Foreword by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
This great and powerful article by Professor Massimo
Viglione constitutes one of the most lucid and profound comments on the ominous
Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. In sharing this important intervention, I
intend to offer it to the reading and reflection of all the faithful, Catholics
and also non-Catholics, so that each one can draw from it prophetic clarity and
apostolic courage in the very hard war that we are all called to face, a war
whose inevitable outcome will be the triumph of the Bride of Christ over the
unleashing of the infernal powers.
This article by prof. Viglione deserves wide visibility also
for showing the overall vision on the simultaneous and coherent strategy and
action of the deep state and the deep church. At a time when discrimination
against the unvaccinated is also adopted by the Bergoglian church, it is our
duty and responsibility to resist with the utmost determination, raise our
voices, denouncing what is happening and revealing what is being prepared.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
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Hatred for the Mass of all time and the Question of
Obedience
“They will throw you out of the synagogues” (Jn 16:2) The hermeneutic of Cain’s envy against Abel
by Massimo Viglione
There have been many comments, one after the other, in these
days following the official declaration of war – made by Francis himself – of
the ecclesiastical hierarchy against the Holy Mass of all time. And more than
one comment has revealed the not-at-all concealed contempt and the simultaneous
absolute clarity of content and form that marks the Motu Proprio Traditionis
Custodes, written in a style and formality that is political more than
theological or spiritual. It is in effect a declaration of war. It is
noteworthy that there is a formal difference and also a difference in tone
found in the various documents with which Paul VI, beginning in 1964,
announced, planned, and implemented his liturgical reform, which was finally
made official with the Apostolic Constitution Missale Romanum issued on 3 April
1969, by which the ancient Roman Rite was de facto replaced (this is the most
appropriate term both from the point of view of intentions as well as facts)
with the new vulgar Rite. In the Montinian documents we find, on several
occasions, hypocritical but evident pain, regret, and remorse, and
paradoxically the beauty and sacredness of the ancient Rite are celebrated.
In contrast, in the Bergoglian document, sarcasm and hatred
for the ancient Rite shine through.
In short, it is as if Montini had said: “Dear Rite of all
time, I am sending you away, but you were so beautiful!” In contrast, in the Bergoglian document, as many have noted,
sarcasm and hatred for the ancient Rite shine through. A hatred such that it
cannot be contained.
Naturally, Francis is not the initiator of this war, which
was begun by the modernist liturgical movement (or, if you like, with
Protestantism), but rather, on the official and operative level, it was Paul VI
himself. Bergoglio has only – to use the strong and popular metaphor – “shot
madly” in an effort to kill once and for all a mortally wounded thing that in
the course of the post-conciliar decades not only did not die but returned to
life, dragging along with it, with an exponential crescendo in the last 14
years, an incalculable number of faithful all over the world.
And this is the crux of the whole matter. The progressive
and more convinced modernist clergy had to suffer Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio,
dragged by the neck, but at the same time they constantly worked against the
Mass of all time through hostile resistance by the majority of the world
episcopate, which has always openly disobeyed what Summorum Pontificum
established, beginning right in the years of the Ratzingerian pontificate, and
then all the more so after the resignation up until today.
Now, those bishops who have been constantly and undauntedly
disobedient to the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and one of his Motu
Proprios, will be able not only to continue but even to intensify their
censorship.
The hostility of the bishops meant that in the end the task
of putting the Motu Proprio into action very often fell to the courage of a few
priests celebrating it anyway, even without the permission of the bishop (which
was specifically not necessary according to the provisions of Summorum
Pontificum). Now, those bishops who have been constantly and undauntedly
disobedient to the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and one of his Motu Proprios,
in the name of obedience to the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and one
of his Motu Proprios, will be able not only to continue but even to intensify
their censorship, the war that is no longer hidden but is now blatant, as is in
fact already happening.
But Francis has not limited himself to “shooting” the
immortal victim. He wanted to take a further step, that of a fast and furious –
to say nothing of monstruous – “burying alive” of the ancient rite, affirming
that the new rite is the Lex Orandi of the Catholic Church. From which it
should be deduced that the Mass of all time is no longer the Lex Orandi.
