1.
Because the New Mass is not an unequivocal Profession of the
Catholic Faith (which the traditional Mass is), it is
ambiguous and Protestant. Therefore since we pray as we
believe, it follows that we cannot pray with the New Mass in
Protestant Fashion and still believe as Catholics!
2. Because
the changes were not just slight ones but actually "deal
with a fundamental renovation ... a total change ... a new
creation." (Msgr.
A. Bugnini, co-author of the New Mass)
3.
Because the New Mass leads us to think "that truths ...
can be changed or ignored without infidelity to that sacred
deposit of doctrine to which the Catholic Faith is bound
forever." *
4.
Because the New Mass represents "a striking departure
from the Catholic theology of the Mass as formulated in
Session XXII of the Council of Trent" which, in fixing
the "canons," provided an "insurmountable
barrier to any heresy against the integrity of the
Mystery." *
5.
Because the difference between the two is not simply one of
mere detail or just modification of ceremony, but "all
that is of perennial value finds only a minor place (in the
New Mass), if it subsists at all." *
6.
Because "Recent reforms have amply demonstrated that
fresh changes in the liturgy could lead to nothing but
complete bewilderment in the faithful who already show signs
of uneasiness and lessening of Faith." *
7.
Because in times of confusion such as now, we are guided by
the words of our Lord: "By their fruits you shall know
them." Fruits of the New Mass are: 30% decrease in
Sunday Mass attendance in U.S. (NY Times 5/24/75), 43% decrease in France (Cardinal
Marty), 50% decrease in Holland (NY Times 1/5/76).
8.
Because "amongst the best of the clergy the practical
result (of the New Mass) is an agonizing crisis of
conscience..." *
9.
Because in less than seven years after the introduction of
the New Mass, priests in the world decreased from 413,438 to
243,307 -- almost 50%! (Holy
See Statistics)
10.
Because "The pastoral reasons adduced to support such a
grave break with tradition ... do not seem to us
sufficient." *
11.
Because the New Mass does not manifest Faith in the Real
Presence of our Lord -- the Traditional Mass manifests it
unmistakably.
12.
Because the New Mass confuses the REAL Presence of Christ in
the Eucharist with His MYSTICAL Presence among us
(proximating Protestant doctrine).
13.
Because the New Mass blurs what ought to be a sharp
difference between the HIERARCHIC Priesthood and the common
priesthood of the people (as does Protestantism).
14.
Because the New Mass favors the heretical theory that it is
THE FAITH of the people and not THE WORDS OF THE PRIEST which
makes Christ present in the Eucharist.
15.
Because the insertion of the Lutheran :"Prayer of the
Faithful" in the New Mass follows and puts forth the
Protestant error that all the people are priests.
16.
Because the New Mass does away with the Confiteor of the
priest, makes it collective with the people, thus promoting
Luther's refusal to accept the Catholic teaching that the
priest is judge, witness and intercessor with God.
17.
Because the New Mass gives us to understand that the people
concelebrate with the priest -- which is against Catholic
theology!
18.
Because six Protestant ministers collaborated in making up
the New Mass: George, Jasper, Shepherd, Kunneth, Smith and
Thurian.
19.
Because just as Luther did away with the Offertory -- since
it very clearly expressed the sacrificial, propitiatory
character of the Mass -- so also the inventors of the New
Mass did away with it, reducing it to a simple Preparation of
the Gifts.
20. Because enough Catholic
theology has been removed that Protestants can, while keeping
their antipathy for the True Roman Catholic Church, use the
text of the New Mass without difficulty. Protestant Minister
Thurian (co-consulter for the 'New Mass' project) said that a
fruit of the New mass "will perhaps be that the
non-Catholic communities will be ale to celebrate the Lord's
Supper using the same prayers as the Catholic Church." (La Croix 4/30/69)
21. Because the narrative manner of
the Consecration in the New Mass infers that it is only a
memorial and not a true sacrifice (Protestant Thesis)
22. Because by grave
omissions, the New Mass leads us to believe that it is only a
meal (Protestant doctrine) and not a sacrifice for the
remission of sins (Catholic Doctrine).
23. Because the changes such
as: table instead of altar; facing people instead of
tabernacle; Communion in the hand, etc., emphasize Protestant
doctrines (e.g., Mass is only a meal; priest only a president
of the assembly; Eucharist is NOT the Body, Blood, Soul and
Divinity of Jesus Christ, but merely a piece of bread, etc.)
