THIS HAS TO BE A PRE-VATICAN II LITURGY, BECAUSE THERE IS NO NOBLE SIMPLICITY, ACCRETIONS THAT HAVE ENTERED INTO THE MASS THAT NEED PURIFICATION AND THAT GODAWFUL TRIUMPHALISM THAT SO CHARACTERIZES THE PRE-VATICAN II MASS!

BELOW MY TEXT IS THE VIDEO OF THE  ORDINATION OF THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF VIENNA. THIS IS A PRE-VATICAN II MASS IN THE MOST POST VATICAN II WAY POSSIBLE!

The irony is that this is suppose to be a Post-Vatican II Bugnini Mass. But is it? 

The Video begins with pre-Mass entertainment in and outside the marvelous and quite splendid St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. An hour or so into the video and after the entertainment, The Mass of Ordination of a Bishop begins.

It has 1970’s written all over it. There is no doubt in my mind that it was planned by a liturgical committee because they created a Giraffe of a Mass! (I needed Alexa to spell that for me!)

The good things about the Mass:

1. The Cathedral is splendidly beautiful and breathtakingly so!

The bad and the ugly of the Mass:

1. The vestments are horrible, just horrible and quite a contrast in ugliness compared to the beauty of the Cathedral.

2. The free standing modern altar doesn’t belong in this Cathedral and it is opposite of the cathedral, just plain ugly in a grotesque kind of way

3. The Music is splendid but triumphant. Triumphalism reigns in the music, especially the Entrance “chant.” Breaking that godawful triumphalism  and thus following Vatican II, Gregorian Chant would have been far more suitable. Deacons, priests, bishops and archbishops should never have a triumphalistic Mass to begin their ministries!

4. I could not watch the whole Mass but two things stand out in terms of not doing the red of this neo- Bugnini Mass. First, why do we need laymen (women ) holding the Book of the Gospel over the bishop? Why make an ideological statement in a Mass for Ordaining a Bishop, by adding something to the Rite that is not in the rubrics!? Read the black and do the red!!! 

5. What in the name of God and all that is holy is with this passing of the Pastoral Staff (Crozier) from  person to person, and of a variety of kinds of people in the Catholic Church until it finally gets to the ordaining bishop who then hands it to the new Archbishop? What stupid, silly and long, repetitious creativity. 

6. And all those servers holding candles for the Eucharistic Prayer and throughout the Cathedral and the pompous overuse of incense—and this coming from me, the incense king! 

WE NEED VATICAN III AND BUGNINI ON STEROIDS TO REFORM THIS MASS!!!!!

VIENNA (LifeSiteNews) — Josef Grünwidl was ordained Archbishop of Vienna on Saturday in a ceremony at St. Stephen’s Cathedral. The rite included notable deviations from the liturgical texts, with an emphasis on layperson involvement, including women-led roles in the ceremony.

On January 24, Josef Grünwidl was consecrated archbishop during a solemn Mass in Vienna, Austria, after having been appointed by Pope Leo XIV as successor to Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. During the consecration, elements not provided for in the liturgical texts for the ritual were introduced which appeared to express the modernist vision the new bishop holds regarding certain aspects of Christian life, nature, and the structure of the Church.