The Invalid New Mass

-Why the revolutionary “Mass” instituted by Paul VI in 1969, which is celebrated in the vernacular (e.g. English in the U.S.A., French in France, etc.) in all the dioceses, is Protestant and invalid and cannot be attended by a true Catholic-

By Bro. Michael Dimond and Bro. Peter Dimond

 

The Liturgical Revolution: A New Mass  [PDF File]

(This comprehensive article explains why the New Mass – “the Mass” celebrated in almost 100% of the churches of the Vatican II sect – is not valid.  It explains how it is Protestant (i.e. how its features parallel what the 16^th Protestants did to the Catholic Mass), and it covers the prayers and ceremonies that have been deleted, as well as who was responsible for the formation of this revolutionary “Mass,” etc.  It also contains many shocking photographs.)

 

 

 

VIDEO: Why the New Mass and New Rite of Ordination are Invalid [50 min.] 2^nd edition   

 

Why the New Rite of Ordination is Invalid [PDF File]

This article explains why the New Rite of Ordination – which was instituted by Paul VI on June 18, 1968 after Vatican II – is not valid.)

 

The New Rite of Consecration of Bishops [PDF file]

This article explains the changes that Paul VI made to the rite of consecrating bishops after Vatican II.)

 

The Changes to the Other Sacraments [PDF file]

This article explains the changes that Paul VI made to the rites of Baptism, Confirmation, Confession, Marriage and Extreme Unction after Vatican II.

 

Fascinating Story from a reader about his experience at the Novus Ordo

 

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9.  The Liturgical Revolution – A New Mass

 

“Truly, if one of the devils in C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters had been entrusted with the ruin of the liturgy he could not have done it better.”[1]

 

THE NEW MASS VS. THE TRADITIONAL MASS

 

The Traditional Latin Mass, the most holy act of worship of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, was codified by Pope St. Pius V in his Bull Quo Primum in 1570. 

 

 

In his famous Bull Quo Primum, Pope St. Pius V forbade changing the traditional Latin Mass.

 

Pope St. Pius V, Quo Primum Tempore, July 14, 1570:

“Now, therefore, in order that all everywhere may adopt and observe what has been delivered to them by the Holy Roman Church, Mother and Mistress of the other churches, it shall be unlawful henceforth and forever throughout the Christian world to sing or to read Masses according to any formula other than this Missal published by Us… Accordingly, no one whosoever is permitted to infringe or rashly contravene this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, direction, grant, indult, declaration, will, decree, and prohibition.  Should any venture to do so, let him understand that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.”[2]

 

On April 3, 1969, Paul VI replaced the Traditional Latin Mass in the Vatican II churches with his own creation, the New Mass or Novus Ordo.  Since that time, the world has seen the following in the Vatican II churches which celebrate the New Mass or Novus Ordo:

 

The world has seen Clown Masses, in which the “priest” dresses as a clown in utter mockery of God.

 

 

The world has seen a priest dressed as Dracula; in a football jersey accompanied by cheerleaders; as a cheese-head…

 

 

…driving a Volkswagen down the aisle of church as the people sing hosanna. There have been disco Masses…

 

 

...gymnastic performances during the New Mass; balloon Masses; Carnival Masses;

 

 

 

…nude Masses, at which scantily clad or nude people take part.  The world has seen juggling Masses, at which a juggler performs during the New Mass. 

 

 

The world has seen priests celebrate the New Mass with Dorito Chips;

 

 

…with Mountain Dew; on a cardboard box; with cookies; with Chinese tea accompanied by ancestor worship; with a basketball as the priest bounces it all over the altar; with a guitar as the priest plays a solo performance.  The world has witnessed the New Mass with a priest almost totally nude as he dances around the altar or with other high-wire abominations…

 

 

  The world has seen New Masses with priests dressed in native pagan costumes;

 

 

  …with a Jewish Menorah placed on the altar;

 

 

  …with a statue of Buddha on the altar; with nuns making offerings to female goddesses; with lectors and gift bearers dressed up as voodoo Satanists.  The world has seen the New Mass at which the performer is dressed in a tuxedo and tells jokes.  The world has seen rock concerts at the New Mass;

 

 

 …guitar and polka New Masses;

 

 

 …a puppet New Mass; a New Mass where the people gather round the altar dressed as devils;

 

 

 …a New Mass where people perform lewd dances to the beat of a steel drum band.  The world has seen a New Mass where nuns dressed as pagan vestal virgins make pagan offerings.

