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The Arguments against the Novus Ordo

The Novus Ordo Missae:

A Recapitulation of the arguments against the "New Mass"

by Carey J. Winters

[Taken from Real Catholicism, 6/7 Volume I]

Introduction: The Mass

The Canon of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the time of the Apostles. By

the year 600 or so it was firmly fixed so much so that, when Pope St. Gregory the Great added a

few words to the Hanc Igitur, the people of Rome were outraged. According to Canon Hesse, they

threatened to kill the Pope because he had dared to touch liturgy (TheNew Mass Mess

audiotape).

In 1570 Pope St. Pius V codified the existing liturgy, in his Bull, Quo Primum. Purified of accretions,

the Traditional Mass was established, in that Bull, as the Latin Rite Mass in perpetuity; it was not to

be altered, nor was a new rite to be constructed. Pius did not promulgate a new Order of Mass; the

Missale the Pope and the Tridentine Fathers endorsed was the one then in use in Rome the onethat formed, according to Michael Davies,1 "the basis for most of the Mass rites in use throughout

Latin Christendom" (The Tridentine Mass, p.9). Faced with the Reformation's heresies, the Council of

Trent had as its first priority the codification of Catholic Eucharistic teachings. Davies notes that "it

seems reasonable to conclude that the Council Fathers intended the reformed Missal to be

investigated with the same permanence as their doctrinal teaching, because the Missale would give

liturgical expression to what they had defined by their dogmatic decrees" (The Tridentine Mass, p.


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Part I: The 'New Mass' Itself

The General Instruction

From the General Instruction:

Traditional Latin Mass (Council of Trent) The Mass is the true and special sacrifice of the New Law. In

it Jesus Christ, by the ministry of the Priest offers His Body and Blood to God the Father under the

appearances of bread and wine by a mystical immolation in an unbloody manner for a renewal and

memorial of the Sacrifice of the Cross.

Novus Ordo Missae (Pope Paul VI) The Lord's supper, or Mass, is the assembly, or gatheringtogether, of the people of God with the priest presiding to celebrate the memorial of the Lord. For this

reason the promise of Christ is particularly true of the local congregation of the Church: "Where two

are three are gathered in My Name, there I am in the midst of them."

The General Instruction for the New Mass makes clear a theological shift. Commenting on one

particularly riveting portion (see above), Fr. Wathen points out that "the New Mass is a memorial

meal. This instruction does not say that the priest offers a sacrifice. He merely presides over the

assembly. Christ's presence is not physical but spiritual, as when any group of 'Christians' gather.

The French writer, Edith Delamare, comments: 'Here the [Protestant] Lord's Supper and the

[Catholic] Mass are merged into one ... In the present ecumenical context, it is as if neither Luther nor

the Council of Trent ever happened.'" (Who Shall Ascend, p. 534).2

So much criticism was received regarding this particular passage that it was somewhat modified it

now reads "with a priest presiding and acting in the person of Christ..." Although the sop was

sufficient to quiet conservative concern, the essential errors and ambiguities remain.

The priest is still a 'presider;' the Novus Ordo steadfastly refuses to speak of the priest as a

'celebrant.' Dr. Rama Coomaraswamy quotes Fr. Martin Patino, a member of the Concilium who

assisted in the preparation of the Novus Ordo: "The [new] mass is not an act of the priest with whom

the people unite themselves, as it used to be explained. The Eucharist is, rather, an act of the people,

whom the ministers serve by making the Savior present sacramentally .... This former formulation,

which corresponds o the classical theology of recent centuries, was rejected because it placed what

was relative and ministerial (the hierarchy) above what was ontological and absolute (the people of

God)" (The Problems with the New Mass, p. 72)

The Mass is still referred to as the Lord's Supper. Cardinal Ottaviani's Critical Studynoted that the


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Mass "is designated by a great many different expressions, all acceptable relatively, all unacceptable

if employed as they are separately and in an absolute sense."

The studied ambiguity of the General Instruction is found throughout the New mass; its use allows a

muddying of the theological waters without the formal denial of any Catholic beliefs. The Ottaviani

Intervention charged that the purposes of the reformers were served through omissions, implicit

denials (of the Real Presence) and the fragmenting of the Church's unity of belief through the

introduction of countless options. (For a study of ambiguity and the role it played in the theological

transformations of the Council, the reader is referred to In the Murky Waters of Vatican II, by Atila

Sinke Guimaraes, published by MAETA.)

The Penitential Rite

The Traditional Roman Mass begins with what are called "the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar," in

which the priest offers personal prayers of reparation to God. In the Novus Ordo, these prayers have

been replaced by a Penitential Rite, which the priest and people recite together. As Cardinal Ottaviani

charged, there is a blurring, in the New Mass, of the distinction between priest and laity evident in

this change (one also instituted by 16th Century Protestant reformers).

The Offertory

In the Traditional Roman Mass, the first part is the Offertory, which very clearly expresses the

sacrificial, propitiatory character of the New Mass. The Novus Ordo effectively abolishes the

Offertory; of the 12 Traditional Offertory prayers, only two were retained in the New Mass. The term

'Offertory' itself has vanished; there remains only something called "The Preparation of the Gifts," the

instructions for which lay heavy emphasis on procession. The deleted prayers are the same ones

removed by Luther and Cranmer. It was, as Davies points out, "the doctrine of the Mass as a sacrifice

of propitiation which outraged the Protestant Reformers" (Pope Paul's New Mass, p. 320). "The

abomination called the offertory," remarked Luther, "and from this point on almost everything stinks of

oblation."

Fr. Wathen notes that "practically all the prayers of the Offertory ... were deemed useless ... The

given reason ... is that all these prayers are recent insertions into the Mass; none of them were in the

Mass before, say, 1100 or 1200 A.D." (The Great Sacrilege, p. 71). Citing as an example the deleted

Suscipe, Sancte Paterboth Fr. Wathen and Dr. Coomaraswamy demonstrate the incompatibility

between the Catholic theology expressed in that prayer and the new religion of 'Catholic' modernists.

The prayer itself reads:

Receive, O Holy Father, Almighty and Everlasting God, this spotless

host, which I, Thine unworthy servant, offer unto Thee, my living and

true God, for mine own countless sins, offenses, and negligences,


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and for all here present, as also for all faithful Christians, living and

dead, that it may avail for my own and their salvation unto life

everlasting.

"What a marvel of doctrinal exactitude!" exclaims Coomaraswamy. "Along with the actions of the

priest, this prayer makes it clear that what is offered at the Mass is the 'spotless host' or victim.

Second, the propitiatory (atoning) nature of the Mass is explicit it is offered for our sins. Third, it

reminds us that the Mass is offered 'for the living and the dead,' and fourth, that it is the priest who

offers the Sacrifice as a mediator between man and God ... In the New Mass this prayer, needless to

say, has been entirely deleted" (The Problems with the New Mass, p. 34). In addition to the

acknowledgment of unworthiness and the clear sacrificial language, Fr. Wathen notes that he prayer

"was said silently by the celebrant ... If there are two things we cannot abide in the 'new age,' it is

silent prayers during the communal prayer service, and the priest's acting as if he were about to do

something in virtue of his own priesthood, which the laity cannot participate in" (The Great Sacrilege,

p. 72).

The prayer that has replaced the Suscipe, Sancte Pateris a modified Jewish table grace:

Blessed are you, Lord, God of all Creation, Trough your goodness

we have this bread to offer, which earth has given and human hands

have made. It will become for us the bread of life.

The offering of Cain has been substituted for that of Abel; the new prayer makes no reference to the

propitiation for sin. Patrick Henry Omlor notes that "where Catholics humbly beseech God'sacceptance the prayer of the Jew audaciously says 'Here we made it, You take it.' without humility.

No contrite heart. No respect for the Divine. Rudely imposed upon the Catholic ear and mind is a

'prayer' of unbelievers in Christ, rejecting the Sacrifice, Redemption and Salvation wrought by Christ,

the God-Man" (The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Knox Query, p. 18).

Davies notes that the new prayer is "fully compatible with the Teilhardian theory that human effort, the

work of human hands, becomes in a certain way the matter of the Sacrament. Thus we have a rite

that is not simply compatible with Protestantism but with the Cult of Man" (Pope Paul's New Mass, p.

322). Davies also finds that the prayer "would certainly fit in with the ethos of a Masonic hall" (p. 320).

He sees in the "We offer" another example of the systematic blurring in the Novus Ordo, of the

distinction between priest and laity; it is now possible to interpret it as a service concelebrated by the

entire congregation.

The Ottaviani Intervention charges that the prayer in question "alters the nature of the sacrificial

offering by turning it into a type of exchange of gifts between God and man. Man brings the bread,

and God turns it into 'the spiritual drink.' ... The expressions 'bread of life' and 'spiritual drink,' of


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course, are utterly vague and could mean anything. Once again we come up against the same basic

equivocation: According to the new definition of the Mass [in the General Instruction], Christ is only

spiritually present among His own; here bread and wine are only spiritually and not substantially

changed" (pp. 37-38).

