Novus Ordo Crumbles: "I'll Let Lay People Say Parts of the Eucharistic Prayer"

The official news website of the Swiss bishops rejoices that lay people preside at the Novus Ordo Eucharist, after the same bishops have just stated that lay people “cannot do this.”

To this end, the website uses Father Marcel von Holzen of Guthirt Parish in Zurich-Wipkingen, a former dean.

His Eucharist does not depend on "reading down the liturgy", he slogans, but "on our hearts" - whatever that means.

For him, the liturgy is a "field of experimentation" because the [failed] Novus Ordo of Vatican II was also a "field of experimentation". One must "take into account the reality of a changed [= collapsed] Church,” von Holzen insists.

He wants the bishops to "keep more in step with Francis" and "solve regional questions regionally as well" - because for von Holzen, Christ's sacraments differ from province to province.

There is "a Swiss tradition" which "shapes the liturgy," he is convinced; however, the Society of St. Pius X also hails from Switzerland.

For von Holzen, only "epiclesis, words of institution, and anamnesis" in the Novus Ordo eucharistic prayers are "priestly parts." The rest he distributes to lay people. He calls this an “attitude of a sect the early Church.”

In his view, baptism "confers on everyone the ability to administer sacraments", which makes his ordination and the ordination of his bishop a waste of time.

In a large community, however, there must be "rules" that determine what it takes to administer sacraments properly and this is done through "ordination" - he warms up Martin Luther's errors.

Because of the [artificially produced] shortage of priests, lay people "are to be commissioned to administer the sacraments temporarily, for example in anointing the sick," von Holzen decrees.

He insults Catholics as "defenders of clericalism" and accuses them of a "fear of losing power" - while he himself spreads his paleo-protestant propaganda under the protective cloak of the anti-clerical media powers.

"As far as I am concerned, one could ordain all pastoral collaborators - married or celibate - who are suitable for ordination" - he finally says. But what is the point of ordaining if ordination is dispensable?

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