Two boys and one cow. Does a farmer send two boys to milk one cow, or one boy? A farmer may send two boys to milk two cows. Who would come back with the most milk, the two boys and one cow, or the two boys with two cows? The answer is quite obvious, isn’t it?
What about a truck line? Would they send out two drivers with one load, or two drivers with two loads? The answer again is quite obvious. So what am I getting at? Today in the Church there are many priests who will concelebrate one Mass with two or three, sometimes more if it’s a big event. So how many Masses are you getting out of these celebrations? You are still benefitting from only one Mass. Now what if you saw two priests saying two Masses at two different altars? How many Masses would that be? Two. What is the advantage of saying two Masses? You get a lot more grace in the world. Fr. Paul of Moll, a holy Benedictine once said, “The more Masses are said, the more the power of the devil diminishes.” Let us read that again.You get a lot more grace in the world. Fr. Paul of Moll, a holy Benedictine once said, “The more Masses are said, the more the power of the devil diminishes.” Fr. Ronald Tangen once noted that Pope Paul VI lamented the fact that concelebrated Masses were being said to the detriment of private Masses. 11. “To give an example of what We are talking about, it is not permissible to extol the so-called “community” Mass in such a way as to detract from Masses that are celebrated privately…” Mysterium Fidei, Pope Paul VI, SEPTEMBER 3, 1965.
In other words, the clergy who concelebrated considered that they had their Mass in for the day, so they would not bother to say their private Mass. So the world is losing all the graces that would have been given through these Masses. It is true they are not mandated to say daily Mass, but the Church highly encourages them to, as long as there is not a serious impediment.
Why is this a big issue? Let us hear from St. Alphonsus de Liguori. “A priest is a minister destined by God to be a public ambassador of the whole Church, to honor him, and to obtain his graces from the faithful. The entire Church cannot give to God as much honor , nor obtain so many graces, as a single priest by celebrating a single Mass; for the greatest honor that the whole Church without priests could give to God would consist in offering to him in sacrifice the lives of all men. But of what value are the lives of all men compared with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which is a sacrifice of infinite value? What are all men before God but a little dust? As a drop of a bucket,…as a little dust. They are but a mere nothing in his sight.
All nations are before him as if they had no being at all. Thus, by the celebration of a single Mass, in which he offers Jesus Christ in sacrifice, a priest gives greater honor to the Lord, than if all men by dying for God offered to him the sacrifice of their lives. By a single Mass, he gives greater honor to God than all the angels and saints, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, have given or shall give to him; for their worship cannot be of infinite value, like that which the priest celebrating on the altar offers to God.” From, THE DIGNITIES AND DUTIES OF A PRIEST. The priest then, gives infinite honor to God each time he offers the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, because he is offering the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, which is infinite, being renewed each day in the Mass from the rising of the sun to its going down thereof. The pure offering of his Son: “For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.” Malachi 1:11. Drbo.org.
Venerable Bede had this to say about the priest who neglects to say Mass unnecessarily: “A priest who without an important reason, omits to say Mass robs the Blessed Trinity of glory, the angels of joy, sinners of pardon, the just of divine assistance, and the souls in purgatory of refreshment, the Church of a benefit, and himself of a medicine.”
St. Padre Pio said, “It would be easier for the world to exist without the sun, than without the value of the Holy Mass.”
“I believe, were it not for the infinite power of the Mass, the world would have sunk into the abyss already because of the weight of its sins.” – St.Leonard of Port Maurice.
By the way, what is being done to enforce the mandate of Pius XI on the Decree on Modesty in the churches? tinyurl.com/tdakwyaj. If sacrilegious Communions continue to be given to manifestly immodest women, the guilt and silence of the clergy also increases, and they risk the fires of hell by their silence. Silence is one of the seven ways of being accessory to another’s sin. Silence implies consent.
Pope St. Felix III (†492):
“Not to oppose error, is to approve it, and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them.”
“He that sees another in error, and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.” – Pope St. Leo the Great (400-461)
There needs to be a group effort, and the clergy all need to get together and consult with the bishop on this grave matter. One man cannot do it alone. Remember, we are in the militant Church, Soldiers of Christ, who must stand up and fight bravely and manfully. As St. Paul said, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.”
[2 Timothy 4:7]
And what is being done to inform people who take Communion in the hand, that they absolutely must look in their hands for Particles. If a Particle falls out of their hand onto the floor, a sacrilege has been committed, and Our Lord’s sacred Body is desecrated. Weren’t you taught in the seminary to take great care with the Sacred Particles so none would be lost? In 45 years since the Indult came out, I have not heard one priest, not a single one, inform the people from the pulpit about the danger of Particles, and that they absolutely must look in their hands for particles. Fr. Ronald Tangen, R.I.P., told his people many years ago, “You must look in your hand! That is God there! It can’t just be brushed off! It must be consumed!” Fr. Nicholas Gruner, R.I.P., said, “One of the conditions with Communion in the hand is that people are supposed to look in their hands for Particles. If a Particle falls, Jesus is dropped on the floor and a sacrilege has been committed.”
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: “The most grievous aspect of Communion in the hand is that Particles of the Host stick on the palms, or the fingers. And then they fall down…Our Lord is trampled by His faithful in numerous churches. And we continue quietly, and no one shouts.” “Have mercy on me, O God, for man has trodden me underfoot.” Psalms 55:2.
Mysterium Fidei actually means the Holy Eucharist present on the altar in the Sacred Species: ”We mean the fact that the Eucharist is a very great mystery—in fact, properly speaking and in the words of the Sacred Liturgy, the mystery of faith.” – Pope Paul VI. This is not reflected in the Novus Ordo acclamations, none of which indicate Christ is on the altar. Some even speak of his ”coming again,” when He has just come in the consecration by the words of the priest. The phrase Lex orandi -lex credenti means, ”The way we pray reflects the way we believe.” The Mysterium Fidei was part of the words of the Consecration. Why were they taken out and made an acclamation by the people? The people are not supposed to say the words of Consecration, the priest is.
Pope Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei:
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