The new "Invitation to Prayer" deserves mention. In the Traditional Mass, the Priest asks "Prayer,

Brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable...." This has been changed to "our sacrifice"

in the New Mass. While it may at first reading sound equivalent, it is not. The Catholic Church

teaches that it is the priest who offers the sacrifice to God; the laity offers penance, prayers, personal

sacrifices, true, but only the priest, acting in the person of Christ, offers the Body and Blood. Pius XII

remarked in Mediator Deithat "in this most important subject, it is necessary in order to avoid giving

rise to a dangerous error, that we define the exact meaning of the word 'offer.' The unbloody

immolation, at the words of Consecration, when Christ is made present upon the Altar... is performed

by the priest and by him alone, as the representative of Christ and not as the representative of the

faithful." For Protestants, of course, the presider is the one chosen to represent the people, rather

than Christ. Pius XII's 'dangerous error' is codified in the Novus Ordo. Hearing the words of the New

Mass 'Invitation to Prayer' often enough will probably make of the congregation de facto Lutherans.

Eucharistic Prayer I

Fr. Wathen points out that the word Canon means rule, orstandard of measure. "It refers, therefore, to

something fixed, unchangeable, and irreplaceable ... Eucharistic Prayer, Form Number One [subtitled The

Roman Canon] is notthe Roman Canon because it has been changed, or rather, mutilated both in the Latin and

in the translation" (The Great Sacrilege, pg. 82). Furthermore, three additional Eucharistic Prayers are offered

as alternatives to its use. Davies notes that the Consilium had originally planned to forbid the use of the Roman

Canon, but it remained, in severely modified form, at the insistence of the Pope (Pope Paul's New Mass, p.

329).

Dr. Coomaraswamy notes that Eucharistic Prayer I "is merely modeledon the traditional Canon, but

contains several significant differences ...[W]ith the destruction of the traditional Offertory, with its

prayers that state precisely what occurs during the Canon, and with the modern mistranslations,

Eucharistic Prayer Number One is totally capable of being given an entirely Modernist and Protestant

interpretation" (The Problems with the New Mass, p. 37).

That Eucharistic Prayer, for example, asks that the offering "may become forus the Body and

Blood..." Coomaraswamy notes that such a phrase is understandable in the Cranmerian/Protestant

sense, which denies that the bread and wine are transubstantiated themselves. As Davies explains,

"the addition of 'for us' does facilitate an interpretation in line with the theory oftransignification,

where the Presence of Christ in the Sacrament is really only for the believer and not in the order of

objective reality. Transignification is a doctrine fully in line with that of the Protestant Reformers" (The


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Roman Rite Destroyed, p. 37).

Davies maintains that, although the so-called 'Roman Canon' is not obligatory on a single day

throughout the year, its inclusion "enabled the majority of orthodox priests to accept the New Mass

without doing too much violence to their consciences" (The New Mass, p. 15). Most of the priests

who would have been expected to protest were molified by the first Eucharistic Prayer a pattern,

once again, that Davies find parallel to the staged technique of Cranmer's liturgical revolution.

Eucharistic Prayer II

Davies states that Eucharistic Prayer II, "[designated] the Canon of Hippolytus, was written by a third-

century anti-pope with views of dubious orthodoxy ... It never formed a part of the official liturgy of the

Church, its original version has been lost, and the text we have has certainly been modified" (Pope

Paul's New Mass, p. 347). Dr. Coomaraswamy points out that it "is said to have been taken from

Hippolytus' Apostolic Tradition ... However, to this already questionable document, the innovators

have made significant changes" (The Problems with the New Mass, page. 39). Edward T. Snyder's

web article, 'Distorting Hippolytus,' compares the Hippolytus document and the Eucharistic Prayer

line by line. Snyder notes omissions, in Eucharistic Prayer II, of phrases that serve to describe Our

Lord's diving role and to link Him with the Mass, or to point up the role of the priest (Lex orandi, lex

credendiweb page). Reformers suppressed a specific reference to Hell and the chains of Satan

and they added 'for us,' making, according to Coomaraswamy, their heretical intent more than clear.

"All pretense of a Catholic interpretation is eliminated .... There is absolutely no preparation (build-upor development) in Eucharistic Prayer 2 for the 'Consecration' of the species ... Sneeze and you will

miss it" (Problems, p. 40).

Davies notes that he word hostia, victim, appears nowhere in Eucharistic Prayer II. "The chief value

of the Canon of Hippolytus from the ecumenical standpoint is that its sacrificial phraseology is

minimal it was composed at a stage in the third century when there was still a long way to go

before matter which was implicit in the Mass was made explicit in its prayers. Bringing this prayer into

the Mass in the twentieth century is precisely the type of liturgical archaelolgism condemned as

pernicious by Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Mediator Dei" (The New Mass, p. 21)

According to Davies, "the Liturgical Establishment makes no secret of the fact that the new

Eucharistic Prayers are modeled on the Jewish berakah, a prayer of praise and thanksgiving. This is

a point which they repeat ad nauseam in their books, articles and lectures ... The fallacy here is that

although Our Lord may have used the berakah format at the last Supper this no more makes the

Eucharistic Prayer a berakah than it makes the Mass a Passover meal. The Last Supper was a

propitiatory sacrifice he would offer on the Cross the next day" (Pope Paul's New Mass, pp. 333-334).


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Davies quotes Fr. J. D. Crichton, whom he describes as England's arch-liturgist; Fr. Crichton finds

great merit in Eucharistic Prayer II, because of its clearberakah pattern.

Coomaraswamy maintains that the Novus Ordo's creators exhibit a clear preference for Eucharistic

Prayer II. "The official documents from Rome instruct us that Eucharistic Prayer 2 can be used on

any occasion. It is recommended for sundays 'unless for pastoral reasons another Eucharistic Prayer

is chosen.' It is also particularly suitable "for weekday masses, or for the mass in particular

circumstances'... It is recommended for 'masses with children, young people and small groups,' and

above all for Catechism classes..." (Problems, p. 41).

Eucharistic Prayer III

Eucharistic Prayer III says to Our Lord that "from age to age You gather a people to Yourself, in order that from

east to west a perfect offering may be made to the glory and honor of Your name." Coomaraswammy notes that,

according to this prayer, "it is the people, rather than the Priest, who are the indispensable element in the

celebration:" (ibid). Davies states that "in not one of the new Eucharistic Prayers is it made clear that the

Consecration is effected by the Priest alone, and that he is not acting as spokesman or president for a

concelebrating congregation." (The Roman Rite Destroyed, p. 39). This, to Davies, is further evidence of the

Protestantization of the Mass, since, for Protestants, the minister possesses no powers denied to a layman.

Eucharistic Prayer IV

This prayer, according to Dr. Coomaraswamy, was composed by Fr. Cipriano Vagaggiani. Coomaraswamy

finds the Latin itself innocuous, but notes that the approved translation in American use was open to heretical

interpretation. "In the Latin version... the words unus Deus ("One God") are to be found, and no explicit heresy

is taught... The mistranslation ofunus Deus by 'You alone are God' clearly departs from the traditional norm. In

the absence of any other reference to this prayer to the Son or the Holy Ghost, the use of the word 'alone'

appears to be an explicit denial of the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity... It is for this reason that some have

referred to this Eucharistic Prayer as the 'Arian Canon'" (Problems, p. 42)

The 'Institution Narrative'

Coomaraswamy points out that "in theNovus Ordo Missae, as in the Lutheran service, the words of

Consecration the very heart of the Traditional Rite are now part of what is called the 'Institution

Narrative,' an expression not found in the traditional Missals of the Church. In the Traditional Missal, the words

of Consecration are capitalized and set apart from the remaining text, making clear the form (words) of the

Sacrament. In the AmericanNovus Ordo missalettes, they run together, undifferentiated, with the remainder of

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rather than acting in the person of Christ to confect a Catholic Sacrament.

The Church has always taught that, for the Sacrament to be valid, there must be 1) a properly

ordained priest, 2) who intends to do at the altar what the Church intends, 3) using the proper matter

(bread and wine), and 4) using the proper form (words). Coomaraswamy notes that "the form of hte

Consecration in the Traditional Mass has been fixed since Apostolic times. It has been 'canonically'

fixed since the so-called Armenian Decree of the Council of Florence (1438-1445)" (The Problems

with the New mass, p. 47). That form, according to the Council of Trent, is:

FOR THIS IS MY BODY.

***

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.

* Changes in the Consecration: "pro multis"

Although the official Latin text of the Novus Ordo Missae retains the words "pro multis," "for many," in

the words of Consecration, that is a version of the Mass which Americans will rarely if ever

experience. When the Novus Ordo was translated into the vernacular, those words were rendered:

"for all men"; then "for all." An identical 'error' occurs in a number of languages Italian, French,

German, Spanish, Croation suggesting that there was a decision made within the Congregation for

Divine Worship in this regard.

