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Liturgical Time Bombs In Vatican II: Destruction of the Faith through Changes in Catholic Worship Kindle Edition

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Michael Davies shows how Fr. Annibale Bugnini--before his dismissal by Pope Paul VI under suspicion of being a Freemason--was able to "reform" the Catholic Mass into the constantly evolving liturgy. Quoting Bishops and Cardinals as well as liberal "experts" and Protestant observers, he exposes the "time bombs" which were built into the Second Vatican Council's document on the liturgy by a few revolutionaries in order to be exploited later--and which have been detonating ever since. "I am convinced that the crisis in the Church that we are experiencing is to a large extent due to the disintegration of the liturgy."--Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), 1998.

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Michael Davies, who lived from 1936-2004, was a Catholic writer who authored various works following the Second Vatican Council, in addition to unifying Una Voce America, a conservative group. Previously an Anglican, he converted to the Catholic Church in the 1950s, and went on to compose such works as The Liturgical Revolution, The Order of Melchisedech, Partisans of Error, For Altar and Throne, and The Wisdom of Adrian Fortescue. Upon Davies' death in 2004, Pope Benedict XVI called him a man of deep faith who was ready to embrace suffering. His Holiness went on to say, "...We can be confident that the Lord opened wide for him the gates of Heaven. We commend his soul to the Lord's mercy."

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ZDLPCWC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ TAN Books (June 9, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 9, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 111 pages

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Thomas V. Yanoti

The truth shall set you free

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2021

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Mr. Davies reveals the sad realities of a 'Pastoral' Council, with no dogma's or anathema's, hijacked by progressive, marxist, freemason, and globalist jackals. The same jackals running our world today.

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Dr. Garrick Small

Excellent Study guide for CONSTITUTION ON THE SACRED LITURGY

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2013

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Davies has provided a very restrained assessment of the flaws within the Second Vatican Council Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy that have provided the entry points for changes to the Holy Mass that were never intended by the majority of the bishops who accepted the document. He shows how the document was drafted by persons intending a revolutionary departure from the consistent practice of the Church and later carried out by exactly those people. The linkages with freemasonry and protestant churches are put into perspective.

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Carl Edward Vincent M.

Excellent study on what went wrong with the liturgy of the Catholic Church

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2020

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An excellent study on what went wrong with the liturgy of the Catholic Church after Vatican II Council, and the roots that led to our present liturgical disaster.

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Alcuin Reid

Davies pulls no punches

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2007

The liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council is very much a live issue. Michael Davies, for whom this issue was a cause, is a straight-shooter. His numerous works on the liturgical reform that followed it are relentless in their exposition of the nature and causes dissolution that the Roman rite experienced since 1964.

This book is timely for the "question" of the Liturgy is very much under consideration at the present. The fundamental message of the book is contained in its title: the Conciliar Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy contained elements that would later explode and wreak havoc; or, in the words of Aidan Nichols, it "carried within it, encased in the innocuous language of pastoral welfare, some seeds of its own destruction."

In demonstrating how such a grave state of affairs could come to be, Davies looks briefly at the twentieth century Liturgical Movement. Rightly, Davies states that the it sought "liturgical renewal within the Roman rite, but a renewal within the correct sense of the term, using the existing Liturgy to its fullest potential." And Davies correctly asserts that the ground for erroneous liturgical reform was laid by the didacticism of some later Movement enthusiasts, and by the consequent reformism which they espoused, which had far too much in common with the Enlightenment liturgical reforms condemned by Pius VI in 1794 and deprecated by Pius XII in 1947 in Mediator Dei.

Archbishop Bugnini looms large early in the ascendancy of the reformists. Davies clashed personally with Bugnini over the question of the prelate's alleged masonic affiliation, and here Davies' presents clear arguments in support of his claim. I have to confess to always having wondered whether the question of who was or was not a mason amongst the curia is not a distraction from the critical assessment of the liturgical reforms? Surely the reforms themselves are what must be judged, not the moral probity of their advocates?

But Davies is right to point the finger at Bugnini, for he pushed for ritual reforms that served his view that a didactic and radically simplified Liturgy was what modern man required well before the Second Vatican Council. And, given Bugnini's appointment as Secretary to the Council's Preparatory Commission, there is no doubt that he was ideally placed to see to the preference of his ideas. However, as Davies makes clear, Bugnini was not named Secretary of the Liturgical Commission during the Council itself, and was sacked from his Roman teaching post at the same time. Under the new Pope Paul VI, however, he was named Secretary of the post-conciliar Consilium and resumed his `interrupted' work.

