The new Mass a Mass of a different “faith”? - fsspx.de
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The couple's reasoning is based on the increase in private Masses, which is justified by the effects of the Cross on the souls of the dead, which in turn leads to the doctrine of the Mass as a sacrifice of atonement. This is, apart from a few nuances, entirely correct [1]. We should be grateful to Mr and Mrs Weidert for placing the problem at the level of doctrine. Contrary to what we have often heard, the decision to celebrate the old Mass is not a question of charisma or sensitivity, not a question of "positive attachment" which makes it pointless to formulate justifications, but a simple question of faith.
Mr and Mrs Weidert are obviously guided by a hermeneutic of rupture, and not without reason. Reference is made to the Council and also to the Catechism of the Catholic Church via a (misunderstood) quote from Benedict XVI [2]. This is not surprising when the aim is to promote "an all-in-all new form of Christ". What the two are calling for is that the last remnants of the "other faith" be finally eliminated. The reason for this? A credible, audible proclamation of the faith in order to avoid a "counter-testimony of the faith, a catastrophic image of Christ".
When John Paul II wrote his last encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (2003), he lamented that "a very reduced understanding of the Eucharistic mystery" was emerging. Deprived of its sacrificial value, it is experienced as if it did not go beyond the meaning and value of a convivial and fraternal encounter. This conception of the Mass sacrifices part of the doctrine "solely to the effectiveness of proclamation" (n. 10).
The concept advocated by the two "committed Christians" rejects the doctrine of expiatory satisfaction. It deletes the Epistle to the Hebrews ("without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins" [Heb 9:22]), amputates the numerous references to hell from the Gospels, eliminates the Council of Trent, ignores tradition in favor of a return to a sterile Gospel, since all this was just a "historical slip-up."
In fact, they go far beyond John Paul II and Benedict XVI, since the Catechism of the Catholic Church (edited by Joseph Ratzinger and promulgated by John Paul II) itself explains the reason for the Masses for the dead (1371) and the expiatory substitution [3] and, ultimately, the nature of redemption (n. 612-623). For if there is redemption, one must be saved from something, and that is sin and its punishment! Let us remember that the expiatory sacrifice does not consist in satisfying some kind of morbid lust for blood and death, but in carrying out an act of love for God above all else - to the point of actually giving one's own life - which makes amends for the offense to God caused by the sinner's rebellious will (cf. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, IIIa q.48 a.3).
By rejecting all this Catholic doctrine, they now want to proclaim another religion, another salvation. However, this new doctrine is not so new, it is more or less that of the so-called "Reformed".
This is a high price to pay for a supposedly more credible proclamation of the faith. Unlike the times of Saint Jerome, the Catholic world, at least that of La Croix, does not groan or is not surprised when it awakens in a Protestant way [4]. However, the obvious success of the traditional Mass is not enough to awaken it from its anti-dogmatic sleep. Brave new religion... [5].
Father Nicolas Cadiet
(Quelle: The Latin Door - FSSPX.News)