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famuladomini · 4 days ago

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I've been thinking about when Jesus resurrects Jairus' daughter, and how the first thing he does is tell them to feed her. I sort of feel like her sometimes, like that's kind of my relationship with the Eucharist. Everytime I fall Jesus brings me back to like and feeds me with himself. I've been seeing the Eucharist in so many bible passages lately, like the banquet after the prodigal son comes back, or the bread that's given to Elias when he's desperate and wants to die. God left so many clues and when I read them I just feel so much joy knowing He truly wants to come to me in the Eucharist, even if I don't feel worthy of it.

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famuladomini · 4 days ago

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Have you ever heard the claim that the Mass of Paul VI - often called Novus Ordo, currently the most commonly celebrated Mass in the Roman Rite - was deliberately “Protestantized”? Maybe that sounds like a wild conspiracy theory. But even wild theories have some starting point. Why would anyone say that?

When the Protestant sects first began separating in earnest from the Catholic Faith and remaking the Sunday obligation in their own image, they:

- Removed the high altar and put a small table in the middle of the sanctuary for an altar instead. “Luther’s table” was to be made of wood, not stone, because this is a meal, not Our Lord’s expiatory sacrifice. - Obliterated the Roman Canon, for the same reason. This was one of Luther’s first steps; even though initially his “masses” remained similar seeming to the Roman Rite, it was understood by all that the Mass had been gutted and destroyed with the removal of the Roman Canon. - Insisted that the faithful receive the “sacred symbols” under both kinds, standing, in the hand - as a direct repudiation to the Real Presence, the Mass as sacrifice, and Holy Orders. - Denied the sacrament holy orders, reducing the priest to a preacher; there was no difference between “minister”/”celebrant”/”presider” and laity. - Engaged in wholesale iconoclasm: whitewashed murals, destroyed or junked statues and paintings, desecrated sacred objects - including turning altar slabs into paving stones - and otherwise cleaned the churches out of sacred art. - Scrapped Latin as the sacred language, because it was recognized as the single greatest obstacle to the reforms. - Re-wrote a new liturgy from whole cloth; in England, Cranmer achieved this over a period of years, each time introducing a new liturgy that was less and less Catholic until it was undeniably Protestant. - Stopped saying “Mass,” instead calling the event “liturgy” or “communion service” or “the Lord’s supper.” - Wrote new hymns - to replace the vast repertoire of sacred music that was instantly lost to use with the rejection of Latin; to solidify the new doctrine; to exaggerate, with singing together, a feeling of community in this new form. - Argued that these beliefs and practices were the way the Christian faith used to be, but had been obscured by centuries of Popish invention.

When Anibale Bugnini, primary architect of the Novus Ordo, and his committees began creating the succession of forms that would become the new Mass promulgated by Paul VI, and throughout the course of the Novus Ordo’s implementation, he and his followers:

- see list above.

Bugnini, 1965: “We must strip from our Catholic prayers and our Catholic liturgy everything which can be the shadow of a stumbling block for our separated brethren, that is, for Protestants.” Bugnini, 1974: “[The reform is] a major conquest of the Roman Catholic Church.” (x)

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“But the Tridentine Mass only dates from the Council of Trent!” A common misunderstanding. The so-called Tridentine Mass was a codification of the ancient Mass, in direct response to Protestant heresies. Quote: “In the strict sense there is no “Tridentine Mass,” for at least at the conclusion of the Council of Trent, there was no creation of a new Mass order; and the “Missal of St. Pius V” is nothing else but the Missal of the Roman Curia, which had seen the light in Rome over ten centuries earlier, and which had been introduced by the Franciscans into many Western countries. The changes made at the time by St. Pius V were so minimal that they can be noticed only by a specialist.” From Gamber, Reform of the Roman Liturgy (x)

“But… the Novus Ordo is Mass! It’s valid!” I’m so glad you mentioned the v-word. Stay tuned for a second post on this topic, in which we will discover what validity means and doesn’t mean, and why it’s not a magic bullet that makes all of the problems outlined above disappear.

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Some online sources for further reading:

The Protestant Revolution in England (audio) What I Didn’t Know About Bugnini and the Liturgy Cathedrals: Era to Era (FB page; lots of photos) Fr. Hunwicke, Hermeneutic of Continuity Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, Revisiting Paul VI’s Apologia for the New Mass Quotes from Gamber’s Reform of the Roman Liturgy Mary Cuff, The Disposable Modern Hymn

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