ST PATRICK'S TAUPO - SO LIKE CRANMER'S 'MASSE'

 

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Mass at St Patrick's Catholic church in Taupo this morning proved the success of the modus operandi of the Church of England's Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. Cranmer and his partner in crime, Henry VIII, believed that changing the way people pray changes the way they believe. And what do you know? They were right.

The age-old doctrine of the Catholic Church outlawing abortion is no longer believed by 60% of US Catholics, and given New Zealand's Bishops' shocking neglect of the doctrine they were ordained to uphold, who would dare say Kiwi Catholics are any better? 

St Patrick's Tongariro this morning showed why Kiwi Catholics are every bit as un-Catholic as their US counterparts. The Mass was more Protestant than Catholic: only the Consecration of the Host, transforming it from 'a little round thing' as Monsignor Trevor Murray reiterated histrionically, into the Body and Blood of Christ, saved the liturgy from blasphemy and sacrilege. That is, only if no Particles of the Host, distributed mostly by women in trousers, were dropped and trodden on - or stolen.

Stealing Our Lord. It happens 

At the risk of luring all the Proddy Catholic haters out of their lairs, it was Cranmer who engineered the English 'Reformation' - more accurately, Deformation - changing the Catholic Church into the Anglican sect which St Patrick's Tongariro so closely resembles, chiefly by measures which closely paralleled those visited on the Church after the Second Vatican Council, evidenced at St Patrick's by:

• The table for sharing a meal, instead of the altar on which the Son of God, Our Lord Jesus Christ, is offered anew to God in propitiation and reparation for sin
• the monsignor facing the congregation instead of God (with graphics displayed on a screen to illustrate his 5-minute homily, tailored to his hearers' listening span) 
• communion under both kinds
• women in the 'sanctuary' (as it used to be), dressed like men
• most egregiously, communion taken in the hand (a practice allowed by indult and  born out of disobedience).
  
  

The worst of it is, St Patrick's Tongariro is just par for the course. Most Novus Ordo Masses in New Zealand are no better. No, wait: St Patrick's is actually better than average, because at least the altar servers were all boys. But women and girls got their own back everywhere else in the liturgy. 

A woman more than usually obviously in need of affirmation as 'ministers of the Eucharist' go, proclaimed the 'Welcome' and led the 'Prayers of the Faithful' - which featured the obligatory Francis church prayer for 'Mother Earth' while of the Mother of the Church and Mother of God, Mary most holy, she made no mention. She asked the congregation to pray that young people find 'models and mentors'. 

The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church features, in her liturgical year, more models and mentors than you could shake a stick at: chief among them after Jesus Christ Himself being the Blessed Virgin Mary. But the Novus Ordo liturgy has done away with most of God's magnificent retinue of canonised heros and heroines - in their thousands - who grace the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church.

The spirit of Archbishop Cranmer (who hated the 'Masse') animated the monsignor's homily to such an extent that the only reference he made to the Sacrifice of Calvary which is re-enacted in every Catholic Mass was his use of the word 'broken' - which could signify the bread of Eucharist which is the Protestant rite, just as much as the Lord's Passion and death which is the Mass.

Cranmer's thought and practice was lodged so securely in the liberalities of the Second Vatican Council that in an intervention made in 1987, another, truly Catholic, archbishop, Marcel Lefebvre, could rightly state that "so long as he clings to error, the human person falls short of his dignity. The dignity of the human person does not consist in liberty set apart from truth. In fact, liberty is good and true to the extent to which it is ruled by truth.” The Remnant Newspaper - 60 Years After the Council, Will Catholics Reject the Unholy Errors of Tucho’s Dignita s Infinita?

Diabolical deception, riddled with errors - Dignitatis Infita

Another appalling statistic uncovered by yesterday's Pew Research report is that only about 3 in 10 US Catholics attend Mass regularly - and even worse, 75% approve of the usurper pope Francis. 

These are the bitter fruits of the 'New Mass', whose errors as epitomised at St Patrick's Tongariro this morning echo so faithfully the monumental, disastrous heresy that was Archbishop Cranmer's Anglican 'Masse'. 

Which rather knocks the repulsive Cardinal 'Tucho' Fernandez' new document, Dignitatis Infita, for six, does it not?

There was a sign of hope, however, at Mass at St Patrick's Tongariro this morning. One young woman (twenty-ish) wore a chapel veil, and another a head scarf, both covering their heads in the presence of Christ as the Church always required until after Vatican II. They and a couple of young men received Our Lord kneeling, on the tongue. It was enough to make one other Massgoer - who had decided to kneel too, even at the risk of a public rebuff - weep for relief, not at being let off the hook, but at the sight of real reverence. 

This is the future for the Church. 

Good shepherds. Reverence

"I am the Good Shepherd, and I know Mine and Mine know Me, alleluia