![]() ![]() Priests, who had been saying the Latin Missal of 1962, quickly switched to the vernacular, along with many other innovations.Īrchbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who was at the Council, saw the drift of things, which prompted him to found in 1970 the Society of Saint Pius X, with the intent to preserve the traditional liturgy and practices of the Church. ![]() The Novus Ordo Mass was promulgated in Advent of 1969, in its editio typica Latin version, rarely ever said, then and now. Since we are, as Catholics, in theory, bound in obedience to the Magisterium – ‘religious submission of mind and will’ and all that – what might we do?įirst, a bit of history. Channeling their inner Voltaire, they seek to ecraser l’infame, ‘crush the infamous thing’, in this case, the Latin Mass, and anything connected thereto, from lace to Latin. Where do traditional Catholics go from here? Of course, all Catholics should be ‘traditional’, in the sense of preserving, living by and handing on our great Tradition, as one of the pillars of revealed truth, along with Scripture.īut traditional may also refer specifically those who prefer the usus antiquior, or the TLM, and we may also extend the term to those who prefer chant, Latin, the pipe organ, solemnity, ad orientem, solid and doctrinal homilies, cassocks, Communion on the tongue, all of which are consistent with our Tradition and no to altar girls, liturgical dancing, guitars and bongos, soporific sermons, syncretism, glad-handing and ex tempore liturgy, all of which are inimical to it.Ī significant portion of the Church, including the higher members of the hierarchy, seem determined to impose the latter and abolish the former. AuthorğSSP – Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri
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