It is sad that today that our Catholic church has such a situation and it is thanks to the changes made by the Vatican council II (11 October 1962 - 8 December 1965 ) which came about due to the indoctrination of Liberalism and Ecumenism into the church. Traditional Catholicism is what has been taught and practiced from the beginning of the church handed down by Christ and His Apostles until the changes made by Vatican Council II since 1965. Holding fast to the Traditional Latin Mass, truly practicing a life centered around the Mass, upholding reverence and holiness. “Non-traditional Catholicism are the changes made by liberals in the church for example: the Mass was changed to be in the vernacular (Novus Ordo), no longer in Latin and facing the people and not GOD. And women no longer had to cover their hair in church. Pop songs and dancing in the church. These are but the few obvious changes. Modern Catholicism believes in interfaith worship or taking the “worship space” of one religion and making it into a sacred space for multiple religions, eg. Pope John Paul’s historic 1986 inter-faith summit in Assisi, an initiative he repeated in 1993 and 2002, and one that Benedict VI also presided over in 2011. This is breaking the First Commandment: "I am the Lord thy God, …Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.." The most significant difference after Vatican II, is the change in the form of the Mass; the Traditional Latin Mass is a sacrifice, the unbloody sacrifice of Our Lord on Calvary and the New Mass - the Novus ordo Missae is not a sacrifice but the commemoration of the Last Supper. In Catholic teaching, the holy sacrifice of the Mass is the fulfillment of all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant. In the New Covenant, the one sacrifice on the altar of Calvary is revisited during every Catholic Mass. Jesus Christ merited all graces and blessings for us by His death on the Cross. The Mass is also classed as a sacrifice, as the sacrifice of Christ on the cross is made present and true each time the Eucharist is celebrated. All one has to do is to look at who is the center of focus and the way the people participate, dress and receive God in Holy Communion at the two masses. The following is an excerpt taken from an article written in Jan.29, 2015 by Fr. Carota. Most Catholics tend to judge the two masses from their own subjective perspective and preferences. We are not priests and we are not offering the two masses and have no idea what it is like from the experience of a priest who offers the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass and had previously offered the Novus Ordo. According to such a priest, the difference between the Ancient Mass and the New Mass is like day and night. For the average Catholic who had been born in the late sixties onward has had very little to no experience with the Latin Mass, the New Mass is just fine because it is all they have ever known or at which they feel comfortable and “at home with”. All over the world, the New Mass is all any Catholic is able to go to. That is all they know and that is all the knowledge they have to judge with. The orthodox Neo-Catholics (who are not traditional Catholics) have been constantly complaining about the grave liturgical abuses by priests who do not follow the essential rubrics found in the New Roman Missal. Like when the celebrant changes the words of consecration, does not say the Creed at Sunday Mass, will not genuflect when required, gives communion to everyone, including non Catholics, who comes up at funerals or wedding, and all the other grave abuses they experience at the New Mass. Here is a list of observations Fr.Carota has made while offering the Ancient Mass and the New Mass together. The whole focus of the Holy Latin Mass is on;
The respect, adoration and protection given to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament
The New Mass is focused on God, but at the same time, very much focused on the people.
The final question (and the answer should make everyone who reads this article want to only go to the Holy Latin Mass) is: Do we truly believe that God/Jesus is in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar? If so God deserves adoration, respect and protection. As a priest who says the New Mass and the Latin Mass, the Latin Mass has by far more rubrics built right into the Latin Mass to protect the Body and Blood of Jesus from being desecrated in any manner. It clearly has the strong sacrificial component of the Holy Mass and priesthood. It does not have the protestant emphasis on the Last Supper and “doing this in remembrance of Me” like the Luther advocated. It also has prayers and gestures that facilitate more easily the adoration that Jesus deserves from us His creatures. And because of this, the Latin Mass pleases God way more than the New Mass. “By their fruits you shall know them.” Matthew 7:15-20 - based on a statistical report in 2003 as a result of the changes - see image below. The following survey shows the contrast in believes and practices:
There is much to read to understand and to learn why and what the changes were made that has brought about this sad situation in the church. |
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