WHAT'S WRONG WITH CONCELEBRATION THEN?

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The diocesan faithful of Palmerston North will gather, two weeks from today, for the Chrism Mass of Maundy Thursday, in expectation of the usual throng of elderly men in the sanctuary of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, all facing the wrong way, like Protestants. 

Concelebration - taken for granted by the post-Vat II, neo-apostate generations - is a creature of the Novus Ordo, itself a creature of the Freemason Annibale Bugnini and his Protestant advisors. It is THE issue of the moment for the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP), who are being ever-so-nicely strong-armed by the Usurper Bergoglio into concelebrating the NO Mass in Holy Week, to demonstrate an 'ecclesiastical communion' which doesn't exist except in modernist terms, in brutal violation of the FSSP's adherence to Tradition and the Usus Antiquior (Latin Mass). 

Picture these truly pious priests lined up with their diocesan bishop behind a table, facing the people instead of Almighty God, in a rite they abhor because it is a rupture with Tradition. Because the Novus Ordo is a revolution. It's enough to make your Catholic blood run cold.  Or boil.

The evil here lies in the fact that the Vatican are saying, "You can have your pre-conciliar liturgy but you cannot have your pre-conciliar theology because once you bend the knee to the modernist sacramental theology and ecclesiology of concelebration, now you are bending the knee to the revolution you have resisted up to this point." So says Catholic apologist Kennedy Hall in a lively discussion here with Dr Taylor Marshall - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCPSncZGuoU. 

"Saying Mass facing the people makes you gay!" Marshall asserts with a grin. His tongue is firmly in cheek but let's face it, the homo horror in the Church emerged alongside the Mass concocted by Bugnini (whose name, Annibale, means 'Gift of Baal', which seems a bit of a hint if ever there was one).  Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you: To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not.  And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my name is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have done all these abominations (Jer 7: 8-10).

Homosexuals love theatre, and the Mass is theatre - which is why the actions of the priest, servers and people must express their state of mind, their feelings: lex orendi, lex credendi. That's why, at the Latin Mass, every act is precisely and specifically choreographed. Massgoers ALL genuflect before entering their pew, because they are in the presence of God and His angels and as Marshall and Hall comment, in the sanctuary all movement is disciplined, militaristic even. In the Latin Mass even the vestments are classical and disciplined, not easy-wear like the feminine frocks affected by N O priests.  Because ours is a Church Militant, for soldiers of Christ, not for slouchers. 

A 'reverent Novus Ordo': turning their backs on Almighty God

But the Mass is classical theatre rather than a show on Broadway. Homosexuals love the stage. They love dressing up and strutting their stuff in public. And characteristically, they have a gift for theatre. But the Novus Ordo Mass satisfies a priest's putative narcissistic inclinations because it is man-centred, not God-centred. The N O Mass is all about YOU. By comparison, in the traditional Latin Mass YOU DISAPPEAR. You are annihilated by the overwhelming presence of Almighty God. The priest bends low over the chalice and whispers the words of consecration - because he is whispering to God. 

Like the priests in the Old Testament on the Day of Atonement in the Holy of Holies, the priest in the Latin Mass is talking to God, NOT YOU. Compare that with the NO Mass, especially concelebrated. As Kennedy Hall comments, "People will say, I couldn't hear what the priest was saying. Too bad. He was talking to God, not you. It's not about YOU." It's about giving glory to God the Father. 

At the cathedral of the Holy Spirit Palmerston North on Maundy Thursday - if things go as usual, but with a new bishop, who knows? - at the moment of Consecration all those priests will stretch out their right hand and say, more or less loudly, "THIS is My Body." (Or maybe it's only the bishop who will pronounce the words but it makes no difference.) Because the Host is metres away from most of the celebrants! To make grammatical sense they should be saying , "THAT is My Body " - that over there, on the table in front of Bishop Adams. 

But that is My Body is not what Christ said. Sacramental words signify the act. They must mean what they say. There has to be a clear intention. That's not pharasaical, it's the fact of the matter.

With their backs to God in the tabernacle and gesturing at a host metres away 

The FSSP are paying the price for deserting Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who almost alone among the fathers of Vatican II perceived the abyss towards which the Church was hurtling and into which, in the Francis pontificate, she has now fallen. Hard. Blessed are they who will celebrate the Chrism Mass in SSPX churches worldwide, with all the majesty, due ceremony, beauty and precision demanded by the 1962 liturgy! Concelebration of the Chrism Mass is the thin end of a big fat wedge being craftily driven into the FSSP ranks. Continuing along the same trajectory, in being compromised by a sacramentally dubious liturgy, the FSSP may soon find itself confronting Bergoglio's 'wishes' for:

• allowing Communion in the hand at their traditional Latin Mass
• altar girls at their traditional Latin Masses
• readings in the vernacular
• lay lectors
• lay 'Eucharistic ministers' 
• no more traditional Confirmations 
• ordination in the Novus Ordo, not the traditional Rite
• infighting in the FSSP between priests who will inevitably succumb and priests who  resist
• and - Bob's your uncle - the demise of the order.  Just what Bergoglio and Co want.
  
