Satan’s Hatred for the Mass
Everyone knows
that the first duty of man is to adore God. No sooner was man created than this
necessary homage became due. All know likewise that the perfect way of
expressing this homage is by sacrifice: the mode of adoration revealed by the
Almighty Himself to man. We find it prevalent wherever man exists. No nation,
however barbarous, no religion, however false or idolatrous, but has had its sacrifices.
From the foundation of the world, no age or nation ever pretended to adore God
without a sacrifice, until Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Henry VIII, King of
England, and other heresiarchs with their followers came up as the first
sectarians among Christians to deprive the Almighty of this right of worship.
On the day
when Luther and men of the same stamp denied the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in
the Mass, and succeeded by means of the civil authority to abolish this Holy
Sacrifice, they deprived all their followers of the greatest gifts and
consolations that God, in His infinite power, wisdom and love, had bestowed
upon the world. The hearts of their fellowmen they left utterly void; they
flung back Christianity, as far as their tenets obtained, two thousand years
into the realms of Judaism; they stripped the Christian altar bare, and left it
poorer than the altar in the temple of Jerusalem, for man had no longer the
comfort nor the help of a visible Sacrifice. The domain of Protestantism
presents indeed in its bleak and dreary waste a sad proof of what the absence
of the lifegiving Lamb of God really is. Until Protestantism appeared to cast a
blight on worship, who ever heard of a religion, Christian or pagan, whose very
essence did not consist in an external sacrifice? In this respect the
Reformation has protested against the unanimous voice of mankind, and therefore
the Protestant service is as contracted in its nature as it is meagre in its
details, as it is cold and unimpressive in its general effect.
In the
Protestant service almost everything is for the ear, and scarcely anything for
the eye and the heart. Protestants, those in Germany even, lately began to
understand and to deplore this desecration and desolation of God’s holy
sanctuary…It is related of Frederick II, King of Prussia, that after having
assisted at a solemn High Mass celebrated in the Church of Breslau by Cardinal
Tringendorf, he remarked: “The Calvinists treat God as an inferior, the
Lutherans treat Him as an equal; but the Catholics treat Him as God.” Yes
indeed, it is only the Catholic Church that is the home for our dear Saviour.
His Presence fills her halls to overflowing with joy and gladness. Her
propitiatory altars are the anchors of hope for the sinner; her sanctuaries the
ante-chambers of Heaven. Take away the Blessed Sacrament, and you takeaway her
Saviour. Give her the Blessed Sacrament and you give her a glory, an honour, a
triumph the greatest possible this side of Paradise. Her altars are the altars
of joy, because they are the altars of the Saving Victim for the sins of the
world, for which reason the robed priest begins the tremendous Sacrifice with
the antiphon; “I will go unto the altar of God, to God who rejoiceth my youth.”
O Salutaris Hostia! Bella premunt hostilia,
Da robur, fer auxilium!
O Saving Host! Our foes press nigh; Thy
strength bestow, Thine aid supply!
Who can fail
to be impressed by the grandeur, the solemnity, and the noble dignity of the
Catholic ceremonial? Who has not felt a sentiment of reverence? The Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass and of awe creep over him when, at the most solemn part
of the service, the peal of the organ ceases, the voice of music is hushed,
and, while clouds of incense are ascending, the priests, the ministers, and the
people fall prostrate in silent prayer before the altar in which the Lamb is
present “as it were slain”! Who has not felt a thrill of rapturous emotion
when, after this solemn moment has passed, the music again peals forth,
mingling joyous with solemn notes, and pouring out a stream of delicious melody
over the soul!
Who has not
been struck with the pathetic simplicity, the unction and the massive grandeur
of the Gregorian chant, especially in the Preface and the Pater Noster! And who
has failed to mark the reverential awe with which Catholics are wont to assist
at the service, as well as the general respect they pay to the Church of God!
At first sight this god-awful essay could even be Gene's work. It is, after all, dreadfully bad prose, overwritten to the point of coagulation and oleaginous with sentimentality - a sort of spiritual Barbara Cartland. It even has the bogus air of erudition that Gene so often attempts to convey and always fails in.
