THE N O EFFECT: HOMOSEXUALISING BISHOPS, PUTTING OUR LORD NOWHERE

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Pipi in Havelock North, dahling

"So why did they ever change the Mass?" 

The question was put to me in an unlikely setting: the ridiculously popular "Pipi" restaurant in Havelock North is frequented by the HB chattering classes, and my friend - who once was employed by Woodford House - didn't want to run into any of them. But our shouted conversation was so absorbing she wouldn't have noticed (and I'd seated her with the beautiful people behind her).

Without the racket and the crowd it doesn't really look like Pipi 

"They changed the Mass from Latin to the Novus Ordo to protestantize it," I said. "And they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams."

We'd just attended the Traditional Latin Mass which is celebrated every third Sunday in Napier by the SSPX,  at a funeral parlour because Palmerston North's Bishop Peter Cullinane wouldn't let the SSPX say Mass in a church. 

Fr Francois Laisney, who'd come specially from Whanganui for Easter Sunday, had asked the habitués at the previous Mass to "bring a friend". One of the effects of the N O being that there's simply no one in my parish who'd accept such an invitation, I'd asked a Protestant friend  - who laughs when I refer to her as a "Proddy" - instead. 

The effects of the Novus Ordo are, of course, multitudinous. But bearing witness to my statement at Pipi is my parish priest's reiteration at a Baptism yesterday morning - and for once, not a Philippino Baptism - of his firm Protestant belief that we're all going to heaven, expressed on this occasion by stating that "we're all temples of God".

No! The Catholic Church teaches that persons in a state of mortal sin are not temples of God. The only notice of the Sacrament of Reconciliation during Lent, at least at St Joseph's Waipukurau if not St Patrick's Waipawa, was Father's throwaway remark on Palm Sunday that he'd be "in the church this afternoon at 4 o'clock for anyone who wants Reconciliation". So as one of the few parishioners likely to attend "forgot all about it", it's reasonable to assume that not everyone in St Joseph's Easter Sunday congregation was a temple of God. God is in such individuals in essence - otherwise they'd cease to exist - but not as Friend.

But Confession is so, well, Catholic. That's why it's gone out of fashion. It's the N O effect.  

More Easter Sunday observations come from a reader of this blog from another diocese :

 "As everyone filed up to receive Holy Communion, it was impossible for me to avoid admitting that their lives are not distinctly different from that of their heathen neighbours, and that very few of them would have recently been to Confession. Even those who do desire to avail themselves of the Sacrament of Reconciliation are often not able to do so because of the lack of opportunities provided these days. 

Probably few would have committed mortal sins. But those few need to be reminded of the warning of St Paul (Cor 1,11:27): “He who eats or drinks the body and blood of the Lord unworthily eats and drinks death to himself”. 

Today everyone receives Holy Communion, but no one goes to Confession. 

Well you see, you can receive Holy Communion in an Anglican Church. But Anglicans don't go to Confession. So the Novus Ordo was designed, partly, to get rid of Confession. That's the N O effect.  

I can’t help but think that Confession has been replaced by a secular sacrament – virtue signalling – whereby the self-righteous have replaced the humble and humbling private confession of one’s own sins with the loud, public condemnation and denunciation of the “sins” (i.e., political incorrectness) of others. 

And a most regrettable affirmation of that was the statement by New Zealand’s bishops condemning a tweet by high-profile Australian sportsman Israel Folau. Folau performed a Spiritual Work of Mercy as defined by the Catholic Church when he admonished sinners and exhorted them to repent, and turn away from their sins of fornication, theft, dishonesty, drunkenness, sodomy, adultery, atheism, idolatry. 

Not only was Israel well outside the geographical zone of the New Zealand Bishops’ authority, but their statement specifically denounced his warning to sodomites, ignoring all the other sinners Folau named, making their statement extraordinarily revealing, especially given the scandalous homosexual behaviour amongst Catholic prelates. Public statements from NZ's bishops are rare, and there could be no more implicit admission that they are, pretty much to a man, homosexuals who are determined to protect the practice of sodomy within their ranks. 

