Why the Case of Attending the Traditional Mass Said Under the “Indult” Diocese Priest is NOT the Traditional Latin Mass
When the New Mass came out in 1969, Antonio Cardinal Bacci, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani and some other theologians wrote to Paul VI about it. Keep in mind that what they said about the New Mass concerns the Latin Version, the so-called “most pure” version of the New Mass. Their study is popularly known as The Ottaviani Intervention. It stated they could clearly see that the Latin version of the New Mass was a striking departure from the teaching of the Council of Trent.
Paul VI even admitted to his good friend Jean Guitton that his intention in changing the Mass was to make it Protestant. Paul VI removed what was too Catholic in the Mass in order to make the Mass a Protestant service.
The New Mass is fraught with sacrileges and profanations because it reflects a false religion which has abandoned the traditional Catholic Faith.
Despite all the efforts of the official hierarchy since 1969, a few bishops, many priests, and a great number of the faithful have remained attached to the two-thousand-year old traditional rite of Mass. Time passed but the problem remained. In order to resolve it, Pope John Paul II gave to the diocesan bishops the faculty of making use of an indult so as to allow priests to say and faithful to attend the Mass contained in the Roman Missal edited in 1962; the missal moreover used by the Society of St. Pius X. That was the indult promulgated by the Congregation for the Divine Worship on October 3, 1984, an indult made unacceptable through the intention of its legislators and by the conditions of its application.
What about attending a Tridentine Mass celebrated under the indult?
First of all, it constitutes a danger for the faith of the faithful, a danger which comes from the priests themselves who are celebrating it. Because to obtain this indult from the official hierarchy, these priests must fulfill the following conditions:
“That it should be very clear that these priests have nothing to do with those who place in doubt… the doctrinal soundness of the Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI, in 1970 and that their position should be without any ambiguity and publicly known.”
It is necessary that these priests prove publicly by their behavior, their words and writings that they admit “the doctrinal soundness” of the New Mass. No question in any way whatsoever of criticizing the Protestant and definitely non-Catholic look of Pope Paul VI’s New Mass.
There is a danger too for the Faith, that comes from the proximity of the faithful who attend exclusively these indult Masses, because they also have to fulfill the conditions of not placing in doubt the “doctrinal soundness” of the New Mass. Characteristically, these type of faithful, unfortunately too often are concerned with reconciling in thought and in action the truth with heresy. Tradition with the conciliar spirit.
The third point to tackle is this: to attend the “indult” Mass is at least to approve implicitly and to encourage the work of the destruction of Catholic Tradition undertaken by the official hierarchy.
In the hands of the official hierarchy, the Tridentine Mass serves as a temporary means and bait to attract the traditional priests and people and to destroy at the same time the work of Catholic restoration, started by Archbishop Lefebvre, Bishop de Castro Mayer and their priests. Means and bait to attract the traditional Catholics now considered as schismatics because they are no longer considered as “being in communion” with the present-day Rome, of liberal and modernist tendency.
Let us now move on to some illustrating facts: having received the permission to celebrate the Tridentine Rite, the Fraternity of St. Peter now see themselves threatened to accept giving communion in the hand and saying the Mass of 1965, having already accepted by one of their superiors, “all the documents of the Vatican II Council.” Hundreds of priests, seminarians and faithful have been lured with the Tridentine Rite and now are made to forcibly return to the ranks and the spirit of the Council. This work of destruction continues by the approval of Indult Masses close to our important Mass centers… A good method to empty these last ones or at least to prevent them from developing.
That is why, what can look like a concession is in reality merely a maneuver to separate from us the largest number of faithful possible.
In conclusion, the precept of attending Sunday Mass is obligatory for all Catholics who have reached the age of reason (seven years old) but that some may be excused, particularly those who are only near Masses “of Pope Paul VI” or to traditional Masses said under the “Indult.” Why? Firstly, because of the danger for the faith coming either from the priests who celebrate or from the faithful who attend them; secondly, legitimization is given to the new liturgy and finally an approval more or less implicit of the work of destruction of the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Tradition.
References:
http://romancatholicfaith.webs.com/the-invalid-new-mass
Fr. Marc Van Es
Titled “The Attendance at Today’s Sunday Masses”, this article was originally featured in the June 1994 issue of The Angelus.
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