  
  
  

  

  Sticking with Father Boomer's Mass - or turning to the Latin Mass peacefully accepted by all?

  
  
  
  
  

And another thing: the Novus Ordo has caused controversy right from the get-go, in 1969, with the Ottaviani Intervention. http://www.catholictradition.org/Eucharist/ottaviani.htm  Whereas the Mass of Ages is of God. It is an organic liturgy developed by the Magisterium over hundreds of years, has always been peacefully accepted, by all. It was The Mass. There was no alternative, not until Martin Luther and the Deformers invented one. 

The Latin Mass of Ages is Tradition, and Tradition, as Archbishop Lefebvre said in 1984, does not need permission. Tradition is the Deposit of Faith. "It is an Apostolic gift of immeasurable and inestimable value," says Kennedy Hall, "and does not need canonical permission any more than saying the Rosary needs permission.I know the traditional Mass is the will of God. Like the Rosary is the will of God.

"When something is promulgated and universally accepted and comes from Apostolic times, when that thing is permitted to last within the Church and is canonised and crystallised over centuries and it's peacefully accepted within the Church - there is no way that God would allow something damaging to the Faith to be permitted for centuries. The Novus Ordo cannot fulfill that requirement. It is impossible. It has never been peacefully accepted; it has been resisted since Day One.

Take your pick

"All the ancient liturgies, because they come from the Apostles, have the Offertory, the Consecration and the Communion of the priest. Those are the three integral parts of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The Bugnini rite DOES NOT HAVE AN OFFERTORY. It has a valid consecration but it's not the proper biblical integration that God instituted with Abraham, with Moses and then with Jesus Christ in the New Covenant, the New Testament.

"The Offertory is when the priest sets aside and makes holy the bread and the wine and the water. You say prayers over them to make them holy and then you consecrate them into the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. That is the Eastern way, the Roman way, the Old Testament way; that is the Catholic way. The Novus Ordo does not do that. What the N O has is a Jewish table prayer.It is not an  Offertory. Everyone from the age of 7 and up can understand that is a real theological deficiency in the Novus Ordo.

"There's no question of validity. Validity is not enough. Validity is a low bar. People hate it when I say this," says Kennedy Hall. "They'll say that Christ is truly present. This is reductionist. ... You're bringing Christ down on the altar and you're subjecting Him to something which is not worthy of the Divine Majesty."

To offer the Mass in a way that is worthy of Christ we have to be properly prepared - primarily by prayer. In the Novus Ordo, that prayer is missing. Just compare the texts of the Old Mass and the New 'Bogus Ordo' as it's sometimes called and see the offertory prayers that the Freemason Bugnini snipped out, just like Luther snipped books out of the bible.

Concelebration

Bergoglio and the Jesuits, and most bishops, says Taylor Marshall, dislike the traditional Mass because it's a different set of beliefs. They don't believe in the blood atonement of Christ, in the Mass as a propitiatory sacrifice offered by Christ to the Father. If you really pushed these prelates as to what they do believe in they would probably start talking about Cardinal Fernandez and his book about kissing and orgasms as an analogue to experiencing God's love.   

When Luther devised his German Mass, what happened? The Deformation. Millions left the Church. When Vatican II devised the Novus Ordo, what happened? Millions left the Church. Every practising Catholic today is saddened by the defection of a husband, a wife, brother, sister, children and grandchildren and needs to pray daily for their repentance, healing and conversion - to the Latin Mass of their ancestors. Which prompts the question, how many Novus Ordo Massgoers, or even N O priests or bishops, are prepared to die for the faith? Where are our would-be St Edmund Campions? Our English (Kiwi) martyrs-in-waiting? Before long we may discover them.  

So this Easter, Marshall and Hall say, they (the Vatican heavies) are going to make sure we all do the New Mass thing. Bergoglio and Co are using their authority, but authority and power, says Kennedy Hall - who as a Canadian and unv^xxed, experienced a national trauma not unlike New Zealand's under the Ardern regime - are not the same thing; there is no power unless there is consent - as New Zealanders, especially NZ's Catholic bishops and people, consented to the evil of the v^ccine, Bergoglio's "act of love". 

"The power can't do anything if there is massive resistance to it. "And this has happened in Church history," says Hall. "This is what the English martyrs did. St Ambrose was elected by the people to be their bishop when he wasn't even a cleric yet, he was a recent convert from paganism. There was the reaction to Nestorius. 

The big cringe at the N O - 'the sign of peace'

"Archbishop Lefebvre said this: there will come a day when a priest in one of these communities (like FSSP, or ICKSP (Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, will find himself at an impasse. When they're told they have to sign something - which you do, with Ecclesia Dei -  now you have to do what you signed.

"I can't fix anything ... but we had demonstrated to us by a great saintly priest of the 20th century that when you stand firm in the Catholic faith and you do not bend the knee - Archbishop Lefebvre was told to concelebrate in 1976 by the Nuncio in Switzerland. The Nuncio said, just say the New Mass and +Lefebvre said, I've already said Mass today.

"When you stand up, and you're on the side of God, against all odds you will be protected and you will thrive, and that is what happened with the traditional movement and we have to rest our hopes in that."