Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments

The Descent into the Black Hole of the Liturgical "New Order"

The following are the main steps that gradually led to the full-blown implementation of the invalid and anti-Catholic "New Mass" (Novus Ordo) of 1969 and "Liturgy of the Hours" of 1970, engineered by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini, appointed in 1948 by Pius XII to make "modernizing" liturgical changes, which year by year led to the invalid Novus Ordo (New Order) promulgated by the apostate Newpope Paul VI-Montini. Current research has proven that Pius XII's hands were all over the beginning stages of the so-called Liturgical Revolution, in the first wave of changes that occurred 1951-1958.

These changes include, but are certainly not limited to, the destruction of the Traditional Latin Rites of Holy Week and include the fabrication of what was eventually called the "Extraordinary" or "1962 Mess," which is most certainly NOT the Traditional Latin Mass. For an excellent presentation and analysis of the facts, see Dr. Carol Byrne's Born of Revolution: A Misconceived Liturgical Movement, Vol. 1: Active Participation (Holyrood Press, 318 pp., c. 2020).

INTRODUCTORY STEPS TO THE INVALID 1969 "NEW MESS"
1943 - Pius XII: "Divino Afflante Spiritu" - began the movement away from St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate that had been authorized by the dogmatic Council of Trent as the only authentic version, free of errors in faith and morals
1943 - Pius XII: Permitted the use of the vulgar tongues in place of Latin for the courses in major seminaries; in 1962 John XXIII reimposed the immemorial traditional use of Latin
1945 - Pius XII: "New Latin Psalter," also known as the "Pius XII Psalter," introduced that optionally replaced St. Jerome's traditional psalter
FIRST MAJOR STEPS TO THE INVALID 1969 "NEW MESS"
1948 - Pius XII: Appointed the notorious Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini to run an entirely new "Reformation Commission" to enact a "general liturgical reformation, which led ultimately to Newchurch's "New Mess" of 1969
1951 - Pius XII: Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary corrupted
1951 - Pius XII: Traditional Easter Vigil changed "experimentally"
1952 - Pius XII: "Modernized" the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
1953 - Pius XII: The Apostolic Eucharistic fast denigrated to a "mini fast"
1954 - Pius XII: Vulgar tongues introduced into the Sacraments
SECOND MAJOR STEPS TO THE INVALID 1969 "NEW MESS"
1956 - Pius XII: Traditional rubrics and calendar of Mass and Divine Office changed
1956 - Pius XII: "Experimental" Easter Vigil was made permanent
1956 - Pius XII: Traditional Holy Week gutted
THIRD MAJOR STEP TO THE INVALID 1969 "NEW MESS"
1958 - Pius XII: Instruction on Sacred Music introduced the so-called "Dialogue Mass," lay lectors and commentators, "mixed" choirs, female "directors of music," and anti-traditional aberrations
FOURTH MAJOR STEPS TO THE INVALID 1969 "NEW MESS"
1960 - John XXIII: Traditional rubrics and calendar of Mass and Divine Office changed again (already authored in the Pius XII administration)
FIFTH MAJOR STEPS TO THE INVALID 1969 "NEW MESS"
1962 - John XXIII: Apostolic Roman Canon of Mass (dogmatically not to be touched) changed
1964 - Paul VI-Montini: Vulgar tongues introduced into the Mass and Divine Office
1964 - Paul VI-Montini: Eucharistic fast virtually abolished
1967 - Paul VI-Montini: Dogmatic form of the Mass Consecration changed to invalid Protestant forms
1968 - Paul VI-Montini: Invalid Protestantized New Ordinal to install like the Protestants
(no longer ordain) Newbishops, Presbyters (formerly priests), and Deacons introduced
1969 - Paul VI-Montini: New Order (Novus Ordo) Mess (no longer a valid "Mass")
replaced the valid Catholic and Apostolic Traditional Latin Mass
FINAL AND COMPLETE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INVALID 1969 "NEW MESS"
1970 - Paul VI-Montini: New Order "Liturgy of the Hours"
replaced the 2000-year traditional Catholic Divine Office

THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MISSAL AS OF 1951 EMBODIES THE CHURCH'S INTEGRAL LITURGICAL TRADITION. THE SO-CALLED "1962 MISSAL" FOR THE "NEW LATIN MESS" WAS DESIGNED ALONG MODERNIST, PROTESTANT PRINCIPLES TO BE A "TRANSITIONAL MESS" TO DELUDE THE FAITHFUL INTO ACCEPTING THE INVALID PROTESTANT-MASONIC-PAGAN FULL-BLOWN NEW MESS.OF 1969. UNFORTUNATELY, TO THIS DAY, MANY ARE STILL DELUDED.

