Hil: What is this Novus Ordo of Paul VI all about? It sounds so whimisical. It sounds so American- trying to keep up with the times and such. Christ is always new and so is His Mass.
GK: Ah, didn't you know that people are kinder and gentler now. They probably don't want to see Jesus Sacrificed upon the Altar. Oh, these modern people. There is nothing like a good handshake and little chatter with your neighbor to brighten your day. God's Sacrifice is just too cruel and too spiritual for this materialistic, communistic/capitalistic world. And all of this makes Man fallen and in need of God's Justice and Mercy. Down right terrible in the modern world.
Hil: GK, before you know it the priest will be facing the people and Man will be dictating to Man, not God. The people will not be behind the priest offering up Christ for their sins, but in front of the priest listening to comforting words. The Tabernacle will be put off to the side and man will be facing man. It will all be so symbolically man-centered.
GK: Oh, haven't we seen this before in England. There is nothing new under the sun. Fads and fancies, you know. And, I do believe, when the Church and the world unite that that is the end of the church.
Hil: Yes, except that Christ said that He will be with us until the End of Time.
GK: Yes, that is exactly why St Pius V put his warning in the front of the missal to protect the Mass for us. God bless him.
Hil: Well, what can we do? Christ gave us the Mass. People rebelled. St Pius V protected the Mass for us after the Council of Trent. Now the people rebel. God's Sacrifice is always old and always new and always for our redemption. I would think that there would be people willing to preserve the Mass with their lives.
GK: Spot on, my good friend, spot on. Still we have given our lifeblood in writing to show the wonders and mercies of God and His Hand in history. God has allowed this to happen, but I have faith that Catholics will again be filled with the Wonder of God and that the Mass will be returned to them and that they will cherish this new and old Gift of the Cross with a new and marvelous love.
Hil: GK, you are always so trusting. I mean you are with God, but you are with fallen people, too. You just can't see that everyone doesn't have your wonder.
GK: Well, we do have Father Brown, you know. He told me that he will say the Tridentine Mass until the End of Time just as St. Pius demanded.
Hil: Ah, there is reason to have good cheer and hasn't the Church suffered through hard times before.
GK: She has and we have, too. Yet Faith is all we have. After we have tried everything else we will always return to Faith and to the Church and to the Mass.
Hil: Wonder, oh wonder. You are wonderfilled my dear man, wonderfilled, wonderfilled. Amen.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Monday, July 9, 2007
Pope Benedict XVI allows Tridentine Mass
On July 8th I was sitting in a Catholic Church helping offer up the Tridentine Mass when the priest mentioned during his sermon that Pope Benedict XVI had officially allowed the Tridentine Mass to be offered up in Catholic Churches. It was a paradoxical comment, but a welcome one to me. On SAturday, the 7th the Pope had given a Motu Proprio three pages long with a four page.
Will this cause grave problems? No doubt there will be fights and battles over this, but here is a chance for Catholics to take a stand for the Sacrifice of the Mass which St Pius V defended, the Mass which is to be offered up in the Latin Rite until the End of Time.
I can see clearly that my job is to always be ready to receive Holy Communion. I remember reading about St John Bosco offering up Mass. When it came time for Catholics to receive there were no boys in the school ready to receive. St John's sorrow showed on his face, so St Dominic Savio and others formed a group, so that there would always be someone or many ready to receive Holy Communion. Should we not try to always be ready to receive Our Lord?
May Catholics be ready to receive Our Lord in Holy Communion.
Will this cause grave problems? No doubt there will be fights and battles over this, but here is a chance for Catholics to take a stand for the Sacrifice of the Mass which St Pius V defended, the Mass which is to be offered up in the Latin Rite until the End of Time.
I can see clearly that my job is to always be ready to receive Holy Communion. I remember reading about St John Bosco offering up Mass. When it came time for Catholics to receive there were no boys in the school ready to receive. St John's sorrow showed on his face, so St Dominic Savio and others formed a group, so that there would always be someone or many ready to receive Holy Communion. Should we not try to always be ready to receive Our Lord?
May Catholics be ready to receive Our Lord in Holy Communion.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
The Mass is there for the Faithful
I was thinking that God knows all. Nothing, whether good or evil, is done in the shadows. If Vatican II was used to destroy the Mass, God permitted it. He knew about it. Satan was behind it and some men willed it, but God has all veto power. He has all power. The only problem for the promoters of evil is if there are God's servants who are willing to stand up and die for God's Sacrifice on the Cross.
