Expert: Fr. Michael - 2/7/2005

Question
I attended private Catholic school in the 50's for eight years.  The mass was in Latin.  

Then the mass went to English.  

Recently, I have attended St. Joseph's Traditional Catholic Mass in San Antonio, Texas with a friend (who attends religiously).

He says that the "novus ordo" masses I also attend don't count.  

I would like to go to both masses while I sort things out.  What do you think?

Mary

Answer
The worship of God is not a Chinese menu, one from column A and one from column B.  There is true worship and there is false worship.  Period.

It is hard to deny any longer that the Novus Ordo service, in any version, is unCatholic, sacrilegious, irreverent, scandalous, blasphemous, idolatrous, and conclusively invalid, because it fails to meet one or more of the three criteria established in Catholic dogmatic and sacramental theology for a valid Mass and most cogently in Pope Leo XIII's Apostolicae Curae.

You cannot keep a foot on both sides of the fence.  The Traditional Latin Mass is the true worship of the Church.  It has been so for the better part of 2000 years.  The Novus Ordo service is a proven Protestant-Masonic-Pagan counterfeit, which is a grave danger to your Catholic Faith.  

For the safety of your soul, you should immediately abandon it and assist only at the true Mass.  Even if you are in doubt, you can't ever go wrong with the true Mass, but you go very wrong indeed with the latter-day counterfeit.  So, logic, if not your Faith, would tell you to take the safe course.