Why Holy Mass Is More Joyful Than the Novus Ordo Eucharist
Blessed Contardo Ferrini (1859-1902), as a young man, used to go to Mass every morning.
He was accompanied by one of his younger brothers. One day, after an 80-year-old priest had celebrated Mass, the little boy asked Contardo: "How is it that such an old priest says during Mass: 'ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam' ['to God who gives joy to my youth']?
Blessed Contardo, clapping his hand on his little brother's shoulder, replied: "You must know, dear Giovanni, that whoever is in God's grace is always young!
Holy Mass "has its own austerity, no rhythmic, ephemeral music is allowed", while in the Novus Ordo Eucharist "anything goes", comments ITreSentieri.it (29 November).
The blog continues: "On the one hand there is the seriousness of the sacred, on the other the trivialisation of the sacred".
The seriousness of the sacred does not cancel out the profane, but sublimates it: "The trivialisation of the sacred, on the other hand, is overwhelmed by the profane, until it becomes the true …More
The Mass is the source and summit of Catholic worship according to VII document Sacrosanctum Concilium.. In these fair isles of Great Britain, Catholics knew this before VII was conceived. And many died defending the Mass. But now the Church itself has taken up the persecution of the Mass. How awful, what a turn?
@brhenry No, you assumed that the persecution I referred to was the Novus Ordo itself. But you are wrong. The persecution of the Mass, the same Mass that many in Great Britain died defending, that I speak of is Traditiones Custodes, and it’s subsequent sequels and draconian edicts from the congregation of divine worship, which restricts the use of Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).
If as you say all legitimate rites of Mass (and there are many) are valid, then why single out the TLM for restriction? Why insist on one Roman Rite - the Novus Ordo - as the UNIQUE expression? Why ban saying TLM in parish churches? Why refuse permission for newly ordained priests to say it? THIS is the persecution I refer to. Not what you’ve made up in your head.
Incidentally, your use of the words ‘fake news’ is utterly out of its intended context, by the great man THE DON.