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Last Days News - July
1, 2011
“Place more attention upon the Holy Sacrifice. It is being celebrated in a manner that is not approved of by the Eternal Father. Take the time to honor your God with your heart. My brothers and sisters, the Holy Sacrifice cannot be done in thirty minutes, or even in sixty minutes, properly. There is no time in Heaven, and you shall not place a time upon the Holy Sacrifice on your earth.” – Padre Pio, April 5, 1975
Archdiocese of Washington Blog reported on June 19, 2011:
By Msgr. Charles Pope
Under the current liturgical norms there is greater flexibility than some would wish regarding both diversity and inculturation. Most of you who read this blog regularly know that I am probably more appreciative of legitimate (please note that word) diversity. I celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass (usually in the solemn high form).
But there is a deep end of the liturgical pool, where we are no longer in touch with the foundation. There is a precipice, we must avoid where we are no longer in the realm of tradition or legitimate diversity. It is place where we have simply cast aside proper liturgical boundaries and the fundamental focus of the liturgy is lost.
And that fundamental focus is, of course, God. At some point it becomes clear that liturgy has devolved into a self centered circus which celebrates human exotica, not the truth of God of the beauty and proper order that is proper to God and the things of God.
And the bottom of this post are two very disturbing videos from Europe that exhibit a total loss of focus on God, and an obsession with exotic and strange human behaviors. Childlike simplicity before God is a virtue, but childishness is no virtue at all. It is simply obnoxious, and should be rebuked, as silly children often are with the admonition: “Grow up!”
The first video features a bizarre clown liturgy of sorts. I think these absurdities are largely gone form the American scene. The German priest and other ministers process down the aisle of the church in various stages of clown dress. The priest (Fr. Bozo?) wears a clown nose and comes down the aisle in a superman cape. Later he dons a jester’s cap as he “proclaims” (makes a joke of ?) the gospel. The opening song has a polka rhythm and is done in the style of carousel music. The homily seems more of a standup routine, than a sermon on the Word of God.
Some one may respond, “But Father, But Father, isn’t Mass supposed to be joyful and relevant?” Yes, but there is plenty of that possible within the norms of the Mass. Come to my parish and I will show you joy and exuberance within the tradition of the sacred. It is not necessary to don secular clown attire and turn the liturgy into a carnival. There is nothing sacred in any tradition about bozo noses and jester hats. There is no sacred tradition associated with carousel music and priests wearing superman capes. Carnivals (literally: “farewell to meat”) did and do occur in some cultures on Fat Tuesday, but outside the church, in the town square. There are no liturgical norms that envision Bozo noses, for example, by indicating that the color of the Bozo nose should match the color of the vestment of day .
Many questions arise at seeing this video. Where is the local Bishop? Has he disciplined the clergy and sought to instruct the people on the true nature of liturgy? How have the clergy gone so wrong? Probably in stages. But who instructed them? How widespread is this problem in Europe?
The second video, in Austria, I think, is of a so-called “Western Mass.” That’s “western” in the sense of the “old wild west,” and Country and Western music. The people dress in old wild west garb and Mass is celebrated in the midst of a picnic. During the Mass the people are eating and drinking. Many are also smoking, even during the canon and distribution of communion, we see some puffing away. During the homily, the priest congratulates himself and the people on making the Mass so available. And he opines that this is more of what we have to do to make the Church credible to people. He also claims the local Cardinal’s approval for the whole thing. Meanwhile, people puff on cigarettes and open soda pop cans. Communion was opened to non-Catholics as well.
Sigh… But this is what often happened as the Western World has turned in on itself (curvatus in se).In the anthropocentric shift that occurred as early as the 16th Century “man” has become increasingly fascinated with himself. God has been moved to the periphery, (kicked to the curb if you will), and Man has moved to the center.
And this anthropocentric notion has surely plagued modern liturgy. There’s a kind of an “aren’t we great” mentality. So that anything “we do” should be brought into the sacred liturgy. People ride carousels, aren’t we great! So let’s celebrate what we do in the liturgy. People goof off and sing silly songs and smoke and drink, too. And since we’re great, why not celebrate this greatness in the liturgy too?
