By
Ann Barnhardt @
Barnhardt.biz
I can tell from my email box that the vast, vast, vast majority of
people out there have absolutely no fathom what the Mass looked like
before 1968. Most Catholics think that the Mass was pretty much like it
is today, except in Latin.
Um, that would be very, very, very
wrong. The Mass today, the Novus Ordo Mass, has been so radically
altered, you can only tell that it is even related to the Tridentine
Mass by a few phrases here and there, namely the Gloria, Creed, Orate
Fratres (Pray, my brothers and sisters), Sanctus (Holy, Holy, Holy) and
the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God).
As I explained it to one person,
the Novus Ordo Mass is FAR closer to Superfun Rockband church than it is
to the Tridentine Mass. His reply? "I was afraid you were going to
say that."
Indeed.
I stumbled across a set of videos
made by EWTN, the Catholic cable channel out of Alabama. The videos
demonstrate the Low Tridentine Mass (not sung, and with only one
server). What is so cool about these videos is the camera work. It is
wonderful being able to see the priest's hands and everything that is
going on upon the altar.
In these videos the server is an
adult. Please understand that in most Masses in Latin Mass parishes
today, the servers are young boys - altar boys. I would guesstimate
that the youngest boy I have seen serve a Low Mass alone was probably
eight or nine years old, and I have seen boys who were probably seven
years old serve a Low Mass with another older boy as a team. That
includes every movement and every response you see in these videos,
memorized in Latin, performed not just by boys, but by sometimes quite
young boys.
The sight of boys and teenaged young men not just
doing something, but doing something fairly complicated, and doing it
with stone-cold excellence is so rare today that it is shocking and
beautiful when you see it. Boys have been run out of almost every
activity except sports by girls, and they are now even trying to make
sports "co-ed". Additionally, boys are hated by the Marxist-lesbian
education mafia and are submitted to psychological castration from the
time they enter pre-school. One of the big reasons the
Marxist-homosexualists hate the Tridentine Mass so much is because it
fosters and develops boys into masculine achievers and allows them to
attain disciplined excellence.
Now watch this and see, perhaps
for the first time in your entire life, what the Mass was for 1900
years, and what the Marxist-homosexualists have stolen from you, and are
desperately trying to keep hidden from you. Look at the reverence, the
solemnity, the MASCULINITY, the profound
humility, the dignity,
and the loving care and intricacy. Watch these videos and then
contemplate what goes on at your Novus Ordo Mass. Contemplate how your
priest probably stands outside the sanctuary in the narthex, fully
vested immediately before AND immediately after Mass, and gladhands and
socializes with people as they walk in and out - again, desacralizing
the Mass AND drawing attention to himself as the "STAR of the SHOW".
Because you clearly go to Mass to see Father Liza-Judy, right? I mean
seriously, WHO ELSE could you POSSIBLY be there to see if not Father
Liza-Judy? Hmmmm?
Contemplate the priest ad-libbing during the
Mass, chatting, delivering multiple "homilies" before the readings and
after Holy Communion. Compare how the priest carries himself in the
Tridentine Mass to the casual and effete comportment of almost all Novus
Ordo priests.
Finally, compare the orientation of the
Tridentine Mass and priest 100% toward Our Lord in the Tabernacle, or
upon the altar, to the self-referential and performance-driven
orientation of the priest in the Novus Ordo, who is always facing the
people as if on a stage, and thus has his BACK to Our Lord in the
Tabernacle for the entire Mass.
The homosexualist priests will
never, ever relinquish their ability to "perform" and be "on stage" as
the "star of the show" - and the same goes for the lesbian nuns, who
rage at the fact that they are denied full "performance" rights. They
WILL schism the Church, and it will be over the Mass itself. Homosexual
"marriage" and "gay rights" are merely wedge issues designed to get the
ball rolling. The final schism will be over the rubrics of the Mass
because it HAS to be all about THEM. It HAS to be the "Father Liza-Judy
Show", and the Marxists, who recruited the homosexualists, gleefully
approve because the Marxist objective is to destroy the Mass and the
Church from within by desacralizing the Mass, and eliminating the
priesthood. (Remember, no priest, no Mass. No Mass, no Eucharist.) They
do this by denying the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist by
making the whole Mass so casual, sloppy, sacrilegious and self-centered
that the people who WERE taught the faith lose it by the very example of
the clergy.
Finally, after four decades, the objective has
been achieved - there is absolutely no denying that. The laity has NO
IDEA that the Mass is Calvary made present, and are clueless that Jesus
Christ is actually, physically present in the Tabernacle, upon the altar
after the consecration, and in the Eucharist which they casually
receive thinking It (He) is a mere "symbolic community meal".
When you watch these videos, you should feel awe at the beauty - even
though this is a mere instructional set, and you should also feel
burning ire at what has been stolen from you, and what is being actively
hidden and suppressed by the majority of bishops yet today. THIS is
how Mass was said in EVERY CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE PLANET UNTIL 1968 -
exactly, precisely like this. A person could walk into any Catholic
Church anywhere on the planet and be 100% oriented and comfortable,
because every priest said the Mass exactly like this every day - from
the tiny little town in Kansas to the largest cathedral in Europe to the
remotest chapel in South America or Asia. Every word, every gesture,
every prayer - completely consistent and unified, JUST. LIKE. THIS:
These videos just cover the actual rubrics. They do not cover the
MASSIVE meaning and referential symbolism contained in literally every
word and gesture. If you want to learn about that symbolism, St. Thomas
Aquinas covers it all in the Summa Theologica.
If you want more info, a great resource is
SanctaMissa.org,
and I also recommend everyone buying a 1962 Hand Missal, which contains
EVERYTHING, including every Mass for the entire year with English
translations. Baronius Press is the main publisher these days, and 1962
Missals can be purchased easily through Amazon and most online
booksellers.
But there are also many other
things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world
itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be
written. John 21:25
Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle.
2 Thessalonians 2:15
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