28/08/2022
"Ecumenism is searching for a certain unity at the expense of faith. How is it? If you want to be united with non-Catholics, if you want to please non-Catholics, the best way is to take their ideas, to take non-Catholic ideas. These are the Catholics who do not want to deny any dogma of our faith, but they do not dare to profess the Catholic Faith when they should. They put their light under a bushel and they are silent; they seem ashamed of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the new rite of the Mass (Novus Ordo) in Latin as it has been officially published, clear professions of the Catholic Faith that were in the traditional Mass have often been taken out. Let us take just one example in the Canon of the New Mass: the Signs of the Cross have been reduced from 25 to 2! The names of the saints are optional, and, in the Consecration itself there have been three changes, even in the first Canon.
First, the words "Mysterium Fidei," which are not in the Bible have been taken away. Why? Because Protestants said "Bible alone," [sola scriptura—Ed.] so if these words are not in the Bible, they do not want them in the Consecration. Thus they have put it outside the Consecration, disregarding the practice of all the saints of the Roman Rite who have used these words for hundreds and hundreds of years; most probably even St. Peter used these words and even Our Lord Himself. That it is not written in the Gospel does not mean that Our Lord has not said it. Many things are not written in the holy Gospels! With what authority do some members of the Consilium take away words from the Consecration, which is the most sacred and venerable part of the Liturgy?
Secondly, they have introduced the words "quod pro vobis tradetur—which shall be delivered for you," in the Consecration of the Body of Our Lord. These words are in the Gospel and precisely because they are in the Gospel, they said, "You must put all that is in the Gospel," according to the same Protestant principle. St. Peter and the Church never judged that it was not necessary to put it in; they had a reason not to put it because "to be delivered" means the sacrifice and the Sacrifice of the Mass is by the separate consecration. The first consecration is not sufficient to have the Sacrifice of the Mass, but when you have both the Consecration of the Body and the Consecration of the Blood of Our Lord, then you have the Sacrifice of the Mass. So they introduced these words—again to please the Protestants.
Thirdly, the first genuflection, the one right after the priest pronounces the words of Consecration, has been taken out, leaving only the genuflection after the priest has shown the Body and Blood of Christ to the faithful for their adoration. The first genuflection was a clear profession of faith that the consecration is performed by the power of the priest that he received at his ordination. The Body and Blood of Christ are present by the very power of the priest when he says the words of Consecration. Protestants refuse that dogma, while they are not so opposed to the second made after the general "approval" of the congregation; and thus this first genuflection was taken away.
Other examples could be taken from the Offertory, where the New Mass suppressed the beautiful prayer, Suscipe Sancte Pater:
"𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝑶 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒚 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑮𝒐𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑰𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑽𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑰, 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒕, 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒆, 𝒎𝒚 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈."
You have three points of Faith in this little prayer that are denied by the Protestants: that the Mass is the true Sacrifice of a Victim, the fact that it is a propitiatory sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins and the fact that you can help even the dead. So that prayer was suppressed in the New Mass.
All these suppressions are a lack of a profession of Faith. If there is a moment when we ought to profess our faith in the Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, in the power of the priesthood, it is during the Mass itself! To hide our faith during these holy moments is done in order to please the Protestants, without counting all the scandals that have been added afterwards."
— Fr. Francois Laisney, Ecumenism vs. Catholic Doctrine, 1986
Image: Pope Paul VI with the Protestant observers who contributed to the creation of the Novus Ordo Missae.
From left to right:
1. A. Raymond George (Methodist)
2. Ronald Jaspar (Anglican)
3. Massey Shepherd (Episcopalian)
4. Friedrich Künneth (Lutheran)
5. Eugene Brand (Lutheran)
6. Max Thurian (Calvinist-community of Taize)
