THE JESUITS SAY BAN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE LATIN MASS

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Fr Thomas Reese SJ with Obama and Biden - birds of a feather flocking together

"Don't let children go to the Latin Mass."

So saith the Society of Jesus (or Judas, maybe).  Jesuit big-shot Fr Thomas Reese S J has declared that the Mass celebrated by the Church for centuries should "disappear". 

"Out of pastoral kindness, older people who do not understand the need for change" should be allowed to attend (anyone feel patronised here?) but "children and young people should not be allowed to attend such Masses".

Fr Reese, whose predilection for swanky settings and unsavory friends is evident in the pic (above), was not happy with Pope Benedict XVI's promotion of the TLM in his 2007 Summorum Pontificum.  Fr Reese - surprise, surprise - just loves the "revolutionary liturgical reforms" of Vatican II.  

He and his Jesuits including we dare say, Jorge Bergoglio, want more of the same: "a second phase" of the revolution, in fact. And the children and young people increasingly flocking to the traditional Latin Mass are thwarting their plans for their "new theology".  At the TLM, as Taylor Marshall points out, these children and young people are being inoculated against heresy. So "such Masses" must be banned, say the Jesuits.

Fr Reese admits, then, that Vatican II was a revolution - that it constituted a "hermeneutic of discontinuity" in the history of the Church. Archbishop Marcel Lefebrve, champion of the Latin Mass, said it and now the Jesuits agree.The poor old Jesuits thought that after Vat II and its Novus Ordo concoction, the Latin Mass would die out. it just shows you that brains, for which the Jesuits are famous, are not enough. They were wrong. 

So terribly wrong, that since 1965 the Jesuits, arguably the most 'revolutionary' order in the Church, have seen their numbers more than halved. And yet Fr Reese obstinately demands wants more of the very reforms which have brought about this sorry state of affairs in his own back yard. The question is, why?

He wants to abolish the Mass celebrated by orders like the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) and the Institute of Crhist the King Sovereign Priest (ICKSP) whose seminaries are full and congregations exploding, and instead accelerate the abuses of the Novus Ordo celebrated by the Jesuits, by calling for celebration of certain sacraments (anointing of the sick and - staggeringly - confession) by laity. 

To whom, Fr Reese, did Jesus Christ give the power to forgive sins? Not to the feminist 'Eucharistic Ministers'  who would be the first to put their hands up for hearing confessions. No, He gave that power to His disciples. To priests. Male priests. Celibate priests.

Fr Reese is, not to put too fine a point on it, shooting himself in the foot. Again, the question is why??? Surely the Jesuits could not be envious of the new traditional orders, or threatened by them? Surely not? 

He wants bishops' conferences to summon scholars, poets, musicians, artists and pastors to 'develop' liturgies that are more in touch 'with local culture'. O me miserum. One senses more hui and karakia on the way for the Church in New Zealand. Oh, I beg your pardon, the Church in Aotearoa.  

Putting community before God - the Novus Ordo

He wants "more and better Eucharistic prayers based on our renewed understanding of the Eucharist". Who, we ask, would share Fr Reese's 'renewed understanding' that "the transformation of the community into the body of Christ" is more important than the Consecration, by which bread and wine are transformed into God's own Body and Blood? 

Quite likely New Zealand's bishops would go for it. They're slow learners.

They're all for replacing God Almighty with the god of 'community', exalted by Vat II and the Novus Ordo to the point that NZ's 'community' continues to dwindle, just as the Jesuits dwindle. In my own parish, the 150th jubilee of St Patrick's Waipawa, its memorabilia and memories of Catholic churches built in Central Hawke's Bay and now closed - the realisation of what we've lost of the faith which built those churches and produced its beautiful artefacts - is enough to make one weep.

As for more Eucharistic prayers focusing, as Fr Reese requires, on the “church’s concern for the poor, or for justice, peace, healing and the environment”, spare us, O Lord. Are we not already spiritually impoverished by the never-ending, so-woke Prayers of the Faithful all addressed to our material needs, entirely overlooking the spiritual works of mercy except for prayers for the dead (it's nice to think of Grandma), that we need more of the same in the Eucharistic Prayers?

"After the Pauline reforms of the liturgy', Fr Reese writes, "it was presumed that the “Tridentine” or Latin Mass would fade away." (Get what Dr Taylor Marshall calls the 'scare quotes' around the word Tridentine?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbsRY0uMfhE

Whose side is God on, then? In spite of the best efforts of modernist bishops like New Zealand's +Peter Cullinane - who banished the Latin Mass to St Columba's in Ashhurst, inaccessible to the only priest then capable of celebrating it but without reckoning on the determination of faithful Catholics to overcome that hindrance - the Mass of Ages survives and attracts more young people than ever. 

