{"id":46506,"date":"2021-12-21T14:07:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=46506"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:37:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:37:58","slug":"on-the-mass-going-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/on-the-mass-going-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Mass Going Forward","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-46507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LatinMass-humble.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LatinMass-humble.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LatinMass-humble-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LatinMass-humble-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LatinMass-humble-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LatinMass-humble-640x800.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8230;each particular Church must be in accord with the universal Church <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>not only regarding the doctrine of the faith and sacramental signs, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>but also as to the usages universally received from apostolic and unbroken tradition.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>These are to be observed not only so that errors may be avoided, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>but also that the faith may be handed on in its integrity, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>since the Church\u2019s rule of prayer (<i>lex orandi<\/i>) corresponds <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>to her rule of faith (<i>lex credendi<\/i>).<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">\u2014General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 3rd ed., 2002, 397<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>IT<\/strong> might seem odd that I am writing about the unfolding crisis over the Latin Mass. The reason is that I have never attended a regular Tridentine liturgy in my life.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">I did attend a Tridentine rite wedding, but the priest didn&#8217;t seem to know what he was doing and the whole liturgy was scattered and odd.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> But that&#8217;s exactly why I am a neutral observer with hopefully something helpful to add to the conversation&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For those who are not up to speed, here is the short of it. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued the Apostolic Letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/benedict-xvi\/en\/motu_proprio\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20070707_summorum-pontificum.html\"><em>Summorum Pontificum<\/em><\/a> in which he made the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass much more easily available for the faithful. He stated that permission to celebrate both the current revised Mass (<em>Ordo Missae<\/em>) and\/or the Latin liturgy was in no way divisive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>These two expressions of the Church\u2019s\u00a0<i>lex orandi<\/i>\u00a0will in no way lead to a division in the Church\u2019s\u00a0<i>lex credendi<\/i> (rule of faith); for they are two usages of the one Roman rite.<\/strong> \u2014Art. 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/benedict-xvi\/en\/motu_proprio\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20070707_summorum-pontificum.html\"><em>Summorum Pontificum<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Pope Francis has expressed a decidedly different view. He has been steadily reversing Benedict&#8217;s <em>Motu Proprio<\/em> &#8216;in an effort to ensure that liturgical reform is &#8220;irreversible&#8221;.'<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/vatican\/pope-francis-approves-further-clarifications-latin-mass-restrictions-ensure-adherence\">ncronline.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> On July 16th, 2021, Francis issued his own document, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/motu_proprio\/documents\/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html\">Traditionis Custodes<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>in order to quell what he perceives as a divisive movement in the Church. Now, priests and bishops must once again seek permission from the Holy See itself to celebrate the ancient rite \u2014 a Holy See increasingly and rigidly against it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Francis said he was &#8220;saddened&#8221; that the use of the old Mass &#8220;is often characterized by a rejection not only of the liturgical reform, but of the Vatican Council II itself, claiming, with unfounded and unsustainable assertions, that it betrayed the Tradition and the &#8216;true Church.'&#8221;<\/strong> \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/vatican\/francis-reimposes-restrictions-latin-mass-reversing-decision-pope-benedict\"><em>National Catholic Reporter<\/em><\/a>, July 16th, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Perspectives<\/h5>\n<p>When I began my music ministry in the mid-90&#8217;s, one of the first things I did was review Second Vatican Council documents on the Church&#8217;s vision for music during the Mass. I was surprised to find that much of what we were doing at the liturgy was never stated in the documents \u2014 quite the opposite. Vatican II actually called for the preservation of sacred music, chant, and the use of Latin during the Mass. Neither could I find any decree suggesting that the priest could not face the altar <em>ad orientum, <\/em>that Communion rails should cease, or that the Eucharist should not be received on the tongue. Why were our parishes ignoring this, I wondered?