If this video doesn't stir your Catholic soul then someone has already
achieved remarkable success in robbing you of your
Catholic identity. If you hate this video you have
become, at least to a degree, a self-loathing Catholic
with a semi-Protestant identity.
If you know nothing
about this Mass, please understand that it is the Mass
of all the saints, martyrs, virgins and doctors of the
Church. It is the Mass of your grandmother and
hers and hers. It is your liturgical patrimony; it
is your Catholic birthright; it is the great jewel of
Christendom and the most beautiful thing this side of
heaven. If you don't know it, you don't yet know what it
truly means to be Catholic because, through no fault of your
own, you have been cut off from your Catholic
roots by the very thing which should be the touchstone of the Catholic Faith: The Mass
Restore this Mass and
Catholic identity will be restored along with it. Learn
this Mass, love this Mass, and your faith will not fail
you in the days and nights to come. As the Catholics of the
Western Uprising in England cried out over and over
again as they gave their lives for this Mass--"It's the
Mass that matters!"
Anti-Catholic revolutionaries have always hated this
Mass. Freemasons, tyrants and heretics outlawed it in
16th century England, deformed it in 17th century
Germany, banned it in 18th century France, and crushed
it in 20th century Mexico. Modernists even tried to
abrogate it from the very heart of the Catholic Church
after Vatican II. But they failed.
The old Mass has survived and is now available to
millions, even as the whole world prepares for yet another
persecution of all things Catholic. Pope Benedict XVI of
happy memory restored this Mass, and changed the course
of history.
Over our dead bodies will it be taken
away from us and our children again. The future of the
world and the salvation of our souls depend on the
survival of the ancient Latin Mass of the Catholic
Church. Why? Because lex orandi lex credendi. The law of
prayer is the law of belief. How we pray is how we
believe. And everywhere where this Mass is celebrated no
more the Faith is dying.
As the late William
F. Buckley wrote of the Mass back
in 1979, "As a Catholic, I have abandoned hope
for the liturgy, which, in the typical American church,
is as ugly and as maladroit as if it had been composed
by Robert Ingersoll and H.L. Menchen for the purpose of
driving people away. Incidentally, the modern liturgists
are doing a remarkably good job, attendance at Catholic
Mass on Sunday having dropped sharply in the 10 years
since a few well-meaning cretins got hold of the power
to vernacularize the Mass, and the money to scour the
earth in search of the most unmusical men and women to
preside over the translation. The next liturgical
ceremony conducted primarily for my benefit, since I
have no plans to be beatified or remarried, will be my
own funeral; and it is a source of great consolation to
me that, at my funeral, I shall be quite dead, and will
not need to listen to the accepted replacement for the
noble old Latin liturgy. Meanwhile, I am practicing
Yoga, so that, at church on Sundays, I can develop the
power to tune out everything I hear, while attempting,
athwart the general calisthenics, to commune with my
Maker, and ask Him first to forgive me my own sins, and
implore him, second, not to forgive the people who
ruined the Mass."
Indeed, and let us see
to it that their spiritual sons will not do so again.
Long live the
Traditional Latin Mass of our fathers!
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