Annibale Bugnini.
Posted on 02/11/2004 12:38:45 PM PST by AAABEST
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ.
Annibale Bugnini.
Up until the turbulent 1960s, Catholic Liturgy and the mass we celebrated had been the result of centuries of divine inspiration, historic experience, wisdom, refinement, debate and the school of hard knocks. Those who developed our worship service, canon law and collective ethos throughout these centuries (politely putting aside Jesus Himself for a moment) were church elders, wise-men and saints who had managed to build the greatest and most influential religion mankind had ever known. The old-rite mass had inspired artists, clergy and laymen as well as parishioners – who before Vatican II were hanging from the rafters and literally standing in the parking lots.
This was undone in just a few short years by a handful of new thinking and pastoral men, one of very dubious distinction whom shall be the subject of this article. The guiding light and "main man" of the liturgical commission (which included six Protestant advisor/experts) responsible for this history altering sea change was a fellow by the name of Annibale Bugnini.
Life of Liturgy
As a career liturgist, very little of Mr. Bugnini’s service to our Lord was spent "flock tending", ministering, fishing for souls or helping the poor.
Born in Italy in 1912 he became an ordained priest in 1936 at the age of 24. After only 10 years of parish duties, he began liturgical studies and shortly thereafter was appointed by Pope Pius XII to be secretary of his Commission for Liturgical Reform in 1948. He became Consultor to the Sacred Congregation of Rites and Professor of Sacred Liturgy in the Lateran University in 1956 and 1957 respectively.
His real influence began in 1960 when he was appointed Secretary to the Preparatory Commission for the Liturgy. In 1962 using his influence, he was able to bring to fruition what was known as "The Bugnini Schema" (or "bug-scheme" for short). The Bugnini Schema was the liturgical draft document that wound up being nearly identical to what was adopted by the Liturgy Constitution. Vatican II was now well under way.
Canned
Then just a few short months after this apparent victory, Bugnini was mysteriously and promptly removed from both his position as secretary of the commission and from his chair at the Lateran University. This unprecedented move could not have happened without the full consent of Pope John XXIII, or without the (to this day unknown) offense being egregious. No explanation was ever disclosed as to reason for Bugnini’s sudden removal.
Say what?
In 1964, a commission called "The Consilium" was established to implement the first document on the Sacred Liturgy (passed in 1963 by the Council Fathers). Unexplainably, Pope Paul VI appointed Bugnini to the position of secretary of the Consilium, ignoring his predecessor who had removed him from the same position on the preparatory commission. Incredibly, Bugnini would now be in charge of interpreting the very same Liturgy constitution of which he was instrumental in creating.
In 1969 Paul VI ended the separate nature of the Consilium by dissolving it and making it part of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship (which just 6 years later he would suppress), appointing none other than the fallen Bugnini as secretary. Now he was in the most powerful position possible to ensure implementation of his brainchild. He was later consecrated as an Archbishop in 1972.
Canned again
In what Bugnini describes in his book as an "earth shaking" move, he was once again summarily dismissed – this time by Pope Paul VI - from his any and all duties of influence. The Congregation of Divine Worship was suppressed and Bugnini was "exiled" to Iran. This sensational move immediately and permanently ended Mr. Bugnini’s career as a reformer. Once again under mysterious and unexplained circumstances Bugnini, the main architect of V-2 is harshly rebuked and essentially fired from all of his important duties.
Further facts regarding Mr. Bugnini
In March of 1965 in a periodical known called L'Osservatore Romano, he was quoted as saying: "We must strip from our Catholic prayers and from the Catholic liturgy everything which can be the shadow of a stumbling block for our separated brethren that is for the Protestants."
In 1974 preceding his second downfall, Bugnini proudly proclaimed Vatican II to be a "major conquest of the Catholic Church".
I've purposely going into any depth of Bugnini being a Free Mason, because I don't feel such necessary to shed light on his questionable and still murky past. I will state however that such charges are not without credibility and by no means "tinfoil" type summations based on less than credible evidence from shaky sources. Just do a google with "Bugnini" and "freemason" as keywords. To this day the Vatican will not deny such an affiliation. I'll let each decide for himself as to the validity of the arguments. Although I have my own personal hunches regarding Bugnini and the Masonic cult, I choose "disclosure yet neutrality" as my public position.
