MISSALE ROMANUM V: “THE ROAD TO EMMAUS AND EFFICACIOUS GRACE”
25/04/07 09:57 Filed in: Missale
Romanum
“A graceless—old testament—Christianity is the
essence of modern day
Protestantism”
Fr.
John Hardon
In assessing the current status of the "Novus Ordo
Missae" (the New Order of the Mass) and the "Missa
Latina Tridentina" (the Tridentine Latin Mass ) and
whether they are equally efficacious or one more
efficacious and the other less, Pope Benedict XVI
probably had to ponder several very significant
theological questions of which the following may be
some of the relevant ponderables.
Certainly, we know the word "efficacious" to all
orthodox Roman Catholics means that graces emanate
from a prayerful action or they do not. In
other words a liturgical action or prayer is either
grace-filled or it is not.
At any holy mass attended, whether "Novus Ordo
Missae" or "Missa Latina Tridentina," there is a
veritable plenitude of graces released by the renewal
of Christ’s Sacrifice of Calvary, infinite in its
profundity, because of the sheer validity of the
priest’s words of institution: "This is My Body" and
"This is My Blood."
But do we all access Christ’s infinite fountain of
graces or as many graces as possible whenever we
attend either the "Novus Ordo Missae" or the "Missa
Latina Tridentina?" This is a mighty question
and it is here that the efficacy of the Roman
Catholic Mass is of paramount importance to us as
sheep in Christ’s fold. This is such a vastly
important question of whether Christ’s Sheep access
His almighty superfluity of graces for salvation at
each and every mass they attend that it would seem
Pope Benedict XVI has decided to intervene, and
rightly so, over perhaps this very question of the
efficacy of these two Masses.
From all eternity God truly knows all those who will
cooperate with His graces, lavishly given, to do good
and avoid evil: therefore God truly sees the ones in
whom grace is indeed efficacious. By the same
token the Good
WHY BONIFACE VIII IS IS TRULY AN ORTHODOX ROMAN CATHOLIC POPE
25/04/07 09:51 Filed in: Popes
Why is Pope Boniface VIII a heroic and saintly orthodox Roman Catholic Pope?
If for no other reason, it is for the document, "Unam Sanctam." He was no false ecumenist. Philip the Fair of France replied to the publication of this by Pope Boniface with the total confiscation of all property belonging to the French bishops who had attended the Council in Rome. He placed under guard the French Cardinal-legate, whom the Pope sent to Philip the Fair with the bull, as soon as he arrived in Paris.
Pope Boniface VIII, was finally convinced that all hope of reconciliation with Philip the Fair was futile and so he wrote the King a sentence of excommunication. Fast upon this brave papal deed came King Philip the Fair holding his own French council in which the most malicious attacks on this holy pope were published.
So clever were the lies and sweeping denunciations and misrepresentations and so threatening the intimidations that the great body of French clergy and laity even joined in with Philip the Fair against Pope Boniface VIII. The rest of the story is the history of the Avignon papacy and the apostasy of Philip the Fair and the French Read More...
GREGORY THE GREAT AND FALSE ECUMENISM
25/04/07 09:31 Filed in: Popes
Pope Gregory the Great did battle against the Patriarch of Constantinople who wanted to establish his domination over Rome and who called himself the "ecumenical bishop" in the sense of being a king or the universal bishop over the whole world.
Gregory vehemently renounced the word "ecumenical" as referring to himself as the "ecumenical bishop of Rome," for the title he chose instead was "servus servorum deorum" (servant of the servants of God); all because the Patriarch "John the Faster" wanted to use "ecumenical" in the sense of "universal" in order to steal the prerogative and influence of the Bishop of Rome, the universal Father of Christendom.
Thereafter, every pope following 'Pope Gregory the Great' used the titles: "Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the universal Church, and King and Magistrate of the Roman Province and (since 1929) Sovereign of the State of the City of the Vatican."
Thus, Gregory the Great ever so adroitly ended all Read More...
