[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Bugnini: The Man Behind the Post-Vatican II Mass

National Catholic Register ^ | April 22, 2019 | Anna Abbott

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Archbishop Bugnini: The Man Behind the Post-Vatican II Mass

The concept of “living and prayerful assembly” looks tragic in retrospect; it led to a collapse on every front. And soon after the “New Mass” was promulgated, a 1971 petition in the London Times, signed by high-profile personalities such as Jorge Luis Borges, Graham Greene and Yehudi Menuhin, called for the survival of the Tridentine Mass. The response of intellectuals and artists is forgotten now, but at the time, it must have stung the reformers. The exile of the average laity, however, seems to have never given the reformers a second’s remorse; it you didn’t “get it,” you didn’t deserve to be in the club.

Chiron’s book also explains particular quirks of the New Mass, such as the removal of saints from the canon, the excision of the Last Gospel, and why there is a three-year cycle of Scriptural readings. He goes into detail about various “experimental” Masses, surveys and consultation with periti (experts) — the Mass, like a movie, had test screenings. There is the story of Fr. Louis Bouyer and Dom Botte, given a 24-hour deadline to compose the Second Eucharistic Prayer, hastily writing it up in a Roman café. It is simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking.

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Kind of late to be complaining now. This was the Catholic Church Deep State providing the model for world governments to follow. First, you promulgate something odious and call it progress. Then you silence dissent. Finally, punish those who don’t get along with the program. This was a total rejection of Catholic teaching.

Pope St. Pius X formally condemned 65 Modernist or Relativist propositions in the encyclical Lamentabili sane exitu[27] (”A Lamentable Departure Indeed”), issued on 3 July 1907, The encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis (”Feeding the Lord’s Flock”) characterized Modernism as the “synthesis of all heresies.”