The Great 1962 "New Latin Mess" Hoax

In 1948 a "Reformation Committee" (Pontificia Commissio pro Generali Liturgica Instauratione) was constituted specifically to "modernize" the Roman Mass, what is now often called the Traditional Latin Mass, much as the Arch-heretic Martin Luther "modernized" the Roman Mass to become the worship service of his new Protestant sect.

A new Committee had to be constituted because the Sacred Congregation of Rites, which had had been given authority over the Sacred Liturgy since the pontificate of Pope Sixtus V in 1588, immediately after the dogmatic Council of Trent, and was zealous in maintaining Tradition in the Sacred Liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, refused to cooperate in the "modernization."

As head of the Committee, General Secretary Hannibal (Anibale) Bugnini, a known Freemason, was appointed. Starting in 1951, Bugnini and his Reformation Commission began to introduce into the Traditional Latin Mass the most blasphemous and sacrilegious corruptions, based in the spirit of the Heresy of Modernism, so condemned as heretical by, inter alios, Pope Pius IX, Pope St. Pius X, and Pope Pius XI.

The purpose of these corruptions was gradually to introduce flawed changes into the Mass and Office, like poison pills, that would lead to the demise of the True Mass and the substitution of it in the Newchurch of the New Order, by the New Mess, or New Order (Novus Ordo) Mess of 1969. The Half Novus Ordo Vatican II "New Latin Mess" of 1962 was also called the "Transitional Mess," because its purpose was to transition the laity to accepting the full-blown New Mess.

Beyond that, in practice the "New Latin Mess" of 1962 in Newchurch is invalid, as it is being celebrated not by priests ordained in the Traditional Roman Rite of Ordination, but by "presbyters" (as Newchurch officially calls them) installed under the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968 by similarly unconsecrated Newbishops, who are no more valid than Lutheran or Anglican bishops, since the Protestantized New Ordinal used by Newchurch can make a valid bishop of no man. Thus, no sacrament is confected, and those receiving are eating mere bread.

The following are just a few of the corruptions that were incorporated into the 1962 "New Latin Mess." The official Handbook for the New Rubrics, which was published for priests at the time, contained 203 pages of the aberrations made to the Mass and Divine Office. (The Divine Office too was "modernized" and gutted from four volumes to two. Much of the traditional Office (Vespers, etc.) was trashed.

1. The "New Latin Mess" of 1962 is not the Traditional Latin Mass. It is a corrupted form engineered by a known Freemason, Hannibal Bugnini, who was appointed to head a "Reformation Committee" to turn the True Mass into a Protestant-style, oecumenical worship service.
2. It uses a corrupted Canon, the central prayer of the Mass, in which the Sacred Species are consecrated for Holy Communion..
3. It uses a corrupted form of the most solemn days in the Traditional Calendar, those of Holy Week, introducing into them Protestant and Modernistic heresies.
4. The Confiteor before the reception of Holy Communion by the laity was abolished; thus, a doctrinal error was introduced in the loss of the distinction between priest and congregation (an heretical Protestant doctrine).
5. The rubrics of the Traditional Calendar were corrupted to abolish the traditional ranking of Sundays, Holydays, Marian feasts, Saints' feasts, and others that had existed since before the Council of Trent.
6. The rubrics of the Traditional Calendar were corrupted to abolish or downgrade many Marian feasts and feasts of the Saints.
7. Some Saints' feastdays were eliminated or changed to a different day. Thus, Catholic name-day celebrations in many countries were thrown into confusion.
8. The rubrics were corrupted so that Marian feasts are almost never celebrated on Sunday (e.g., the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary).
9. Veneration of the Saints, particularly the Holy Apostles and other great Saints, was degraded with the elimination of their Octaves (eight day period of veneration) and Vigils (preparation the day before).

ANY TRUE CATHOLIC IS OBLIGATED STAY A GOOD ROMAN MILE AWAY FROM THIS "WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING," TO USE OUR LORD'S WORDS, SO AS NOT TO BE INVOLVED IN THE BLASPHEMY AND SACRILEGE OF THE "1962 MESS."

The Great "Summorum Pontificum" ("Extraordinary") Mess Hoax of 2007

When many Newchurchers came to recognize that the New Order service was not Catholic and began to desert it in large numbers, Newvatican panicked. It needed some ruse to draw back more bodies into Newchurch pews and get money coming back into its dwindling collection-plate. Benedict-Ratzinger, therefore, came up with the Great "Extraordinary" Mess Hoax, by which "conservative" Newchurchers would supposedly be drawn back into New Order churches by a relaxed "indult" (Summorum pontificum of July 7, 2007) for the Vatican II Mess of 1962, a bastardized form of the Traditional Latin Mass mixed with the invalid Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo service. This 1962 Mess, erroneously termed the "Extraordinary" rite, is simulated under the auspices of the New Order, in New Order temples, under New Order presbyters (not validly-ordained traditional priests), on the New Order "dinner table."