CRUSADING POPES: POPE URBAN III AND BENEDICT XVI
25/04/07 09:18 Filed in: Popes
The word 'crusade' itself comes from the Latin word "crux" meaning "cross." The first crusade was launched by Pope Urban II to recover Jerusalem as a Catholic city from the Turks who were followers of Islam at the very end of the eleventh century.
All of the crusaders wore this orthodox Roman Catholic symbol of the sacred cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ on their uniforms in war against the turks. How much the symbol of the cross greatly inspired them because it also emphasized their motto: "Deo Volente" or "God wills it."
Wearing this most sacred symbol of orthodox Roman Catholicism, the crusaders won a stunning victory against Islam, even though the Catholic kings of the day did not cooperate. What a great undertaking for our crusading Pope Benedict XVI to visit Read More...
THE MALIGNED POPE
25/04/07 09:07
Few popes have been under such a fierce firestorm as Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) who was attacked by some of his contemporaries for having usurped the papacy, imprisoned, tortured, and killed his predecessor Celestine V.
This was just the beginning of the crucifixion that this saintly Pope Boniface VIII was to suffer. It was Augustinus Triumphus, a disciple of the Angelic Doctor himself, Saint Thomas Aquinas, who defended so stalwartly the saintly reputation of this pope in a holy tract. These scurrilous attacks against the holy Boniface VIII included such lies as Read More...
MISSALE ROMANUM IIII--HEALING THE LITURGICAL WAR
25/04/07 08:56 Filed in: Missale
Romanum
"Roma Locuta, Causa Finita"
How the divine Good Shepherd, Our Lord Jesus Christ, so strongly desires to feed, nourish, tend and defend all His orthodox Roman Catholic flock!
Unfortunately, the orthodox Roman Catholic Church has been divided in its worship for the last forty years by a liturgical war between the "Novus Ordo Missae" and the "Missa Latina Tridentina." Accompanying all this, orthodox Roman Catholocism has been under grevious assault by the most virulent of heresies i.e. modernism, a veritable synthesis of all pernicious heresies, as predicted by St.Pius X at the beginning of the last century.
Through modernism's insidious and clandestine maneuvers, as well as its heterdox liberal advocates, it has managed to create this seemingly insoluble liturgical crisis of faith and worship in the historically orthodox Roman Catholic Church. We all know how much Our Divine Lord so wishes to feed, nourish, tend, and defend each and every one of His orthodox Roman Catholic flock. Nor has Our Dearest Lord ever failed in this, His most loving mission-- either in the past or even to this very day. How, we inquire, is this still true in light of the wreckage of this divisive liturgical war that has divided the Church like never before.
We see a gigantic figure crossing the stage of Catholic history who is humble and unassuming, vigilant for the flock, and dedicated to feeding all of His Master's sheep with theological truth in teaching and liturgical orthodoxy in worship. Like his divine Master, this quiet yet powerful figure, is working like none of his predecessors-- for many, many years --to literally feed, nourish, tend and defend Christ's flock. He is doing this with the nourishment and food of His Divine Master and by tending with a brave hand and mending this gigantic rift of liturgical warfare between the "Novus Ordo Missae" of Vatican II and the centuries old worship of Roman Catholic orthodoxy, the "Missa Latina Tridentina." This rift has so saddened this great pope who is returning the divided sheepfold to its Orthodox Roman Catholic roots.
This great Pope, Benedict XVI, shall certainly deserve the title of "great" for just this epic deed of healing the rift in the Church that has spawned a multitude of physical and spiritual horrors for humanity in the last forty years. Here Pope Benedict XVI is showing the heights of his own personal holiness; for he sees, as no one else can see, what diabolical catastrophies have been precipitated upon humanity in the last forty years by suppressing the Church from the multitude of graces of Christ's Almighty Mass of tradition that stretches back to the UPPER ROOM-- the "Missa Latina Tridentina."