 

 

 

 

The world has also seen New Masses incorporating every false religion.  There have been Buddhist New masses;

 

 

…Hindu and Muslim New Masses;

 

 

 …New Masses where Jews and Unitarians offer candles to false gods.  There are churches where the entire congregation says Mass with the priest;

 

 

…where the priest sometimes talks to the people instead of saying Mass. 

 

What we have catalogued is just a tiny sampling of the kind of thing that occurs in every diocese in the world where the New Mass is celebrated, to one degree or another.  Our Lord tells us, “By their fruits you shall know them” (Mt. 7:16).  The fruits of the New Mass are incalculably scandalous, sacrilegious and idolatrous.  This is because the New Mass itself, even in its most pure form, is a false, invalid Mass and an abomination.

 

 

Even an organization which defends the New Mass was forced to admit the following about the typical New Mass – i.e., the New Mass normally offered in the churches (without even necessarily considering the aforementioned abominations and sacrileges that are commonplace): “Most of the New Masses we’ve attended… are happy-clappy festivities, the music is atrocious, the sermons are vacuous, and they are irreverent...”[3]

 

 

When the New Mass came out in 1969, Cardinals Ottaviani, Bacci, and some other theologians wrote to Paul VI about it.  Keep in mind that what they said about the New Mass concerns the Latin Version, the so-called “most pure” version of the New Mass.  Their study is popularly known as The Ottaviani Intervention.  It states: 

 

“The Novus Ordo [the New Order of Mass] represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session 22 of the Council of Trent.”[4]

 

They could clearly see that the Latin version of the New Mass was a striking departure from the teaching of the Council of Trent.  Of the twelve offertory prayers in the Traditional Mass, only two are retained in the New Mass.  The deleted offertory prayers are the same ones that the Protestant heretics Martin Luther and Thomas Cranmer eliminated.  The New Mass was promulgated by Paul VI with the help of six Protestant Ministers. 

 

The six Protestant Ministers who helped design the New Mass were: Drs. George, Jasper, Shepherd, Kunneth, Smith and Thurian.

 

Paul VI even admitted to his good friend Jean Guitton that his intention in changing the Mass was to make it Protestant.

 

Jean Guitton (an intimate friend of Paul VI) wrote: “The intention of Pope Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the [New] Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy.  There was with Pope Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or, at least to correct, or, at least to relax, what was too Catholic in the traditional sense in the Mass and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.”[5]

 

Paul VI removed what was too Catholic in the Mass in order to make the Mass a Protestant service. 

 

A study of the propers and orations of the Traditional Mass versus the New Mass reveals a massacre of the Traditional Faith.  The traditional Missal contains 1182 orations.  About 760 of those were dropped entirely from the New Mass.  Of the approximately 36% which remained, the revisers altered over half of them before introducing them into the new Missal.  Thus, only some 17% of the orations from the Traditional Mass made it untouched into the New Mass.  What’s also striking is the content of the revisions that were made to the orations.  The Traditional Orations which described the following concepts were specifically abolished from the New Missal: the depravity of sin; the snares of wickedness; the grave offense of sin; the way to perdition; terror in the face of God’s fury; God’s indignation; the blows of His wrath; the burden of evil; temptations; wicked thoughts; dangers to the soul; enemies of soul and body.  Also eliminated were orations which described: the hour of death; the loss of heaven; everlasting death; eternal punishment; the pains of Hell and its fire.  Special emphasis was made to abolish from the New Mass the orations which described detachment from the world; prayers for the departed; the true Faith and the existence of heresy; the references to the Church militant, the merits of the saints, miracles and Hell.[6]  One can see the results of this massacre of the Traditional Faith from the propers of the New Mass.

