Power of God

⚜ It’s not just that it’s in the vernacular or facing the wrong direction;
it’s the HERETICAL THEOLOGY!

PROTESTANT THEOLOGY IN THE NEW ORDER MASS:

When one places the prayers and ceremonies of the traditional Latin Mass side by side with those of the New Mass, one can easily see to what degree the Church’s traditional doctrine has been “edited out.” And the “editing” always seems to have been done on those parts of the Mass expressing some Catholic doctrine which Protestants find “offensive.” Here are some examples:

🕍 Common Penitential Rite:
The traditional Mass begins with the priest reciting personal prayers of reparation to God called “The Prayers at the Foot of the Altar.” The New Mass begins instead with a “Penitential Rite” which the priest and people recite together. Who were the first to introduce a common penitential rite? The 16th century Protestants, who wanted to promote their teaching that the priest is no different from the layman.

🕍 The Offertory:
The Offertory prayers of the traditional Mass clearly express a number of Catholic teachings, as that the Mass is offered to God to satisfy for sin and that the saints are to be honored. The Protestants rejected these teachings and so abolished the Offertory prayers. “That abomination called the Offertory,” said Luther, “and from this point almost everything stinks of oblation!” In the New Mass as well, the Offertory is gone – it has been replaced with a ceremony called “The Preparation of the Gifts.” The prayers “offensive” to Protestants have also been removed. In their place is the prayer “Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation,” based on a Jewish grace before meals.

🕍 The “Eucharistic Prayer”:
The traditional Mass has only one “Eucharistic Prayer,” the ancient Roman Canon. The Canon was always a favorite target of Lutheran and other Protestant attacks. Instead of just one Canon, the New Mass now has a number of “Eucharistic Prayers,” only one of which we will mention here. Eucharistic Prayer No. 1 is an “edited” version of the Roman Canon. The lists of Catholic saints, so despised by Protestants, are now optional, and hence rarely used. The translators did some further “editing.” Among other things, the idea that Christ the Victim is offered at Mass (a notion Luther condemned) has disappeared. All the Eucharistic Prayers now incorporate some typical Protestant practice. They are recited in a loud voice instead of silently, and they have an “Institution Narrative,” instead of a Consecration. (According to Protestant beliefs, their ministers do not consecrate the Eucharist like Catholic priests do; they just narrate the story of the Last Supper.) Even Christ’s own words in the Consecration were altered: “. . . Which shall be shed for you and for many, unto the remission of sins” was changed to “. . . It will be shed for you and for all men so that sins may be forgiven.” (Rome acknowledged this “mistranslation” recently.) The various signs of respect toward Our Lord present in the Blessed Sacrament (genuflections, signs of the cross, bells, incense, etc.) have been reduced, made optional, or eliminated.

🕍 Communion in the Hand:
The 16th century Protestant Martin Bucer condemned the Church’s practice of placing the Host on the tongue of the communicant as something introduced out of “a double superstition: first, the false honor they wish to show to this sacrament, and secondly, the wicked arrogance of priests claiming greater holiness than that of the people of Christ, by virtue of the oil of consecration.” The practice in Protestant churches of “communion in the hand” is thus based upon their rejection of Christ’s Real Presence and the priesthood. At the New Mass, just as at a Protestant service, there is Communion in the hand. But the men who created the New Mass went even further, for a layman may not only receive Communion in the hand – he is also permitted to distribute it, even on a moment’s notice. Let us recall St. Thomas Aquinas’ (1225-1274)* words on this subject: “The body of Christ must not be touched by anyone, other than a consecrated priest. No other person has the right to touch it, except in case of extreme necessity” (III, 82 a.3). (*St. Thomas Aquinas was given the title “Angelic Doctor”. His canonization decree states, “His doctrine was none other than miraculous. He has enlightened the Church more than all other Doctors”)

🕍 Veneration of the Saints:
The prayers of the traditional Mass frequently invoke the saints by name and beg their intercession. The Church’s veneration of the saints in her worship was another practice which Protestants dismissed as “superstition.” The New Order of the Mass dropped most invocations of the saints by name, or made them optional. In the new Missal, moreover, the weekday prayers for saints’ feast days (most of which are also optional) have been rewritten for the benefit of Protestants – allusions to miracles, the defense of the Catholic Faith, or to the Catholic Church as the one, true Church have disappeared.

🕍 False Translations:
Lastly, there is the matter of the false official English translations of the New Mass. A whole book could be written on the errors and distortions they contain. Here we will mention briefly only the official translations of the prayers for the 34 “Sundays in Ordinary Time.” The following are some of the ideas which the English translation suppresses: God’s wrath, our unworthiness, error, sins which “burden our consciences,” God’s majesty, obedience to His commandments, supplication, humility, eternity, heaven – many more could be listed. Perhaps the most serious omission is the word “grace.” It appears 11 times in the Latin original. It does not appear even once in the official English “translation”!

Clearly, then, the “new liturgy reflects a new ecclesiology, whereas the old reflects another ecclesiology” (Cardinal Benelli) and one quite foreign to the Catholic Church. This ultimately means as Fr. Gelineau, S.J., one of the “experts” who co-authored the New Mass, pointed out, that “The New Mass is a different liturgy. This needs to be said without ambiguity. The Roman Rite, as we knew it, no longer exists. It has been destroyed.”
The Catechism of the Council of Trent tells us that “a Catholic sins against the Faith by participating in non-Catholic worship.” The New Mass is not Catholic worship, even if it has retained the name “Catholic”.

Who could possibly claim that there is not a terrible crisis of faith in the Catholic Church!? It is no wonder that Cardinal Ratzinger affirmed: “I am convinced that the ecclesial crisis in which we find ourselves today depends in great part on the collapse of the liturgy.” It is clear how the New Mass could create such a disaster. Liturgy dictates belief. A protestantized liturgy yields heretical belief, loss of the Faith, and devaluation of the priesthood. Satan has been able to accomplish more effective damage to the entire body of the Church in the past 35 years through the destruction of the Mass than ever before.

Conclusion:
The New Mass is condemned by its own nature and by its fruits. The crisis in the Church will continue to worsen until we return to orthodoxy and discipline. What is a Catholic to do in such troublesome times? He must follow the advice of St. Vincent of Lerins: “What then shall the Catholic do if some portion of the Church detaches itself from communion of the universal Faith?
If some new contagion attempts to poison, no longer a small part of the Church, but the whole Church at once, then his great concern will be to attach himself to antiquity (Tradition) which can no longer be led astray by any lying novelty.”

The disastrous results and the loss of faith due to Vatican II and the New Mass are obvious. We should avoid the New Mass at all cost and attend only the Traditional Latin Mass offered by valid priests .