<\/p>\n<p>I was also dismayed to see how our Roman churches were increasingly built with little beauty compared to the ornate churches I occasionally attended in the eastern rites (when visiting my Baba, we would attend the Ukrainian Catholic Church). I would later hear priests tell me how in some parishes, after Vatican II, <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-46508\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/modernizedchurch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/modernizedchurch.jpg 1034w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/modernizedchurch-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/modernizedchurch-848x1024.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/modernizedchurch-768x928.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/modernizedchurch-640x773.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>statues were smashed, icons removed, high altars chainsawed, Communion rails yanked, incense snuffed out, ornate vestments mothballed, and sacred music secularized. \u201cWhat the Communists did in our churches by force,\u201d some immigrants from Russia and Poland observed, \u201cis what you\u2019re doing yourselves!\u201d Several priests also recounted to me how rampant homosexuality in their seminaries, liberal theology, and hostility toward traditional teaching caused many zealous young men to lose their faith altogether. In a word, everything surrounding, and including the liturgy, was being undermined. I repeat, if this was the &#8220;liturgical reform&#8221; intended by the Church, it certainly wasn&#8217;t in Vatican II documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Scholar, Louis Bouyer, was one of the orthodox leaders of the liturgical movement before the Second Vatican Council. In the wake of an explosion of liturgical abuses after the council, he gave this stark appraisal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>We must speak plainly: there is practically no liturgy worthy of the name today in the Catholic Church\u2026 Perhaps in no other area is there a greater distance (and even formal opposition) between what the Council worked out and what we actually have\u2026<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014from\u00a0<em>The Desolate City, Revolution in the Catholic Church,\u00a0<\/em>Anne Roche Muggeridge, p. 126<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summarizing the thought of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict, Cardinal Avery Dulles notes that, at first, Ratzinger was very positive about &#8216;the efforts to overcome the isolation of the priest celebrant and to foster active participation by the congregation. He agrees with the constitution on the need to attach greater importance to the word of God in Scripture and in proclamation. He is pleased by the constitution\u2019s provision for Holy Communion to be distributed under both species [like the eastern rites] and&#8230; the use of the vernacular. \u201cThe wall of Latinity,\u201d he wrote, \u201chad to be breached if the liturgy were again to function either as proclamation or as invitation to prayer.\u201d He also approved of the council\u2019s call to recover the simplicity of the early liturgies and remove superfluous medieval accretions.'<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">&#8220;From Ratzinger to Benedict&#8221;, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2006\/02\/from-ratzinger-to-benedict\">First Things<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>February 2002<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, that too, is why I believe the <em>revision<\/em> of the Mass in the twentieth century was not without warrant in a world increasingly assaulted by the &#8220;word&#8221; of mass media and that was hostile to the Gospel. It was also a generation with a decidedly shortening attention-span with the advent of the cinema,<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-46510\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Joseph_Ratzinger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Joseph_Ratzinger.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Joseph_Ratzinger-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Joseph_Ratzinger-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Joseph_Ratzinger-768x1096.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Joseph_Ratzinger-1077x1536.jpg 1077w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Joseph_Ratzinger-640x913.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/> television and, soon, the Internet. However, continues Cardinal Dulles, &#8220;In subsequent writings as a cardinal, Ratzinger seeks to dispel current misinterpretations. The council fathers, he insists, had no intention of initiating a liturgical revolution. They intended to introduce a moderate use of the vernacular alongside of the Latin, but had no thought of eliminating Latin, which remains the official language of the Roman rite. In calling for active participation, the council did not mean incessant commotion of speaking, singing, reading, and shaking hands; prayerful silence could be an especially deep manner of personal participation. He particularly regrets the disappearance of traditional sacred music, contrary to the intention of the council. Nor did the council wish to initiate a period of feverish liturgical experimentation and creativity. It strictly forbade both priests and laity to change the rubrics on their own authority.