TRADITIONAL MASS - 40 YEARS EXILE
"Anyone who nowadays advocates the continuing existence of this [Traditional Latin] liturgy or takes part in it is treated like a leper; all tolerance ends here. There has never been anything like this in history; in doing this we are despising and proscribing the Church's whole past." (Cardinal Ratzinger, Spirit of the Liturgy. San Francisco: Ignatius. 416)
"I am of the opinion, to be sure, that the old rite should be granted much more generously to all those who desire it. It's impossible to see what could be dangerous or unacceptable about that. A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent." (Cardinal Ratzinger. Salt of the Earth. San Francisco: Ignatius, 1997. 176)
"The second great event at the beginning of my years in Regensburg was the publication of the Missal of Paul VI, which was accompanied by the almost total prohibition, after a transitional phase of only half a year, of using the missal we had had until then. (...) The prohibition of the missal that was now decreed, a missal that had known continuous growth over the centuries, starting with the sacramentaries of the ancient Church, introduced a breach of the liturgy whose consequences could only be tragic." (Cardinal Ratzinger. Milestones–Memoirs 1927–1977. San Francisco: Ignatius, 1998. 146)
"A venerable rite such as the Roman rite in use up to 1969 is a rite of the Church, it belongs to the Church, is one of the treasures of the Church, and ought therefore to be preserved in the Church." And "what was up until 1969 the Liturgy of the Church, for all of us the most holy thing there was, can not become after 1969…the most unacceptable thing." (Cardinal Ratzinger. Address to a liturgical conference at the Benedictine abbey of Fomtgonbault, 2001)
The mass of BLESSED JOHN XXIII is all set HOW IT IS TO BE DONE. No local variants allowed, the mass is the same everywhere.
EWTN discussion of Summorum Pontificum:
Caller: “My question is that I am a guitarist and I have been serving at the Mass for 27 odd years and I can remember the old Mass as a child. My question is how can I as a guitarist fit in in the Latin Mass.“
Raymond Arroyo: “Fr. Kenneth Baker I will let you take a shot at that one.”
Fr. Baker: “I can say well get a nice missal with Latin on one side and English on the other and attend it, but don't bring your guitar. Because a guitar is not a liturgical instrument for the Traditional Latin Mass. It's the organ or various kinds of musicians. The guitar doesn't fit into that. It's not part of the ritual. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO REALIZE THAT THE MASS OF BLESSED JOHN XXIII IT'S ALL SET EXACTLY HOW IT IS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE. That is people have to learn that when they receive Communion that they have to kneel to receive Communion, they have to receive Communion on the tongue and things like that. There are no altar girls allowed for the Latin Mass and these are the rules and this is the Mass that has been authorized.....”
And furthermore:
Only a priest could touch the chalice and ciborium.
The Communion fast begins at midnight.
Priest and people face the altar. Some people say the priest has his back to the people. In reality the priest and the people are all facing eastward theoretically looking for the risen Christ.
No extraordinary ministers
The contemporary, heretical schlock of Marty Haugen, David Haas, Carey Landry, Dan Schutte, Bob Dufford, John Michael Talbot, John Foley is unfit for the Tridentine Mass.