It is important to note that the Fathers of the Council did not draft the schema on the Sacred Liturgy which they were called upon to debate; this was done under Bugnini's co-ordination, who for more than a decade prior to the Council had been pushing for a reform along the lines of questionable principles. Thus, Davies asserts, some proposals, moderate enough when read with a traditional mindset, were inserted which were later to prove capable of exploitation in a most radical manner. It is also important to note that hardly any of the Council Fathers, for whom radical liturgical reform cannot be said to have been a burning issue, could have been expected to foresee such consequences.

For the "time bombs" which Davies identifies were considered by the more than 2,000 bishops as merely proposals for a moderate reform--indeed an organic development--of the traditional Liturgy. Paragraph 23 itself honours this principle and declares that "there must be no innovations unless the good of the Church genuinely and certainly requires them." And the call for active participation was merely repeating that of Pius X made in 1903. Archbishop Lefebvre, who would later write "let us then admit without hesitation that some liturgical reforms were necessary," himself signed Sacrosanctum Concilium. The Fathers of the Council did not suspect the presence of such time bombs.

One question Davies does not discuss merits some examination: were these time bombs maliciously planted with a view to the destruction of the Liturgy, or were they proposals for moderate reforms which were later exploited well beyond the bounds of their original intent and meaning? There is not enough hard evidence to gain a conviction on a conspiracy charge, however much suspicion abounds. On the available evidence, it seems that we can only say that the death of some key personages, the election of a new Pope and his rehabilitation of Bugnini--with whom Paul VI maintained extraordinarily frequent contact--and the spirit of the age, all combined to give to Bugnini and his allies the opportunity to explode the time bombs even if they had not originally been placed in the schema with conspiratorial intent.

And explode them he did, rapidly. To take but one by way of example, Sacrosanctum Concilium's permission for the introduction of some vernacular into the Liturgy was, within six months, being interpreted as a licence for the progressive application of the vernacular into the Liturgy. Of course, we know that this is precisely what has happened. In the words of Bugnini; "It cannot be denied that the principle, approved by the Council, of using the vernaculars was given a broad interpretation." And the same may be said about the other principles or permissions for moderate reform.

Davies catalogues various aspects of the consequent downward spiral of the Roman rite, not hesitating to attribute to it the pastoral disaster and massive loss of faith that first world countries have experienced since the Council. There is much by way of qualification and discussion one may wish to introduce into such an assessment, but again, this is a brief book, and one cannot escape the fact that the Liturgy and attitudes to it are utterly central to the practice of the Faith. Tampering with it is risky. To revolutionise it is to court disaster.

In an appendix "The Fruits of the Liturgical Reforms," Davies cites some pretty hard and up-to-date statistical evidence--if evidence be needed--that we are suffering from such a disaster. Those who speak of the unfettered "renewal" supposedly experienced since the Council must face these facts. They also need to appreciate the causal link between the state of the Church today and the liturgical reforms enacted in the name of the Council. Other appendices provide some significant material demonstrating the protestant influence in the preparation of the new liturgical rites, and evidence that no formal permission is necessary for the celebration of the traditional rites.

Davies' claims are as striking as they are serious. He pulls no punches, and for that we may be thankful, for the crisis in the Church does not permit of ostrich-like obfuscation. Whilst there is much more study and discussion to be done, there is perhaps an even greater need for concerted and immediate action to stop the haemorrhaging of the very fountain of life-blood of the Church that is her Sacred Liturgy. For stating this clearly and succinctly we remain grateful to the late Michael Davies.

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William J. Szigethy

Must get back to traditions!!!

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2019

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The churches new policies since vatican ii are destroying the church from within. We must get back to traditional basics! Evan Pope Francis is to liberal with his new views on church policies.

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Randy

Well worth the read

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2018

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If you’ve ever wondered how the “spirit of Vatican 2” could gain such a foothold on present liturgical practices, this is the book for you.

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Fr. David M. Chiantella

Mass Confusion

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2018

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What faithful Catholics need to know about the destruction of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Highly recommend!

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Jan

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2015

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Excellent condition

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BEA

Très bon ouvrage

Reviewed in France on September 26, 2017

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Un livre qui se devrait d'être lu par tout catholique pour bien comprendre les dommages que malheureusement le Concile Vatican II a causé dans l'Eglise et la nécessité de restaurer la Foi dans son entière et pleine Vérité dans la Tradition ainsi que la Liturgie sacrée.

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