THE IDEOLOGICAL USES OF THE MODERN AND ANCIENT MASS

Vatican II asked for a very conservative refinement of the Tridentine Mass, not a wholesale reform oR revision. Consilium and the spirit of Vatican II liturgical theologians reformed and revised the Mass way beyond what Vatican II wanted and it is the reformist agenda of theologians, post-Consilium, that did the most damage, not only to the manner in which the Modern Mass is celebrated but its environment! It was all blamed on Vatican II.

Worse than that, the laity and most of the clergy did not ask for the changes in the Mass that were imposed upon them in the most pre-Vatican II authoritarian manner. To boot, we were told that we were wrong in preferring the old ways to the new and this just a few years after Vatican II. It was crass, ideological manipulation by using psychology to do it! WHAT WAS CONSIDERED HOLY ONE MOMENT WAS DEMONIZED THE NEXT! That’s almost up there with blaspheming the Holy Spirit! 

Pope Leo, lead the hierarchy in a repentance of that and how the modern Mass was disfigured by bishops, priests and laity and almost immediately after the new Missal was promulgated by improvisation and creativity.

And that manipulation was used to change the Church from what it was to what is almost unrecognizable to what is was. Vatican II did not mandate that. 

Pope Leo lead the hierarchy in a repentance of that. 

My recommendation is to do what Vatican II asked in terms of the refinement of the Mass. Minor simplification, more intelligibility, which means some vernacular while maintaining Latin and Greek. 

Repent of forcing the Mass to be celebrated facing the people and on a free standing altar. Repent of forcing people to stand to receive Holy Communion in the hand and from a parade of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. Repent of the forced wreckovation of churches, altars and Catholicism. 

Repent of saying everything about the Tridentine Mass was wrong based upon organic development that was codified in its rubrics. Not only were the rubrics mocked but every mystical aspect associated with the Tridentine Mass was mocked and derided as well as the spirituality and morality that flows from the TLM.

If the Holy Father doesn’t want to return the Tridentine Mass, give the Modern Mass every aspect of the form and ethos of the Tridentine Mass. It isn’t too difficult to do so. 

Those who want the Tridentine Rite exclusively and reject everything about Vatican II including the popes of Vatican II and use the most vile language against Vatican II and the popes. REPENT!