And what should be God-centered: about God and what he has done, becomes all about us and what we do, even the silliest, least sacred, and sinful things about us. So “we” gather and celebrate “us.” God? Oh sure, he’s invited too, he is invited to praise us and delight in us almost as much as we do, if he wants. This is, after all about us and for us isn’t it?
But that’s just the point. It isn’t about us. It is about God, and what he has done for us in saving and setting us free. It is about the great paschal mystery, it is about adoring, worshiping and praising the God who has rescued us from this present evil age (Gal 2:1).
And God has not left us to figure out how best to praise him. He has given us the Scriptures and Sacred Tradition, wherein he carefully spells out the form of the heavenly liturgy in order that we may properly enter into it. He carefully set it forth in Exodus 25-39 and told Moses to follow the pattern exactly. Christian Tradition, having received this teaching from antiquity, saw it fulfilled and transposed by Christ, (et antiquum documentum, novo cedat ritui – and the ancient document gives way to the newer rite), but all the essentials are still there. And they are developed and set forth in the Book of Hebrews and the Book of Revelation, as the heavenly liturgy is disclosed and set forth. Christian antiquity did not just “make things up.” Our Liturgy is based on the revelation of the heavenly Liturgy. As St. Paul says, For I handed on to you what I myself received (1 Cor 11:23).This paradosis (or handing on) is an essential quality of liturgy and the faith.
The modern age has shown a forth a tremendous rupture in this receiving and handing on of the Tradition, a Tradition which comes from God himself.
Here too, the heart of the problem seems to be the self-centered, and self enclosed quality of our times. If those who came before me handed on something precious from God which does not seem immediately understandable and relevant to me, it is too easy to cast it aside, rather than to try and understand it, and conform to it. If it doesn’t speak to me, it is worthless. If it DOES speak to me it is worth everything! This is insisted upon, even if it is silly and not appropriate for the occasion. Because it speaks to me I am permitted to put it on display. It is like children running about and being silly at a time and place where this is not appropriate. Correction is needed from some adults in the room.
As stated at the beginning, there is legitimate diversity and inculturation permitted in the liturgy. Some who are more traditional in the Church are too quick to condemn what is permitted and what is, in fact, experienced as sacred by others. But it doesn’t take and anthropologist to know that bozo noses, jester hats, superman capes, smoking and drinking during mass and so forth, are not sacred and never have been. They are secular to the core and have no place in the sacred liturgy, a liturgy revealed to us by God, not made up by us, and not a kindergarten playroom either.
"O pastors in My Son's House, how many times must I warn you of the dangers of your innovations, the dangers of your experimenting in My Son's House? You will not convert, you will not return Our straying sheep with your improvisions. You must return discipline to My Son's House. This discipline must start with the rulers in My Son's House." - Our Lady, November 22, 1976
The awesome Bayside Prophecies...
https://www.tldm.org/Bayside/default.htm
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica
Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:
YOU WILL STOP EXPERIMENTING
"My child and My children, I come once more with an urgent and pleading
message to the hierarchy in the Church, My Church upon earth. I want you to know
now that We look upon you and find many that do not fall into grace. They are
falling out of grace and misleading many of Our sheep.
"Therefore, I warn you now as your God: You will stop
your intricacies within My Church. You will stop experimenting. I gave you the
rules to follow many years ago, two thousand years approximately. And why now,
two thousand years later, do you deem it necessary to change My Church upon
earth? I, your God, say to you, you will be judged accordingly. You will return
My Church to its former glory, and in that manner you will have more vocations
and more entering the seminaries, and not fleeing from them as they hear the
heresies and all other innovations that are going on within My Church. This is
My last and final word to My clergy: Change now or suffer a just punishment and
banishment." - Jesus, June 18, 1986
RETURN TO YOUR TRADITIONAL RITES
”I send to My clergy, those whom I have given the grace to represent Heaven upon
earth, this warning: You must now return to your traditional rites! You must
restore My House from its crumbling exterior and rotting interior. You must
rebuild what you seek to destroy--now!
"Many who call themselves My chosen ones have set themselves to destroy
from within. Your actions have not gone by unnoticed by the Eternal Father.
Error, deception, deceit, in the guise of sanctity and piousness! You are
unmasked before the Eternal Father. You shall start little by little and repair
the foundation, or you shall be within and destroy.