24. Because Protestants
themselves have said "the new Catholic Eucharistic
prayers have abandoned the false (sic) perspective of
sacrifice offered to God." (La Croix
12/10/69)
25. Because we are faced
with the dilemma: either we become Protestantized by
worshipping with the New Mass, or else we preserve our
Catholic Faith by adhering faithfully to the traditional
Mass, the "Mass of All Time."
26. Because the New Mass was made in
accordance with the Protestant definition of the Mass:
"The Lord's Supper or Mass is a sacred synaxis or
assembly of the people of God which gathers together under
the presidence of the priest to celebrate the memorial of the
Lord." (Par. 7
Intro. to the New Missal, defining the New Mass,
4/6/69)
27. Because by means of
ambiguity, the New Mass pretends to please Catholics while
pleasing Protestants; thus it is "double-tongued"
and offensive to God who abhors any kind of hypocrisy:
"Cursed be ... the double-tongued for they destroy the
peace of many." (Sirach 28:13)
28. Because beautiful,
familiar Catholic hymns which have inspired people for
centuries, have been thrown out and replaced with new hymns
strongly Protestant in sentiment, further deepening the
already distinct impression that one is no longer attending a
Catholic function.
29. Because the New Mass
contains ambiguities subtly favoring heresy, which is more
dangerous than if it were clearly heretical since a
half-heresy half resembles the Truth!
30. Because Christ has only
one Spouse, the Catholic Church, and her worship service
cannot also serve religions that are at enmity with her.
31. Because the New Mass
follows the format of Cranmer's heretical Anglican Mass, and
the methods used to promote it follow precisely the methods
of the English heretics.
32. Because Holy Mother
Church canonized numerous English Martyrs who were killed
because they refused to participate in a Mass such as the New
Mass!
33. Because Protestants who
once converted to Catholicism are scandalized t to see that
the New Mass is the same as the one they attended as
Protestants. One of them, Julien Green, asks: "Why did
we convert?"
34. Because statistics show a great
decrease in conversions to Catholicism following the use of
the New Mass. Conversions, which were up to 100,000 a year in
the U.S., have decreased to less than 10,000! And the number
of people leaving the Church far exceeds those coming in.
35. Because the Traditional
Mass has forged many saints. "Innumerable saints have
been fed abundantly with the proper piety towards God by it
..." (Pope Paul VI, Const. Apost.
Missale Romanum)
36. Because the nature of the New
Mass is such as to facilitate profanations of the Holy
Eucharist, which occur with a frequency unheard of with the
Traditional Mass.
37. Because the New Mass,
despite appearances, conveys a New Faith, not the Catholic
Faith. It conveys Modernism and follows exactly the tactics
of Modernism, using vague terminology in order to insinuate
and advance error.
38. Because by introducing
optional variations, the New Mass undermines the unity of the
liturgy, with each priest liable to deviate as he fancies
under the guise of creativity. Disorder inevitably results,
accompanied by lack of respect and irreverence.
39. Because many good
Catholic theologians, canonists and priests do not accept the
New Mass, and affirm that they are unable to celebrate it in
good conscience.
40. Because the New Mass has
eliminated such things as: genuflections (only three remain),
purification of the priests fingers in the chalice,
preservation from all profane contact of priest's fingers
after Consecration, sacred altar stone and relics, three
altar clothes (reduced to one), all of which "only serve
to emphasize how outrageously faith in the dogma of the Real
Presence is implicitly repudiated." *
41. Because the traditional
Mass, enriched and matured by centuries of Sacred Tradition,
was codified (not invented) by a Pope who was a saint, Pius
V; whereas the New Mass was artificially fabricated by six
Protestant ministers and a 33rd degree Freemason, i.e., Msgr.
A Bugnini who was later exiled from the Vatican because of
his ties with Freemasonry.
42. Because the errors of
the New Mass which are accentuated in the vernacular version
are even present in the Latin text of the New Mass.