 

 

The New Mass is fraught with sacrileges, profanations and the most ridiculous abominations imaginable because it reflects a false religion which has abandoned the traditional Catholic Faith. 

 

 

The false religion the New Mass reflects is one reason why it is completely empty; it is why the fruits are utterly desolate, barren and almost unspeakably bad.  The religion practiced at the churches where the New Mass is said, simply put, is a complete sacrilege and an empty celebration of man.

 

 

Even Dietrich von Hildebrand, a supporter of the Vatican II religion, said about the New Mass:

 

“Truly, if one of the devils in C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters had been entrusted with the ruin of the liturgy he could not have done it better.”[7]

 

 

With the exception of a single genuflection by the celebrant after the consecration, virtually every sign of respect for the Body and Blood of Christ which characterized the Traditional Mass has either been abolished or made optional for the New Mass.

 

 

It’s no longer obligatory for the sacred vessels to be gilded if they are not made of precious metals.  Sacred vessels, which only the anointed hands of a priest could touch, are now handled by all. 

 

 

The priest frequently shakes hands before distributing the host.[8]  The General Instruction for the New Mass also declares that altars no longer need to be of natural stone; that an altar stone containing the relics of martyrs is no longer required; that only one cloth is required on the altar; that it is not necessary to have a crucifix or even candles upon the altar.[9]

 

Not even one of the mandatory requirements developed over 2,000 years to ensure that the altar is of fitting dignity has been retained in the New Mass.

 

 

When the Protestants split from the Catholic Church in England in the 16^th century, they changed the Mass to reflect their heretical beliefs.  The altars were replaced by tables.  Latin was replaced by English.  Statues and icons were removed from the churches.  The Last Gospel and the Confiteor were abolished.  “Communion” was distributed in the hand.  Mass was said out loud and facing the Congregation.  Traditional music was discarded and replaced with new music.  Three-fourths of the priests in England went along with the New Service. 

 

This is also precisely what happened in 1969, when Paul VI promulgated the New Mass, the Novus Ordo Missae.  The similarities between the 1549 Anglican Prayer Book and the New Mass are striking.  One expert noted:

 

“The extent to which the Novus Ordo Mass departs from the theology of the Council of Trent can best be gauged by comparing the prayers which the Consilium removed from the liturgy to those removed by the heretic Thomas Cranmer.  The coincidence is not simply striking – it is horrifying.  It cannot, in fact, be a coincidence.”[10]

 

In order to emphasize their heretical belief that the Mass is not a sacrifice, but just a meal, the Protestants removed the altar and put a table in its place.  In Protestant England, for example, “On November 23, 1550 the Privy Council ordered all altars in England destroyed and replaced by communion tables.”[11]

 

A Vatican II church with a Protestant-like table for its new Protestant “Mass”

 

The chief Protestant heretics declared: “The form of a table shall more move the simple from the superstitious opinions of the popish Mass unto the right use of the Lord’s Supper.  For the use of an altar is to make sacrifice upon it: the use of a table is to serve men to eat upon.”[12]  The Welsh Catholic martyr, Richard Gwyn, declared in protest against this change: “In place of an altar there is a miserable table, in place of Christ there is bread.”[13]

 

And St. Robert Bellarmine noted: “…when we enter the temples of the heretics, where there is nothing except a chair for preaching and a table for making a meal, we feel ourselves to be entering a profane hall and not the house of God.”[14]

 

 

Just like the new services of the Protestant revolutionaries, the New Mass is celebrated on a table. 

 

 

 

The 1549 Anglican Prayer Book was also called “The Supper of the Lord, and the holy Communion, commonly called the Mass.”[15]  This title emphasized the Protestant belief that the Mass is just a meal, a supper – and not a sacrifice.  When Paul VI promulgated the General Instruction for the New Mass, it was entitled exactly the same way.  Its title was: “The Lord’s Supper or Mass.”[16]