I believe that the Sacrifice of the Mass will be here until the End of Time. I believe that if there is only one priest on earth offering the Mass that it will be here on earth until the End of Time. Ultimately, I think that this Great Sacrifice of God will be here on earth somewhere. It will never be ultimately destroyed because there will be Faith in the heart of at least one person who desires it and, so, God through His Love will offer this Sacrifice. All believers will benefit from the Sacrifice of the Mass and they can spiritually participate in It. It cannot be taken from them. Perhaps they would all congregate where that Mass is being offered, with that priest who is offering it in the Last Days. So in reality the Church cannot be destroyed in Time and the Mass will always be there in the Center of the Church. Christ will be Sacrificed daily on earth somewhere.
I never received Holy Communion for the first 26 years of my life, but I benefited from the Sacrifice. I was born in Germany where my parents ran an orphanage. There must have been many Catholics in that home. There must have been many who went to confession and who received Holy Communion. I benefited.
My grandmother came over to visit us in Germany after my birth. She got a beautiful wooden statue of the Blessed Mother at the Passion Play which is given every ten years. Later her hairdresser said that her family would become Catholic- my grandmother was raised Lutheran, but went to the Methodist Church with my grandfather (his father, who died at 94, was a Christian Scientist when he died.). Perhaps my grandmother's hairdresser offered a Mass up to God for my family, for me. Perhaps she prayed at Mass for me. She was not surprised when my Grandmother told herof my conversion.
When I was about 12 I went on an all star baseball trip with a team coached by Mr. Van Gorder. There were many Catholics on the team. We slept over Saturday night and on Sunday several Catholics rose to go to Mass. I went with them. I had no idea what was going on. I didn't understand the Latin. I couldn't follow the Missal. I looked to others to know when to stand and kneel, but I was there and I was impressed by the Faith and confidence of my teammates who followed the Mass and received Holy Communion.
Yes, I would say that I benefited from the Mass before I became Catholic.
After I became Catholic I was able to go to the Tridentine Mass. I received instruction from a priest almost daily before I went to my community college. Then I received communion in the Latin Rite with the Tridentine Mass. Later I went to an Eastern Rite Catholic Church where the Mass had not been changed, though sometimes it was said in an accurate English translation . (There we received under the appearance of Bread and Wine.)
But then I had a long period when I did not go to Mass. There was no Latin Rite Tridentine Mass available that I knew of. It seemed like going to an Eastern Rite Catholic Church was not right anymore. Though I knew the Rite and could assist the priest as a server, it seemed improper to attend since it appear that something was drastically wrong in Rome with the Papacy. John XXIII seemed to be sort of a transitional Pope. Paul VI had ushered in so many changes through Vatican II, along with the Novus Ordo Mass. Yes, Ubi Papa Ubi Ecclesia. but things were not right. People began to flee from this Novus Ordo Church. Sisters seemed to be pushed out of convents by the new beliefs. Churches were being closed. In Canada the State had to purchase Catholic Churches to save them from destruction as historical landmarks. Catecism became unCatholic. Things had changed. Though I was on a little island with the Baltimore Catecism, I was aware that I did not fit in this Novus Ordo which was being led from Rome and by Rome.
Still God has blessed me through Catholics who attend the Novus Ordo. Catholicism is not eradicated from Catholics quickly. I learned from students when I coached at a Catholic High School. I was asked by one of the parents to join a Dante group taught by two retired professors. I have learned so much as I have studied Dante over the last seven years. He attended the Tridentine Mass before the Council of Trent.
Then I was at the Chesterton Conference in June of 2007. I heard the wisdom of Belloc and Chesterton. I purchased a book entitled 'The Thrill of the Chaste...' for my daughter. I had the author sign it to her. I mentioned the Tridentine Mass to the author. She said that I should get get a spiritual guide. Little did I know that her book would become my spiritual guide and lead me closer to myself and to God. (She is a Catholic who probably has never been to a Tridentine Mass, but still she has Faith.)
I have read how the new Pope wants the Tridentine Mass in the Churches again. Will there be priests to offer it? There are many questions, but I conclude that God is still working in the hearts of many. If we show ourselves faithful enough the Mass will be returned to the alters of the churches. There Church will be here to the End of Time and the Mass will be somewhere ready to be everywhere if we, God's Children, show ourselves faithful. May our faith increase, even unto death. As DAwn Eden prepares herself for her future husband through a chaste life, so I can prepare myself for Mass and to receive Holy Communion and I can receive Holy Communion spiritual daily. God is present. We just have to turn to Him.
