and remained virtually unchanged until Vatican II introduced a myriad of alternatives. The least orthodox and shortest is the one most Catholics hear on a regular basis.
St. Gregory the Great reformed the Roman Missal at the end of the 6th century in line with Sacred Tradition and, except in minor details, the liturgy remained the same until Vatican II. Liturgical scholar, Adrian Fortescue, wrote in 1912, "From roughly the time of [Pope] St. Gregory [the Great, d. 604] we have the text of the Mass, its order and arrangement, as a sacred tradition that no one has ventured to touch except in unimportant details."
The canard that the Traditional Latin Mass only came into being in 1570 is completely false. As Fortescue points out:
From, roughly, the time of St. Gregory we have the text of the Mass, its order and arrangement, as a sacred tradition that no one has ventured to touch except in unimportant details....Essentially, the Missal of Pius V is the Gregorian Sacramentary; that again is formed from the Gelasian book, which depends on the Leonine collection. We find the prayers of our Canon in the treatise De Sacramentis [of St. Ambrose, c. 340-397] and allusions to it in the IVth century. So our Mass goes back, without essential change, to the age when it first developed out of the oldest liturgy of all. [Read more about the ancient Mass and its history and development here.]
So why the insistence that the Mass only came into being with Pope Pius V in 1570? Let me make a guess. Emphasizing the Mass was malleable in its essence for centuries fit the agenda of the modernists. Convince Catholics that drastic changes weren't a novelty; they'd happened before - in fact, for 1500 years. That set the stage for radical changes following Vatican II with the development of the Novus Ordo. Don't get your panties in a bunch, all these liturgical novelties and abuses are normal.
More and more evidence is coming out that Annibale Bugnini, who spearheaded the commission that gutted the liturgy, not only wanted to make the Mass more agreeable to Protestants, but was, in fact, a Mason advancing the masonic goal of destroying the Church. Fr. Charles Murr in his book, Murder in the 33rd Degree, provides evidence of the Bugnini/Masonic connection. The truth is likely buried in the Vatican archives. But the result is obvious.
In effect, Bugnini did the same things to the liturgy that the Protestant revolutionaries did in the 16th century.
Where do we go from here? My husband and I have chosen a return to Tradition. It's been a good decision for us. We can only follow our own consciences in accordance with the lights we receive from the Holy Spirit and then share with others. Every Sunday and holy day we rejoice in the return to tradition where we can keep the Lord's day holy without a horde of laity on the altar, pabulum from the pulpit, guitars and drums, and the possibility of even worse. We fear the possibility of an accident on the road when we travel than the possibility we will be exposed to liturgical abuse when we attend Mass. We try not to be away from our home chapel on Sunday now.
May we all be enlightened in our pursuit of the truth.
Holy Spirit, guide us.
Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.
"The devil has always tried to deprive the world of the Mass by means of heretics, constituting them precursors of Antichrist, whose first efforts shall be to abolish the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar, and according to the prophet Daniel in punishment of the sins of men, his efforts shall be successful" ~St. Alphonsus de Liguori
ReplyDelete"......and strength was given him (devil) against the continual sacrifice because of sins"
~Daniel 8:12
Covid outed the priests: they close the Churches and sacraments to the faithful when they needed them the most, we were told to watch Mass online and pray the Spiritual Communion prayer. 2024 election outed the bishops and Cardinals: silence across the board (exception of Bishop Paproki who emphasized voting for a third party). No more no negotiable, no reminder that abortion is a mortal sin. Nothing from the pulpit or online from the so called trads: lesser of two evil is non sense. Abortion is child sacrifice. I finally opened my eyes. No more games: criminalize child sacrifice no exceptions. No more lesser of two evil. Randall Terry got it right. I have lost complete trust on the pro life movement, Lila Rose caved as did Matt Walsh. Sad day for the little ones. Where is Gideon army??? Cortez could give the "pro life" movement a lesson or two. Well, since 2019 it has been very painful but very enlightened. Many have lost credit . Lord have mercy on us.
ReplyDeleteHow many more babies would die if abortion were nationalized at the federal level, if once again everyone had to bend the knee to the abortion courts? How much are the lives of the little ones worth who would be sacrificed by Harris/Walz not to mention the mutilated children of their trans insanity? I did not vote for the lesser of two evils, I voted for the greater good for the sake of my grandchildren. You made a conscience decision which I respect. Those of us who made a different decision deserve respect of our conscience as well. I've spent my entire adult life fighting for the unborn and their mothers. I see my vote as a continuation of that fight.
Delete…excerpt from ‘The Hidden Treasure Holy Mass’ by Saint Leonard
Delete“Where there is no Mass,” writes one of the Fathers of the English Oratory, “there is also no Christianity.” The reason is plain: Christ’s life was one of sacrifice – not merely of the figurative sacrifice of praise and prayer, but one of outward act of suffering and of death. His religious must be like Himself: it must be the continuation of the divine-human life that He led upon earth, representing and perpetuating, by some sacred rite, the sacrifice that began in the womb of Mary and ended upon the cross of Calvary. That rite is the holy Mass…. that Jesus is re-enacting in our presence, the mysteries of His life and death.
That sacrifice is the sun of Christianity, the soul of faith, the centre of the Catholic religion, wherein are beheld all her rites, all her ceremonies, and all her sacraments; in fine, it is the compendium of all the good and beautiful to be found in the Church of God.
Go to the church as if you were going to Calvary and behave yourself before the Altar as before the throne of God, in company with the holy Angels.
O dearest Jesus, give me the tears of Peter, the contrition of Magdalene, and the grief of those saints who, once sinners, were afterward true penitents, in order that in this Mass I may obtain a general pardon of my sin.
Daily I open “My Daily Bread’, inside is a holy card of Madonna of the Street, by Roberto Ferruzzi, before I read one very short meditation, I pray “Madonna of the Street please pray for the mother to be, may she love the baby in her womb.”
Delete"When our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego, child sacrifice was the religion of the day. To end the evil of child sacrifice, Our Lady did not organize a protest, She took the ax to the root and converted the pagans to the Catholic faith. Therefore, let us learn a lesson from Our Lady of Guadalupe and end our modern-day child sacrifice by restoring the faith. It will do little good to fight the effect (abortion) if we are not at the same time fighting the cause that produced it (loss of faith). Every child saved is a victory gained, but in the long run, where is the victory if the child grows up in a pagan home and dies only to suffer the eternal fires of hell? And what shall we say if we are fighting abortion while adding fuel to the cause that produced it? Is this not what will happen if we become indifferent, and thus loose our faith, by fighting a moral issue that resulted from a lessening of faith? Is this not a deadly spiral that will not only never accomplish the goal, but destroy the faith of millions of Catholics in the process? Remember the words of Sister Lucy of Fatima: "The devil has succeeded in infiltrating evil under the appearance of good..."
Seattle Catholic - The Problem with the Pro-life Movement
I would interject in saying that before the elections those who were speaking their opinions (as to be unable to vote for a pro choice playform ) were not respected but vilified.Ex Lila rose was raked over the coals before she caved. I won't and never did the same. I think we can discuss arguments without name calling I blame the clergy. They didn't have to promote a candidate but remind everyone about the non negotiables. I pray Trump has a change of heart and criminalize abortion. I am changing my party affiliation. The GOP is now the Democrat party of old.
ReplyDeleteMy prayer to God was please let us have another chance and have mercy on so many who've suffered under this administration.
ReplyDeleteSo yes now we don't sit back but we forge ahead. And we pray. We got a 2nd chance.