"I look upon all manner of abominations being committed in My House. Do you
think you will go much longer without chastisement? Awaken from your slumber, My
clergy! You deceive no one!” - Jesus, November 22, 1975
CHANGING THE CONSTRUCTION
“You will not bring about a conversion of those who are presently apostate by
compromising your Faith or changing the construction of the exterior lines of My
Church; and by that I mean the physical appearance and the manner in which you
conduct the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
“Many are giving My Body in a manner that can only be called blasphemy.
Many are accepting My Body in the Eucharist in a manner that defames the
Divinity, and also promotes unholiness, paganism, and impurity of heart and
actions during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.” - Jesus, May 26, 1979
CHANGES MUST BE STOPPED AND REVERSED
"There is no excuse accepted now by the Eternal Father among the clergy, who now
offend the Eternal Father by misleading the children of God upon earth. The
experimentation and changes must be stopped and reversed! There is no other
course.” – Our Lady, August 4, 1979
“RESTORE MY HOUSE!”
"My
Mother has given you My way. It is a simple road that must be followed. The
rules have been given to you that must not be changed, as you cater to the basic
carnal nature of man, a generation that has fallen! You will not make changes
within My House, for you have dispersed My sheep. You will restore My House to
its former glory. Strip you hearts of your pride! Recognize your errors and
restore My House!
"I say this to you for your Creator, as your God: Restore My House, or I
shall come down and restore it Myself with a firm hand! And shall you stand
before Me, O pastors, and say that your teachings have been pure in My sight? I
shall take you and spit you out as spittle into the fires of eternal damnation!
Vermin that came out of the flowers!” – Jesus, December 28, 1976
STOP
CHANGE AND NOVELTY
"My child and My children, make it known to all that the road to Heaven was
never easy, but you can make it much easier upon yourselves and your families if
you follow the rules, if you follow the Commandments from the Eternal Father.
The changes that We see taking place in My House and upon earth are not good,
for many, many souls are falling into hell. And a great measure of
responsibility now is with those who have been called to the holy orders, who
have given themselves to represent Me upon earth. Shall I say that I have found
many Judases now within My House? Cannot this situation be changed?
"There is only one way that this can be stopped, this evil that has seeped
into My House and into the hearts of all mankind. You must stop now your seeking
for change and novelty. You must restore My Church to its former glory. Admit
your error. Do not conceal this with pride and arrogance.
"Remember there was the time when it was necessary to cast Luciel and his
followers from Heaven--Lucifer, who now goads you on to hell with him, upon
earth. He had to be cast from Heaven because he, too, became prideful and
arrogant, seeking to make himself another living god. This cannot be done. You
cannot be above your Creator.” – Jesus, September 7, 1978
DO NOT
ACCEPT
"My children, you must retain Tradition; you must retain a firm foundation of
your faith by keeping all of the good publications. Do not accept the changes
that have been made by satan to seduce your souls.” – Jesus, November 19, 1977
INDOCTRINATED
Veronica - The books are being changed to cover the evil being perpetrated now.
The young are being indoctrinated to accept changes which will take away
Tradition and even doctrine. Our Lady said we must all pray a constant vigilance
of prayer. It has a great power over the demons. –
November 19, 1977
NOT
FROM HOLY SPIRIT
"I must, My child, make it known at this time that you must go back in the
immediate years and bring the knowledge to mankind that these changes, the
changes that have given bad fruits, have not been given to you through the Holy
Spirit and through your Vicar, Pope Paul VI. It is the web of satan reaching
out. Many are now, My child, puppets. The strings are being pulled by Benelli,
Villot, and Casaroli and their followers.” – Our Lady, September 27, 1975
YOU
HAVE STRAYED
"O My children, how far you have strayed from the truth! The knowledge given to
you by your prophets were written down in truth to guide you, but now you change
the words to suit your basic carnal human natures. Go back and read, My
children, the true words of your prophets. But do not accept changes in the
Book, for these changes have been promoted by satan. Heresy, O mournful heresy,
whatever shall become of you!
