Expert: Fr. Michael - 1/20/2010

Question
Father, what made the Church decide to change the 3 hour fast before Mass to 1 hour? It makes no sence to me. It allows for someone to choke down some McDonalds on the way to Mass and yet receive communion still.

It's the same with the Church making eating meat on Friday optional. Who can't go a day without eating a little piece of meat?  

Answer
You are absolutely right.  It is no fast at all, but the Novus Ordo service of 1969 that one sees in most "Catholic" churches is no Mass at all, but rather a Protestantized worship service that lacks the elements of a Mass according to all the Traditional definitions.  The virtual elimination of the Eucharistic fast, which fom the early Church began at midnight (not even a mere three hours, which was proposed only in 1956) was part of the plan to replace the traditional Catholic Church with a New Order in just a few years after the Vatican II Council (1962-1965).