It is well known that Our Friend [Bergoglio] doesn’t have a
clue about theology (which is a bit like saying that a doctor doesn’t have a clue
about medicine, or that a blacksmith doesn’t know how to use fire and iron).
The Lex Orandi of the Church, in fact, is not a “precept” of positive law voted
on by a parliament or prescribed by a sovereign, which can always be retracted,
changed, replaced, improved, or worsened. The Lex Orandi of the Church,
furthermore, is not a specific and determined “thing” in time and space, as
much as it is the collective whole of theological and spiritual norms and
liturgical and pastoral practices of the entire history of the Church, from
evangelical times – and specifically from Pentecost – up to today. Although it
obviously lives in the present, it is however rooted in the entire past of the
Church. Therefore, we are not talking here about something human – exclusively
human – that the latest boss can change at his pleasure. The Lex Orandi
comprises all twenty centuries of the history of the Church, and there is no
man or group of men in the world who can change this twenty-century-old
deposit. There is no pope, council, or episcopate that can change the Gospel,
the Depositum Fidei, or the universal Magisterium of the Church. Nor can the
Liturgy of all time be changed. And if it is true that the ancient Rite had an
essential apostolic core that then harmonically grew over the course of the
centuries, with progressive mutations (even up to Pius XII and John XXIII), it
is also true that these mutations – at times more appropriate and other times
less so, and sometimes perhaps not appropriate at all – have always been
however harmonically structured in a continuum of Faith, Sacredness, Tradition,
and Beauty.
The “new Mass” has lost in the face of history and the
evidence of the facts.
The Montinian reform broke all this apart, improvisedly
inventing a new rite adapted to the needs of the modern world and transforming
the sacred Catholic Liturgy from being theocentric to being anthropocentric.
From the Holy Sacrifice of the Cross repeated in an unbloody manner through the
action of the sacerdos, we transitioned to the assembly of the faithful led by
its “presider.” From a salvific and even exorcistic instrument, we passed to a
horizontal populist gathering, susceptible to continual autocephalous and
relativistic changes and adaptations that are more or less “festive” and whose
supposed “value” is based on winning mass consensus, as if it were a political
instrument aimed at the audience, an audience however that is progressively
completely disappearing.
It is useless to continue on this path: the very results of
this liturgical subversion speak to minds and hearts and cannot lie. What it is
important to clarify however is the reason for this transition from Montinian
hypocrisy to Bergoglian sincerity.
What has changed? The general climate has changed. It has
literally turned upside down. Montini believed that in a few years no one would
remember the Mass of all time. Already John Paul II, faced with the evidence
that the enemy did not die at all, was constrained – he too dragged by the neck
– to grant an “indult” (as if the Sacred Catholic Liturgy of all time needed to
be forgiven for something in order to continue to exist) which (no one ever
says this) was even more restrictive than this latest Bergoglian document,
although devoid of the hatred that characterizes the latter. But above all it
was the uncontainable success among the people – and in particular among young
people – that the Mass of all time found after Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio that
was the triggering factor for this hatred.
The Mass of all time, on the other hand, is the exact
antithesis of all this... It is both divine and human together, like its
Founder on the day of the Last Supper.
The “new Mass” has lost in the face of history and the
evidence of the facts. The churches are empty, ever more empty; the religious
orders – even, and perhaps above all, the most ancient and glorious ones – are
disappearing; monasteries and convents are deserted, inhabited only by
religious who are now very advanced in years, and upon whose death the doors
will be shuttered; vocations are reduced to nothing; even the “otto per mille”
[Italian church tax] has been cut in half, despite the obsessive cloying and
pathetic third-worldesque publicity it receives; priestly vocations are scarce
– everywhere we see pastors with three, four, or at times even five parishes to
run. The mathematics of the Council and the “new Mass” is the most merciless
thing that can exist.
