The Babel Mass vs The Mass of the Ages

Amici,

Here in Budapest, they're having on the morrow (October 2) a "Mass of the Nations" in the huge basilica. I'm sure it will be a cacaphony on meretricious exhibitionism in the classic Novus Ordo style of polyester inanity. I wrote the folks who informed me of it the following observations:

Thanks for forwarding this. I see it is already happening tomorrow.

But in the spirit of Christian charity, I must point out that the "Mass of the Nations" can only be the Traditional Latin Mass – the true Mass of the nations both in age and extent. Along with the various Gallican rites, which it absorbed early on in the West of Europe, the TLM was the Mass in all of Western Europe, and by itself in Central Europe and Northern Europe and even North Africa west of Egypt before the Muslim Conquest, and of North and South American countries – the latter continents for 500 years; it was certainly the only Mass in many places in Asia from the time of the Counter-Reformation till the 1960s. It is the Western Liturgy of the the ages, coming down to us from the early days of the Church in Rome, and exhibiting a very specific Roman character (as opposed to the great Liturgies of the cultural East, for example), and held in all that time in the sacred language of the West, Latin, which itself was made sacred by appearing on the Cross on which Our Lord suffered and died. Along with Greek and Hebrew, it was written on the placard Pontius Pilot had placed on the Cross: Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm. ("INRI")

The Cardinal-Archbishop here locally has shut down all the TLMs in BP except for the one at St. Michael's on Vaci út. It is up for a formal permission for re-approval about the end of this year, I believe, and we don't know if the Cardinal-Archbishop will approve it again in light of Traditionis Custodes (as "Custodes" is used in Latin for prison guards as well as general "custodians", it can be truly translated "Jailers of Tradition"). However, the Cardinal-Archbishop has no say over the SSPX Mass in town, Deo grátias.

Tomorrow's "Mass of the Nations" promises to be a complete Babel. But perhaps its intention – as is so often true of the Novus Ordo – is to "affirm" and "celebrate" human identities rather than offer a coherent worship the transcendent God? In any case, I'm sure it will be packed. It'll be a true spectacle. 

In Christ,

An P