The 10 Reasons I Do NOT Attend the Novus Ordo Mass
Alexandra Clark | The Daily Knight
As the bishops around the world decide whether or not to help Pope Francis destroy the Mass of All Times, I thought it best to describe the top 10 reasons I do not attend the new order of the Mass, the Novus Ordo. Feel free to adopt, change and use them to send to your bishops as they form the inquisition in their diocese. I list those 10 reasons below and then go through each one briefly as possible, as each one can be a book in itself!
10 Reasons I do NOT attend the Novus Ordo:
1) The Novus Ordo is not a source of unity, but rather confusion.
2) The Novus Ordo is not the Sacred Mass of the Holy Saints & Martyrs.
3) The Novus Ordo is not Catholic, nor Apostolic, but is more Protestant.
4) Our Lady of Fatima warned us about the Novus Ordo Mass.
5) The Novus Ordo is not proper worship of God, but more Man-Centric.
6) The fruits of the Novus Ordo Mass are bad and Priesthood is disorientated from its goal.
7) The Novus Ordo is less Biblical & veers away from that which was handed down from the Apostles.
8) In the Novus Ordo, Supper (meal) and Self are emphasized, not Sacrifice and Sanctity
9) I do not want to “Incur the wrath of God” by attending the Novus Ordo.
10) The money collected from the faithful has been swindled by Gay Priests, Bad Bishops and even the Vatican for nefarious reasons.
1. The Novus Ordo is not a source of unity, but rather confusion.
One = unity. If there is one thing anyone can observe today is that there is absolutely no unity in the Novus Ordo masses since its promulgation in 1970. Everywhere you go they do something different and the oneness of the Faith is not clear. You may go to one Church and they say the Creed and to another and they don’t. One may have altar girls and another not. Another Novus Ordo Mass may have dancing (sometimes in skimpy clothes) and another with neon lights and guitars. Prayer, postures, people’s roles, and the priest are all different in all the Novus Ordo masses across the globe. The list is endless and the essence of being united in the same One Faith is very ambiguous and confuses the Catholic soul. The Novus Ordo does not keep to what St. Paul said:
“Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. One body and one Spirit; as you are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism.” And “That you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind laboring together for the faith of the gospel." [Ephesians 4:3-5 and Philippians 1:27].
After the Vatican II, all the sacraments were changed, that is to say ambiguity, (interpret it as you will) and there has never been unity in the Catholic Church as there was found before! Remember, one of the 4 marks of the Church, is ONE, and clearly the Novus Ordo is not ONE.
2. The Novus Ordo is not the Sacred Mass of the Holy Saints & Martyrs.
Again, we can know them by their fruits. Where as the Traditional Latin Mass of All Times produced millions of saints & martyrs, who lived the Faith and died for the Faith, the Novus Ordo has produced a massive exodus of souls and the loss of the Faith in souls, (barren) with the majority of them not believing one aspect of the Faith or another. Do you believe anyone today would “die” for the Novus Ordo mass today? And most of all, the argument that “I attend a REVERENT Novus Ordo mass,” proves that the majority of the masses are NOT reverent. Look no further than this great video put together of several examples of the great irreverence in the House of God and the desecrations that have gone on since the promulgation of the novus ordo and continuing till today: https://youtu.be/ue9VoAEQ9x8 . Altars and Communion rails where torn down as well as many ancient statues, tables where set up (meal), the priest was made to face man, not God (self, not worship due to God), Communion is given in the hand to lead the faithful to believe that what they behold is not sacred, this actually achieved their goal as now 70% of Catholics that attend the Novus Ordo no longer believe in the Real Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. Lex Orandi Lex Credendi (how you pray shows what you believe).