But the failure is above all qualitative, from the
theological, spiritual and moral point of view. Even the clergy that exists and
resists is in large part openly heretical or in any case tolerant of heresy and
error in the exact measure that it is intolerant towards the Tradition, no
longer recognizing any objective value in the Magisterium of the Church (except
for what pleases it), living instead on theological and dogmatic improvisation,
and liturgical and pastoral improvisation as well, all based on doctrinal and
moral relativism, accompanied by an immense flood of chatter and empty and
inane slogans; nor have we even mentioned the devastating – when it is not
monstruous – moral situation of a good part of this clergy.
It’s true, there are the so-called “movements” that save the
situation a little. But they save it at the cost, once again, of doctrinal
relativism, liturgical relativism (guitars, tambourines, entertainment,
“participation”), and moral relativism (the only sin is to go against the
dictates of this society: today against the vaccine; everything else is more or
less permitted). Are these movements still Catholic? And in what measure and
quality? If we were to analyze their fidelity with theological and doctrinal
precision, how many would pass the examination?
It is the worldwide and multi-generational consensus against
the enemy who must die, in the face of the failure of that which was supposed
to bring new life and instead is withered and dying.
“Lex orandi, lex credenda,” the Church teaches. And in fact,
the Lex Orandi of the nineteen centuries prior to Vatican II and the Montinian
liturgical reform have produced one type of faith, and the fifty years
following it have produced another type of faith – and another type of
Catholic. “You will know them by their fruits” (Mt 7:16), the Founder of the
Church taught. Exactly. The fruits of the total failure of modernism (or, if
you like – for the most attentive and intelligent – the triumph of the true
purposes of modernism), the fruits of the Second Vatican Council, the fruits of
the post-council. Where did the hermeneutic of continuity shipwreck? It
shipwrecked, along with “Mercy,” in the Hermeneutic of Hatred.
The Mass of all time, on the other hand, is the exact
antithesis of all this. It is disruptive in its propagation, despite all of the
constant hostility and episcopal censorship; it is sanctifying in its
perfection; it is engaging precisely because it is the expression of the
Eternal and Unchanging, of the Church of all time, of the theology and
spirituality of all time, of the liturgy of all time, of the morality of all
time. It is loved because it is divine, sacred, and hierarchically ordered, not
human, “democratic” or liberal-egalitarian. It is both divine and human
together, like its Founder on the day of the Last Supper.
It is loved above all by young people, both the laity who
frequent it as well as among those who are approaching the priesthood: while
the seminaries of the new rite (the Lex Orandi of Bergoglio) are dens of heresy
and apostasy (and it is better to be silent about what else…), the seminaries
and novitiates of the world of Tradition overflow with vocations, both male and
female, in an unstoppable stream. The explanation of this incontrovertible fact
is found in the one Lex Orandi of the Catholic Church, which is the one willed
by God Himself and from which no rebel may escape.
It is hatred of kneeling girls wearing white veils, hatred
of ladies with many children wearing black veils; hatred of men kneeling in
prayer and recollection, perhaps with the rosary between their hands...
Here is the root of the hatred. It is the worldwide and
multi-generational consensus against the enemy who must die, in the face of the
failure of that which was supposed to bring new life and instead is withered
and dying, because the lifeblood of Grace is missing.
It is hatred of kneeling girls wearing white veils, hatred
of ladies with many children wearing black veils; hatred of men kneeling in
prayer and recollection, perhaps with the rosary between their hands; hatred of
priests in cassocks who are faithful to the doctrine and spirituality of all
time; hatred of families that are large and peaceful despite the difficulties
of this society; hatred of fidelity, of seriousness, of the thirst for the
sacred.
It is hatred of an entire world, ever more numerous, that
has not fallen – or no longer falls – into the humanistic and globalist trap of
the “New Pentecost.”
At its root, that mad shooting is nothing other than a new
murder of Abel by an envious Cain. And in fact, in the new Rite what is offered
to God is “the fruit of the earth and the work of human hands (Cain), while in
the Rite of all time what is offered is “hanc immaculatam Ostiam” (the
firstborn Lamb of Abel: Gen 4:2-4).
Will all the bishops obey? It seems not.