The innovation was defended in an unsigned article in Notitiae, the Congregation's official journal.

Readers were told that, in Aramaic (presumed to be Our Lord's language), the expression "for many"

means "for all." Such is not the case, however; Davies points out that both Aramaic and Hebrew have

different words to express both concepts. Patrick Henry Omlor gives kolorkolla as the Aramaic word

for 'all'; 'saggi'an is the Aramaic word for 'many.' "Three months laterNotitiae published a signed

article admitting this" (Pope Paul's New Mass, p. 623). There has, of course, been no correction


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made.

Omlor points out that it is "an unquestionable fact that throughout 19 centuries and right up to the

very present (i.e., before the vernacular craze became epidemic) not a single rite of the Catholic

Church, not the schismatic Easter Orthodox Churches, not a single heretical Church, even, ever used

the words 'for all men' in this place. Eight Eastern Rites there are in communion with the Holy See,

and, as the first part of this century at least, there were eleven different languages used by these

eight rites. Now in all these rites and all these languages, and also, of course, in the Latin of the

Roman Rite, the formula reads 'for many'" (Insights into Heresy, p. 15)

Omlor argues convincingly that the change in ICEL's form involves basic change in theological

meaning. There is a blurring, he maintains, of the distinction between the sufficiency and the efficacy

of Christ's death. "[T]here are some men who, through their perverse failure to cooperate with God's

grace, thereby nullify for themselves the benefits of this Purchase.... Christ's death was sufficientfor

all, but it is effective... only for those who avail themselves of the necessary graces God gives hem

for salvation" (The Ecumenist Heresy, p. 4). As the Council of Trent explained, "Though He died for

all, yet not all receive the benefit of His death, but only those unto whom the merit of His Passion is

communicated" (Session VI, Chapter 3). Omlor cites the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, the authors

of the Catechism of the Council of Trent, St. Alphonsus, Pope Innocent III, Pope Benedict XIV and

others, all of whom expounded upon the vital distinction between sufficiency and efficacy.

Joachim Jeremias, a German Protestant, was the first in modern times to suggest the change to "for

all." According to Hugh Ross Williamson, Jeremias, "at the time a professor at the University of

Gottingen... attacked the Divinity of Christ" (The Great Betrayal, cited by Omlor). Jeremias firstadvanced the theory that 'for many" meant "for all" in his 1966 book, The Words of Jesus.

According to Fr. Wathen, "the reason for mistranslating the words "pro multis" to mean "for all men"

was to implant the Lutheran error (held by almost all Protestants) that through the Sacrifice of Christ

on the Cross, all will be saved who have faith in that Sacrifice, regardless of their own moral

goodness, regardless of their acceptance of other revealed truths, regardless of membership in the

Chruch. But this idea is only an intermediary one, meant to suggest a still more heterodox idea, that

eventually all men will be saved taken to Heaven even the damned" (Great Sacrilege, p. 86).

Three points need to be made regarding this change of wording.

1) The liturgical reformers have changed the words of Our Lord, and, with the new wording, altered

His meaning. In Matthew 26:28 and Mark 14:24, Jesus Christ said "for many." With incredible

arrogance, the reformers have evidently decided that He shouldhave said, "for all."

2) The reformers lacked the authority to make the change. Leo XIII's BullApostolicae Curae says that


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"the Church is forbidden to change, or even to touch, the matter or form of any Sacrament." The

Church has no power over the substance of Sacraments, according to Pope Pius XII, since those

Sacraments were instituted by Jesus Christ (Sacramentum Ordinis, 1947). He was echoing the words

of Pope St. Pius X, who said "it is well known that to the Church there belongs no right whatsoever to

innovate anything touching on the substance of the Sacraments" (Ex quo, nono, 1910)

3) De Defectibus established that, if anything in the established form was omitted, the Mass would be

invalid. De Defectibus is a bull of Pope St. Pius V, covering defects in the Mass. Printed in the front of

every Traditional Roman altar Missal, it explicitly states that "If anyone removes or changes anything

in the Form of the Consecration of the Body and Blood, and by this change of words does not signify

the same thing as these words do, he does not confect the Sacrament." For the Mass to be valid, the

entire, intact form [as cited on page 4] must be recited.

"In our Sacraments," teaches the Catechism of the Council of Trent, "the form is so definite that any,

even a casual deviation from it renders the Sacrament null" (Part II, Ch. 1, cited by Omlor).

*Changes in the Consecration: "The Mystery of Faith"

The Consecration of the Chalice has been butchered. Not only have the words "for many" been

changed to "for all," but the phrase "the Mystery of Faith" has been excised from the form, and

inserted later in the Mass.

Dr. Coomaraswamy's comments on this change bear quoting in toto: "[T]he phrase has been

removed from the form and made into the introduction to the peoples 'Memorial Acclamation,' thus

implying that the Mystery of Faith is the Death, Resurrection and Final Coming of Our Lord, rather

than His 'Real Presence' on the altar. Nor are the other Memorial Acclamations any more specific,

e.g., 'when we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim Your death, Lord Jesus, until You come

in glory."

"Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, the principal architect of the new Mass, informs us in his memoirs thathe discussed this issue directly with Paul VI. The Concilium had wished to leave the text of the

'Memorial Acclamation' up to the various National Bishops' Committees on the liturgy, but Paul VI

urged that 'a series of acclamations... be prepared for use after the consecration.' According to

Archbishop Bugnini, Paul VI feared that 'if the initiative were left to the Bishops' Committees,

inappropriate acclamations such as My Lord and my Godwould be introduced.' The Catholic Church

traditionally has always encouraged the private and quiet use of the ejaculatory prayerMy Lord and


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my God, by the people at the elevation of the Host during Mass and Benediction; Pope St. Pius X

attached rich indulgences to this practice, as it both affirmed belief in the Real Presence and gave

praise to God" (The Problems with the New Mass, p. 57)

The words 'the Mystery of Faith' are not found in the Holy Scripture; St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that

they were handed down to the Church by the Apostles who received them from Our Lord (Summa, III,

Q. 78, A. 3-9). Certainly this is the position of Pope Innocent III, in Cum Carthae Circa which, by

virtue of its inclusion in Denzinger, Omlor views as part of the ordinary Magisterium. Omlor stresses,

therefore, that those words are "derived from Tradition (Tradition with a capital 'T', which is one of the

two sources of Divine Revelation)..." (No Mystery of Faith: No Mass, p. 12). To charges that 'the

mystery of Faith' does not appear in the wine consecration form of the Eastern rites, Omlor responds

with a quote from the Catholic Encyclopedia: "It is abundantly clear that this diversity [of rites] arose

from the traditions handed down by the different Apostles." "Through God's Infinite Wisdom... and

foreknowledge of all things, it has turned out," he notes, "that only in the Western Church has the

doctrine of the Real Presence been assailed" (No Mystery of Faith: No Mass, p. 19). In other words,

those words signifying Christ's Real Presence exist in the Latin Rite because God knew Latin Rite

Catholics would need them.

The phrase 'The Mystery of Faith' was removed by Luther and Cranmer as well, since both

understood that it referred to transubstantiation. Omlor quite clearly argues that, by removing 'the

Mystery of Faith' from the form of the Sacrament, the Novus Ordo revisionists have done precisely

what De Defectibus cautioned against, and no Mass is therefore celebrated.

The change was not without precedent. The phrase was omitted from the wine consecration formwhen Pope Pius XII's New Order of Holy Week was translated into the vernacular. The Sacred

Congregation of the Holy Office issued a Monitum (warning), calling the omission 'nefarious.'

The 'Short Form' Controversy. Omlor explains that "Defenders of the 'short form' position hold that

these first few words of the wine-Consecration form in the Latin Rite, 'This is the Chalice of My

Blood,' suffice for the valid consecration of the precious Blood. They claim that the remaining words

of the sacramental form, namely, 'of the new and eternal testament, the mystery of faith, which shall

be shed for you and for many unto the remission of sins, although being part of the wine-consecration

form laid down in the Roman Missal, are nevertheless not necessary for the valid consecration of the

wine and hence not necessary for the validity of the Mass.

"The defenders of the 'entire form' position deny the foregoing supposition. They hold that, except for

the word 'for,' ALL the words of the sacramental form for the wine-consecration, exactly as laid down

in the Roman Missal are absolutely necessary for bringing about the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist


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and therefore are essential for the celebration of a valid Mass" (Why the Short Form Cannot Possibly

Suffice, p. 1). Omlor proceeds to demonstrate that the 'short form' position is a minority one; "very

many great theologians, including saints, popes and doctors of the Church, have held that the [short

form is] insufficient for the validity of the Consecration.... These exponents include St. Thomas

Aquinas; St. Antonius; Pope ST. Pius V; Pope Innocent III; the authors of the Catechism of the

Council of Trent...." and many others. Cajetan (1469-1534), a Dominican cardinal, was, according to

Omlor, the first 'Thomist' to oppose the mind of St. Thomas and Pope Pius V had Cajetan's opinion

on this matter deleted from the authorized Roman edition of the Cardinal's Commentaries.

