Today over at Fox News: "Veiled women, incense, Gregorian chants, kneeling, standing, kneeling again, long periods of silence — think all of this is a scene from a Catholic Mass in 1950?
"It was then, to be sure — but it is now also happening every Sunday, and in some places every day, in churches all over the United States. The Latin Mass of years gone by is becoming more popular again.
"As a convert to the Catholic faith, I was drawn to the Catholic Church by the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the fullness of the faith, and the path of truth with a capital “T” through the ages. I thirsted for the Eucharist during every Mass I attended even before my First Communion and Confirmation at the Easter Vigil in 2012.
"It was then, to be sure — but it is now also happening every Sunday, and in some places every day, in churches all over the United States. The Latin Mass of years gone by is becoming more popular again.
"As a convert to the Catholic faith, I was drawn to the Catholic Church by the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the fullness of the faith, and the path of truth with a capital “T” through the ages. I thirsted for the Eucharist during every Mass I attended even before my First Communion and Confirmation at the Easter Vigil in 2012.
"Each and every celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is a reenactment of Calvary, of Christ as priest, Christ as victim. The mystery of the Catholic faith occurs on altars the world over during this unspeakably holy event.
"For some, the pinnacle of participation in this mystery is attending the Tridentine Latin Mass (or Traditional Latin Mass, both abbreviated TLM). That is the Mass as it was celebrated for centuries before the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), commonly referred to as Vatican II." READ ARTICLE HERE
REMNANT COMMENT: Yes, the New Mass will be gone in a few years, and the only Catholic Mass left will be the real Catholic Mass of the Ages.
This article is fun, as its author has a good heart and is genuinely excited to find out what's been stolen from her as a Catholic. Her last paragraph indicates that she has a little way to go still, for she leaves her readers with this: "Whichever Mass one chooses to attend, we are all truly blessed as faithful Catholics to be witnessing a resurgence of the faith in America."
True, it is good. But it's time to stop choosing the New Mass. It's a dead letter. It has destroyed the faith in the Real Presence of millions. It is, as Pope Benedict XVI put it, a "trivialized" liturgy. It is, as Cardinal Ratzinger put it, a "banal and on-the-spot product." And if we Catholics ever hope to mount a defense against invading Muslims, we'd better start by becoming Catholic again—and that starts with the Mass. Down with the Novus Ordo, and long live the Mass of saints, martyrs and scholars—the most beautiful thing this side of heaven, which was nearly destroyed by Modernist enemies of our holy faith.
I say ‘nearly’, since this article indicates that the Modernists failed in their evil objective. We are in France right now walking a pilgrimage with over ten thousand young Catholics—each of whom is done with the New Mass and has gone back to the future—a future that is the Traditional Latin Mass.
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Michael J. Matt has been an editor of The Remnant since 1990. Since 1994, he has been the newspaper's editor. A graduate of Christendom College, Michael Matt has written hundreds of articles on the state of the Church and the modern world. He is the host of The Remnant Underground and Remnant TV's The Remnant Forum. He's been U.S. Coordinator for Notre Dame de Chrétienté in Paris--the organization responsible for the Pentecost Pilgrimage to Chartres, France--since 2000. Mr. Matt has led the U.S. contingent on the Pilgrimage to Chartres for the last 24 years. He is a lecturer for the Roman Forum's Summer Symposium in Gardone Riviera, Italy. He is the author of Christian Fables, Legends of Christmas and Gods of Wasteland (Fifty Years of Rock ‘n’ Roll) and regularly delivers addresses and conferences to Catholic groups about the Mass, home-schooling, and the culture question. Together with his wife, Carol Lynn and their seven children, Mr. Matt currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.