“In this 12-part Love Letter to the Latin Mass, I hope to share aspects that make the Latin Mass so precious and vital to our Church. I am excited to share more with you and pray that these writings will be a blessing to you.” Thus authoress Cynthia Millen has begun her twelve-part series on the Latin mass. (Love Letters to the Latin Mass 1: In the Beginning; at site Catholic Stand; Jan. 16, 2023 AD; https://catholicstand.com/love-letters-latin-mass-1-beginning/).
My words cannot convey the insight and poignancy of this her first article in the series.
My posted comment to her article appears below.
Dear Cynthia, This is one of the most accurate, most moving, most lovely discussions of the Latin mass I have ever read. Unwittingly, and sadly, you have voiced the primary reasons the criminal clergy of the demonarchy that now rules in the Vatican is getting ready -soon – to have their perverse puppet Jorge totally outlaw the Latin mass worldwide. When you say:
I began to attend the Latin Mass last year and found it difficult, deep, powerful, and unbelievably beautiful. It drew me back to the solemnity of my faith, and it joined me to the saints who still inspire me and to early childhood memories of Mass with my dear grandmother. It has made me love my Catholic Church even more. I belong to a parish dedicated to preserving the Latin Mass in our diocese. (Thank you, Bishop Daniel Thomas!) My church was built in 1854 and carries the echoes of over 100 years of Latin Masses.
You have stated the primary reason the devils hate the Latin mass and why they have spread the deadly liturgical virus of the novus ordo burly-q theater – and why they will soon require that their happy-clappy worship-oursleves theatricals will be the only “echoes” heard in the new churcharenas. Rumors from the dark side, the Vatican, are that very soon in what will be promulgated as a new “apostolic constitution,” the luciferians who pull the strings of their puppet Jorge wilI completely and utterly outlaw the Latin mass, worldwide. It is no accident that those who attend the novus ordo theaters overwhelmingly reject the doctrine of the Real Presence – and it is crystal clear why the satanic demonarchy in control of the earthly offices, administration, bank accounts, and real estate of Holy Mother Church seek to eradicate worship of God in the form of the Latin mass.
Any priest, in future, who celebrates the Latin mass will be extirpated from the roll of active clergy and will be denied all benefits of diocesan financial support, health care and pension. These will be true heroes; as will be any bishop, knowing he will be relieved of duty asap once he defies the demons. Who would have thought the Latin mass will be said in secret, with these heroic priests and bishops having to find modern day “priest holes” in which to hide?
It is no accident that Satan and his wicked minions are proceeding in this way. Outlawing the worship of God will bring division – the devils’ playground. They have been lying for over a dozen years since they ousted Benedict, and they will lie that they are unifying the church by so dividing it. Those perverts placed in the highest offices of Holy Mother Church by Bella Dodd and AA 1025 are rejoicing.
I truly believe that, even if I am in purgatory, I will live to see God triumph over these perverted, evil, sodomitic, pederastic, pedophilic priests and prelates and cardinals and that this sinful and criminal clergy, if they are unrepentant, will receive His justice for leading so many of His sheep to hell. I also truly believe that these demons have no clue about the multitude of the good laity around the world, people of faith, power, hope, and profound love of God, and of the legions of the faithful clergy who will rise up to fight the good fight and – backed up by an all-loving, all-powerful God their Papa – will insure that the Latin mass remains and the efforts to outlaw it will only serve to enliven it-forever. Guy, Texas
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I apologize in advance for being contrary, but is the Latin Mass any better than the first Mass – the Lord’s Supper – that was done in Aramaic by Jesus Himself?
Is the Latin Mass any better than the Koine Greek Mass done by the Apostles in the 1st century AD and their successors going forward?
I have been to both Latin Masses and Masses done in Elizabethan English by Anglican Ordinariate Parishes. I have also been to Ukrainian Greek Catholic Parishes where Ukrainian was used (I assume – maybe it was Old Church Slavonic; it wasn’t Greek because I know a little Greek as well as Latin). While I am just a layman, it seems that all three are equally holy.