The crux of Omlor's argument is that, according to Pope Leo XIII's BullApostolicae Curae (1896), "All

know that the Sacraments of the New Law, as sensible and efficient signs of invisible grace, must

both signify THE GRACE which they effect, and effect THE GRACE which they signify... The form

consequently cannot be apt or sufficient for a Sacrament which omits what it must essentially signify."

The short form fails to signify in the necessary, unambiguous manner the remission of the sins of

Christ's Mystical Body.

It is indisputable that the mere existence of the two opposing opinions makes the validity of the wine

consecration form of the New Mass doubtful. According to Fr. Heribert Jone, a well-known Catholic

moral theologian, "Matter and form must be certainlyvalid. Hence, one may not follow a probable

opinion and use either doubtful matter or form. Acting otherwise, one commits a sacrilege"

(Handbook of Moral Theology, p. 308).

The Communion Rite

In the Traditional Mass, the priest says, while distributing Communion, "May the Body of Our Lord

Jesus Christ preserve your soul unto life everlasting, Amen." In the Novus Ordo, whoever distributes

Communion merely says, "The Body of Christ" without specifying whether the phrase applies to

the host, or the recipient. (It's a change typical of the studied ambiguity throughout the Novus Ordo.)

Davies notes that "the American hierarchy is actually preparing the way for Catholic acceptance ofthe concept that the Sacrifice in the Mass is that of Christ being offered in virtue of His presence in

the congregation who offer themselves. In the official [Sept. 1976] Newsletterof the Bishops'

Committee on the Liturgy, a ruling was laid down when distributing Holy Communion a priest must

notsay: 'Receive the Body of Christ' or 'This is the Body of Christ.' The reason given is that the

congregation itself is the Body of Christ" (The Roman Rite Destroyed, p. 39). According to that

Newsletter, "the use of the phrase The Body of Christ:Amen, in the communion rite asserts in a very


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forceful way the presence and role of the community... The change to the use of the phrase ... rather

than the long formula which was previously said by the Priest has several repercussions in the

liturgical renewal. First, it seeks to highlight the important concept, of the community as the Body of

Christ; secondly it brings into focus the assent of the individual in the worshiping community...." The

assent of the worshiping community, of course, has nothing whatsoever to do with the objective

reality of transubstantiation, which can be effected in its absence; it is only in the heretical Lutheran

transignification that the belief of the recipient impacts on the reality of the Sacrament.

The Revised Propers

The propers of the Mass are the variable Sunday and Feast day prayers. Fr. Anthony Cekada

attempted a line-by-line comparison of the old and new Propers, in The Problems with the Prayers of

the Modern Mass (hereinafter, PPMM). He found he task arduous, since many of the old orations

have been moved or altogether deleted, and the liturgical calendar itself has been drastically

modified. Epiphanytide, Septuagesima and the Ember Days were deleted, the number of Saints

remembered in the calendar was dramatically reduced, and feasts have been relocated or

suppressed.

The Traditional Missal, according to Fr. Cekada, contains 182 orations. "About 760 of those were

dropped entirely. Of the approximately 36% which remained, the revisers altered over half of them....

Thus, only some 17% of the orations from the old Missal made it untouched into the new Missal"

(PPMM, p. 9). Fr. Cekada's conclusion is that "the contents of Paul VI's Missal represent a radicalbreak with the Church's liturgical tradition."

*The Agenda of the Reformers

fr. Cekada quotes Fr. Carlo Braga, assistant to Fr. Bugnini (the latter, Secretary for the Concilium

charged with liturgical reform). Fr. Braga's words should sound warning bells in the ears of those who

can recall the textbook definition of heresy.

"Revising the pre-existing text becomes more delicate when faced

with a need to update content or language, and when all this affects

not only form, but also doctrinal reality. This [revision] is called for in

light of the new view of human values... The Council clearly

proposes this [new view] and it was kept in mind when the Temporal

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dictated appropriate revisions in language. Expressions calling

positions or struggles of the past are no longer in harmony with the

Church's new positions. An entirely new foundation of Eucharistic

theology has superceded devotional points of view or a particular

way of venerating and invoking the Saints. Retouching the text,

moreover, was deemed necessary to bring to light new values and

new perspectives." (Fr. Carlo Braga, 'Il Proprium de Sactis',

Ephemerides Liturgicae 84, 1970, p. 419).

*Doctrines deleted or downplayed

Fr. Cekada found that the above-mentioned 'new values' required the downplaying or obliteration in

the new Propers of a long list of Catholic 'doctrinal realities.'"These include hell, judgment, God's

wrath, punishment for sin, the wickedness of sin as the greatest evil, detachment from the world,

purgatory, the souls of the departed, Christ's kingship on earth, the Church Militant, the triumph of the

Catholic Faith, the evils of heresy, schism and error, the conversion of non-Catholics, the merits of

the Saints, and miracles...." (PPMM, p. 28). Some of the 'adjustments' were made by way of

mistranslations. There are, according to Christopher Monckton, former editor of the (London)

Universe, over 400 mistranslations in the English version of the New Mass errors paralleled in

other vernacular translations except the Polish. Both he and Davies maintain that the inaccurate

renderings serve to dilute or remove allusions and references to those doctrines of the Mass that are

specifically Catholic. Monckton finds that "The thoroughness and determination with which thoseteachings.... have been removed is demonstrated by many minor omissions which are often

repeated" (quoted in Pope Paul's New Mass, pp. 617-618).

'Negative theology.' Concilium Study Group member Fr. Auge explained the need to rework the

'negative theology' of the Advent and Lenten Propers. "Some of these collects, in fact, spoke of,

among other things, the punishments, anger or divine wrath for our sins, of a Christian assembly

oppressed with guilt, continually afflicted due to its disorders, threatened with condemnation to

eternal punishment, etc." (cited in PPMM, p. 11) Fr. Cekada explains that the Concilium simply

rewrote or abolished "texts which contained ideas that contemporary man finds disturbing." The

possibility of damnation has been excised from the old Collect for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost, now

used fro the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The prayer for support in human weakness now asks only an

increase in charity. "The revisers," notes Fr. Cekada, "were forced to change the entire character of the Lenten

prayers. The traditional Lenten orations relentlessly emphasized fasting and mortifications of the flesh...

Emergency surgery was prescribed" (PPMM, pp. 15-16). Orations that once spoke of heroic mortifications of


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the flesh now speak of 'moderation' and 'restraint.' Orations mentioning our guilt, temporal or eternal

punishment or spiritual combat were suppressed or altered.

Consideration was given to abolishing Ash Wednesday; in the end, two of the four orations were

eliminated, and the other two 'doctored.' One, which formerly asked for the spirit of compunction for

sin, now contains only what Fr. Cekada terms "incongruous talk about celebrating the paschal

mystery." The other was stripped of the words "pardon," "humility," the "fragility of the human

condition," and the concept of death as a penalty for our guilt. The Holy Thursday prayer that

mentioned that Judas Iscariot was punished by God for his guilt has been removed.

Detachment from the world is no longer a concern; orations that spoke of putting aside earthly

pleasures have been deleted.

Rites and Prayers for the Dead have undergone extreme reconstruction. "White vestments

replaced black;Alleluia replaced Eternal Rest Grant unto Them, and the typical funeral, in America at

least, was turned into something akin to a canonization ceremony ... Hell, for contemporary man, is

not on his list of fundamental options" (PPMM, p. 20). The word 'soul' has been excised almost

entirely from the new Missal. In the New Mass for All Souls' Day ti does not appear once. Revisers

dropped 11 of the traditional prayers from the dead which used the word 'soul' and struck the word

itself from 23 of the 25 orations they retained.

Ecumenism. "The notion of acknowledging the one, true God has been deleted from the Collect for

St. Cyril of Jerusalem. The Collect for the Propagation of the Faith,... now the Collect fro the

Evangelization of Peoples, underwent similar revisions... The goal of the missionary's apostolate has

been changed; in the old collect it was to bring nations to know the only true God and Jesus Christ

the phrase is a quote from Our Lord's discourse in John 17; in the new collect, it appears to be

merely 'preaching the Gospel.' The means have been turned into an end" (PPMM, pp. 22-23).

Mention of the Church Militant has been struck from the Feasts of Christ the King and St. IgnatiusLoyola.

Allusions to the existence of heresy have been deleted; the Oration for Heretics and Schismatics has

been abolished. The Church apparently no longer has enemies; mention of them has been struck

from the ST. Pius V oration. We no longer pray for the conversion of the Jews or Pagans. We now

ask that the Jews increase in faithfulness to theirCovenant, and "come to the fullness of redemption."


