The Modernists Will Continue To Divide the Church Over the Mass

"The modernists find it insufferable that any priest anywhere who is not already “canonically irregular” offers the TLM exclusively and this is why the FSSP must be investigated (read “persecuted”)."

From Rorate Cæli

By Fr Kevin M. Cusick

“Hello. We’re from the Vatican and we’re here to help you.” Those are words I always believed I would be very happy to hear. The unyielding persecution of Catholic Tradition from the very top in the Eternal City has changed that. And the Mass is at the center of the battle for our faith and salvation. Anything else is a distraction from the Evil One.

The novus ordo is a service with Catholic components. It is "valid". But as a “Mass” it’s not pleasing worship to God. We have such a Mass already and it’s called the traditional Latin Mass.

The Mass was divinely revealed by Christ Himself and entrusted to the Apostles to be handed down by means of the Holy Spirit in the Church through time and space.

Priests and bishops do not take it upon themselves to cut and paste a new “Mass” in the 1960’s upon their own initiative and for their mundane agenda or personal acclaim as scholars. A collage of human origin containing no matter how many divine elements does not a Mass make.

The Mass is not a doctoral dissertation or a literary masterpiece. It is not an archeological anthropological construct subject to manipulation. The Mass is a revelation by God of our salvation in the God Man Jesus Christ. By ordination the priest is able to offer for himself and those present access to the saving mystery of Christ’s passion, death and Resurrection.

Rome cannot abide that any priest anywhere offers exclusively the traditional Latin Mass alone. It is a condemnation of their disobedient Modernism with which they cannot coexist and which they seek to stamp out in a vain attempt to quiet their unquiet consciences.

“Let us beset the just one” is their credo and battle cry in a new persecution of Christ.

The investigation of the FSSP cannot help the FSSP. Modernists, apostates and heretics cannot offer any help whatsoever to Catholics beyond the integral traditional Catholic Faith which they already possess and all of which follows from the prayer and offering of the traditional Latin Mass.

This new offensive will seek to ensure that a cloud of opprobrium will perpetually hover over any Catholics who faithfully attend the TLM. Men who hold power in Rome will not rest until a question always exists in the minds of Catholics everywhere over the legitimacy or acceptability of their fellow believers who hold to Tradition. Those who falsely believe legitimacy in the eyes of God is conferred by physical plant, the Catholic trimmings of smells and bells, or a bishop no matter how heretical are enablers in the current crisis.

Doing what all Catholics did everywhere before a committee of men cooked up a new “Mass” in the 1960’s has to be rendered unacceptable in order to enable the creation of a new religion which assumes the place of the perpetual Church and Magisterium with the immemorial Mass handed down together along with everything else that always was Catholic.

Enablers like those who say “Father doesn’t like the pope” or “I’d rather go to a reverent novus Ordo than an irreverent TLM” are perpetuating red herrings and straw men and simply seek to stave off any questioning or slightest doubt that might cause the discomfort that always characterizes the faith with its many crosses which the Lord Himself promised us.

The Catholic Faith is not a protection against the Cross. It is the divine means given us so that we may in a holy and saving way bear our own crosses, which are present in every human life, out of love for God and for the sake of our own salvation. The comfort of the local novus Ordo parish with its liturgical abuses, no matter the panoply of beautiful and reassuringly prosperous physical plant, numerous modern conveniences and heavily bloated lay staff and “ministries”, is displeasing to God and is an avoidance if not outright rejection of the cross which inevitably comes to those who refuse to compromise the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic faith of the Church of Christ.

It is yet another scandal that bishops are closing and selling off church buildings by the score rather than permit priests to offer the immemorial Mass in them. This while accepting blood money from the government to collude in the illegal immigrant scam and DEI agenda.

The modernists find it insufferable that any priest anywhere who is not already “canonically irregular” offers the TLM exclusively and this is why the FSSP must be investigated (read “persecuted”). The Vatican hegemony will as a result of the “investigation” either “find” something wrong or order the priests to also offer the novus ordo. When and if they refuse to follow this unjust order there will be canonical penalties.

It will not end well. It cannot.