Posted on 06/06/2016 8:31:02 AM PDT by ebb tide
Radicati Editorial: "Thank God We Did Not Obey Those Forcing the New Mass Upon Us"
The New Mass, Source of Pious Naturalism
Editorial: Radicati nella fede, June 2016
Newsletter of the Catholic community of
Vocogno, Diocese of Novara, Italy
Thank God we did not obey.
We are going to shock you, but some provocations are beneficial and useful.
Thank God we did not obey those, who, in order to keep us within “ordinary pastoral care” (while allowing us reluctantly an occasional Traditional Mass) asked us not to be closed to the Council’s New Mass. Thank God we did not obey: we did not cave in to the “political” concern of altering the custody of the faith which is what everyone is doing now out of “a greater obedience.”
We have just celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi: what meaning would there be in solemnly adoring the Eucharistic Presence of the Lord and not, at the same time, defend the pure Rite of Mass?
We say this for many devout priests and lay faithful, sincerely concerned about the respect due to the Body of the Lord, but not so concerned about the poisoning inside the body of the Church produced by the New Mass.
It’s as if the New Mass has put the Christian populace to sleep within a kind of pious Naturalism. In the Church, Naturalism is the constant forgetting of the supernatural life. Naturalism is the concern for the prevalently human aspects of Christianity, interpreted and judged according to the categories of our times, according to the cultural modes of the moment. Those in the Church who tend towards Naturalism don’t deny Jesus Christ, but neither do they consider His direct power over the entire reality [of things]: it’s as if nothing depends on Him.
How can this be deduced? By the fact that when considering the state of the world, they don’t turn to God for a solution to its evils. They don’t turn to God, but follow the vain talk of the world filled with empty rhetoric.
Let’s give an example: at Fatima Our Lady asked the three little shepherds to pray and offer sacrifices for the end of the war, in this way indicating that the state of the world and nations depends on our obedience to God. Can you imagine a Papal or Episcopal document today being so explicit?: indicating that the return to God, to Jesus Christ, is the solution to all the grave economic, political, moral and spiritual problems in the world? Even priests who privately think that the root of all evils in the world is indeed the sin of men, would be careful about saying this in public, seeing the tremendously naturalistic climate reigning in the Church today: yet the Fatima message is a perfectly faithful echo of all Sacred Scripture.
There are many causes for this disastrous situation but the main one is the reform of the Rite of Holy Mass.
The New Mass - intentionally modern in respect to Tradition – in order to be modern - bent to Naturalism, inaugurating pious Naturalism. To favour this, the image of the Last Supper was given to the Catholic Mass: Jesus in the centre, represented by the priest, and then the assembly, the community of disciples, who listen to Him and are fed by Him. In the Novus Ordo even the most solemnly celebrated Mass gives this image. In the best of cases, it’s the Mass that stops at “Jesus present in the midst of us” . This is why since the Council, the Church has no longer put God at the centre, but man. To man everything is being sacrificed, even the truth of Revelation. To man and his rights everything is being sacrificed, including God.
The New Mass stops at Jesus and this is the problem; it stops at Jesus present among us, but it never touches on the second movement, God’s action in us, which is what counts the most, it being our ascension to God. There is no ascending movement in the Modern Mass. It is in fact, the terrible victory of Protestantism, first impeded by the Council of Trent but which is now practically complete.
The Sacrament isn’t denied, but is horribly distorted: it is no longer intended as Christ’s transforming action in us, but as His consoling presence. The aim of Christ’s action in us, which is to be transformed in Him, has been forgotten. Our transformation in Him is absolutely necessary though, since God the Father is glorified by His Word made man, Jesus Christ, and is not pleased with us if He doesn’t see His Word formed [in us]. “We have become not only Christians, but Christ” says St. Augustine: how many today are near this truth? how many sense the greatness of the work of grace in us? How many understand that this is the work?
Today the Sacrament is reduced to consoling us, the Mass is reduced to Jesus sharing everything with us, and, the demonic temptation is to transform Him into us. For this reason, it is incomprehensible, even to many priests in the Church, that some conditions for receiving the Sacraments exist, all of which are united to the intent of truly wishing to die to self so that Christ is affirmed in us. Today, thanks to the New Mass, everyone believes they have a right to the Sacraments, to be served by Christ, with no intent of serving Him.