 +Peter Cullinane beside Anglican Bishop Tom Brown (who's wearing a 'roman' collar) 

Bishop Cullinane reveals himself as aligned with Jesuitical modernist heresy by a statement he once made while preparing to celebrate the Latin Mass: "I don't believe in what I am doing",  he said. That would seem to demonstrate not only an antipathy for the TLM, but also calls into question his intention to confect the Eucharist, without which the Mass is rendered invalid.

“The one who confers a sacrament must truly intend to confer it. He must employ the determinate matter or sign. He must mean the words [the form] which make the sign sacramentally significant. If the intention of the minister [that is, the person who administers the sacrament] is amiss, the sacrament is not validly conferred” (Monsignor Paul Glenn, commenting on the Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas).

"Bishops were given the authority to suppress it in their dioceses, but some people clung to the old liturgy to the point of schism." Father is sounding petulant here. And wrong - again. Pope Benedict XVI denied this; the Latin Mass, he said,  was never abrogated. So bishops never had the authority to suppress it. 

"Benedict took away the bishops’ authority" - which they never had - "and mandated that any priest could celebrate the Tridentine Mass whenever he pleased." So is it surprising that Pope Benedict XVI eventually bowed under the weight of age and opposition, and resigned the papacy?

"It is time to return to bishops the authority" (which they never had) "over the Tridentine liturgy in their dioceses." In other words, get rid of it. 

"The church needs to be clear that it wants the unreformed liturgy to disappear." But dear Fr Reese, you are not 'the church'. Not even the Jesuit order is 'the church'.

More power to the bishops, is Father Reese's cry, "in keeping with the principle of collegiality promoted by Vatican II and the principle of synodality promoted by Pope Francis." 

Yes, every word of Fr Reese's column betrays his alliance with fellow liberal and Jesuit Jorge Bergoglio - who last month appointed Juan Cruz, a self-confessed sodomite who was sexually abused, to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

Cruz at the red-carpet opening of 'Francesco' (all about Bergoglio)

Yes we know sodomites are not all paedophiles, but how can a pontiff appoint a public sinner to a pontifical commission? Isn't that ever-so-slightly scandalous? Especially a sinner against chastity, when sodomitical, clerical sins have, since Vatican II, so besmirched the image of the Spouse of Christ, the Church?

Fr Reese wants "to move our liturgical (Christian churches) closer together". Apparently even after all the time and money wasted on falsely 'ecumenical' outings, the Catholic Church is  still not Protestant enough to suit Fr Reese's book. Fr Reese can't see why a couple (a Catholic and a Lutheran say, or maybe a Catholic and an atheist) who are united in the sacrament of matrimony shouldn't be united at the Eucharist. 

"Pastorally, the practice of barring the non-Catholic parent from Communion gives the children the impression that the church thinks their parent is a bad person." 

'Pastorally,' Father, the practice of good homilies on the necessity for faith in the Eucharist would avoid or correct such an impression - and not just in children, but in the poorly-catechised adults in the 'community', as well.

For Fr Reese the Eucharist is - you guessed it - "a sacrificial meal". Just as it is for Protestants. Father, why don't you just go away, and have a nice time with the Anglicans and be done with it?

But you ain't heard nothing yet. 

Father Reese suggests that bishops could send the Particle of the sacred Host which is dropped into the chalice at the Chrism Mass in Holy Week to priests in their diocese to drop in their own chalices on Holy Thursday or Easter Sunday. 

Not only that but - wait for it - "the pope might share the fermentum" (as the Particle is called) "with the Ecumenical Patriarch or other Christian bishops. Popes have already shared episcopal rings and croziers with non-Catholic bishops; sharing the fermentum would be a logical next step."

Behold the frightening loss of faith in this man. The Body and Blood of the Son of God is no more significant to him than a piece of metal or timber. And what travelling arrangements does he envisage for the Body and Blood of Christ? A plastic zip-lock sandwich bag?

"I doubt I will see many of these reforms in my lifetime," concludes Fr Reese, "but we need to begin ... the conversation (which) will reveal what we think about Christ, the church and our place in the world."

Dear Father Reese, you're 76 years old. Your days on earth are nearly over, just as the Novus Ordo's day is nearly over. Your days are now short, and your conversation already reveals what you think about Christ and his Spouse, the Church. It's time for you to stop thinking and start praying. Seriously.

"Immaculate Heart of Mary, please pray for Fr  Reese, the Society of Jesus and the Church, now and at the hour of our death."