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Gone is the mention of Jewish faithlessness and blindness.

Fr. Cekada notes that "the merits of the saints followed the soul into virtual oblivion" (PPMM, p. 25).

Traditional prayers which invoked the "merits and intercession" of the saints now ask only for their

prayers. The miracles of the saints fare no better; all have been suppressed, as Fr. Braga

explained, to adapt to "the mentality of modern man." Those miracles were, after all, "characteristic of

a certain hagiography of the past."

Fr. Cekada further noted in a 1986 speech that "the greatest outrage that the translators perpetrated

was consistently leaving out the word 'grace' from their translations. It appears in the Latin original of

the Orations 11 times, but not once in the official English version. Thus, the word which is

fundamental to Catholic teaching on the Fall of man, the Redemption, sin, justification, and the entire

sacramental system has utterly disappeared without a trace..." (Cited in The Problems with the New

Mass, p. 80)

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Fr. Cekada summarizes: "The virtual elimination of these 'doctrinal realities' from the new Missale is

nothing less than an attack on the integrity of the Catholic faith. Liturgy of its nature expresses

doctrine, and, as Pope Pius XII observed, the entire liturgy 'bears public witness to the faith of the

Church.' This intimate connection between liturgy and doctrine is often summed up in the old adage,

Lex orandi, led credendi 'the law of prayer is the law of belief' ... During the course of the liturgical

year, [these prayers] bore witness individually to countless truths, each of which was (and is) and

integral part of the Church's law of belief. Shrouding a substantial portion of these truths in obscurity,ambiguity or silence is an invitation for men to deny them... If hell, the human soul or the wickedness

of sin count for little in the new liturgy, they will in turn count for little for the man in the pew" (PPMM,

p. 28-31).

Part 2: Architects of The 'New Mass'

*Annibale Bugnini and theConcilium

According to Mary Ball Martinez, "as early as 1947 Pope Pacelli... was setting up a commision for the

complete overhauling of the sacred liturgy. As secretary he chose a 35-year-old priest, one Fr.

Bugnini, who had the evocative first name of Annibale, having been born in a town along the shores

of Lake Trasimeno where Hannibal and his elephants roundly defeated the Romans. Beating the

Romanness out of the Missale... became the major goal of Fr. Bugnini and his group of periti.


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"That the Pope gave great importance to this committee and its work is evident in lines from an

autobiography which Bugnini wrote... 'We enjoyed the full confidence of Pius XII who was kept

informed of our work by Msgr. Montini and even more by Fr. Bea, his confessor. Thanks to these

intermediaries we could arrive at remarkable results even in periods when the Pope's illness

prevented anyone else from seeing him'" (The Undermining of the Catholic Church, p. 90).

Martinez maintains that the Curial office, the Sacred Congregation for Rites, opposed Bugnini's

innovations consistently, and it therefore took 6 years for the changes Maxima Redeptionis came

finally in 1955, moving Easter's celebration to the evening before, and suppressing the Three Hours

devotion on Good Friday and the solemnities ofTenebrae. In many of the Easter ceremonies,

Martinez notes that the priest faced the people, and the prayers at the foot of the altar and the last

Gospel were suppressed, "making of it a kind of dress rehearsal for the New Mass, still a decade in

the future" (p. 91).

Fr. Bugnini was appointed Professor of Sacred Liturgy at the Lateran University in 1957. In 1960 he

was appointed Secretary to the Preparatory Commission for the Liturgy of the Second Vatican

Council. Michael Davies maintains that "he was the moving spirit behind the drafting of the

preparatory schema, the draft document which was to be placed before the Council Fathers for

discussion... As was stressed in Msgr. Bugnini's own journal, Notitiae, the Liturgy Constitution which

the Council Fathers eventually passed was substantially identical with the draft schema which he had

steered through the Preparatory Commission" (Pope Paul's New Mass, p. 498).

The Concilium...

In March, 1964 the formation of the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution on the

Liturgy known as the Concilium, was announced; fr. Bugnini was appointed its secretary. Although

over 50 prelates from around the world were members, it was Bugnini who wielded the power,

guiding daily the work of some 150 consulting liturgists who were producing the new texts and

rubrics.

Fr. Cekada explains that "Concilium's mission and juridical standing were an anomaly. In the normal

scheme of the things, the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites decided and regulated all mattersaffecting the Church's worship. It appears, however, that the members of the Congregation were

opposed to many of the schemes in the air for reworking the Sacred Liturgy... Establishing a new

entity to propose liturgical changes, therefore, achieved the proverbial end-run around a well-

entrenched opposition" (PPMM, p. 7).

In 1969, Pope Paul incorporated the Concilium into the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship as a


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special commission. As Davies explains, "Notitae, the official journal of the Concilium, became the

journal of the new Congregation. Father Annibale Bugnini was appointed secretary... and became

more powerful than ever. In fact, it is certainly no exaggeration to claim that what had, in fact,

happened was that the Concilium, in other words Father Bugnini, had taken over the Sacred

Congregation for Divine Worship" (Pope Paul's New Mass, p. 502). Dubbed the "evil spirit of liturgical

reform" by Dietrich von Hildebrand, Bugnini had over 150 changes in circulation within twelve

months.

Freemasonic Connections

In 1972 Pope Paul created Bugnini Titular Archbishop of Dioclentia. In 1975, however, the Archbishop

left his briefcase behind in a conference room, where it was found and inspected by the Dominican

Friar charged with restoring the room to order. In search only of the identity of the case's owner, the

Dominican found, according to Piers Compton, documents whose "signatures and place of origin

showed that they came from dignitaries of secret societies in Rome" (The Broken Cross, p. 61). The

letters were addressed to "Brother Bugnini." According to Davies "a Roman priest of the very highest

reputation.. Had this information placed into the hands of Paul VI, with the warning that if action were

not taken at once he would be bound in conscience to make the matter public. Msgr. Bugnini was

then dismissed and his entire congregation dissolved" (Pope Paul's New Mass, p. 505).

Bugnini was appointed the Apostolic pro-Nuncio to Iran, and repeatedly denied that he had

Freemasonic affiliations. When the Italian Register came to light in 1976, however, it showed his April


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23, 1963 initiation date and number, and gave his code name as 'Buan.'

The Luciferian nature of secret societies

"Their god," wrote Pius VIII, "is the devil, and Pius IX referred to the lodge as the "synagogue ofSatan." Their references are factual, rather than poetic. Masonry, like its Kabbalistic forefather, is

Luciferian at its inner core. 33rd degree Freemason Oswald Wirth wrote: "The beguiling serpent who incites

us to eat the fruit.... represents both a nobler and subtler impulse, whose purpose is to make man aware of his

need to rise in the scale of beings... The modern mason... by carrying out the divine plan, himself becomes a

god...." (cited in de Poncins'Freemasonry and the Vatican, pp. 87). J.D. Buck states that "the only personal god

Freemasonry accepts is humanity in total. God, the Great Architect of the Universe, personifies himself through

man, Humanity, therefore, is the only personal god there is" (Symbolism of Mystic Masonry, p. 216).

This Masonic belief in the immanent divinity of man represents a revolt against the divine life; the

1931 French Masonic Reviewspecifically stated that "henceforward there are only two doctrines... for

which men are combating; Integral Humanism, no matter what may be the particular form of social

reconstruction favored by its protagonists... and Clerico-Theism" (cited in Fr. Fahey's Mystical Body

of Christ in the Modern World, p. 38).

The ecumenical goal of secret societies.

Fr. James Wathen has pointed out that "only the extremely naive would not recognize in the

Ecumenical Movement the machinations of Freemasonry, which from the Nineteenth century has had

as one of its principle goals the amalgamation of the churches, and the deletion from all of them the

last traces of authentic Christianity" (Who Shall Ascend, p. 487). "Our final aim is that of Voltaire and

that of the French Revolution the complete annihilation of Catholicism, and ultimately of

Christianity," wrote a conspirator within the Carbonari, whose Supreme Direcotry, theAlta Vendita,

became a "kind of nucleus for all the secret societies spread throughout Italy" (The Broken Cross, p.

12). Masonry's Integral Humanism will issue in the creation of an artificial world-state built according

to their principles. Brother Riandey taught that "the future world will create a still newer one. After

having assimilated Christianity and all other forms of spirituality, it will, as it were, give birth, by

analogy to the physical phenomenon of a total collectivization, to a kind of pantheism" (Le Temple,Sept.-Oct. 1946).

