Abp. VIGANÒ : DILECTA MEA — About the HOLY APOSTOLIC MASS
You who permit yourselves to prohibit the Holy Apostolic Mass, have you ever celebrated it? You who from the height of your liturgical cathedrae are piqued about the “old Mass,” have you ever meditated on its prayers, its rites, and its ancient and sacred gestures? I have asked myself this many times in the past few years: because I myself, even though I knew this Mass since I was very young; even though I had learned to serve it and respond to the celebrant when I was so little that I was still wearing boys’ knickers, I had almost forgotten it and lost it. Introibo ad altare Dei. Kneeling in winter on the ice-cold steps of the altar, before going to school. Sweating on hot summer days under my altar boy’s vestments. I had forgotten that Mass, even though it was the Mass of my ordination as a priest on 24 March 1968: an era in which one could already perceive the signs of the revolution that shortly thereafter would deprive the …More
I often consider how wonderful it is for the priest at the Traditional Latin Mass to be able to privately(Facing our Lord) worship God with us at Holy Mass. Intimately offering prayers, and Sacrifice. Sadly this private worship is stripped from priests that only offer Novus Ordo as they must bear themselves before the parish (no privacy). Holy Mass is public worship, but also very personal for all in attendance including a priest offering the Traditional Liturgy.( as it should be).
No doubt personal for all good priests, just not privacy for all.
How can one ever understand the soul of a Priest, another Christ, alter Christus, and that unique, ineffable, mystical encounter which a Priest has with the Eternal, All-Holy and ever-Beauteous Trinity at the Altar in this ancient Liturgy, in this act of impetration, satisfaction and adoration for the entire world in the Name of Chris, as Christ and in Christ?
I knew back in 1964 that this liturgical monstrosity that Montini (how is he "Saint" Paul VI? If he's in heaven, I am a shoe in) and Bugnini engineered was if not evil, totally wrong to its core. Yet I and others were forced to cow tow to the whims of an order that had no basis in reality. It is said Pacelli expressed interest in "modernizing" the sacred liturgy. If he did (he is "Blessed" now, is he not?) it is at least not held he sought to vernacularize what simply could not be vernacularized. But now we have satanic Bergoglio, colon compromised and all, going to a CD store to buy a musical CD while he is in his papal cassock. This is what the RC Church has come down to? I still pray the Latin Mass, as do a number of others I know. I do not accept that Montini is a Saint-- I remember well as a young cleric saying over and over that Montini was the worst Pope in history as Montini was belching forth "The smoke of Satan has entered the Church-- yes, and who let it in? . Montini sent Bugnini off to Iran at that time, but he would not reverse the filth Bugnini engineered. Yes, I thought Montini was the worst--I had no idea that Jorge Bergoglio would make him look saintly.
Interesting point about Francis going into the CD store to get classical music... Apparently beautiful music is good enough for his recreation, but not for God, Lord of Heaven and Earth, Who must be regularly insulted with the likes of the modern tripe and infantile songs they now play at the Novus Ordo.
Benedicamus Domino !
Perfect example how one can make of something beautiful (the Tridentine Mass) an idol. I have never heard Mary speaking in one of her apparitions about the Tridentine Mass. She talks about reverence and faith, but nowhere about form. She calls for the Mass to be our most important moment of the day, but she never criticizes the Novus Ordo when it is celebrated in faith and reverence. John Paul II and Mother Teresa (and many of her sisters) became saints while celebrating the Novus Ordo... I highly appreciate Msgr. Vigano in his analyses of the situation of the Church and the world, but his absolutism regarding the Tridentine Mass is an aberration.
"John Paul II and Mother Teresa (and many of her sisters) became saints while celebrating the Novus Ordo"
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I have not been for years at Novus Ordo. You wrote that Mother Teresa celebrated it. Does it mean that women now celebrate the Bugnini-Montini Mass?