- I have before me some photos published in Catholic
newspapers representing the mass as it is now often said (see “Examples” at the end of this
chapter)…One common feature
emerges from these scandalous pictures: the Eucharist is reduced to an everyday
act, in commonplace surroundings, with commonplace utensils, attitudes and
clothing. Now the so-called Catholic magazines which are sold on church bookstalls
do not show these photos in order to criticize such ways, but on the contrary
to recommend them…It says, “the Liturgical reform must go further…the
unnecessary repetitions, the same form of words ever repeated, all this
regulation holds back creativeness.”
- Certainly people come away from the Mass which strives to
bring itself down to the level of mankind instead of raising them up to God…the
encouragement given to go even further demonstrates a deliberate intention to
destroy what is sacred.
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| Looks like a snack... |
- Why make the hosts that are grey or brown by leaving in
part of the bran? Are they trying to make us forget that phrase omitted from
the new Offertory: hanc immaculatam
hostiam, this immaculate and spotless Host?
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| Preparing the cakes? |
- We frequently hear of the consecration of ordinary bread,
levened with yeast, instead of the pure wheat flour prescribed…there has even
been an American bishop who recommends little cakes containing milk, eggs,
baking-powder,
honey and margarine.
- The desacralization extends to the persons vowed to the
service of God, with the disappearance of ecclesiastical habit for priests and
religious, the use of Christian names, familiarity and a secularized way of
living, all in the name of a new principle and not, as they have tried to make
us believe, for practical needs.
- It is not my intention here to establish a catalogue of
the abuses that are to be met with (that can be
found at www.traditioninaction.com
, especially under the pictures
), but to give a few examples showing why Catholics today have so much
at which to be perplexed and even scandalized.
- Places of worship are made available for rock events…Some
churches and cathedrals have been given over to debauchery, drugs and filth of
all kinds…How can the bishops and priests who have encouraged these things not
fear to bring down divine punishment upon themselves and their people? It is
already apparent in the fruitlessness of their work. It is all wasted because the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,
desecrated as it is, no longer confers grace and no longer transmits it.
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| Photo from The Remnant |
- The Council of Trent explained without any possible doubt
that Our Lord is present in the smallest particles of the consecrated bread.
What are we to think then of the Communion in the hand?...If people come to
mass to break the bread of friendship, of the community meal, of the common
faith, then it is quite natural that no excessive precautions should be taken.
If the Eucharist is a symbol expressing simply the memory of a past event and
the spiritual presence of Our Lord, it is quite logical
not to worry about a
few crumbs which may fall on the floor.
- The faithful are obliged to communicate standing…Is it
fitting that when we go to receive Christ before whom, says St. Paul, every
knee shall bow, in heaven, on earth and under the earth, we should do so
without the least sign of respect or allegiance?
- Am I just getting up a case against the so-called Conciliar Church? No, I am not inventing
anything. [Even the Dean of Faculty of Theology of Strasbourg that the
Eucharist is only a symbol, and that Christ is present in the people and the
music]
Examples:
- Photos:
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| Modern Band...or priests ready for mass? |
(1) Behind an
ordinary wooden table, which does not appear very clean and which has no cloth
covering it, two persons wearing suits and ties elevate or present, one a
chalice, the other a ciborium. The text informs me that they are priests, one
of them the federal chaplain of Catholic Action. On the same side of the table,
close to the first celebrant, are two girls wearing trousers, and near the
second celebrant two boys in sweaters. A guitar is placed against a stool.
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| Youth Club Mass |
(2) In another photo, the scene is the corner of a room which
might be the main room of a youth club. The priest is standing, wearing a
Taizé-like alb, before a milking stool which serves as an altar; there is a
large earthenware bowl and a small mug of the same sort, together with two
lighted candle-ends. Five young people are sitting cross-legged on the floor,
one of them strumming a guitar.
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| Hopefully NOT saying mass.. |
(3) The third photo shows an event which occurred a few
years ago…a priest who celebrated Mass on the deck of the sailing ship, in the
company of two other men. All three were wearing shorts, one is even stripped
to the waist. The priest is raising the Host, no doubt for the elevation. He is
neither standing nor kneeling, but sitting or rather slumped against the boat’s
superstructure. |
| Self-Serve Communion |
- [There was a] Mass televised November 22, 1981, where the
ciborium was replaced by baskets which the congregation passed from one to
another to be finally placed on the floor with what remained of the Sacred
Species!
- In Poiters on Holy Thursday the same year, a big
spectacular celebration consisted of the indiscriminate consecration of loaves
and jugs of wine upon the tables from which everyone came and helped himself.
More Troubling Images:
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| Disco Mass w/Bishop |
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| Gaucho Mass |
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| Lake Mass |
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| Youth Mass |
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| ????? |
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