This piece is a reply to Wouter J Suenens’ opinion piece ‘The traditional Latin Mass does not need the SSPX’.
I am an old woman now, almost as old as Vatican II itself. I was in kindergarten when the Novus Ordo Mass came into force.
Even at five, I knew that something must be very wrong. I remember the worry in our home as my mother sifted through documents, made phone calls, debated and discussed. Why was this happening? Why was this beautiful treasure of the Church, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, being torn apart and disfigured? In a sacred place, the sanctuary, there was now a jangling rock band. Where once there had been peace to commune heart to heart with God, there now was a noisy, chatty party. Christ in the Holy Eucharist was no longer the pure white Host, but a Ritz cracker pulled from a box. The cracker crumbs were dusted off dirty hands to fall onto the floor and be trampled.
