We recommend to our readers that
they review what we published
in Chancellor’s
Update September 2007: our letter of December 28, 1978 to the Holy Father giving him
some of our observations on the results
of the Second Vatican Council,
our pleasant reaction
to the Holy Father’s Holy Thursday Dominicae Cenae letter of February 24,
1980 to
the Universal Church, and our gratitude to Pope Benedict XVI for issuing his famous Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum fulfilling the desires of Pope John Paul II.
In the October 2006
issue of the Chancellor’s Update, we published the following: “Vatican II,
being
a pastoral council not an infallible council, was a psychological and sociological attempt
to go forth and
teach all nations. Like other nations
that have five or ten year plans, the Vatican has the reigns of the pontiffs
to choreograph
the plans of the Papacy.
Admittedly, many of the Vatican II plans were hijacked or were very poorly implemented around the world, particularly in America.
Not withstanding what I just
wrote, the Papacy can never die due to Christ’s promise and therefore outlives all
its adversaries. As a consequence of having Christ at its head, and
the Paraclete as its guide,
the Papacy continues
its machinations
until it gets it right. Consequently, many clerics and Catholic faithful
have been confused or misled over the past forty years.”
We hope to
demonstrate to
our traditional friends and readers that
the Vatican CHOREOGRAPHS ITS PLANS AND MACHINATIONS OVER LONG PERIODS OF TIME. So,
please give the popes
the benefit of the doubts you may have, because it
is their job
to go out and bring back the “lost sheep.”
In his book, The Keys of this Blood, copyright 1990, the late Jesuit Malachi
Martin wrote on Page 693: “You will discover, in time, that there is a series of particular papal decrees. The principal
ones
should be mentioned here. There has been in the past and there will be in
the future one official Roman Rite of the Mass. For the foreseeable future,
there will
be two
officially sanctioned
variations of that sacred Roman Rite: the traditional
one that flourished for over a thousand years before the Council of Trent gave it a special cachet; and the Novus
Ordo of Pope Paul VI, which, in a reformed state,
is also authorized. Both
will be said in Latin, as
the Second
Vatican Council decreed, except for vernacular prayers said by the people. The Pauline Novus
Ordo will
be purified of its
suspect parts, the validating words of Consecration restored to it and, completely purged from
it, Luther's additions. Performance of either Mass is decided
not by a popular vote but by direct orders from
the Holy See.
All ecclesiastical
sanctions
launched against the so-called
Traditionalist movements and leaders are hereby revoked.
Anyway, most of them were null and
void from the beginning.”
On page 694, Father Malachi
Martin goes
on to elaborate the modus operandi
of the
popes’ battle plan. It is majestic in its simplicity. "I would remind Your Eminences
that, as Pope, I hold
the Keys of this Sacred Blood, and that the Holy See can wait and
wait and
wait and wait. For as long as is necessary. If I depart
this life, when I depart this life, my successor here will wait and
wait and wait. What power on earth can wait like that? Which of Your Eminences or of my bishops can wait as long as that? The strength of those Keys will never weaken. The perfection
of that Blood
will never be diluted.”
Can anyone doubt
that this is the plan the Holy Fathers have been
following? How could Father Martin publish
this scenario eighteen years ago and be so accurate in its presentation?
Now comes the Reform of the Reform!
On the front page of the July 31,
2008, Metuchen
Diocesan official newspaper The Catholic Spirit appears a headline in the lower right corner: “English Mass changes approved by Vatican.” “The approved
text
… involves translations
of the penitential rite,
Gloria, creed, eucharistic prayers, eucharistic acclamations, Our Father and other prayers and responses
used
daily.
“But it is only the first of 12
units into which the third edition of the Roman
Missal
has been divided for translation
purposes. It
includes most of the text
used in every celebration of Mass including responses to the celebrant by people participating in a liturgy…
“While the changes have been approved, Bishop Serratelli
said it will be awhile before they become part
of regular worship at
Mass.
“I’m hoping for two years,” he said. “I’m an optimist.”
“The lead time is needed to allow
musicians to work
with the text and
to prepare music for various
liturgical
settings and seasons and
to allow for the necessary catechesis explaining the reasons for the revisions
to parishioners, the bishop explained.”
From the Telegraph.co.uk of Friday, August 8,
2008, “The new English
Mass is nearly here” by Damian Thompson
presents the following: “The Vatican
has approved
the new English
translation of the ordinary form of the Mass. It’s a great
improvement on the current one-ie,
liberals have lost all sort of liturgical
battles. The American bishops have stuck
the whole thing on their website, so I don’t see why I shouldn’t
quote a few passages”[due to space we present only one change].
“And now a crucial change (or, rather, reversion
to the plain meaning of the Latin). As the priest consecrates the precious blood, he says: “Take this, all
of you, and
drink from
it, for this is the chalice [previously “cup”] of my Blood, the Blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will be poured out for you and for many [previously “for all men] for the forgiveness of sins.”
So, what appears to be a delayed and
much awaited reaction
to a problem
in the Church, may actually be a well planned solution
by the Papacy.