No true Mass had ever been called "Extraordinary" before in the 2,000 history of the Church. It is not a Catholic term, as all true Masses are of equal rank. The "Ordinary" service that Newchurch pairs with it is the invalid full-blown Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo service of 1969. The "Extraordinary" service is founded in the half New Order service of 1962 that was used at the Modernist Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). The "Extraordinary" half Novus Ordo service and the 1969 full-blown Novus Ordo service of 1969 were both fabricated by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini, who documented in a 1000-page book how he used Protestant models and a Committee of Six Protestant Ministers to introduce a replacement for the true Mass in Newchurch during the years from 1962 to 1969.

The 1962 service, aka "Extraordinary" Mess, was a deliberate half-way point to the full-blown Novus Ordo service just seven years later and introduced a great wave of Protestantized modernizations. Its purpose was to fool Catholics into accepting half, then all, of the Protestantized Novus Ordo service. For that reason (among others), this "Extraordinary" service is unCatholic and should never be attended by true Catholics.

"Extraordinary" Messes are not even valid Masses because they are not celebrated by ordained traditional priests ordained in the Sacrament of Holy Orders, but simulated by presbyters merely "installed" in the New Order rite like Protestant ministers. Such services are shoehorned into a New Order context, where they co-exist with the invalid New Order service of 1969, which is certainly not a Mass, complete with its free-standing "dinner table."

"Extraordinary" Messes are are not Traditional Latin Masses at all, but Protestantized knockoffs, even though they may have some Latin in them. They have many prayers missing. They use not the traditional Catholic calendar, but a modified calendar, from which Saints such as St. Christopher, St. Barbara, St. Philomena, and many others are stricken off. They have many other unCatholic corruptions. One can't be too careful when the deceptive term "Latin Mass" is thrown around by the New Order. It is the Traditional Latin Mass of 1950 or before that is the one to be sought out by true Catholics.

The Divine Office

The most important prayer that the Church offers to Almighty God after the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the Officium Divinum, or Divine Office, contained in a liturgical book called the Breviarium Romanum, or Roman Breviary. In fact, the Mass is part of the Divine Office, and they are so intertwined in the public liturgy of the Church that one is really incomplete without the other.

This same Office is chanted by monks in traditional monasteries and nuns in traditional convents, and is recited by members of lay orders and devout Catholic faithful. To give praise and glory to God throughout the hours of the day in the name of the Church, the clergy are placed under the duty of praying it daily. From this fact, it is called the Office, the word in this sense coming from the Latin word officium, meaning duty. Recent popes, like Pope St. Pius X and Pope Pius XII, have encouraged the laity to participate in saying the Office as well and for this reason have bestowed rich indulgences upon those of the faithful who do so.

The Divine Office itself is made up of the 150 psalms of the Old Testament, so divided throughout the seven days of the week that all the psalms are recited in one week. The psalms, the divinely-inspired poetical prayers, principally of King David, have always been the center of the Church's liturgical worship, just as they were at the temple during Old Testament times.

Besides the psalms, there are readings from Sacred Scripture, commentaries on Sacred Scripture from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and short accounts of the lives of the Saints. These readings follow the Church's calendar of liturgical seasons and feasts of the Saints. St. Vincent de Paul (1581?-1660) tells us that "the Divine Office is the school of all virtues. The master who teaches us in it is the Holy Ghost, the source of all truth; it is also the Prophets, Apostles, and Saints of God."

The Divine Office is divided into eight Hours, according as God is to be praised continuously throughout the hours of the day. If one observes the ancient times, Matins and Lauds are prayed before sunrise. Prime, Terce, Sext, and None are prayed during the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours of daylight. (For example, Scripture tells us that Our Lord hung on the cross from the sixth to the ninth hour, that is, from 12:00 to 15:00.) Vespers is said as dusk falls, followed by Compline, which completes the day and the cycle of hours. However, the Hours may be said at any time at one's convenience.

In order that the faithful Mass partake in at least some part of this highly-indulgenced prayer of the Church, TRADITIO is making available in this section extracts that may easily be printed out and prayed. For simplicity the text and rubrics of this online edition are given for only one person reciting the Office, one Hour separately at a time. The text is given for the Sunday and ferial Psalter, and Propers, when required, are taken from the Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Divine Office given in the traditional Breviarium Romanum, is available for download as follows:

1. in page order (PDF) from Pius X 1942 version
2. compiled by individual day from Pius X 1911-13 version

This is the latest version (pre 1951) that has not been affected by the corrupting aberrations of the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini and his Novus Ordo-bent "Reformation" Committee of (1948-1960). The following chart illustrates the devolution of the Divine Office, including the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

The Divine Office, Mass, Sacraments, and Other Rites in Latin and English

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