I believe that the Sacrifice of the Mass will be here until the End of Time. I believe that if there is only one priest on earth offering the Mass that it will be here on earth until the End of Time. Ultimately, I think that this Great Sacrifice of God will be here on earth somewhere. It will never be ultimately destroyed because there will be Faith in the heart of at least one person who desires it and, so, God through His Love will offer this Sacrifice. All believers will benefit from the Sacrifice of the Mass and they can spiritually participate in It. It cannot be taken from them. Perhaps they would all congregate where that Mass is being offered, with that priest who is offering it in the Last Days. So in reality the Church cannot be destroyed in Time and the Mass will always be there in the Center of the Church. Christ will be Sacrificed daily on earth somewhere.
I never received Holy Communion for the first 26 years of my life, but I benefited from the Sacrifice. I was born in Germany where my parents ran an orphanage. There must have been many Catholics in that home. There must have been many who went to confession and who received Holy Communion. I benefited.
My grandmother came over to visit us in Germany after my birth. She got a beautiful wooden statue of the Blessed Mother at the Passion Play which is given every ten years. Later her hairdresser said that her family would become Catholic- my grandmother was raised Lutheran, but went to the Methodist Church with my grandfather (his father, who died at 94, was a Christian Scientist when he died.). Perhaps my grandmother's hairdresser offered a Mass up to God for my family, for me. Perhaps she prayed at Mass for me. She was not surprised when my Grandmother told herof my conversion.
When I was about 12 I went on an all star baseball trip with a team coached by Mr. Van Gorder. There were many Catholics on the team. We slept over Saturday night and on Sunday several Catholics rose to go to Mass. I went with them. I had no idea what was going on. I didn't understand the Latin. I couldn't follow the Missal. I looked to others to know when to stand and kneel, but I was there and I was impressed by the Faith and confidence of my teammates who followed the Mass and received Holy Communion.
Yes, I would say that I benefited from the Mass before I became Catholic.
After I became Catholic I was able to go to the Tridentine Mass. I received instruction from a priest almost daily before I went to my community college. Then I received communion in the Latin Rite with the Tridentine Mass. Later I went to an Eastern Rite Catholic Church where the Mass had not been changed, though sometimes it was said in an accurate English translation . (There we received under the appearance of Bread and Wine.)
But then I had a long period when I did not go to Mass. There was no Latin Rite Tridentine Mass available that I knew of. It seemed like going to an Eastern Rite Catholic Church was not right anymore. Though I knew the Rite and could assist the priest as a server, it seemed improper to attend since it appear that something was drastically wrong in Rome with the Papacy. John XXIII seemed to be sort of a transitional Pope. Paul VI had ushered in so many changes through Vatican II, along with the Novus Ordo Mass. Yes, Ubi Papa Ubi Ecclesia. but things were not right. People began to flee from this Novus Ordo Church. Sisters seemed to be pushed out of convents by the new beliefs. Churches were being closed. In Canada the State had to purchase Catholic Churches to save them from destruction as historical landmarks. Catecism became unCatholic. Things had changed. Though I was on a little island with the Baltimore Catecism, I was aware that I did not fit in this Novus Ordo which was being led from Rome and by Rome.
Still God has blessed me through Catholics who attend the Novus Ordo. Catholicism is not eradicated from Catholics quickly. I learned from students when I coached at a Catholic High School. I was asked by one of the parents to join a Dante group taught by two retired professors. I have learned so much as I have studied Dante over the last seven years. He attended the Tridentine Mass before the Council of Trent.
Then I was at the Chesterton Conference in June of 2007. I heard the wisdom of Belloc and Chesterton. I purchased a book entitled 'The Thrill of the Chaste...' for my daughter. I had the author sign it to her. I mentioned the Tridentine Mass to the author. She said that I should get get a spiritual guide. Little did I know that her book would become my spiritual guide and lead me closer to myself and to God. (She is a Catholic who probably has never been to a Tridentine Mass, but still she has Faith.)
I have read how the new Pope wants the Tridentine Mass in the Churches again. Will there be priests to offer it? There are many questions, but I conclude that God is still working in the hearts of many. If we show ourselves faithful enough the Mass will be returned to the alters of the churches. There Church will be here to the End of Time and the Mass will be somewhere ready to be everywhere if we, God's Children, show ourselves faithful. May our faith increase, even unto death. As DAwn Eden prepares herself for her future husband through a chaste life, so I can prepare myself for Mass and to receive Holy Communion and I can receive Holy Communion spiritual daily. God is present. We just have to turn to Him.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
How was the Mass in the Latin Rite destroyed?