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I simply want to cry. Because I feel that our generation has been robbed of the beauty of the Sacred Liturgy \u2014 and many don&#8217;t even know it. This is why I totally sympathize with friends, readers, and family who love the Latin Mass. I don&#8217;t attend the Tridentine liturgy for the simple reason that it&#8217;s never been available where I live (though, again, I have taken in the Ukrainian and Byzantine liturgies at times over the years, which are more ancient rites and just as sublime. And of course, I don&#8217;t live in a vacuum: I have read the prayers of the Latin Mass, the changes that have been made, and seen numerous videos, etc. of this rite). But I know intuitively that it is good, holy, and as Benedict XVI affirmed, part of our Sacred Tradition and the &#8220;one Roman missal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Part of the inspired genius of the Catholic Church over the centuries has been its keen sense of art and, really, high theatre: incense, candles, robes, vaulted ceilings, stained-glass windows, and transcendent music. To this very day, the <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-38024\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gloriouscath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gloriouscath.jpg 1287w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gloriouscath-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gloriouscath-768x879.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gloriouscath-895x1024.jpg 895w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gloriouscath-640x732.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/>world remains drawn to our ancient churches for their extraordinary beauty <em>precisely\u00a0<\/em>because this sacred display is, itself, a <em>mystical language. <\/em>Case in point: my former music producer, not a particularly religious man and who has since passed on, visited Notre Dame in Paris some years ago. When he returned, he told me: &#8220;When we walked into the church, I knew <em>something was going on here.<\/em>&#8221; That &#8220;something&#8221; is a sacred language that points to God, a language that has been horribly deformed over the past fifty years by a true and insidious <em>revolution<\/em> rather than a revision of the Holy Mass to make it a more suitable &#8220;invitation to prayer.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s precisely this damage to the Mass, however, that has created a response at times that truly <em>has<\/em> been divisive. For whatever reason, I have been on the receiving end of the most radical element of so-called &#8220;traditionalists&#8221; who have been damaging in their own right. I wrote about this in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/on-weaponizing-the-mass\/\"><em>On Weaponizing the Mass<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em>While these individuals do not represent the authentic and noble movement of those who want to recover and restore what should never have been lost, they have done immense damage by completely rejecting Vatican II, mocking faithful priests and laity who pray the <em>Ordo Missae,\u00a0<\/em>and in the extreme, casting doubt on the legitimacy of the papacy. No doubt, Pope Francis is attuned primarily to these dangerous sects that are indeed divisive and who inadvertently have caused damage to their cause and the Latin liturgy.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, while Francis is fully within his right to steer the liturgical reform of the Church, his wholesale grouping of radicals with sincere worshipers, and now, the suppression of the Latin Mass, is creating new and painful divisions in itself since many have come to love and grow in the ancient Mass since Benedict&#8217;s <em>Motu Proprio<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>A Surprise Mass<\/h5>\n<p>In that light, I want to humbly suggest a possible compromise to this dilemma. Since I am neither a priest nor a bishop, I can only share an experience with you that, hopefully, will inspire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, I was invited to a Mass in Saskatoon, Canada that, in my opinion, was precisely the fulfillment of the authentic vision of Vatican II&#8217;s reform. It <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46514 alignright\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/candlesgalore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/candlesgalore.jpg 801w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/candlesgalore-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/candlesgalore-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/candlesgalore-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/candlesgalore-640x959.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/>was the\u00a0<em>novus<\/em> <em>Ordae Missae<\/em> being said, but the priest prayed it alternatively in English and Latin. He was facing the altar as incense billowed nearby, its smoke passing through the light of numerous candles. The music and Mass parts were all sung in Latin by a beautiful choir sitting in the balcony above us. The readings were in the vernacular, as was the moving homily given by our bishop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t explain it, but I was overcome with emotion from the very first moments of the opening hymn. The Holy Spirit was so present, so powerful&#8230; it was a profoundly reverent and beautiful liturgy&#8230; and tears ran down my cheek the entire time. It was, I believe, exactly what the Council Fathers intended \u2014 at least some of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, it is impossible at this point for priests to oppose the Holy Father on this matter regarding the Tridentine rite. It is within Francis&#8217;s purview to set the guidelines on the celebration of the liturgy as the Supreme Pontiff. It is also clear that he is doing so <em>in order to continue the work of the Second Vatican Council<\/em>. So, join this work! As you just read above, there is nothing in the rubrics of the Mass saying that a priest cannot face the altar, cannot use Latin, cannot use an altar rail, incense, chant, etc.. Indeed, Vatican II&#8217;s documents explicitly demand this and the rubrics support it. A bishop is on very shaky ground to oppose this \u2014 even if &#8220;collegiality&#8221; is pressuring him to. But here, priests have to be &#8220;shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[4]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Matt 10:16<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> I