You Were There When History Changed

Posted by Bill Hennessy on December 17, 2006 under Uncategorized |

Shortly after Christmas 2006, Pope Benedict XVI will lift the universal ban on the Pius V (Tridentine) Mass of Holy Catholic Church, according to Catholic News Service and reported by EWTN. For the first time Pope Paul VI banned the Latin liturgy in 1971, local bishops will be powerless to prevent priests and parishes from using the proper liturgy.

When Paul VI banned the Mass, the Catholic church stopped growing for the first time since the protestant reformation. Since the vernacular mass became mandatory, the Church has fallen into disarray. As then Cardinal Ratzinger wrote in “Milestones,” the vernacular mass opened the door unimaginable liturgical abuses, so going to far as deny God’s existence.

As goes the Church, so goes the world. The Church is the one, true anchor for all humanity—man’s connection to his Creator. As the Catholic church mocked itself with ridiculous, irreligious, vainglorious celebrations of man’s triumph over God (which is precisely what most vernacular masses constitute), the world followed its guiding light along the road to hell.

While Benedict has stopped short of eliminating vernacular Mass, he will strongly encourage all episcopates to make the Tridentine Mass available to all Catholics.

This massive change in church policy toward the Mass comes on the heels of the reformation of the English vernacular mass. Last summer, the Holy See ordered a rewriting of the English transaction of the new mass to eliminate anti-doctrinal heresies inserted during the 1970s.

When the official order comes out in the next two weeks, record the moment in a journal. You will have witnessed an historical event on the order of the Council of Trent.

Gloria Deo!

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