The gestures, prayers and liturgical acts used in Mass are to reflect the true Catholic Faith. In each detail the Mass must reflect what Catholics profess, and those beliefs must reflect in the Mass. This is the primary point to remember about efforts to alter the liturgy in any way, since changes would, by definition, affect the Faith of Catholics. This holds firmly to the Catholic truism (lex orandi, lex credendi) that the law of prayer and law of belief are one and the same. Historically, until the Vatican II era, there had been only well-constructed, minor and insubstantial changes to the Mass, with orthodoxy ensured in the primary setting of worship so that the faithful would enjoy sound, pure doctrine. Pope Pius XII wrote in his encyclical, Mystici Corporis, (1943): Certainly the loving Mother [the Church] is spotless in the Sacraments, by which she gives birth to and nourishes her children; in the faith which she has always preserved inviolate; in her sacred laws imposed on all; in the evangelical counsels which she recommends; in those heavenly gifts and extraordinary graces through which, with inexhaustible fecundity, she generates hosts of martyrs, virgins and confessors (par. 66). There are numerous other examples like this, all of which attest that the sacraments of Catholic doctrine are, and must remain, without blemish to be effective in saving souls. This is as it should be for a Church founded by Jesus Christ, Who assured his followers that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. If it were to happen that the Church promoted sacraments that actually harmed souls, and were thus invalid, it would be difficult to keep those gates locked and closed against the devil and his domain. Where teaching occurs All active Catholics, depending on their abilities, assist at least weekly with Holy Mass (Sunday), clearly establishing it as the setting for learning the Faith through the Holy Mass's liturgical rite. Therefore, any move to amend the Faith as understood by the laity would have to include changes to what they hear, how they interpret it and so on. Changing words on paper would not suffice, and most Catholics do not read papal encyclicals written to bishops, so the modernist usurpation of the Vatican commencing in 1958 took aim at the spot where the Faith is made manifest, the Mass. At the end of the 1950s, interestingly, a secular and sexual upheaval was building up in the Western world, poised to bring rock music and sexual liberation into the homes of pagans and believers alike. The Vatican imposed the New Mass, one that no longer reflected the True Catholic Faith. Rather, it promoted a perfidious, modernistic faith. This was introduced officially and fully approved by John XXIII and his various successors, particularly Paul VI. The connection between worship and faith is direct and powerful, and the New Mass became the most potent means for spreading new doctrine and, eventually, new points of doctrine and faith, replacing the Truth emanating from the traditional Most Holy Mass. Even Luther knew Although the fount of much heresy and nonsense Martin Luther grew up in the True Church, and could not shake his belief in any number of its tenets. Today's Protestant fundamentalists would fairly faint at any number of his utterances, among which was an observation that if you take away the Mass, you take away the Church. (Luther also revered the Blessed Virgin Mary and believed her to be a perpetual virgin.) In fact, when the Anglicans amended the Mass in the 16th century, "under the pretext of returning to the primitive form," explained Pope Leo, they did just what Paul VI and his allies claimed to do upon creating the New Mass. It is likely significant, too, that the Vatican introduced the New Mass on April 3, 1969, the beginning of Passover for Jews. Christ, of course, established the True Sacrifice of the Mass when Jews were observing Passover in 33 AD. April 3, 1969, looms large today. Pope Paul VI promulgated what he termed a simple "reform" of the Mass, again claiming the support of "more ancient liturgical sources" in his Missale Romanum. As it was to be a new kind (or order) of Mass, the Latin draft carried the phrase "novus Ordo Missae." In short order, the term New Mass entered the Catholic vocabulary, and much has changed in the intervening 40-odd years. Since that day, traditional Catholics attempting to keep the Faith that was handed down, unbroken and unaltered, from St. Peter to Pope Pius XII (d. 1958) have labeled the religion behind this New Mass as "Novus Ordo." The established Vatican religion, rather than the True Catholic Faith, is best termed the Novus Ordo Religion. Faithful Catholics should be careful in all regards and seek the counsel, fellowship and teaching of the True Church. There are many Churches, groups and Web sites that seek to promote this Truth, and your search will not go unrewarded. Take heart!
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