know several clergymen who are quietly re-implementing the authentic vision of Vatican II \u2014 and creating truly beautiful liturgies in the process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Persecution is already here<\/h5>\n<p>Finally, I know that many of you are living in communities where the Mass is currently a shipwreck and that attending the Latin rite has been a lifeline for you. To lose this is very painful. The temptation to let this fester into a bitter division against the Pope and bishops is no doubt present for some. But there is another way to understand what is happening. We are in the midst of growing persecution by our perennial foe, Satan. We are watching the spectre of Communism spread across the entire planet in a new and even more deceptive form. See this persecution for what it is and that, sometimes, it comes from within the Church itself as a fruit of <em>sin<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The suffering of the church also comes from within the church, because sin exists in the church. This too has always been known, but today we see it in a really terrifying way. The greatest persecution of the church doesn&#8217;t come from enemies on the outside, but is born in sin within the church. The church thus has a deep need to re-learn penance, to accept purification, to learn on one hand forgiveness but also the necessity of justice.<\/strong> \u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI, May 12th, 2021; <a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/articles\/pope-benedict-greatest-persecution-sin-within-church\">papal interview on flight<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In fact, I want to close again with a &#8220;now word&#8221; that came to me several years ago while driving one day to Confession. As a result of <em>the spirit of compromise<\/em> that has entered the Church, a persecution will swallow up the Church\u2019s temporal glory. I was overcome with incredible sadness that all the beauty of the Church\u2014her art, her chants, her ornamentation, her incense, her candles, etc.\u2014must all go down into the tomb; that persecution is coming that will take all this away so that we will have nothing left, but Jesus.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[5]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-prophecy-at-rome\/\">Prophecy at Rome<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> I came home and wrote this short poem: <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/weep-o-children-of-men\/\">Weep, O Children of Men<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-34704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/weepingangelcross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/weepingangelcross.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/weepingangelcross-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/weepingangelcross-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/weepingangelcross-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/weepingangelcross-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>WEEP<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>O children of men!\u00a0<\/em>Weep for all that is good, and true, and beautiful. Weep for all that must go down to the tomb, your icons and chants, your walls and steeples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Weep, O children of men!\u00a0<\/em>For all that is good, and true, and beautiful. Weep for all that must go down to the Sepulcher, your teachings and truths, your salt and your light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Weep, O children of men!\u00a0<\/em>For all that is good, and true, and beautiful. Weep for all who must enter the night, your priests and bishops, your popes and princes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Weep, O children of men!\u00a0<\/em>For all that is good, and true, and beautiful. Weep for all who must enter the trial, the test of faith, the refiner\u2019s fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2026but weep not forever!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">For dawn will come, light will conquer, a new Sun will rise. And all that was good, and true, and beautiful will breathe new breath, and be given to sons again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today, many Catholics in parts of Finland, Canada and elsewhere are no longer permitted to attend Mass without a &#8220;vaccine passport&#8221;. And of course in other <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46515 alignright\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Finnishchurches.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Finnishchurches.jpg 778w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Finnishchurches-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Finnishchurches-622x1024.jpg 622w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Finnishchurches-768x1264.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Finnishchurches-640x1053.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/>places, the Latin Mass is now completely forbidden. We are beginning to see the realization of this &#8220;now word&#8221; little by little. We must prepare ourselves for Masses to be said in hiding once again. In April, 2008, the French Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se de Lisieux appeared in a dream to an American priest I know who sees the souls in purgatory each night. She was wearing a dress for her first Communion and led him toward the church. However, upon reaching the door, he was barred from entering. She turned to him and said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Just as my country [France]<\/em><em>, which was the eldest daughter of the Church, killed her priests and faithful, so will the persecution of the Church take place in your own country. In a short time, the clergy will go into exile and will be unable to enter the churches openly. They will minister to the faithful in clandestine places. The faithful will be deprived of the \u201ckiss of Jesus\u201d [Holy Communion]. The laity will bring Jesus to them in the absence of the priests.