You may disagree, but it is a true fact.
Why do you think these folks and others adhereing to the old Latin traditional Latin Mass, are spiritually fighting to hang on? If the New Ordo was any good, the hundreds of Catholic Churches across the globe would NOT be closing, there would be NO shortage of priests, nuns ect. schools would be teaching the truths that there is one TRUE GOD and His Commandments,Not
NO PRAYER IN SCHOOLS , no fear or love of God, the clergy would wear their habits ,Not Plain everyday joe clothes, and the scapular and the rosary would be worn and recited daily in home and Church.
Conservative, there is a video out that tells the whole story, and watching it explains FULLY the situation in our Catholic Church today, I will post it , so all interested may see for themselves and UNDERSTAND, why Fr. Wickens and priests like him across the globe are saying NOTHING BUT THE OLD LATIN MASS. THe web is www.the-pope.com/isocmain.html
The video is called;WHAT WE LOST AND THE ROAD TO RESTORATION. YOu will see the results for it is an eyeopening tape and every Catholic priest and person should see it!!!!!!!! Praying for ALL, Mary help !
There are a few groups of folks who support and defend the NO in general: 1)those who sincerely believe it to be good whose reason has been blindsided, 2) those who sincerely believe it is good because they are decent and simple folk who do not know any better and are not educated enough to perceive a problem, 3) those who see the problem but will not allow themselves to admit to it nor comprehend all of the ramifications in their fullness - so they have a psychological need to deny there is a problem (as to do otherwise would upset their whole world.
People who fall into these categories are not evil - not in the least. Sadly for them, they have fallen into a type of spiritual and intellectual blindness. I should say that this list is not exhaustive, as there are those who fall into the cracks between these categories.
But in no way would I ever say that any of these type of people who believe that the NO is good are bad people. They are good people, who love God. Yet, they are misled.
In their own way, they are like a person on the deck of the sinking Titanic who are saying that "all is well". They refuse to believe in the reality of the iceberg.......the extent of the damage.......nor the ultimate reality that the ship is sinking. They believe the fairy tale of the current "new springtime".....because they want to.
That is how one can look at the drastic statistics of decline over the past 40 years, and say that all is rosy. That the best is yet to come. that we are better off now then we were.
The Evil One is a liar.....a master of deceipt, and always has been. He seeks to deceive all - liberal and trad alike. That should be self evident - that none are exempted.
How else can one explain the 70 year old woman who is applauding liturgical dance, and other abominations - when she should surely know better? The same is also true of good, devout mainline Protestants whose local churches have been transformed from places where the name of Jesus, nad his laws were loved, to social service centers, which preach modernism, and pseudo-marxism? Who now love and embrace what they would have spat out a generation ago?
I weep for both of them.
It is not for nothing that the majority of the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit are intellectual: Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel. These each are distict and profound spiritual and intellectual gifts which result in the receiving of knowledge......the understanding of fundamental realities.......the wisdom to interpret what is given to us.......and intellectual and spiritual counsel to understand what is right, and the ability to counsel others as to the same.
All Catholics who have been validly Confirmed have received these gifts. But they can lie dormant. One must pray for them, again and again.....not merely to receive them, but to have the abilty to properly use them to "pierce beyoond the veil", as it were - and see the fundamentals concerning ourselves, those around us, and the realities affecting the church and world in general.
It is through these 7 gifts that God has made some of his greatest saints out of the simple, and uneducated. Truly, all knowedge comes from God. And he who truly seeks to know God will be given all the knowledge he needs.
So, do not criticise the adherant of the NO - rather pray for them, that the Holy Ghost may enlighten them to the truth. And fill them with His love.