43. Because the New Mass, with its
ambiguity and permissiveness, exposes us to the wrath of God
by facilitating the risk of invalid consecrations: "Will
priests of the near future who have not received the
traditional formation, and who rely on the Novus Ordo Missae
with the intention of 'doing what the Church does,'
consecrate validly? One may be allowed to doubt it!" *
44. Because the abolition of
the Traditional Mass recalls the prophecy of Daniel 8:12:
"And he was given power against the perpetual sacrifice
because of the sins of the people" and the observation
of St. Alphonsus de Liguori that because the Mass is the best
and most beautiful thing which exists in the Church here
below, the devil has always tried by means of heretics to
deprive us of it.
45. Because in places where
the Traditional Mass is preserved, the Faith and fervor of
the people are greater. Whereas the opposite is true where
the New Mass reigns (Report on the Mass,
Diocese of Campos, ROMA, Buenos Aires #69, 8/81)
46. Because along with the
New Mass goes also a new catechism, a new morality, new
prayers, new Code of Canon law, new calendar, -- in a word, a
NEW CHURCH, a complete revolution from the old. "The
liturgical reform ... do not be deceived, this is where the
revolution begins." (Msgr. Dwyer,
Archbishop of Birmingham, spokesman of Episcopal Synod)
47. Because the intrinsic
beauty of the Traditional Mass attracts souls by itself;
whereas the New Mass, lacking any attractiveness of its own,
has to invent novelties and entertainments in order to appeal
to the people.
48. Because the New mass embodies
numerous errors condemned by Pope St. Pius V at the Council
of Trent (Mass totally in vernacular, words of Consecration
spoken aloud, etc. See Condemnation of Jansenist Synod of
Pistia), and errors condemned by Pope Pius XII (e.g., altar
in form of table. See Mediator Dei).
49. Because the New Mass
attempts to transform the Catholic Church into a new,
ecumenical church embracing all ideologies and all religions
-- right and wrong, truth and error -- a goal long dreamt of
by the enemies of the Catholic Church.
50. Because the New Mass, in
removing the salutations and final blessing when the priest
celebrates alone, shows a denial of, and disbelief in the
dogma of the Communion of Saints.
51. Because the altar and
tabernacle are now separated, thus marking a division between
Christ in His priest-and-Sacrifice-on-the-altar, from Christ
in His Real Presence in the tabernacle, "two things
which of their very nature, must remain together." (Pius XII)
52. Because the New Mass no longer
constitutes a vertical worship between God and man, but
rather a horizontal worship between man and man.
53. Because the New Mass,
although appearing to conform to the dispositions of Vatican
Council II, in reality opposes its instructions, since the
Council itself declared its desire to conserve and promote
the Traditional Rite.
54. Because the Traditional
Latin Mass of Pope St. Pius V has never been legally
abrogated and therefore remains a true rite of the Roman
Catholic Church by which the faithful may fulfill their
Sunday obligation.
55. Because Pope St. Pius V
granted a perpetual indult, valid "for always," to
celebrate the Traditional Mass freely, licitly, without
scruple of conscience, punishment, sentence or censure (Papal Bull "Quo Primum")
56. Because Pope Paul VI,
when promulgating the New Mass, himself declared. "The
rite ... by itself is NOT a dogmatic definition ..."
(11/19/69)
57. Because Pope Paul VI,
when asked by Cardinal Heenan of England, if he was
abrogating or prohibiting the Tridentine Mass, answered:
"It is not our intention to prohibit absolutely the
Tridentine Mass."
58. Because "In the
Libera Nos of the New Mass, the Blessed Virgin, the Apostles
and all the Saints are no longer mentioned; her and their
intercession thus no longer asked, even in time of
peril." *
59. Because in none of the
tree new Eucharistic Prayers (of the New Mass) is there any
reference ... to the state of suffering of those who have
died, in none the possibility of a particular Memento, thus
undermining faith in the redemptive nature of the Sacrifice.*
60. Because we recognize the
Holy Father's supreme authority in his universal government
of Holy Mother Church, but we know that even this authority
cannot impose upon us a practice which is so CLEARLY against
the Faith: a Mass that is equivocal and favoring heresy and
therefore disagreeable to God.
61. Because, as stated in
Vatican Council I, the "Holy Spirit was not promised to
the successors of Peter, that by His revelation they might
make new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might
inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or
deposit of Faith delivered through the Apostles." (Dnz
3070)
62. Because heresy, or
whatever clearly favors heresy, cannot be a matter for
obedience. Obedience is at the service of Faith and not Faith
at the service of obedience! In this foregoing case then,
"One must obey God before men." (Acts 5:29)