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Immediately, Fr. understood that she was referring to the\u00a0<em>French Revolution<\/em> and the <em>sudden<\/em> persecution of the Church which burst out. He saw in his heart that priests will be forced into offering secret Masses in homes, barns, and remote areas. And then again, in January 2009, he audibly heard St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se repeat her message with more urgency:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>In a short time, what took place in my native country, will take place in yours. The persecution of the Church is imminent. Prepare yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back then, I had not heard of the &#8220;Fourth Industrial Revolution&#8221;. But this is the term evoked now by world leaders and the architect of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-reset\/\">The Great Reset<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Professor Klaus Schwab. The instruments of this revolution, he has openly said, are &#8220;COVID-19&#8221; and &#8220;climate change&#8221;.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_6');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_6');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[6]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_6\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/isaiahs-prophecy-of-communism\/\"><em>Isaiah&#8217;s Vision of Global Communism<\/em><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/a> Brothers and sisters, mark my words: this revolution does not intend to leave a place for the Catholic Church, at least, not as you and I know it. In a prophetic speech in 2009, former Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The lesson of the nineteenth century is that the power to impose structures that grant or take away authority of Church leaders at the discretion and will of government officials is nothing less than the power to intimidate and the power to destroy.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/eb\/en\/officers\/media\/videos\/ctrally.html#\">rally<\/a>\u00a0at the Connectitcut State Capitol, March 11, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><b>Progress and science have given us the power to dominate the forces of nature, to manipulate the elements, to reproduce living things, almost to the point of manufacturing humans themselves. In this situation, praying to God appears outmoded, pointless, because we can build and create whatever we want. We don\u2019t realise we are reliving the same experience as Babel.<\/b>\u00a0\u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI, Pentecost Homily, May 27th, 2102<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hold fast to your faith. Remain in communion with the Vicar of Christ, even if you disagree with him.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_7');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_46506_1('footnote_plugin_reference_46506_1_7');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[7]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_7\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/there-is-only-one-barque\/\"><em>There is Only One Barque<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_46506_1_7').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_46506_1_7', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> But don&#8217;t be a coward. Don&#8217;t sit on your hands. As laity, begin to organize yourselves to help your priest implement the <em>true\u00a0<\/em>vision of Vatican II, which was never intended to be a breach of Sacred Tradition but a further development of it. Be the face of the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-counter-revolution\/\">Counter-Revolution<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that will restore truth, beauty, and goodness to the Church once again&#8230; even if it is in the next era.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Related Reading<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/on-weaponizing-the-mass\/\">On Weaponizing the Mass<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wormwood-and-loyalty\/\">Wormwood and Loyalty<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/isaiahs-prophecy-of-communism\/\">Isaiah&#8217;s Vision of Global Communism<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/when-communism-returns\/\">When Communism Returns<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-reset\/\">The Great Reset<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-pandemic-of-control\/\">The Pandemic of Control<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/revolution\/\">Revolution!<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-seedbed-of-this-revolution\/\">Seedbed of this Revolution<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-revolution\/\">The Great Revolution<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/global-revolution\/\">Global Revolution<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-heart-of-the-new-revolution\/\">The\u00a0Heart of the New Revolution<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/this-revolutionary-spirit\/\">This Revolutionary Spirit<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-seven-seals-of-revolution\/\">Seven Seals of Revolution<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/on-the-eve-of-revolution\/\">On the Eve of Revolution<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/revolution-now\/\">Revolution Now!<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/19\/revolution-in-real-time\/\">Revolution\u2026 in Real Time<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/antichrist-in-our-times\/\">Antichrist in Our 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