The Novus Ordo Mass is not the fundamental cause of the crisis in the Church, but it rather makes manifest and entrenches in the hearts of the faithful the flawed doctrine of Modernism. Julia du Fresne cites the latest Vatican scandals as proof that ‘lex orandi, lex credendi’ (the law of what is prayed is the law of what is believed’.)
“I don’t understand it.” Novus Ordo Catholics say that same thing now, over and over. They can’t fathom why Pope Leo XIV and his hierarchy do and say what they do and say. Their stunned reaction – their bafflement – is driven in the main by decades of the Novus Ordo Missae which though theoretically valid, is inimical to the practice of prayer.
NO churches are characterised by ugliness inside and out. That is not conducive to the soul’s discourse with the Author of beauty. There are no kneelers. And usually not even pews you can lean a missal on, or elbows. Even the Eucharistic chapels have no kneelers or pews, just chairs, so that kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament is uncomfortable or downright impossible.
Sometimes, in NO churches where raked floors are the thing, you look down on at an empty table instead of up at an altar and tabernacle. Above the tabernacle (if any) the Corpus of Christ crucified to save the whole human race is sometimes swapped for the risen Christ, so we’re not reminded of His suffering and sacrifice.
Does any of this matter? Does prayer matter?
It matters supremely, because lack of prayer has meant the loss of faith so starkly evident in what’s going down now, in Novus Ordo Land.
Consider the following, if you will: Pope Leo XIV has confirmed a manifest public heretic, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, as head of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy. Marx campaigned for years to achieve legitimacy for Eastern Orthodox errors on divorce, remarriage and reception of the sacraments, and he got what he wanted in Amoris Laetitia.
Marx tried to resign for his role in covering up monsters like Cardinal McCarrick but Jorge Bergoglio wouldn’t let him. Now Bergoglio’s successor and protege Robert Prevost has handed him a sinecure in the Curia.
But wait, there’s more.
- The US Catholic Biblical Association appointed a Jew – who doesn’t believe in Christ but does believe in sodomy – to teach Catholics the Gospel
- A Ninth Rank Freemason was elected to the Vatican Committee on History
- A Vatican official or two paid homage to a pagan goddess in Peru, where their idolatry was immediately followed by a Force 7.2 magnitude earthquake
- At a Mass in Spain at Mass, grown men in full-length tutus danced after proclamation of the Gospel while the priest questioned the dogma of the Assumption
- Cardinal François Bustillo, Bishop of Ajaccio, was hosted as the featured ecclesiastical guest at a Masonic luncheon in Corsica
- A priest celebrated Holy Mass on a train. Canon 932 states that the Eucharist is to be celebrated in a sacred place. A particular necessity permits celebration elsewhere – but he’d just left Lourdes, with its basilica, chapels and churches
- Prevost-appointed Bishop Heiner Wilmer ignored the prohibition on lay homilies and claimed that the German Synodal Way’s disputes over women, sexual morality, celibacy, and participation ‘remain active’
- Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute reported that 22% of bishops said they were comfortable ordaining a man with deep-seated same-sex attraction if he were firmly committed to celibacy
- Synodal priest Fr Adam Štefanec, who supports LGBT in the Church, said he does not like the word “God” and suggested instead some ‘universal word’ that connects all human beings, like ‘humanity’. He’s been reading Prevost’s encyclical and he will be rewarded for it
- An American priest was found guilty of schism, excommunicated and dismissed from the clerical state for calling Francis and Leo ‘usurpers’.
Even if you discount the all other aforementioned scandals, Novus Ordo Mass-goers (and ‘traditional’ Catholics) can hardly ignore the call of ‘Pope Leo XIV’ to chum up with Muslims – who attack Christians throughout the world with impunity, and whose ideology is fast replacing Christianity in Europe and throughout the West.
It’s our business as Catholics and Christians to forgive the perpetrators of these scandals, but that doesn’t mean we may tolerate error. That’s why the foregoing is recorded here – not as parish pump gossip, but as the bitter fruits of a Mass designed by a Freemason and with the help of Protestants, which is inimical to prayer and to the Catholic faith. As indeed, all the evidence suggests the Novus Ordo was designed to be.
The Novus Ordo is ‘cheap’
As the Lepanto Institute’s Michael Hichborn explains, “the New Mass is cheap”.
“But what happens when we make something more “accessible?” We make it “common.” By stripping away the mystery of the Mass, the faithful no longer had to reach up to contemplate the sublime Sacrifice because the Sacrifice was reduced to a meal. And in economics, what happens when something becomes more “common?” It becomes inexpensive, or cheap.”
Catholics were short-changed by Vatican II’s counterfeit Mass, and gradually are being made complaisant with the scheme of Vatican II’s counterfeit of the Church, which is to ban the Traditional Latin Mass and force us all into ‘loving communion’ with the Novus Ordo and the Synodal religion. So that we will eventually forget the Catholic religion which alone can save our souls.
To avert that disaster, Catholics must boldly proclaim that the truth cannot evolve to suit the schemes of evil men, and that Jesus Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, now and for ever.
Julia du Fresne lives in New Zealand and writes on topics such as culture and the Catholic Church at Canto Fermo.
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