Here it should be pointed out that this reader is privy to inside knowledge, via a friend of his, a well-known self-admitted sodomite, who reckons he knows one when he sees one (or several).

We’ve never had a statement from the bishops exhorting their flock(s) to regularly avail themselves of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. And we’re not likely to get one from this bunch of pretenders, Clayton’s bishops as previously described. Nor have we noticed any efforts to expand opportunities for Catholics to make their Confessions. 

No, self-righteous virtue-signalling is what they’d recommend to us.

So, returning to Palmerston North Diocese where there was the curious incident ot the removal of the Blessed Sacrament from the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit on Holy Thursday (during the day) until Easter Sunday. A reader of this blog (they're everywhere, man!) reports that on going to visit the Blessed Sacrament on Holy Thursday and seeing no light beside the tabernacle, she spoke to cathedral catechist Kate Bell.

"They have taken my Lord away," she said. "Where have they put Him?" 

"Nowhere," Bell replied. 

My version of the reader's question is poetic licence, recalling the words of St Mary Magdalene on Easter Sunday morning. Actually she'd said, "Where's the Blessed Sacrament?" But there's no poetic licence about Bell's rejoinder. That's exactly what the cathedral catechist said: "Nowhere". 

Our reader wouldn't presume to be a "catechist", but she does point out that the cathedral, lacking the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament from Holy Thursday until Easter Sunday, resembled an empty tomb - before Christ had risen!  Bell's explanation was that the Blessed Sacrament had been removed to Our Lady of Lourdes because there was to be no Mass of the Lord's Supper at the cathedral. 

And what's that got to do with the price of fish? we may ask. Would normal practice not be for the Blessed Sacrament to be placed with due reverence in the tabernacle in the sacristy? As for Bell's reply of "Nowhere" to the question, "Where's the Blessed Sacrament?", our reader points out that the Presence of Christ's Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity Crucified and Risen is transtemporal. I add that It is also universal. He cannot be "nowhere". He is everywhere.

Another Proddy innovation, at least in Holy Trinity but probably replicated in parishes up and down the country at the behest of our Proddy bishops, was reverencing the Cross on Good Friday with a bow or genuflection. No kissing allowed. 

Oh for heaven's sake. Why do bishops and priests put the absurdities of "keeping ourselves safe" (from a fairly normal seasonal 'flu), as commanded by PM Stalinda and her nerdish Dr Bloomfield, ahead of the feelings of Our Lord and Saviour, on the day we commemorate his agonising Death on the Tree of Life for our sake? It's positively sickening. 

And another thought: when will our bishops reinstate the holy water fonts? Or will fonts go the same way as, for instance, the purple mourning veils for statues and crucifixes in Passion Week and Holy Week have, in our parish? Bundled into cupboards to gather dust? You see, Proddy churches don't have such things. They're too "Catholic". It's the N O effect. 

But above all, we may observe "What the Sexual Revolution has Wrought", as posited on this blog by Paul Collits PhD, of Sydney, Australia.  https://juliadufresne.blogspot.com/2021/03/what-sexual-revolution-has-wrought.html

Or rather, we may reflect on what it was that allowed the wroughtness of the sexual revolution. Yet another reader commented anonymously that "it was Satan who drove it, but who were his willing agents on earth? 

 "And what was the Church doing during this massive and rapid transition that occurred from 1960 onwards? Strangely Vatican 2 took effect during exactly the same era (the Vatican Council was 1962-1965)."

And, I would add, just how did Vatican 2 take effect? By and through the Novus Ordo, which has succeeded to an extraordinary degree in protestantizing the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, in de-weaponising Her, estranging Her from Christ Her Spouse Who carries His Cross and commands His people to carry it too, and bedding Her with that old whore, the World, to make abortion unmentionable and sodomy into something nice.    

So could real Catholics everywhere stand up, or rather, kneel down and pray. Pray especially in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which the Traditional Latin Mass celebrates today with the Gospel of St Luke's appearance of the risen Lord Jesus Christ to the disciples at Emmaus. 

"... They knew Him in the breaking of bread."  

'The Resurrection' by Rembrandt van Rijn