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Showing posts with label Second Vatican Council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second Vatican Council. Show all posts

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Important article about what disasters Americans can expect this year

Friends,

When the handwriting appears on the wall, you'd better take it seriously.

The article is 'America’s Destruction and the Ghosts of Revolutions Past', by Vince Coyner at American Thinker. And see also this article, which is another version of the same idea. Highly readable. I encourage all Americans and Europeans of good will to read both. Even if this shocking revelation was based on the Soviet agent Bezmenov, and even if he had somehow been a double-agent/"disinformationist", what he described many decades ago is just too mirror to what we're experiencing now. Handwriting on the wall, indeed.

Friday, June 25, 2021

Abp. Viganò discusses failure of Vatican II Novus Ordo Mass

 In a recent interview, Archbishop Viganò noted something that bears repeating (well, he said a lot that bears repeating, but this stood out to me).

Excerpt (highlights mine):
Those who prepared the conciliar documents to have them approved by the Council Fathers acted with the same malice that the drafters of the liturgical reform adopted, knowing that they would interpret ambiguous texts in a Catholic way, while those who were to disseminate and utilize them would interpret them in every sense except that.

In fact, this concept is confirmed in everyday practice. Have you ever seen a priest who celebrates the Novus Ordo with the altar facing East, entirely in Latin, wearing the fiddleback (Roman) chasuble and distributing Communion at the Communion rail, without this arousing the ire of his Ordinary and confreres, even though, strictly speaking, this way of celebrating would be perfectly legitimate? Those who have tried — certainly in good faith — have been treated worse than those who habitually celebrate the Tridentine Mass. This demonstrates that the continuity hoped for in the Council’s hermeneutic does not exist, and that the break with the pre-conciliar Church is the norm to which one must conform, to the satisfaction of conservatives.

An P again:
For those who don't know, here is an image of the fiddleback (Roman) chasuble:


And this below is an example of the so-called "Gothic chasubles", which you're more familiar with, unless you attend the TLM:

The fiddleback or Roman chasuble is obviously designed for the priest to be facing ad orientem, toward the east and God, whereas the Vatican II Gothic one is for the priest facing ad populum, toward the people. The Roman chasuble is a portable icon screen, fulfilling the role the iconostasis does in the Eastern Liturgies. Iconostases and Roman chasubles serve as the curtain in the Jerusalem Temple, the confection of the Eucharistic sacrifice being the highest and holiest sacrament.

Before Vatican II's liturgical changes (implemented over a decade), it was easy to believe something holy was occurring, indeed, nothing less than the Incarnation of God brought forward time into our midst; after the Novus Ordo reigned supreme, however, it would take a miracle to believe in Transubstantiation. This is because the liturgy remains the Church's main teaching device.

Viganò states in the interview:
Now, if Vatican II was a revolutionary act, both in the way it was conducted and in the documents it promulgated, it is logical and legitimate to think that its liturgy is also affected by this ideological approach, especially if we bear in mind that it is the chief means by which the faithful and clergy are catechized. It is no coincidence that Luther and the other Protestant and Anglican heretics used the liturgy as their main method to spread their errors among the faithful.

An interview very worth reading.

An Préachán










Thursday, March 14, 2019

The Catholic Church Devolving into National Language Churches






We're living Salvation History, Amici, and it ain't easy. 

Particularly being in Judah with Ahaz as a king.

That's where we're at now. We're the True Church as Judah was the true remnant of Israel, and we (with the Orthodoxies: Eastern and "Oriental" and the Eastern Liturgy Churches in Communion with Rome) are full inheritors of the Covenants, especially the Seventh one, the New Covenant, the Holy Eucharist. But we have Ahaz as a king. We've Manasseh, we've a new Amon. 

 And while we prayerfully await a Hezekiah or a Josiah, a restitutor orbis, we're watching the kingdom fall to pieces. (Or to metaphor it in another way, we're coming to the end of our Babylonian Exile, which was what Vat II did to us Traditional Catholics: exile us to the far Euphrates.)

Whether our Peronist Caudillo is actually pope or not, he's in the driver's seat and he's shifting into ever higher gears as we near the cliff. Long, involved arguments are going on as to whether Bergoglio is a valid pope, and whether Ratzinger resigned validly, etc. In a sense, it doesn't matter what he does or who he is. This was all set in motion when the Vat2 Fathers voted their first vote, when they overthrew the Council's managers Ol' Roncalli had installed and inserted their Modernists revolutionaries. 

This is especially true when, in the "Animus" of Vatican II, they went to the vernacular. There's really no escaping a total Church break up now into constituent language-based Churches. No. Escape. That's happened before, too. First with the Copts and Syrians before the Muslims came, then with the Greeks in 1054. That's also really what the Protestant Revolution was: a language-based breakup. (As well as being the Northern Kingdom of Israel breaking off of Judah. The parallels are fascinating and striking.)

So, here we are. All those groanings and creakings you hear, all the shudders and thuds and reverberations, are the Barque of Peter breaking up on the rocks. Of course, the Good News is there'll be one Church out of the plethora of flotsam and jetsam that has the ancient Traditional Mass and it'll keep the Latin for everything else -- theology, music, etc., as well. The "nationalist-language Churches" nightmare won't affect it at all, and all will be able to see that. In comparison to the cacophonous horde of snarling combatant national Churches, this TLM-based Church will be clearly the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

And it will be a "Reconquista Church", too, I think, slowly but surely bringing back a lot of otherwise fallen-away Catholics. Maybe even a few of these "bottom-line" stone-hearted bishops, as well. The Holy Spirit can do anything.

Beáti qui hábitant in domo tua, Dómini, in sæcula sæcúlorum laudábunt te. (The Gradual from the Feast of the Holy Family.)

An Préachán