GK Chesterton said that when the world and the Church unite that that is the end of the Church. It seems to me that Vatican II, as a pastoral council, was a place where enemies of the Church were able to attack the Mass under the guise of compassion and ecumenism and unite the world and the church (an impossibility, actually)
Every sacrament has its heart, its essential part. In the Mass it is the words of consecration, the Words of Christ, where bread and wine are turned into the Body and Blood of Christ. These Sacred Words are embedded in the cannon of the Mass. The cannon is unchangeable. Through the centuries there were pious sentiments to put the name of St Joseph in the cannon, but no this was not permitted. No additions. The cannon is the cannon until the End of Time.
But somehow through Vatican II the long hand of treachery reached into the cannon, to the heart of the Mass, and changed the Words of Christ: FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL TESTAMENT, THE MYSTERY OF FAITH: WHICH SHALL BE SHED FOR YOU AND FOR MANY UNTO THE REMISSION OF SINS.
The new words of the new christ were that His Blood was shed For you and for all.
The Council of Trent had spoken directly to this point and said that the reason the words FOR YOU AND FOR MANY were used was because although one drop of Christ's Blood could redeem the whole world His Redemption was only good for those who accepted it of their own free will. The point is clearly made. The warning is clearly written that this Mass was to be said until the End of Time, but the Tridentine Mass in the Latin Rite was not put into English it was changed and changed so drastically that it was destroyed.
This act, in my opinion, was like the attack on the Twin Towers. It was simple and deadly. It is the world uniting with the church. This act has hurt and destroyed many people spiritually. The Mass is the Heart of the Church. Martin Luther, I've heard, said that if you destroy the Mass you destroy the Church. Whether he said that or not I believe it to be true. The Church needs the Sacrifice of the Mass (the Sacrifice of Christ at Her center) which St. Pius V supported and defended and will defend from Heaven until the End of Time.
Every sacrament has its heart, its essential part. In the Mass it is the words of consecration, the Words of Christ, where bread and wine are turned into the Body and Blood of Christ. These Sacred Words are embedded in the cannon of the Mass. The cannon is unchangeable. Through the centuries there were pious sentiments to put the name of St Joseph in the cannon, but no this was not permitted. No additions. The cannon is the cannon until the End of Time.
But somehow through Vatican II the long hand of treachery reached into the cannon, to the heart of the Mass, and changed the Words of Christ: FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL TESTAMENT, THE MYSTERY OF FAITH: WHICH SHALL BE SHED FOR YOU AND FOR MANY UNTO THE REMISSION OF SINS.
The new words of the new christ were that His Blood was shed For you and for all.
The Council of Trent had spoken directly to this point and said that the reason the words FOR YOU AND FOR MANY were used was because although one drop of Christ's Blood could redeem the whole world His Redemption was only good for those who accepted it of their own free will. The point is clearly made. The warning is clearly written that this Mass was to be said until the End of Time, but the Tridentine Mass in the Latin Rite was not put into English it was changed and changed so drastically that it was destroyed.
This act, in my opinion, was like the attack on the Twin Towers. It was simple and deadly. It is the world uniting with the church. This act has hurt and destroyed many people spiritually. The Mass is the Heart of the Church. Martin Luther, I've heard, said that if you destroy the Mass you destroy the Church. Whether he said that or not I believe it to be true. The Church needs the Sacrifice of the Mass (the Sacrifice of Christ at Her center) which St. Pius V supported and defended and will defend from Heaven until the End of Time.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Chesterton idea
I was at the Chesterton Conference in St Paul, Minnesota in the middle of June. I enjoyed the speakers. I enjoyed riding a bike in from my cousin's house along the Mississippi to St Thomas Aquinas University. I enjoyed the book sales and the participants, but I felt funny when there was the call for a scheduled Mass.
I had just found a Tridentine Mass and I had begun going to it at the beginning of Lent. I did not receive Holy Communion because I hadn't been to confession and I needed time to get my thoughts in order for confession, but on a Sunday after Easter, the 15th I believe, I went to confession and the following Sunday I received Holy Communion for the first time in a long time. It had been at least 15 years. I had lived by praying the Rosary, saying other prayers and reading Holy books, though I had not read the Bible as much as I could have or should have.