The New Mass has favoured Naturalism, even if it’s pious; Christ is affirmed in word, but in action it’s as if He didn’t exist. And this is precisely heretical Protestantism, which doesn’t give credence to the transforming action of grace on our nature.
It is not enough then to celebrate the New Mass with devotion since it’s conceived as the Last Supper and not [the Sacrifice of] Calvary.
Calvary tells you that God sacrificed His only Son so that you might be pulled out of a world of sin, and, transformed in Him by the Grace descending from the Cross, therefore being saved, God willing.
The Last Supper without Calvary tells you that God comes into our midst; consequently you are important, your life and the life of the world is essential, nature is everything, seeing that God has come with His presence to serve it; this is how Naturalism is served, even if in a pious côté.
It truly is the victory of the “purged” Sacrament, initiated by Luther and his companions.
Moreover, the most dangerous among us are the devout Conservatives who think that with a “little touch-up” along traditional lines, this poisoning can be cured. [However]only the Mass of Tradition and not some surrogate saves the integrity of God’s action and makes us aware of it.
It is the duty of the priests and the lay faithful to protect without further delay God’s most precious gift, since time is running out.
Yes.
My post wasn't speaking to that specific a point though but more to the implication of the article you posted, that the broad application of the TLM would somehow solve all our modernist woes. It won't by itself. That's what the article seems to imply to me at least.
My post was like saying, considering the person that doesn't appreciate beauty in art, (or in other words someone analogous to someone without a receptive heart, although of course an appreciation for art isn't the same as a heart open to Christ but still the analogy holds) you can sit them down in front of the great works in the Vatican, and then in front of a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon and they won't see the difference, both will be the same to such a person.
Yes and it is the ekklesia....not the roman Catholic Church which continually sacrifices Christ again and again and teaches one is drinking blood during the mass nor is it the one with idols of “Mary” they kneel before and pray to.
So which protestant religion is the truth? Y’all have quite differing beliefs amongst yourselves; and it seems the only thing you guys have in common is that y’all hate the Catholic Church.
Should a catholic follow Vatican I or Vatican II?
Traditional catholic?
Sedevacantists?
Should a catholic even follow the current pope?
Seems the only thing you guys have in common is you worship Mary.
Let’s get down to details. What is your religion and why have you picked that one?
I’m a Christian.....a follower of Christ. He offers through the cross the forgiveness of my sins through faith in Him.
Chicken. Why won’t you reveal your “religion” and what “church” you attend?
Let’s get down to details. What is your religion and why have you picked that one?
Which I answered and now you resort to name calling??
Chicken. Why won’t you reveal your “religion” and what “church” you attend?
Again....I'm a Christian.
I know catholics identify more with an organization rather than the Savior so this may be difficult for some to understand.
I am a Roman Catholic. Anybody who claims to be a “christian” but is not Catholic is simply a heretic.
Do you go to a “church” on Sundays? If so, what is the denomination of said “church”.
And there in is the difference. You identify with an organization.
I identify with the Savior.
I've already identified as a Christian. I do attend church on Sunday. That's as much info as you're going to get on this one.
I don't ask which catholic church you go to....and don't tell me they're all the same unless the priest gets his message/homily straight from the Vatican every Sunday or that every Bible study group is getting their lesson from the Vatican.
I. am. a. Christian.
Why is that? Do you fear your fellow prot's on this forum will critique your particular flavor?
Sorry to disappoint you, but anybody who claims to be “christian” yet rejects Christ’s One, Holy, Catholic and apostolic Church is not a christian. I don’t care if you’re a protestant, a holy roller or a mormon.
Jesus did not say, come, be a member of a church....He said,
24“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. John 5:24
If one has done that you are a member of the ekklesia...the body of believers....the church.
Prot...what's that?
Catholics are the only ones on this board that seem to be interested in denominations.
I believe you already know what that is; because you have already denied being one of them.
You're not a prot, nor a Catholic, yet you continuously attack the Catholic Church from your little secret sect.
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