Disclaimer
Most loyal Catholics have no idea under what circumstances the revolutionary Vatican II or the modern "Novus Ordo" (translated: "New Order") mass has come about. This article is written with the good intention of shedding some light on a subject that most pay little attention to.
Although not known in many circles, the work of Bugnini and his comrades has drastically affected how we as Catholics worship, lead our lives and interact with the world around us. For a "well duh" rundown of the results of Vatican II, the reader is welcome to refer to a previous article on the subject currently located at http://www.angelqueen.org/articles/04-02_v2.shtml.
Those who may have been under the impression that our current method of adoration in general, or Vatican II in particular has been brought about as the result of divine providence or great prudence by men of impeccable character may be disturbed by much of the information provided in this article. They well should be.
All of the data collected is freely and easily available. The author makes no claim of performing any great in depth research (although every effort was made to hard source and double check) or uncovering any previously deeply held secrets.
As always if any of this is in err, please contact me and I will gladly and publicly retract any mistakes or faulty information.
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Well, as a Protestant let me apologize in advance of the thread for Fr. Bugnini's errors.
Born Catholics generally don't make very good Protestants, and I suppose Bugnini is no exception.
Protestant worship is non-liturgical, often and increasingly jarringly so. The pseudo-Protestantization of the Catholic liturgy since I was a boy is imitation Protestantism, what I often refer to as "Protestantism without the good parts".
Best of luck to all my traditionalist friends on this board.
And by a gaggle of protestant preachers who wanted to turn the Roman Catholic Church into a cheap imitation.
They tackled the liturgy....get the Holy Ghost out of there and insert Holy Spirit, because it sounds more friendly.
At "consecretion" let's substitute "for all" instead of "for many" because, after all, God would leave no unrepentant sinner behind, even an unrepentent Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Get the priest facing the "congregation" and for the sake of ecumenism the "mass" should be in the venacular.
No more ancient Latin hymns, but hymnals full of John Wesley-type tunes.
You're correct. Our dour pseudo-protestant services aren't nearly as much fun as your lively real ones!
If not, let's keep the sacred flame burning as it had since the beginning.
You should be so lucky.
I go to a Catholic church every week, and if I could bring a Wesleyan hymnal along it would be 5000% better.
God Bless.
When God finally got tired of the nonsense...
That hostile opponents of the Church seem to find great delight in the murky liberalism of "the spirit of Vatican II" even making it clear (in the attacks on Mel Gibson) that they personally prefer Vatican II Catholicism Light to the real McCoy certainly adds to the mystery, intrigue, and suspicions...
For one, even without such implications this is one scary individual. Also whenever any author brings the charge up (even though some of the evidence available is quite convicting) that gives his liberal supporters ammo with which to try to discredit whatever is written because you don't have the video tape.
In any case for Rome to take the severe public actions it did (twice) against someone so high a profile is quite extraordinary. Whatever he did (twice) must have been quite egregious.
Pray for his soul and pray for our blessed church.
Well thank you sir! What a nice thing to say!
However, if one considers the Bugnini episode in the larger context of such controversies, such as the ones alluded to in the suspicious death of Pope John Paul I, the Vatican Bank scandals, and the sordid mess of the homosexualization of the Church, and the sodomy cult behind it, well, well... Curioser and Curioser.
Stating emphatically that our church has been infiltrated by the enemy and his soul-rotted minions is not overstating anything. Even on a EWTN (which is supposed to be presenting our image to the world) half the priests are effeminate lispers. We're supposed to pretend that we don't notice.
The American Council of Catholic Bishops is basically a socialist/leftist shill organization.
We're not going to "nice-Catholic" our way out of these deep-rooted problems. It's going to take a medieval purging, lots of time and most importantly prayer to fix it.
God is on our side and The Son told us the gates of hell wouldn't reach us. How that eventually pans out is yet to be seen.
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