Roca, a defrocked priest, Satanist, and Masonic theoretician, had been quite explicit in his

statements regarding this syncretic goal. He envisioned "a new Christianity, sublime, vast, profound,

truly universal, absolutely encyclopedic... a universal cult into which all cults will be absorbed whose

God will be humanity, which to my eyes, commingles with Christ, who is thus the entire universe"


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(Glorieux Centenaire, pp. 77, 525, 528). "It is only a theocratic society having the characteristics of

Freemasonry that we can hope some day to unite Islam and Christianity, the Jews with the

Buddhists, Europe and Asia in one idea and one intense hope. In a word, it is up to Freemasonry to

form the Universal Church." In the Bulletin du Grand Orient(n. 57), he summarizes: "Masonry wishes

to be the super-church, the church which will reunite all churches."

It was primarily this intention that brought ringing condemnations from Pope after Pope; since the

time of Clement XII, some 18 encyclicals condemned Freemasonry and threatened Catholics who

joined or cooperated with them with excommunication. Masonry needs a universal religion of its

liking, in order to blend together all humanity under Lucifer's utopian banner. The Church had been its

most powerful enemy; after all, there has been enmity between her seed and that of the serpent

since the time of Eden.

The method of secret societies

Subversion from within has become Masonry's chosen approach to the Catholic Church. The method

proved quite successful; a century ago the secret societies were able to boast of "more than eight

hundred priests, among whom are many professors and prelates as well as some Bishops and

Cardinals" in Rome. In 1903, Freemason and Cardinal Mariano Rampolla, having served as Leo

XIII's secretary of state, was nearly elevated to the chair of Peter.

Martinez notes that, "according to the Milanese journalist Pier Carpi, who claims to have absolute

proof... [Roncalli] was initiated into Masonry attaining... the 18th or Rosicrucian Degree. Yves Marsaudon,

State Minister of the Supreme Council of French secret societies, wrote the preface to Brother Charles

Riandey's Masonic book on ecumenism. Piers Compton quotes that preface: "To the memory of Angelo

Roncalli, priest, Archbishop of Messamaris, Apostolic Nuncio in Paris, Cardinal of the Roman Church,

Patriarch of Venice, Pope under the name of John XXIII, who has deigned to give us his benediction, his

understanding, and his protection." A second preface was dedicated to "his August continuer, His Holiness Pope

Paul VI" (The Broken Cross, pp. 49-50)

By 1976 Italian publications were printing lists of clerics, some in high office, whose secret society

membership had been uncovered. Numbered among them were the recently deceased AgostinoCardinal Casaroli, Secretary of State and prefect of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of

Canon law the most powerful Vatican official after the Pope, whose place he assumes in the

latter's absence.

Once clerics sympathetic to the revolution were in place, the Church could be torpedoed from within.

Roca had spelled out the conditions for the successful subversion of Catholicism: "You must have a


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new dogma, a new religion, a new ministry, and new rituals that very closely resemble those of the

surrendered Church." He also predicted that "The divine cult directed by the liturgy, ceremonial, ritual

and regulation of the Roman Catholic Church will shortly undergo transformation at an ecumenical

Council" (cited in The Broken Cross, p. 42).

The success of secret societies

certainly one encounters, among the documents of the Second Vatican Council, statements without

Catholic precedent, which mark a departure from formal doctrine. Gaudium et Spes, n. 12, tells us

that "Believers and unbelievers agree almost unanimously that all things on earth should be ordained

to man as to their center and summit." It's a statement with which any Freemason would agree but

the Church has always taught that human life is ordered to God.

The predicted Masonic transformation is nowhere more evident than in the Novus Ordo Missae.

Under Bugnini's leadership, references to man's frailty and propensity for sin have been excised, as

befits candidates for godhood. By Bugnini's own admission 'ecumenical sensitivity' fueled the

construction of new Eucharistic prayers, and references to those Catholic teachings despised by

Protestants have been omitted or downplayed. The next world receives scant attention in a mass

designed by those who look forward to ruling a universal temporal kingdom.

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According to Michael Davies, a published photograph of Pope Paul VI with Vatican II's six Protestantliturgical 'observers'"proved to be a source of astonishment and even scandal to large numbers of the

faithful who had had no idea that Protestants played any part in the compilation of the new Catholic

rites" (Pope Paul's New Mass, Appendix III). Those heretics represented the World Council of

Churches, the Anglican and Lutheran communions, and the Taize community. Davies goes on to

quote Cardinal Baum, who maintains that the Protestants in question were "not simply there as

observers, but as consultants as well and they participated fully in the discussions on Catholic

liturgical renewal."

Their impact was considerable. "Prayers referring to the doctrines of sacrifice and the Real Presence

have been minimized to such an extent that the Novus Ordo Missae can now be celebrated in a

manner that is completely acceptable to some Protestants" (Pope Paul's New Mass, p. 255). M. G.

Siegvalt, a professor of dogmatic theology on the Protestant faculty at Strasbourg, notes that "nothing

in the renewed Mass need really trouble the Evangelical Protestant," the Eucharistic prayers having

dropped what observer jean Guitton termed "the false perspective of sacrifice offered to God." Alfredo

Cardinal Ottaviani's intervention also cited the reduction of the priest's role to one approximating that

of a Protestant minister, a new definition of the Mass as an "assembly," and ambiguous and


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equivocal language throughout, which compromise Church doctrines.

Davies maintains that "Not only do these Protestants feel at home with the prayers of the Novus Ordo

Missae, but they state quite explicitly that they consider that there has been a change in the Catholic

theology of the Mass which brings it into line with evangelical teaching on the Lord's Supper" (p. 271).

(By way of example, the language of the prayer that asks that the gifts "be for us" the Body and Blood

allows for the denial of Transubstantiation and the substitution oftransignifaction, a Protestant

notion that holds that the Presence of Christ in the Sacrament is real only for the believer.)

Davies notes a liturgical convergence in the revised liturgies of Anglicans, Methodists and others,

quoting writers from the various denominations who expressed their desire for what one called "a

United Christian rite in a United Christian Church." He cites the efforts of the Societas Liturgica, under

the auspices of the World Council of Churches, whose Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox members

strive for just that sort of convergence. Similarly, the ICET (International Consultation on English

Texts) proposes texts "which will be acceptable to all the Churches... in the hope of furthering

ecumenism." The American bishops have made many ICET texts mandatory.

Fr. Wathen observes that "Protestants need take no comfort at seeing the Mass being

'accommodated' to their beliefs... the final purpose of the Revolution is their subversion, also... For its

essential motif is not Protestant, but ecumenical... What [the Revolution] understands by ecumenism

is the melting of all religious denominations into the pseudo-religious hash of universal brotherhood....

Instead of God, the Revolution worships 'man.'" (The Great Sacrilege, p. 127)

The Novus Ordo Missae, quite simply, is the new rite of 'Mass' meticulously constructed under thedirection of a Freemason, with the official assistance of six forma heretics. It is the oft-stated intention

of Freemasonic theoreticians to subvert and destroy the Catholic Church; heretics are termed such

precisely because they deny Catholic teaching. There remains no logical reason to believe that it was

not designed to harm the faith.

The Novus Ordo does not become acceptable should it be established that it contains no explicit

heresy. As Cardinal Ottaviani warned, "The innovations in the Novus Ordo and the fact that all that is

of perennial value finds only a minor place, if it subsists at all, could turn into a certainty the suspicion

already prevalent, alas, in many circles, that truths which have always been believed by Christian

people can be changed or ignored without infidelity to that sacred deposit of doctrine to which the

Catholic faith is bound forever."

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What is the force of Quo Primum?

Fr. Wathen explains that "Quo Primum established the Traditional Rite in perpetuity with all the force

which the Pope's office possessed" (Ascend, pp. 528-529). An act of the Council of Trent as well as a

Sainted Pope, Quo Primum says that "by virtue of our Apostolic Authority we give and grant inperpetuity that for the singing or reading of the Mass in any church whatsoever this Missal may be

followed absolutely, without any scruple or conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgement or

censure, and may be freely and lawfully used." It was declared "unlawful henceforth and forever

throughout the Christian world to sing or to read Masses according to any other formula other than

that of this Missal, published by us," with the exception of an Indult granted to approved mass rites

that had been in use for over 200 years at that time. Furthermore, Quo Primum specifically states that

"no one whosoever is permitted to infringe or rashly contravene this notice of Our permission, statute,

ordinance, command..."

"You can find canonists who will tell you that Pope Paul VI, having authority equal to that of Pope St.

Pius V, could legally abrogate Quo Primum, and legally introduce a new missal," Fr. Wathen

observes. Michael Davies has found several who say precisely this. Certainly in purely disciplinary

measures, the principle is a true one. However, Fr. Wathen's argument is that Quo Primum "is a law

that was imposed with the fullest pontifical authority, whose intention was to protect the Mass insofar

as it might ever need protecting, from any mischief whatsoever... It should be taken as a self-evident

fact that the Church, as a perfect society one, that is, which possesses all the means necessary

for the achievement of the ends of its existence has all the power and authority she needs to

protect the Mass of the Roman Rite, and that, in the legislation, Quo Primum, she attempted to raise

such an incontestable bulwark" (Ascend, pp. 530-531).