ReplyDeleteBut no: as with everything else on this blog, this is plagiarised, although in itself this is a testimony to Gene's appalling taste. Only pretentious clown with a tin ear for good writing would steal this pinchbeck rubbish and try to pass it off as his own.
No: step forward, Fr. Michael Mueller (1825 - 1899) was a German-American author and spiritual writer who was a prominent member of the Redemptorist Order in the United States. This is an extract from his book The Blessed Eucharist, Our Greatest Treasure.
Typical Gene: not only a thief but an incompetent thief, stealing stuff in itself not worth the effort of cutting and pasting.
And again, typical Gene - write something nonsensical, have it comprehensively refuted, bring on "Ooh Matron!" and the dreary parade of sock puppets, claim victory and post further literary sewage from the literary Elsan that is his mind.
I have never pretended this was my writing - any fool can see it couldn't be.
ReplyDeleteI posted it to show how Protestants destroyed the Mass for so many.
Read Rev Richard Coles on this subject.
GENE
"I have never pretended this was my writing - any fool can see it couldn't be."
ReplyDeleteBollocks. You post this on your blog without sourcing it; that is passing off others' work as your own.
As for Richard Coles I have no doubt that his writings will appear on here soon passed off as yours, so I will wait for that. And in any case, as a widowed homosexual Anglican priest, he is a heretic according to you, so presumably not worth listening to according to you. What a smarmy little bastard you are.
" ... as a widowed homosexual Anglican priest, he is a heretic"
ReplyDeleteA disgraceful slur.
GENE
" ... as a widowed homosexual Anglican priest, he is a heretic"
ReplyDeleteA disgraceful slur.
BOLLOCKS.
Richard Coles, formerly the keyboard player of the Communards, is homosexual and openly so before he was ordained as an Anglican priest in 2005 had been a lay Roman Catholic from 1991 to 2001, following the split of the Communards. As vicar of St Mary's in Finedon, he was married to Revd David Oldham, another homosexual Anglican priest, who died of alcoholism in 2019. Following this Revd Coles received hate mail tellling him that his dead husband was in hell - probably from bigoted bastards like you. Revd Coles has owned that his relationship with his husband was not celibate, but that he had to say that it was in order to keep his job.
All in all, following your appalling remarks the other day about Nick Chamberlain concerned homosexuals and heresy, Revd Coles fits your definition of a heretic, so don't try to weasel out of it.
He is a fine man, a good Christian, and worth twenty of a nasty little scumbag like you.
Au contraire: Richard Coles had never written anything of a heretical nature. I have accepted his word that the relationship with David Oldham was celibate. I do not know where you learned otherwise.
ReplyDeleteRichard Coles is a fine writer. You, with your cloying prose, pretentiousness and prolixity are not.
GENE
Pig ignorance and desperate lying in the face of facts that prove you wrong - the familiar Gene Vincent squirming when he is proved to be talking demented bollocks.
ReplyDelete"Coles lived with his partner, David Coles (né Oldham), in an asserted celibate relationship until the latter's death in December 2019. Following David's death, Coles said he had received hate mail claiming that his partner is in hell. The Church of England has allowed priests to enter a civil partnership since 2005 and Richard and David entered into one in 2010. Coles later said that the relationship was not celibate, but he had to promise celibacy in order to maintain his job as a vicar."
Source: Revd Richard Coles, BBC Sounds, "Living with Grief".
You are putrid, Gene.
Yes, that was hypocrisy in his personal life not heresy. And no one knew.
ReplyDeleteHe has never been heretical as to the doctrine of the Church.
GENE
And you claim I am the one whose intellectual powers are waning. Your logic here is demented, Gene: juvenile quibbling and typically two faced.
DeleteAnd to conclude on this: I do think it a pity Richard did not remain a Catholic. He could have become a Catholic priest - he is soundly Catholic in his theology. Okay, he could not have had his relationship with his partner - but for his eternal soul this would have been for the best.
ReplyDeleteGENE
You patronising clown.
ReplyDelete