"Parents, I caution you anew to guard the souls of your children by your
teaching and example. You cannot save your children's souls by giving them to
false teachers and the world, for the world has now been given to satan.” – Our Lady,
June
5, 1976
“WE DO
NOT CONDONE VARIATIONS AND CHANGES"
"It
has grieved Me much in the past, as it grieves Me now, that mankind is making
changes to My words. I assure you, My children and pastors within My houses, My
Church upon earth, there is no necessity to change My words. Heaven, hell,
purgatory, and especially, My children, the word 'hell' must be retained in your
prayers.
"Repeat, My child, the confessional prayer.
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I confess to
all my sins, because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell, but most
of all because I love Thee, my God, Who are all-good and deserving of all my
love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do
penance, and to amend my life. Amen.
"Yes, My child, We do not condone variations and changes. It is the enemies
of your God that have set themselves to promote change upon My words. The word
of your God is eternal and must not be changed.” –
Jesus, February 10, 1977
ONLY
SATAN SEEKS CHANGE
"We
ask--the Eternal Father speaks, and demands that all bishops in the houses of
God throughout your world must turn back to prayer. They must turn back from the
road they have chosen, a road filled with error, corruption, and sin. Man will
not make changes in the House of God to please the basic carnal nature of
mankind! But man in the House of God--the leaders, the clergy chosen by the
Eternal Father, shall turn man from his path of destruction and bring him into
the House of God. This he will not accomplish by lowering the rule or standards.
Man must change his ways and follow the ways of God.
"You are, My children, living in the era of Antichrist. Recognize the signs
of your times, and you will not fall into error. Read the Book, My children. You
read books of corruption and vile debauchery. Restore the truth in your heart,
into your children and homes. Open the good Book, the Bible, and read it in your
homes.
"My Son has already set up the rule for the houses throughout the world,
the churches. They are written in the Book of love and life, the Bible. Read and
learn, and follow the truth!
"There is no time or change in Heaven. The Father never changes. It is only
satan who seeks change to disturb, corrupt, and degrade. Satan roams wherever
there is darkness of spirit. He will debase mankind in a manner so foul that you
will know that no human could conceive of such vileness of sin.” – Our Lady,
March
22, 1975
Directives from Heaven… https://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm
D1 - The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
D85 - Tradition
D127 - Vatican II
D211 - Changes, Part 1
D212 - Changes, Part 2
Articles...
Pope Benedict XVI: the Mass reduced to a show
https://www.tldm.org/News7/PopeBenedictXVIMassReducedToAShow.htmPope Benedict XVI on the disintegration of the liturgy
https://www.tldm.org/news7/PopeBenedictXVIDisintegrationOfLiturgy.htmOur Lady of the Roses message to Pope Paul VI
https://www.tldm.org/news6/PaulVI.htmLatin, the universal language of the Catholic Church
https://www.tldm.org/news5/latin.htm“Kneel before your God in the Eucharist”
https://www.tldm.org/News5/kneeling.htmVatican on kneeling for holy Communion
https://www.tldm.org/vatican%20letter.htmShould women cover their heads in Church?
https://www.tldm.org/news6/veils.htmPope John Paul II recommends praying the St. Michael Exorcism
https://www.tldm.org/news6/exorcism.htmRestore the high altar
https://www.tldm.org/news5/main%5Faltar.htm"You cannot separate Tradition from your Faith"
https://www.tldm.org/news6/tradition1.htmVatican II, part 1: Infiltration of the Church
https://www.tldm.org/News6/VaticanII-1.htmVatican II, part 2: Dark clouds forming before Vatican II
https://www.tldm.org/News6/VaticanII-2.htmVatican II, part 3: the satanic revolution gains momentum at the Council
https://www.tldm.org/News6/VaticanII-3.htm
Links…
Pope Benedict XVI harshly condemns Masses that have been transformed “into spectacles that require directors of genius and talented actors"
http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=28889&eng=yPope Benedict XVI Long-time Supporter of the Traditional Latin Mass, Una Voce America
http://www.unavoce.org/news/2005/benedict_xvi.htmlWhy Latin? The Latin Mass Society of Ireland
http://indigo.ie/~colmgren/latsoc/template/latin_hist.htmThe Popes on the Latin language, Una Voce
http://www.unavoce.org/popes.htmPope John Paul II strongly encourages use of “immortal language”, Una Voce
http://www.unavoce.org/popelatin.htmThe Sacredness of Tradition, by Alice Von Hildebrand
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