Is Papal infallibility involved?

According to Fr. Wathen, "the prevalent opinion is that, by his Apostolic Constitution Missale

Romanum of April 3, 1969, His Holiness Pope Paul VI established the Novus Ordo Missae to replace

the Traditional Latin Mass... Consequently, to refuse to offer this 'New Mass' is a serious violation of

Church law. And to question it on doctrinal grounds is tantamount to questioning the doctrine of Papal

Infallibility" (Great Sacrilege, pp. 16-17). There are those, he notes, "who say that the Holy Ghostwould never permit the supreme authority of the Church to impose as a universally binding law

something which is contrary or harmful to faith or morals... Any law, they imagine, that the Church

passes which has to do with their moral obligations cannot be harmful to them, else the Church will

have violated her infallibility" (Ascend, p. 514).

This argument, however, does not bear scrutiny. The First Vatican Council, which laid down the


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conditions for infallibility, states that, among other requirements, the Pope must speak as the Pope,

exercising his office of teaching the whole Church. In addition to the Latin Rite, there are five other

liturgical Rites within the universal Church some 12 million souls who would not have been directly

affected by the introduction of the Novus Ordo. Liturgical precepts might in fact be morally wrong,

since "they are not universally binding, and are not protected by the Church's infallibility" (Ascend, p.

516). Furthermore, "the doctrine of Papal infallibility, by stating in what respect the Pope cannot err,

admits, in effect, that in all other areas of his vast prerogatives the Pope is completely fallible...

[T]here is no divine promise that the Pope will not be permitted to use his great authority in the most

wicked and destructive ways" (Great Sacrilege, pp. 21-22)

It is a moot point. Fr. Wathen finds that "Christ and the True Church, through the decree of Pope Pius

II, Execrabilis, have rendered all the acts of the Council, and all that are done by virtue of the Council,

null and void" (Ascend, p. 516). According to Execrabilis, no future council, and no pope, may

overturn the solemn definitions of the Sacred Magisterium. Any council called to contravene existing

Magisterial teaching was anathematized in advance; those involved incur, in addition to ecclesiastical

censure, "the indignation of almighty God, and of Saints Peter and Paul, His Apostles."

Was the Traditional Latin Mass Suppressed?

In 1986, Pope John Paul II called together nine Cardinals and formed a papal commission. The

commission's purpose was to examine the legal status of the Traditional Latin Mass, and it was to

answer two questions: 1) Did Pope Paul VI abrogate the Latin Rite? And 2) Does any priest needpermission to offer Mass in the Traditional Rite?

The commission concluded unanimously that Pope Paul did not abrogate the traditional rite; he never

gave the bishops the authority to forbid celebration according to the traditional rite of Mass.

To the second question, the commission responded 8 votes in the negative, and one in the positive.

Priests cannot be obligated to celebrate the new rite of mass; bishops cannot forbid or place

restrictions on the celebration of the traditional rite, whether in public or in private.

According to Fr. Paul Leonard, the commission recommended that the Pope issue a papal decreebased on the commission's findings, but "Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, the Vatican's Secretary of State,

maneuvered the situation in such a manner so as to obstruct [issuance of a papal decree]." Cardinal

Casaroli, a member of the commission in question, was also among those named as a secret society

member when the Italian Register was published in 1976. He served as Prefect of the Pontifical

Commission for the Revision of Canon Law which produced the new 1983 Code, deleting specific


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Fr. Morrison notes that "Traditional Catholics generally believe that no such 'indult' [permission] is

necessary for the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, which was canonized by Sacred Tradition

and mandated 'in perpetuity' by Pope St. Pius V in his Solemn Bull Quo Primum [1570]. The form of

the 'Indult' Mass is that of the Missale Romanum of 1962. Such masses are, in and of themselves,

legitimate, as long as there is no admixture of the Novus Ordo Mass with the Traditional Latin Mass.

Some diocesan 'Indult' Masses are 'pseudo-traditional,' in that they are a hybrid, using the New Mass

calendar, lectionary, rubrics, vernacular, Communion-in-the-hand, altars facing the people, Hosts

consecrated at a Novus Ordo Mass or other untraditional variations.

"In addition, some 'Indult' Masses offer a modernistic environment, featuring sermons with a

modernistic tone, utilizing 'extraordinary' lay ministers to distribute Communion failing to observe the

traditional precept for the Eucharistic Fast, or following other untraditional practices" (Traditio web

page: ).

Part 4: Fruits Of The 'New Mass'

Dr. Berger, a Lutheran socioligist, is forthright in his evaluation of the impact of the New mass on the

Catholic population. "The Liturgical Revolution no other term will do is a mistake touching

millions of Catholics at the core of their religious belief," he said. "Let me only mention the sudden

abolition, and indeed, prohibition of the Latin mass, the transposition of the officiating priest from the

front to the back of the altar (the first change symbolically diminished the universality of the Mass, the

second, its transcendent reference) ad the massive assault on a wide variety of forms of popular

piety... If a thoroughly malicious sociologist, bent on injuring the Catholic community as much as

possible, had been able to be advisor to the Church, he could hardly have done a better job"

(Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Feb. 1979, cited by Coomaraswamy).

Proof of the damage is easy to find. Despite continual talk of the ongoing Catholic 'renewal,' statistics

show a generalized withering since the introduction of the Novus Ordo Missae. According to Michael

Davies, "Mass attendance has decreased by percentages ranging from a modest 22% in England to

70% in France and Holland; there has been a catastrophic decline in baptisms, as much as 50% in

Britain and the U.S.A. Conversions have plunged, seminary enrollment has declined by anything from25% to 80%, while ordinations have declined as much as 97%.

"To make matters worse, there has been an exodus from the priestly and religious life. In the U.S.A.

alone, 10,000 priests have abandoned their vocation and over 50,000 nuns have left their convents"

(The Goldfish Bowl: the Church Since Vatican II, pp. 24-25). In less than seven years after the

introduction of the new Mas, priests in the world decreased form 413,438 to 243,307 nearly 50%


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(Holy See Statistics).

Part 5: Conclusions

The New Mass, concludes Fr. Wathen, is "Humanist, Protestant (meaning anti-sacrificial), irreverent,

or, if none of these things, then pointless, purposeless, and therefore mischievous. Added to these

faults is the fact that it is questionably valid with respect to its consecratoin formula..." (Ascend, p.

5470548). Most of his charges have been substantiated in this newsletter, but a summary of sorts is

in order.

The Novus Ordo is probably invalid

Fr. Wathen notes that "suspicion of the invalidity of the New Mass is drawn from the new Missal and

from the attendant features; they who officiate at this Meal are no longer priests but presidents; they

stand not at an altar but a table not so much to offer it as to 'celebrate'..." Genuflections and acts

oflatria due Our transubstantiated Lord have been suppressed. Altar rails, suggestive of kneeling,

have been removed. As the Ottaviani Intervention noted, there are in the New Mass an "implicit

denials of Christ's Real Presence and the doctrine of Transubstantiation."

The words of Consecration. The changes in the words of Consecration have been fully discussed;

because of their deviation from the form defined by the Council of Trent, and their violation of the Bull

De Defectibus, the validity of the Sacrament is highly questionable.

The intention. Pope Leo XIII published his Bull,Apostolicae Curae, in 1896, declaring Anglican

orders to be invalid. He reached that decision based upon two factors the defect of form (the

words of their ordination rite failed to provide the necessary signification) and defect of intention.

Either of those defects, he said, would have been sufficient to render the alleged sacrament invalid.

The defect of intention cited by the Pontiff refers to the intent of the rite's framers. "Concerning the

mind or intention, insomuch as it is itself something interior, the Church does not pass judgment; but

insofar as it is externally manifested, She is bound to judge of it," Pope Leo explained. The Anglicans

had demonstrated, by their own words and writings, an intention to concoct a new type of priesthood

substantially different from the one specified by Christ, and therefore His Church.

The architects of the New Mass have written and spoken endlessly on the newness oftheircreation.

The altered role of the priest, the suppression of sacrificial terminology in favor of "meal" terminology,

the alteration of the words of Consecration, etc. have all been externally manifested in the Novus

Ordo. As the Ottaviani Intervention explicitly states, "it is obvious that the New Mass has no intention


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of presenting the Faith taught by the Council of Trent... [It] teems with insinuations or manifest errors

against the integrity of the Catholic Faith."

Furthermore, the Novus Ordo was concocted by the Church's avowed enemy, a Freemason, in

cooperation with six formal heretics who deny transubstantiation. ("Can any person of sound mind

conceivably suppose," asks Omlor, "that Annibale Bugnini, that most talented operative of

Freemasonry, which is the 'mystical body of Satan,' would be taking pained to preserve the validity of

the Catholic mass and would be making sure that the Mystical Body of Christ was being properly

signified in the words of the Consecration form?") There is, in other words, clear defect of intention on

the part of the New Mass.