Anyway, here I was with people talking seriously about Catholic things and about one of my favorite Catholic writers prior to my entrance into the Catholic Church in 1976 and just after my entrance, though I hadn't read him in awhile. And in this gathering I was not able to go to Mass with them because I do not believe that the 'Novus Ordo' is a Mass. Am I wrong?
The Novus Ordo is not a translation of the Tridentine Mass which St Pius V said must be said until the End of Time or the wrath of Sts. Peter and Paul will rain down. No, it is a 'new mass' and, I believe, no Mass.
This grand Chesterton Conference was not the place to make a scene or an issue out of this most important topic, so I listened and I watched. One speaker, a Norweigan, who has not converted yet, but has been at the entrance of the Church for many years and has become an expert on Chesterton, made a comment that appeared to have the wish that Vatican II had never happened. There was a noise in the crowd that seemed to want to rise to a cheer in agreement, but this cheer may have been rebutted by an equally strong boo, so in the goal of unity it died down, but I had heard that this sentiment for the Church of St Pius V was still there and, perhaps, the longing for the Tridentine Mass.
I have been dormant for many years, raising a family and just trying to get by, but now I feel that it is my duty to putout all that I know and love about the Tridentine Mass. I call upon St. Pius V to help me in my explanations, as well as Mary who appeared to St Pius in a vision to let him know that the Catholic navy had been successful at Lepanto against the Moslem navy in 1571. (I learned about this great naval battle at the Chesterton Conference where shirts were sold proclaiming this victory.).
St. Pius V had protected Catholics from a physical invasion then, and he had established the Mass as it was to be said until the End of Time for our spiritual protection now, but, somehow, Vatican II bypassed his wall of defense and the Mass has been destroyed and is not being offered in most churches or is the 'Novus Ordo" truly a viable alternative?
This is my chore: to examine what has happened and to lay out my own personal journey through these troubled times. I hope to have the help of GK Chesterton anong others. We will see. This is a time when there are many spiritual battles being waged. May the Catholics rise to meet them for the salvation of souls and for the Glory of God.
I had just found a Tridentine Mass and I had begun going to it at the beginning of Lent. I did not receive Holy Communion because I hadn't been to confession and I needed time to get my thoughts in order for confession, but on a Sunday after Easter, the 15th I believe, I went to confession and the following Sunday I received Holy Communion for the first time in a long time. It had been at least 15 years. I had lived by praying the Rosary, saying other prayers and reading Holy books, though I had not read the Bible as much as I could have or should have.
Anyway, here I was with people talking seriously about Catholic things and about one of my favorite Catholic writers prior to my entrance into the Catholic Church in 1976 and just after my entrance, though I hadn't read him in awhile. And in this gathering I was not able to go to Mass with them because I do not believe that the 'Novus Ordo' is a Mass. Am I wrong?
The Novus Ordo is not a translation of the Tridentine Mass which St Pius V said must be said until the End of Time or the wrath of Sts. Peter and Paul will rain down. No, it is a 'new mass' and, I believe, no Mass.
This grand Chesterton Conference was not the place to make a scene or an issue out of this most important topic, so I listened and I watched. One speaker, a Norweigan, who has not converted yet, but has been at the entrance of the Church for many years and has become an expert on Chesterton, made a comment that appeared to have the wish that Vatican II had never happened. There was a noise in the crowd that seemed to want to rise to a cheer in agreement, but this cheer may have been rebutted by an equally strong boo, so in the goal of unity it died down, but I had heard that this sentiment for the Church of St Pius V was still there and, perhaps, the longing for the Tridentine Mass.
I have been dormant for many years, raising a family and just trying to get by, but now I feel that it is my duty to putout all that I know and love about the Tridentine Mass. I call upon St. Pius V to help me in my explanations, as well as Mary who appeared to St Pius in a vision to let him know that the Catholic navy had been successful at Lepanto against the Moslem navy in 1571. (I learned about this great naval battle at the Chesterton Conference where shirts were sold proclaiming this victory.).
St. Pius V had protected Catholics from a physical invasion then, and he had established the Mass as it was to be said until the End of Time for our spiritual protection now, but, somehow, Vatican II bypassed his wall of defense and the Mass has been destroyed and is not being offered in most churches or is the 'Novus Ordo" truly a viable alternative?
This is my chore: to examine what has happened and to lay out my own personal journey through these troubled times. I hope to have the help of GK Chesterton anong others. We will see. This is a time when there are many spiritual battles being waged. May the Catholics rise to meet them for the salvation of souls and for the Glory of God.
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