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CONTINUATION
OF:
62
Theses Demonstrating Why The Preservation and Practice of the
Traditional Latin Mass is Superior in Every Way to the Novus Ordo Missae
Edited
by the Rev. Msgr. Keith P. Steinhurst, P.A.
31.
The New Mass follows the format of Cranmer's heretical Anglican
Mass, and the methods used to promote it follow precisely the methods
of the English heretics.
32.
Holy Mother Church canonized numerous English Martyrs who were
killed because they refused to participate in a Mass such as the New Mass!
33.
Protestants who once converted to Catholicism are scandalized to see
that the New Mass is the same as the one they attended as
Protestants. One of them, Julien Green, asks: "Why did we convert?"
34.
Statistics show a great decrease in conversions to Catholicism
following the use of the New Mass. Conversions, which were up to
100,000 a year in the U.S., have decreased to less than 10,000! And
the number of people leaving the Church far exceeds those coming in.
35.
The Traditional Mass has forged many saints. "Innumerable
saints have been fed abundantly with the proper piety towards God by
it ..." (Pope Paul VI, Const. Apost. Missale Romanum)
36.
The nature of the New Mass is such as to facilitate profanations of
the Holy Eucharist, which occur with a frequency unheard of with the
Traditional Mass.
37.
The New Mass, despite appearances, conveys a New Faith, not the
Catholic Faith. It conveys Modernism and follows exactly the tactics
of Modernism, using vague terminology in order to insinuate and
advance error.
38.
By introducing optional variations, the New Mass undermines the
unity of the liturgy, with each priest liable to deviate as he
fancies under the guise of creativity. Disorder inevitably results,
accompanied by lack of respect and irreverence.
39.
Many good Catholic theologians, canonists and priests do not accept
the New Mass, and affirm that they are unable to celebrate it in good conscience.
40.
The New Mass has eliminated such things as: genuflections (only
three remain), purification of the priests fingers in the chalice,
preservation from all profane contact of priest's fingers after Consecration,
sacred
altar stone and relics, three altar clothes (reduced to one), all of
which "only serve to emphasize how outrageously faith in the
dogma of the Real Presence is implicitly repudiated." (Cardinals
A. Ottaviani and A. Bacci to Pope Paul VI A Critical Study of the
Novus Ordo Missae).
41.
The traditional Mass, enriched and matured by centuries of Sacred
Tradition, was codified (not invented) by a Pope who was a saint,
Pius V; whereas the New Mass was artificially fabricated by six
Protestant ministers and a 33rd degree Freemason, i.e., Msgr. A
Bugnini who was later exiled from the Vatican because of his ties
with Freemasonry.
42.
The errors of the New Mass, which are accentuated in the vernacular
version, are even present in the Latin text of the New Mass.
43.
The New Mass, with its ambiguity and permissiveness, exposes us to
the wrath of God by facilitating the risk of invalid consecrations:
"Will priests of the near future who have not received the
traditional formation, and who rely on the Novus Ordo Missae with the
intention of 'doing what the Church does,' consecrate validly? One
may be allowed to doubt it!" (Cardinals A. Ottaviani and A.
Bacci to Pope Paul VI A Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Missae).
44.
The abolition of the Traditional Mass recalls the prophecy of Daniel
8:12: "And he was given power against the perpetual sacrifice
because of the sins of the people" and the observation of St.
Alphonsus de Liguori that because the Mass is the best and most
beautiful thing which exists in the Church here below, the devil has
always tried by means of heretics to deprive us of it.
45.
In places where the Traditional Mass is preserved, the Faith and
fervor of the people are greater. Whereas the opposite is true where
the New Mass reigns (Report on the Mass, Diocese of Campos, ROMA,
Buenos Aires #69, 8/81)
46.
Along with the New Mass goes also a new catechism, a new morality,
new prayers, new Code of Canon law, new calendar, -- in a word, a NEW
CHURCH, a complete revolution from the old. "The liturgical
reform ... do not be deceived, this is where the revolution
begins." (Msgr. Dwyer, Archbishop of Birmingham, spokesman of
Episcopal Synod)
47.
The intrinsic beauty of the Traditional Mass attracts souls by
itself; whereas the New Mass, lacking any attractiveness of its own,
has to invent novelties and entertainments in order to appeal to the people.
48.
The New mass embodies numerous errors condemned by Pope St. Pius V
at the Council of Trent (Mass totally in vernacular, words of
Consecration spoken aloud, etc. See Condemnation of Jansenist Synod
of Pistia), and errors condemned by Pope Pius XII (e.g., altar in
form of table. See Mediator Dei).
49.
The New Mass attempts to transform the Catholic Church into a new,
ecumenical church embracing all ideologies and all religions -- right
and wrong, truth and error -- a goal long dreamt of by the enemies of
the Catholic Church.
50.
The New Mass, in removing the salutations and final blessing when
the priest celebrates alone, shows a denial of, and disbelief in the
dogma of the Communion of Saints.
51.
The altar and tabernacle are now separated, thus marking a division
between Christ in His priest-and-Sacrifice-on-the-altar, from Christ
in His Real Presence in the tabernacle, "two things which of
their very nature, must remain together." (Pius XII)
52.
The New Mass no longer constitutes a vertical worship between God
and man, but rather a horizontal worship between man and man.
53.
The New Mass, although appearing to conform to the dispositions of
Vatican Council II, in reality opposes its instructions, since the
Council itself declared its desire to conserve and promote the
Traditional Rite.
54.
The Traditional Latin Mass of Pope St. Pius V has never been legally
abrogated and therefore remains a true rite of the Roman Catholic
Church by which the faithful may fulfill their Sunday obligation.
55.
Pope St. Pius V granted a perpetual indult, valid "for
always," to celebrate the Traditional Mass freely, licitly,
without scruple of conscience, punishment, sentence or censure (Papal
Bull "Quo Primum")
56.
Pope Paul VI, when promulgating the New Mass, himself declared.
"The rite ... by itself is NOT a dogmatic definition ..." (11/19/69)
57.
Pope Paul VI, when asked by Cardinal Heenan of England, if he was
abrogating or prohibiting the Tridentine Mass, answered: "It is
not our intention to prohibit absolutely the Tridentine Mass."
58.
Because "In the Libera Nos of the New Mass, the Blessed Virgin,
the Apostles and all the Saints are no longer mentioned; her and
their intercession thus no longer asked, even in time of peril."
(Cardinals A. Ottaviani and A. Bacci to Pope Paul VI A Critical Study
of the Novus Ordo Missae).
59.
In none of the tree new Eucharistic Prayers (of the New Mass) is
there any reference ... to the state of suffering of those who have
died, in none the possibility of a particular Memento, thus
undermining faith in the redemptive nature of the Sacrifice.
(Cardinals A. Ottaviani and A. Bacci to Pope Paul VI A Critical Study
of the Novus Ordo Missae).
60.
We recognize the Holy Father's supreme authority in his universal
government of Holy Mother Church, but we know that even this
authority cannot impose upon us a practice which is so CLEARLY
against the Faith: a Mass that is equivocal and favoring heresy and
therefore disagreeable to God.
61.
As stated in Vatican Council I, the "Holy Spirit was not
promised to the successors of Peter, that by His revelation they
might make new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might
inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of
Faith delivered through the Apostles." (Dnz 3070)
62.
Heresy, or whatever clearly favors heresy, cannot be a matter for
obedience. Obedience is at the service of Faith and not Faith at the
service of obedience! In this foregoing case then, "One must
obey God before men." (Acts 5:29)
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