No doubtful sacraments. Omlor notes that "a sacramental form that is ambiguous is ipso facto

invalid," citing the Catechism of the Council of Trent (McCarthy's Case, p. 25). Coomaraswamy

further explains that receipt of a questionable sacrament is sacrilege an act directed against God.

Fr. Henry Davis, S.J., writes that "in conferring the sacraments, as also in the consecration of the

mass, it is never allowed to adopt a probable course of action as to validity and to abandon the safer

course. The contrary was explicitly condemned by Pope Innocent III... to do so would be a grievous

sin against religion, namely an act of irreverence toward what Christ Our Lord has instituted. It would

be a grievous sin against charity, as the recipient would probably be deprived of the graces and

effects of the Sacrament. It would be a grievous sin against justice, as the recipient has a right to

valid sacraments.

"Matter and form must be certainly valid. Hence one may not follow a probable opinion and use either

doubtful matter or form. Acting otherwise, one commits sacrilege" (Moral and Pastoral Theology, p.27, cited by Coomaraswamy, p. 63).

The Novus Ordo is a Sacrilege

"Whether the New Mass is valid or invalid, it is an atrocity, an unspeakable attack on the True Mass,"

writes Fr. Wathen, who has contended steadfastly that the Novus Ordo is sacrilegious. "The New

Mass itself is an abuse of the Catholic Mass, which was given a definite and immutable form by Pope

St. Pius V, exactly so that abuses could be avoided, discerned and condemned" (Ascend, p. 513). Fr.

Wathen's book, The Great Sacrilege was published in 1971: long before many of the evil effects of

the New mass were obvious, Fr. Wathen maintained that the Novus Ordo's irreverent mimicries" were

to be avoided, that the sanctuaries in which it was enacted were to be regarded as desecrated,

"impious and sordid actions" having been committed there (Canon 1172, Par. 1.3, cited by Fr.

Wathen). The Great Sacrilege remains essential readinf for those who would understand the scope of

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The Novus Ordo is Spiritual Subversion

Protestant ethos. The incorporation of heretical Protestant constructs and prayers in the New Mass,

with the assistance of Protestant advisors, has been documented. The designers of the Novus Ordo

invited into the consulting process those whose specific errors separated them from the Church; the

resulting rite cannot but subvert the faith of Catholic who was, heretofore, isolated from Protestant

error.

Jewish Intent. "Keep in mind," Omlor writes, "that all insertions or deletions in the Novus Ordo are

the result of Jewry's insistence for a complete overhauling of the Catholic mind. A reshaping of the

Catholic thinking and attitude toward Jewry and thus toward God and the Truths He gave us is their

goal. What better way to change Catholic thinking than to change the Mass Book, and Ritual, the

heart of Catholic belief and worship? For, as you pray, so you think .... as you think, so you prayer...

the one reflects the other. The unorthodox thinking and attitude exhibited by V-2 Catholics today

stems mainly from the new attitude and thinking they have acquired due to the profane changes

effected by the Novus Ordo. The constant repitition of arrogant 'prayers' of nonbelievers... amounts to

the programmed reconditioning of the mind... concerning Apostolic doctrine and beliefs." (The Holy

Sacrifice of the Mass and the Knox Query, p. 19).

The re is considerable support for Omlor's change. Within the New Mass itself we find the

substitution of a Jewish table grace for the traditional Suscipe, Sancte Paterin the Offertory. The

Canon has been replaced by Eucharistic Prayers admittedly patterned on the Jewish berakah, or

kiddush prayers. Prayers for the conversion of the jews and heretics have been deleted, and the "two

covenant" theory repeatedly condemned by the Church finds expression in the prayers of Holy Week(Catholics now ask that the Jews may remain faithful to theircovenant, as though ti coexists with the

New Covenant of Jesus Christ). The Talmudic glorification of man pervades the New Rite, enshrining

the very naturalism Popes have repeatedly condemned. Catholics are now instructed that Mass on

the Jewish Sabbath fulfills their Sunday obligation.

Furthermore, the stated intention of assorted Jewish pressure groups to effect changes in Catholic

thinking during the Second Vatican Council must be taken into account. A detailed examination of the

subject is undertaken by Vicomte Leo de Leo de Poncins, in his 1967 book Judaism and the Vatican.

De Poncins includes in his book a lengthy quotation rom the January 25, 1966 Look Magazine article,

"How the Jews changed Catholic Thinking," written by that publication's senior editor, Joseph Roddy.

The article gave many details of secret negotiations between Cardinal Bea and the leaders of the

[Masonic] B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Committee. Bea met with what the Lookarticle

termed a "latter day Sanhedrin" to "take questions the Jews wanted to hear answered;" Rabbi

Abraham Heschel met with Pope Paul, whom he urged to purge Catholic doctrine and liturgy of all

vestiges of anti-Semitism. A glance at the Novus Ordo indicates that the Jewish reform program is


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well underway.

Humanistic subversion. "The New Mass is the liturgy of the Conciliar anti-religion," says Fr. Wathen

(Ascend, p. 545). "It is the embodiment and expression of the counter-theology of the Second Vatican

Council," the Council which agreed that "all things on earth should be ordered to man, as to their

summit and crown." In the writings of the Council narcissism and the toxic glorification of modern

culture triumph. The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern Worlddeclared that human

life, including the life of the Church, was no longer ordered to God. Instead, "Christians cannot yearn

for anything more ardently than to serve the men of the modern world" (#93). The Church, rather than

proclaiming the debt to God, "proclaims the rights of man" (#41). Far from being entrusted with all

truth, as previously held, the Church is now merely "joined with the rest of men in the search for truth"

(#16). To these conceptual falsehoods of the New Mass gives liturgical expression. Fr. Wathen

maintains that "every new mass offered, no matter how it is offered or by whom, or in what language,

is a statement of belief in and acceptance of [this] Conciliar Humanism. It is the worship of the

modern Baal 'Modern Man'" (Ascend, p. 545).

The Novus Ordo is an instrument of the World Revolution

"The place the New mass has in the grand design of World Revolution is a poorly kept secret,"

maintains Fr. Wathen, adding that its purpose is to mold Catholics "into servile citizens of the Global

Commonwealth, which is being consolidated with every day that passes. The proper religious

mentality for the New World Order is to worship God in the person of the People of God, which, of

course, is nothing but the World State itself. Its chief doctrines will be those of Freemasonry, the

Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of Man, democracy and socialism" (Ascend, p. 526). Throughthe New Mass and Conciliar teaching, he maintains that Catholics are being programmed to accept

complete amalgamation into the One World Religion. "The New Mass is the rite of worship of the

Global Chruch. It is bland and nebulous and plastic enough to serve for any religious creed and any

ritual adaptation, as we all well know" (Ascend, p. 528).

"The purpose they had in mind for the New Liturgy the word 'Mass' has all but disappeared

was, as they have said so often, mainly educational. To put it simply, their purpose is largely fulfilled.

The people, for the most part, are religious zombies. And they are completely manageable, as, from

their point of view, it has daily grown more easy to get to Heaven. By now it would see m there is no

way to go to Hell, for it no longer exists" (ibid).

The Novus Ordo's Acceptance is a victory for Satan.

According to St. Alphonsus Liguori, "the devil has always attempted, by means of heretics, to deprive


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the world of the Mass, making them precursors of the anti-Christ, who, before anything else, will try to

abolish and will actually abolish the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar, as a punishment for the sins of men,

according to the prediction of Daniel, 'And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice'

(Dan. 8:12)" (The Dignity and Duties of the Priest, cited by Coomaraswamy, p. 13). The acceptance

of a probably invalid, undoubtedly sacrilegious Novus Ordo in lieu of the true Mass clearly advances

Satan's plan. That the New Order of Mass should have been constructed with the official assistance

of the heretics to whom St. Alphonsus refers demonstrates a Satanic 'game plan' unaltered across

time.

Fr. Lawrence Brey wrote that the Holy Mass "may well be the final test of orthodoxy... which will

differentiate the true Remnant Church and its faithful from the growing body of apostates who have

affiliated themselves with the new religion of the Beast" (cited in The Great Sacrilege, p. 153).

For Further Investigation:

Fr. Wathen's The Great Sacrilege ($10), The Ottaviani Intervention ($7), Fr. Cekada's The Problems

with the Prayers of the Modern Mass ($4), and Dr. Coomaraswamy's The Problems with the New

Mass ($7) are all published by Tan, and available from Catholic Treasures, P.O. Box 5034, Monrovia,

CA 91017, (626) 359-4983.

Who Shall Ascendis available from St. John the Baptism Priory, 3014 S. Third Street, Louisville,

Kentucky 40208. Its 689 pages cover the Conciliar Church, the Second Vatican Council, Sacraments,and the world revolution.

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