Cain always wins momentarily through violence, but then
without fail he suffers the punishment of his hatred and his envy. Abel dies
momentarily, but then he lives forever in the sequela Christi.
What will happen now?
This is a more interesting and inevitable question than
anyone can believe, and at many levels. Since we cannot know the future, let’s
ask ourselves some fundamental questions in the meantime.
Will all the bishops obey?
It seems not. Apart from the great majority of them, who
will fall in line quite willingly either because they share their boss’s hatred
(almost all of them) or because they are afraid for their personal future, we
think that there will be not a few of them who could also oppose the Bergoglian
“machine gun,” as already appears to be happening in various cases in the USA
and in France (we have little hope for the Italians, who are the most fearful
and flattened as always), either because they are not hostile in principle [to
the ancient rite] or else out of friendship with the various orders tied to the
Mass of all time, or else perhaps – is this a vain hope? – out of a jolt of
just pride in response to the humiliation, which could even be called
grotesque, that they have received at the hands of this document, wherein first
it says that the decision regarding the granting of permission falls to them,
but then not only does it restrict every liberty of action, placing conditions
on any minimal possibility of choice, but it also falls into the most blatant
contradiction, affirming that in every case they must receive the permission of
the Holy See!
Will everyone really obey blindly, or will some cracks start
to make the system of hatred shake?
The true goal of this multi-decade war against the Sacred
Catholic Liturgy, is the dissolution of the Catholic Liturgy in itself, of
every form of the Holy Sacrifice, of doctrine itself, of the Church herself in
the great globalist current of the universal religion of the New World Order.
And what will happen in the so-called “traditionalist”
world?
“We will see some good ones,” to use a popular expression.
Without excluding historical twists. There are those who will fall, who will
survive, who perhaps will benefit from it (but beware of the poisoned meatballs
of the servants of the Father of Lies!). Instead, let us trust in divine Grace,
so that the faithful not only remain faithful but also grow.
All this will be confirmed above all by an aspect that up
until now no one has highlighted: the true goal of this multi-decade war
against the Sacred Catholic Liturgy, which then is the true goal of the
creation of the New Rite ex nihilo (better to say improvisedly [a tavolino], in
some cave), is the dissolution of the Catholic Liturgy in itself, of every form
of the Holy Sacrifice, of doctrine itself, of the Church herself in the great
globalist current of the universal religion of the New World Order. Concepts
like the Most Holy Trinity, the Cross, original sin, Good and Evil understood
in the Christian and traditional sense, the Incarnation, the Resurrection and
thus the Redemption, the Marian privileges and the very figure of the Mother of
God who is the Immaculate Conception, the Eucharist and the Sacraments,
Christian morality with its Ten Commandments and the Doctrine of the Universal
Magisterium (defense of life, of the family, of rightly ordered sexuality in
all its forms, with all the consequent condemnations of today’s follies) – all
of this must disappear into the universal and monist cult of the future.
The Mass of all time is the first element that must
disappear, since it is the absolute bulwark of all that they want to make
disappear.
And, in this perspective, the Mass of all time is the first
element that must disappear, since it is the absolute bulwark of all that they
want to make disappear: it is the first obstacle to every form of ecumenism.
Over time, this will inevitably involve a progressive movement closer to the
Sacred Liturgy of all time by the body of the faithful who still linger in
attendance at the new Rite, perhaps trying to go to those priests who celebrate
it with dignity. Because in the end, sooner or later, even those priests will
find themselves at the crossroads of having to choose between obedience to evil
or disobedience in order to remain faithful to the Good. The comb of the
Revolution, in society as in the Church, does not leave any knots: sooner or
later they all fall out, if not here then there. And this will involve the
search by the good ones, who are still confused, for Truth and Grace – that is,
for the Mass of all time.
Those who still linger today [at the new rite], so as not to
have to deal with these “questions,” following these bishops and parish
priests, know that, if they want to remain truly Catholic and truly avail
themselves of the Body and Blood of the Redeemer…their days are numbered. Soon,
they will have to choose.