3. The Novus Ordo is not Catholic, nor Apostolic, but is more protestant.
Catholic means universal. The Novus Ordo mass does not form you the same way that the Holy Mother Church did everywhere, and always throughout the centuries. The Traditional Latin Mass of All Times alone provides a visible and unbroken link from the present day to the time of Christ and His Apostles. By the Sacred language of Latin, it also kept an inspiring bond of unity across the globe. In traveling the globe, Catholics could attend Holy Mass in foreign languages and cultures did not have an effect on the True Worship of God, for “the Mass was the same” wherever they went. The experience was, for them, a confirmation of the Catholicity of their Catholicism.
By contrast, the Novus Ordo mass is in most cases hard pressed to find “the same Mass” worshiping God in with the same due reverence in the same Sacred Language, with the same focus, with the same prayers, etc. There is no doubt of the universality found in the Traditional Latin Mass, with the unifying sacred language of Latin and its insistence that the priest put aside his own idiosyncratic and cultural preferences and put on the person of Christ. Truly every aspect of the Traditional Latin Mass can be seen as a true Pentecost in which many tongues and tribes come together as one in the Spirit—rather than a new Babel that privileges various identities such as ethnicity, race or age group.
Secondly, remember the Holy Mass began with Christ, was passed on to the His Apostles and continued through the centuries as the only acceptable form of Worship and Sacrifice to the Father. In the very beginning, God spoke His plan for mankind’s salvation and sanctification. The Old Testament speaks of God’s direction to the Israelites in the proper worship due to Him. The Lord established His Ceremonial Law, specific rules and detailed ceremonies to be performed in the temple He designed, which the High Priest was to perform meticulously.
Hence, God Himself was the Architect of these Old Testament ceremonies. However, His plan was not completed in the Laws of the Israelites as recorded in the Old Testament, and those sacrifices offered were never perfect as they were to be completed and perfected only by Christ in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
For Christ said: “Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.” Thus, God himself, ordained how we are to worship Him, and then taught to the Apostles. The Apostolic Traditions we see even today in the various rites within the Holy Mother Church and the earliest record we find of the Traditional Latin Roman Rite is in 380 A.D.
Note that some Catholics make the mistake of thinking that the Latin Mass only started at the Council of Trent, rather Pope St. Pius V only codified it (think of its kind of like proclaiming it as dogma, it was always done and always believed, but never codified). Thus, the TLM which is sometimes called the Tridentine Mass, Mass of All Times, the Usus Antiquior (Latin for the ancient usage), the Extraordinary Form or just Latin Mass, is the Mass of Christ and His Apostles. Again, think of the Immaculate Conception, which was only declared a dogma in 1854, yet, it was always believed everywhere and by the whole Church from the earliest times, in the same way the Mass of All Times was just codified in 1570.
Lastly, the Novus Ordo rite is so similar with the Protestant liturgies in the 16th Century and their services today. In the words of Fr. Kramer on the Protestant construction of the Novus Ordo mass:
“The Novus Ordo does not instruct the faithful in the truths of the faith, because it was constructed in the same manner as the heretical services of the Reformers, who adapted “existing Catholic rites, but removed from them everything which was not compatible with the particular heresies they favored.”(61) The pattern of adaptation of the traditional rite in the making of the Novus Ordo has been shown to be substantially identical to that employed by Thomas Cranmer in the making of the Protestant Mass or Lord’s Supper of 1549.(62) Cranmer’s purpose for modifying the liturgy was doctrinal, as Belloc explains: ... to get rid of the Mass was the soul of the whole affair, because he hated it, especially ... its central doctrine ... the Real Presence of God upon the altar. ... But it would be impossible to effect so complete a revolution at one blow... it had to be done in two stages ...( Taken from page 44-45 The Suicide of Altering the Faith in the Liturgy: https://fatima.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Suicide-of-Altering-the-Faith-in-the-Liturgy.pdf)
The Novus ordo is the invention of a liturgical commission, the Consilium whose guiding light was Fr. Annibale Bugnini and which also included six Protestant experts. Bugnini wrote his famous (used by most Novo ordos) Eucharistic Prayer II on a napkin while he was dining on a table of a trattoria in Trastevere. (A lot of thought went into that one)