A strange thing has started happening around the world, Catholics in all nations are finding that the Traditional Latin Mass to be a superior form of worship than the Vatican II "Novus Ordo", or "ordinary form" of mass. These are not just a bunch of old people who have grown tired of Vatican II reforms, but this movement is made up mostly of younger people who have never known the Latin Mass before Vatican II. But when they are exposed to it, they find it to be a far superior form of worship.
The reason for this is rather simple: there is a beauty and solemness to the Traditional Latin Mass that the ordinary form greatly lacks.
Pope Benedict XVI, seeing how popular it was becoming, made it so that any parish, worldwide, could go back to the Traditional Latin Mass if they wanted to, no questions asked.
But Pope Francis has been on a ruthless quest to destroy the Traditional Latin Mass where-ever it may be found.
Cardinal Sarah’s Cri de Coeur: The Catholic Church Has Lost Its Sense of the Sacred
Exclusive interview with the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
EXCERPT:
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER: "Why do you think more and more young people are attracted to traditional liturgy / the extraordinary form?"
CARDINAL SARAH: "I do not think so. I see it; I am a witness to it. And young people have entrusted me with their absolute preference for the extraordinary form, more educative and more insistent on the primacy and centrality of God, silence and on the meaning of the sacred and divine transcendence. But, above all, how can we understand, how can we not be surprised and deeply shocked that what was the rule yesterday is prohibited today? Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?
"When the extraordinary form is celebrated in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, it reveals its full fruitfulness: How can we be surprised that a liturgy that has carried so many saints continues to smile at young souls thirsty for God?
"Like Benedict XVI, I hope that the two forms of the Roman Rite will be mutually enriching. This implies getting out of a hermeneutic of rupture. Both forms have the same faith and the same theology. To oppose them is a profound ecclesiological error. It means destroying the Church by tearing it out of its Tradition and making it believe that what the Church considered holy in the past is now wrong and unacceptable. What a deception and insult to all the saints who have gone before us! What a vision of the Church.
"We must move away from dialectical oppositions. The Council did not wish to break with the liturgical forms inherited from Tradition, but, on the contrary, to better enter and participate more fully in them."
Read the entire interview here: https://www.ncregister.com/interview/cardinal-sarah-s-cri-de-coeur-the-catholic-church-has-lost-its-sense-of-the-sacred