Pope Benedict XVI also clearly sees the spiritual nightmares in the last forty years that have preceded the societal and human nightmares and which include: communion in the hand, which came with the "Novus Ordo Missae" as well as its consequent lack of reverence for the Holy Eucharist that spread like a plague over the once Orthodox Roman Catholic World; the lack of personal reverence before the Eucharist by breaking the "sacrum silentium" of tradition in the Churches, and the diminution of awareness of God's Infinite Presence by no more genuflecting or kneeling.
The suppression of the "Missa Latina Tridentina" also brought about much collateral damage i.e. reduction of the use of sacramentals and the sacrament of Confession/Reconciliation, the ignoring of the most holy rosary, and even a catastrophic drop in Sunday Mass attendance. What the removal of the "Missa Latina Tridentina" has also done in reducing the numbers of priests and holy brothers and sisters in the once orthodox Roman Catholic world is
a monumental tragedy when one looks at the Church before the removal of the ancient Mass of tradition and what resulted thereafter. Only Pope Benedict XVI clearly sees this, like no other, because he has intimately lived through the entire process of Vatican II and the dropping of the Latin Mass of tradition and remembers all to well, the before and after.
Moreover, Pope Benedict XVI, sees with the keenest of vision how the results of such monumental spiritual wreckage in the Church has brought about the worst societal wreckage in the history of Christianity: fornication, adultery, divorce, child-pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, drugs, alcoholism, wars, perversion, pedophilia, and sodomy, notwithstanding the worst plague of all--the millions and millions of apostate Catholics in Europe and America. This great pope, Benedict XVI, will surely bring the Roman Catholic world back to its knees in reverence; and with this heroic act of healing this diabolical liturgical rift, epic numbers of conversions to the orthodox Roman Catholic Church shall inevitably follow!
The big, big question that remains to be answered, Read More...
MISSALE ROMANUM II--THE MOST EFFACACIOUS AND PERFECT ACT OF WORSHIP
25/04/07 08:50 Filed in: Missale
Romanum
Only one explanation is possible for this unholy dichotomy between the "Novus Ordo Missae" of Paul VI and the "Missa Latina Tridentina" of Pope Pius V, a division which has severed the once united orthodox Roman Catholic Church in two: causing two Masses, two priesthoods, two rubrics, two theologies, two catechisms, two lectionaries of Scripture and two traditions.
Certainly, it is this cataclysmic liturgical explosion of the false spirit of Vatican Council II, led by the liberal think tank of serpent-tongued theologians and ‘periti,' such as the most notorious Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, that has precipitated this inevitable rupture and declension of the orthodox Roman Catholic faith and tradition. It is precisely this modernist cant that has created the ‘second reformation’ of the "Novus Ordo Missae" within the Church today.
The new mass has brought about this reformation of change because it has a protean nature that is oriented to constant variations and novelty, while the old mass is steeped in a tradition that reaches back to the Last Supper in the Upper Room and a codification in perpetuity by Pope Pius V and the Council of Trent.
Until the "Novus Ordo Missae" returns to its Latin roots, Read More...
MISSALE ROMANUM I--THE IMMEMORIAL LATIN MASS OF TRADITION
25/04/07 08:32 Filed in: Missale
Romanum
The battle for the orthodox Roman Catholic today, as prophesied by the late great Pope Pius X, to save the Church from the lethal grip of Modernism is essentially a liturgical conflict which will only end with the return in glory of the immemorial Latin Mass of tradition--the Missa Latina Tridentina.
This elusive, yet inescapable, truth has gradually become so apparent to those who have witnessed the great liturgical explosion of Pope Paul VI's Novus Ordo Missae (New Order of the Mass): the harbinger of the vernacular Mass and the key element in the disunification of common worship for the Roman Catholic world. Most unmistakable of all, the Novus Ordo Missae has not only been the dysfunctional catalyst for the collapse of traditional reverence for the Sacred Mysteries and for the Missale Romanum by the diminution of the sacred words and gestures of the priest during Mass, but it has also militantly besieged this same reverence by an often total disregard for the Reposition of the most awesome and adorable Holy Eucharist after Mass.
Nor can one honestly look upon this decimation of the Missa Latina Tridentina as some accidental Read More...