I think what demons fear is the holiness, the sanctity of the Mass regardless that the language is Aramaic, Koine Greek, Latin, Old Church Slavonic or even Elizabethan English.
Now is Latin supposed to be the language of the Western Church? Absolutely. And if I had my way, all Masses would be given in a choice of languages: Aramaic, Koine Greek or Latin. Maybe Old Church Slavonic to accomodate the East. But in His infinite wisdom, God has seen fit that I shall never have my way.
This all said, I think the Novus Ordo is an aberration that should be trash canned. Yes, do what the Anglican Ordinariate does – Mass being in an old style of the vernacular does lend a sense of reverence entirely missing from Novus Ordo. And the priest should be Ad Orientem, NOT Versus Populum! But remember: the ONLY reason (historically) Mass came to be done in Latin is that it was the vernacular of the Western Roman Empire where the common people did not understand the Koine Greek of the Mass brought to them by the successors of the Apostles. Latin isn’t any more special than Aramaic or Koine Greek; this pious notion that Latin is more holy than Aramaic and Koine Greek is absurd (sorry; but it is). Nevertheless, reverence and holiness certainly are special, whether in Aramaic, Koine Greek, Latin, Old Church Slavonic or Elizabethan English.
LQC, I agree with you—in part. The “Latin Mass” is not just the Novus Ordo done in Latin and ad orientem, it is a different Form of the Mass— so it’s about more than just Latin.
As for Latin, of course it’s no longer the language of everyday life, just like vestments aren’t worn on the street— their use in church is a powerful sign that we’re in the presence of something set aside for God. Discarding signs of the sacred in order to make worship ‘accessible’ usually ends up making it condescending and cringey, even ridiculous.
Pope St. John XXIII issued his encyclical on Latin in the Church Veterum Sapientia just eight months before opening Vatican II. In VS, that Pope defended the use of Latin, stating “For the Church, precisely because it embraces all nations and destined to endure until the end of time … of its very nature requires a language which is universal, immutable, and non-vernacular.”
Latin also aids diversity in a way vernacular cannot. In my parish, there are Spanish, English and Vietnamese speakers. Instead of segregating into their own vernacular Masses, we can all worship together using Latin (and our missals).
But of course, the Extraordinary Form is so much more than just the use of Latin and ad orientem. The rubrics, vesture, customs, gesture, prayers, propers, calendar, chants and symbolism have been crafted and adjusted for two millennia to encapsulate as perfectly as possible the Faith handed down to us. If there were another Ordo that did a better job than the Extraordinary Form, the “Latin Mass”, I’d be the first to attend. However, the collapse of Catholic demographics since the imposition of the Novus Ordo seems to me to demonstrate that the Novus Ordo has yet to develop into as effective a Form of the Mass as the Extraordinary. Give it a couple millennia, and it might get there.
@Clinton – agreed –> “…the Extraordinary Form is so much more than just the use of Latin and ad orientem. The rubrics, vesture, customs, gesture, prayers, propers, calendar, chants and symbolism have been crafted and adjusted for two millennia to encapsulate as perfectly as possible the Faith handed down to us.”
I watched Divine Liturgy by the Russian Orthodox Church given in Old Church Slavonic last night. I understood not a word, But all those characteristics that you listed – Ad Orientem, the rubrics, vesture, customs, gesture, prayers, propers, calendar, chants and symbolism – were present. It was obvious that while Patriarch Kirill in his corrupt way may be no better than Bergoglio in his heretical way, what was happening was holy and reverent and worshipful.
No, I am not going Russian Orthodox as some have done. The point is that while Latin was the lingua Franca of the Western Church, it’s not any more special than Koine Greek is to Constantinople or Old Church Slavonic to Moscow.