Cardinal Cantalamessa Insults Holy Mass
In reality, "clericalisation" has never been as rampant as today when Francis believes that he is above the Faith. Cantalamessa spread the falsehood that the Novus Ordo is a "return" to an "older" form, when in fact it is a 1960s neo-Protestant secularisation of the liturgy.
The Holy Mass was virtually unchanged from Gregory (+604) to the failed Vatican II, but it is much older than Gregory, although historical documents for the early centuries are rare.
Cantalamessa spread the falsehood that in the early centuries the Mass was "certainly closer" to the Novus Ordo than to the Mass. Why then is the Novus Ordo called "novus" (= new)?
He denigrates the Catholic liturgy as a product of "clericalism" which has changed the liturgy from an "action of the people" to an "action of the clergy.” In reality, the liturgy is an action of Christ.
As an example, he cited the words of consecration which in the Roman Rite are pronounced silently - according to Cantalamessa - “out of sight and earshot of the people." In the Roman Rite, however, the people know exactly what is going on during the consecration, unlike the clueless followers of the Novus Ordo.
The fabricated Novus Ordo, he said, has "changed" the way God's holiness is manifested, “no longer as a mystery of majesty and power" but as an "infinite capacity for hiddenness and suffering." Indeed, in the Novus Ordo, the mystery is hidden beyond recognition, and suffering is the fate of those who must endure with it.
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