Godless Europe: The clowns that Hijacked the faith

The remarkable changes that took place within the Church over the past 50 years could be compared to an atomic bomb which exploded right at the centre of Rome. Those who often attack the Church demanding she catch up with the modern world have no clue what they're saying, as they surely haven't seen the changes that have indeed taken place and have gutted the Church of her prestige and glory.

After having fasted from Midnight, the average Catholic family would walk into church on a Sunday morning, each member holding a missal. They would genuflect as a sign of respect towards God held in the Tabernacle and find their way into a pew and kneel for several minuets to pray the prayers of preparation before Mass. Sung Mass lasted two hours whilst low mass lasted around 25 minuets. All the faithful received Communion kneeling and directly into the mouth (hand communion was unthinkable). the priest and faithful all faced the same direction (toward East) which was an ancient custom to face the direction where Christ walked the Earth and where tradition holds, he will descend upon the Earth in Glory at the end of time.

No one complained that they couldn't "see the priests face" and the famous "he's giving us his back" wasn't even thought of. All that was clear to priest and faithful alike was the sense of worship as priest and laity faced East as the priest offered a sacrifice on their behalf.

The choir and schola would sing the parts of the mass written into chant centuries earlier thus praying in the same manner as our ancestors had prayed for centuries, with the use of the Latin language which was a prized trophy for the Church after she converted the Roman Empire. The Latin language also served as a sense of mystery between the priest and the people and allowed the people to participate in silence altogether focusing on the offering of the priest rather than the responses to prayers. The Church had prayed in this manner for centuries, until the 1960's when the Second Vatican Council was called. The council wasted no time in bringing immense change within a matter of months, and what had taken centuries to build was destroyed practically overnight. As Pope Emeritus BENEDICT XVI had stated when he was the Cardinal Ratzinger "The mistake of the council was that the old building was demolished and a new one built rather than building on the old."

The divine providence of the Holy spirit guided the council fathers to try and make the correct decisions which many a time were taken, but in the aftermath of the Council chaos spread like wild fire. When the Council had asked that "Choirs be diligently promoted" we suddenly saw masses of guitar and drum banging hippies take to the churches with their neo-tribal noise. Where the council had asked for Latin to remain the norm for saying Mass, but the common language could be permitted, it was implemented the opposite way round with Latin becoming the exception, and what an exception it was as it was nearly obliterated from every church in the West.

There were those who begun wondering as to how these changes were allowed to take place such as priests who had always prayed one form of mass, were now introduced to a new form. Just to give an example; there was no directive whatsoever which came from Rome asking the priest to celebrate mass facing the people but suddenly it became the accepted norm. Those who wanted to promote it suddenly filled peoples mind with all sorts of ignorant comments such as the famous "It's rude for the priest to give us his back" and when those who wanted to retain the traditional form of celebrating mass came up with the fact that now the priest is facing the people but giving his back to the tabernacle, the liberal clown and Hippie brigade solved the problem by removing the tabernacle from the centre and literally throwing it onto the side somewhere. In many churches one had to literally LOOK FOR the tabernacle, and the words of Mary Magdalene are repeated again: "They have taken our Lord and I do not know where they have taken him"

The banalities which the sacrifice of the mass has been subject to are horrific and the list is as long as it is sad, surely many of it was planned by those liberals whose job it was and still is to subject the Church to embarrassing news. The Clowns of modernism have not only found favor with Popes and Cardinals but they seem to have caused a split in the Church between those who want to take their faith seriously and those who couldn't care less whether the faith was dead or alive.

Indeed the faith has had it's fair share of Pocahontas women dancing half naked in the Church wearing nothing more than a Bikini, fostering the dance of Tchaikovsky's nut cracker whilst dawning a tutu in the temple of God.