PRELIMINARY NOTE

         The New Mass, enacted in 1969 as the Ordinary Rite of the Catholic Church by Pope Paul VI, was prepared by a special Commission appointed for this purpose, which was composed of six Protestant experts and three Catholics. Out of these three, Archbishop Bugnini was the President of the Commission. When his affiliation to Freemasonry was discovered beyond any shadow of a doubt, he was banished from Rome by the Pope –Bugnini was sent as Nuncio to Iran. But his work, which was carried out with the collaboration and to the satisfaction of the Protestant experts, was not modified at all. Hence, the hitherto perennial and revered Latin Mass of the Church was virtually eliminated, and a great number of centuries were left behind and submerged into oblivion.

            Among the olive trees in the Garden, during that terrible Night and before the imminence of the Passion and the Cross, the Devil was convinced of his all-encompassing Victory. Only when Jesus exhaled His last breath did the Angel of Evil realize his blunder. It was then and there when it clearly appeared that the Death on the Cross of the Son of God was the great asset that God had kept to Himself; the very one by which the Evil One was definitively vanquished. These two moments, the alleged Victory of Satan and the real Defeat by Jesus, are clearly portrayed at the beginning and at the end of the film by Mel Gibson The Passion of the Christ.

            But from that moment, the Devil already knew what to expect. If the Sacrifice of the Cross was the key, then it was precisely this sacrifice which had to be eliminated at all costs. Thus, he took upon himself the difficult task of eliminating the Mystery of the Redemption –the ideal of the Sacrificial Death of Christ on the Cross—from the minds and hearts of Christians. For twenty centuries he was not successful . . . until Modernism, which was believed to have disappeared, came alive again under the form of Neo-Modernism in the heart of the Church from the time of Vatican Council II.

            It was then that what seemed impossible, as well as unthinkable, actually happened. The concept of the Mass as a renovation of the Sacrifice of Christ –not a repetition, but a becoming present, here and now, in all its reality, the Death of the Lord—fades to almost nothing and is replaced, in turn, by the prevalent and almost single idea of the Mass as a meal of solidarity or fraternity.

            Any idea of an atoning sacrifice was relegated to the attic of obsolete concepts, as something that belonged to past times and primitive cultures. Man no longer has to think so much about participating in the Death of Someone but about living in communion and happiness with his peers; he lives in a World that is self-sufficient and that recognizes Man himself as the only value within its reach. The worship of God gives way to cult of Man – so much so that, from now on, the supernatural value of suffering and death, the need to atone for sins and to share the Death of the Redeemer, are replaced by modern concepts like the New Spring and the New Age, which open themselves up to a New World which thus becomes the final stage of human existence.

            So it was that the New Church of Modernity consummated her Apostasy, by turning her back on the death of the Redeemer and slapping God in the face with her contempt and rejection of the most wonderful of His works; the very work by which He had given up His life and thanks to which He had accomplished, in reality, the greatest imaginable Act of Love towards man.

            There are details and gestures that speak for themselves. In a great number of Catholic churches and temples, the pews and kneelers have disappeared, replaced by chairs and comfortable seats too close to each other so as to impede the Faithful from any possibility of kneeling. The Charismatic and Neo-catechumenal Communities, properly approved (it is fair to say), have seen the hour of their triumph: by denying the value of the Mass as a Sacrifice, the celebrations (always outside the temples and in total absence of altars and appropriate symbols) of those communities gave way to festive elements like guitars and rock music; almost exclusive intervention by lay people, virtually ignoring completely the Priestly element; and meals of solidarity and brotherhood.

            It is not worthy to add more examples, which, on the other hand, all Catholics have seen and experienced. And this is how the new Night of the Garden of the Olive Tree has been updated. Satan is again confident of his Victory, and this time there is no one to prevent it. At long last, the Church, having received this deadly and definitive Blow, has been destroyed and defeated.

There is no one to prevent it…until the Supreme Judge comes and what was prophesied becomes a reality: And the Devil, who had deceived them, was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever (Apoc 20:10).