"Exactly how was dropping the Last Gospel for the good of the Church?"

Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ published a piece titled "Why I Hate the Old Latin Mass." Michael Matt of The Remnant answers it - and turns the usual accusation inside out. It is not the traditionalists who are rejecting the Second Vatican Council.

Sacrosanctum Concilium said there were to be no changes to the liturgy unless the good of the Church or the good of the faith genuinely required them. So Matt puts the question back: which change met that standard? The genuflection at the Et Incarnatus Est? The Last Gospel? Communion in the hand? Vatican II never turned the priest around, never abolished Latin, and gave Gregorian chant pride of place. "The onus is on these guys to tell us how this is in line with Vatican II."

The second half turns pastoral. Matt is blunt that the reform was imposed rather than organically developed, and just as blunt that this is no license to judge the Catholic sitting in the pew at the Novus Ordo. "The greatest of these is charity." What follows is his case for keeping the faith as a remnant, with the catacombs as the precedent.

This is Part 2. Watch Part 1 - Were the Saints Not Participating at Mass Before 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzmPxcJh1oE

CHAPTERS
00:00 "Why I Hate the Old Latin Mass"
00:53 Welcome - Michael Matt, The Remnant
01:28 The America Magazine Question
02:05 Dom Alcuin Reid on Organic Development
02:38 Traditionalists Accept More of Vatican II Than Reese Does
03:17 The Genuflection, the Last Gospel, Communion in the Hand
04:00 What Vatican II Actually Said About Latin and Chant
04:38 Why Not Just Restore Summorum Pontificum?
05:15 Traditionis Custodes and the Young Families
06:20 Why Tradition Reads as a Threat
07:11 "I Just Want to Be Catholic"
07:56 The Greatest of These Is Charity
08:46 Be Ready to Be a Remnant

REFERENCED ON AIR
Sacrosanctum Concilium - Second Vatican Council, 4 December 1963
Summorum Pontificum - Benedict XVI, 7 July 2007
Traditionis Custodes - Francis, 16 July 2021
Pope Leo XIV, general audience catechesis on Sacrosanctum Concilium
Dom Alcuin Reid on organic development, interviewed by Diane Montagna

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