We have now touched on the central problem of this entire
situation: how to behave in the face of a hierarchy that hates the True, the
Good, the Beautiful, the Tradition, which fights against the one true Lex
Orandi in order to impose another one that is pleasing not to God but to the
prince of this world and his “controller” servants (in a certain sense, his
“bishops”)?
Whoever obeys men while being aware of facilitating evil and
obstructing the Good, whoever they may be, in reality becomes an accomplice of
evil, of lies, and of error.
It is the key problem of obedience, over which even in the
world of Tradition a dirty game is often played, often incited not by a sincere
search for what is best and for the truth but by personal wars, which have
today become more acute in the face of the rift caused by health
totalitarianism and vaccination.
Obedience – and this is an error that finds its deepest
roots even in the pre-conciliar Church, it must be said – is not an end. It is
a means of sanctification. Therefore, it is not an absolute value, but rather
an instrumental one. It is a positive value, very positive, if it is ordered
towards God. But if one obeys Satan, or his servants, or error, or apostasy,
then obedience is no longer a good, but rather a deliberate participation in
evil.
Exactly like peace. Peace – the divinity of today’s
subversion – is not an end, but rather an instrument of the Good and the Just,
if it is aimed at creating a good and just society. If it is ordered towards
creating or favoring a society that is Satanic, malignant, erroneous, and
subversive, then “peace” becomes the instrument of hell.
We must be “pleasing not to men, but to God, who tests our
hearts” (1 Thess 2:4). Exactly! Therefore, whoever obeys men while being aware
of facilitating evil and obstructing the Good, whoever they may be – including
the ecclesiastical hierarchy, including the pope – in reality becomes an
accomplice of evil, of lies, and of error.
We are in the most decisive days of human history and also
of the history of the Church.
Whoever obeys in these conditions disobeys God. “Because no
slave is greater than his master” (Mt 10:24). Even Judas was part of the
apostolic college. Or else he falls into hypocrisy. As if – just to give an
example from academia – a Catholic traditionalist, self-erected as the
dispenser and judge of the seriousness of others, would openly criticize the
present pontiff for Amoris Laetitiae or this latest document, but then, as
regards the submission – even obligatory submission! – to vaccinism in itself and the acceptance of
the use of human cell lines obtained from fetuses that are the victims of
voluntary abortion, he would declare, in order to defend himself in the face of
just and obvious general indignation, that he is obedient to what the
“Sovereign Pontiff” says on this matter.
The conditio sine qua non of all seriousness lies not so
much in the “tones” used (also, this is an important aspect but absolutely not
primary and above all it remains subjective) but first and foremost in the
doctrinal, ideal, and intellectual coherence of the Good and the Truth in their
integrity, in every aspect and circumstance. In other words, we must understand
whether the one who guides the Church today wishes to be a faithful servant of
God or a faithful servant of the prince of this world. In the first hypothesis,
obedience is due to him and obedience is the instrument of sanctification. In
the second, the consequences have to be drawn out. Clearly, in respect for the
norms codified by the Church and as children of the Church and also with the
proper education and serenity of tone. But one must always draw out the
consequences: the first concern ought to be to always follow and defend the
Truth, not the cloying, obsequious, and scrupulous grovelling which is the
spoiled fruit of a misunderstood Tridentinism. Neither pope nor hierarchy can
be used as a referent of truth in fits and starts according to one’s personal
ends.
We are in the most decisive days of human history and also
of the history of the Church. All of the authors who have commented in these
days invite their readers to prayer and hope. We will obviously do this too, in
the full conviction that everything that is happening in these days and, more
generally, since February 2020, is the unequivocal sign that the times are
drawing near in which God will intervene to save His Mystical Body and
humanity, as well as the order that He Himself has given to creation and to
human coexistence, in the measure He wishes to give it, in the way and time of
His choosing.
Let us pray; let us hope; let us keep vigil, and let us
choose to be on the right side. The enemy helps us in the choice: in fact, he
is always the same everywhere.
Originally published at: L’odio contro la Messa di sempre e la questione dell’obbedienza – Aldo Maria Valli
