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Msgr. Klaus Gamber is one of the greatest liturgists in recent times. Cardinal Ratzinger said that Msgr. Klaus Gamber is "the one scholar who, among the army of pseudo-liturgists, truly represents the liturgical thinking of the center of the Church." Msgr. Gamber's quotes below line up with many of Our Lady of the Roses instructions on the Mass, tradition, and the changes in the Church:
POPE
BENEDICT'S (CARDINAL RATZINGER'S) PREFACE
"J.A. Jungmann, one of the truly great
liturgists of our century, defined the liturgy of his time, such as it could be
understood in the light of historical research, as a 'liturgy which is the fruit
of development"....
"What happened after the Council was something else entirely: in the place
of liturgy as the fruit of development came fabricated liturgy. We abandoned the
organic, living process of growth and development over the centuries, and
replaced it--as in a manufacturing process--with a fabrication, a banal on-
the-spot product." (Pope Benedict XVI's--Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger's--preface to Msgr.
Gamber's The Reform of the Roman Liturgy)
CONNECTION BETWEEN CATHOLIC TEACHING AND PIETY
"Our zealous reformers fail to recognize the obvious connection between
Catholic teaching and piety. For many among the faithful, changes in the
traditional liturgy also mean a change of faith itself." (p. 6)
WITHOUT A BREAK WITH TRADITION
"Nobody objects to the Church leadership adapting liturgical forms to the
realities of our time, if this is really necessary. But it has to be done with
discretion and great care; and in any case, without a break with Tradition." (p.
6)
HOPES HAVE NOT BEEN REALIZED
"What can we say categorically is that the hopes that had been tied to
liturgical reform have not been realized." (p. 7)
"LITURGICAL DESTRUCTION OF STARTLING PROPORTIONS"
"As we have already observed, the liturgical reform welcomed with so much
idealism and hope by many priest and lay people alike has turned out to be a
liturgical destruction of startling proportions--a debacle worsening with each
passing year. Instead of the hoped-for renewal of the Church and of Catholic
life, we are now witnessing a-dismantling of the traditional values and piety on
which our faith rests. Instead of a fruitful renewal of the liturgy, what we see
is a destruction of the forms of the Mass which had developed organically during
the course of many centuries." (p. 9)
MINOR CHANGES, AND NOT OF THE RITE ITSELF
"Unlike the appalling changes we are currently witnessing, the changes made in
the Roman Missal over a period of almost 1,400 years did not involve the rite
itself. Rather, they were changes concerned only with the addition and
enrichment of new feast days, Mass formulas and certain prayers." (p. 11)
THE DAMAGE DONE
"Even the few positive results that have come out of the liturgical reform,
which clearly include a greater involvement of the faithful in the liturgy,
cannot possibly outweigh the damage that has been done." (p. 22)
ANTIQUITY OF THE ROMAN RITE
"The Roman Rite, in important parts, goes back at least to the fourth century,
more exactly to the time of Pope Damascus (366-384). By the time of Gelasius
(492-496) the Canon of the Mass had attained the form it has kept until now,
apart from some modifications made under Pope St. Gregory (590-604). Since the
fifth century, the only thing on which the popes have unceasingly insisted is
that the Roman Canon must be adopted; their argument being that it originated
with the Apostle Peter. But concerning the other parts of the Order, and the
choice of Propers for Masses, they respected the customs of local churches." (p.
24)
"... and we now contemplate at our feet the ruins, not of the Tridentine Mass, but of the ancient Roman Rite which had developed and grown to maturity during that long period." (p. 26)
A RIGHT BY BAPTISM
footnote on p. 39: "The following point is worth pondering: As already
discussed, according to canon law, a person's affiliation with a particular
liturgical rite is determined by that person's rite of baptism. Given that the
liturgical forms of Pope Paul VI created a de facto new rite, one could assert
that those among the faithful who were baptized according to the traditional
Roman rite have the right to continue following that rite; just as priests who
were ordained according to the traditional Ordo have the right to exercise the
very rite that they were ordained to celebrate." (p. 39)
"Since the conclusion of the Council, has our liturgical worship become more attractive to the faithful? Did the new liturgy contribute to strengthening faith and piety among our people? Hardly! Even during the short time that has elapsed since the introduction of the Novus Ordo in 1969, our churches have become emptier, the number of our priests and religious continues to decline steadily, and decline at an alarming rate. The reasons for these developments are many and varied, but we must admit that the liturgical reforms failed to arrest the negative trends they were to remedy, and that, more likely than not, they helped make them significantly worse." (p. 46)
HISTORY
"Liturgical history tells us that until the end of the first century, in the
Roman rite, the priest prepared himself for Mass in private, that is, he prayed
silently. After entering the Church, he would stand at the foot of the steps
leading up to the altar, bowing low and remaining in this posture until after
the Gloria Patri of the Introit was sung by the choir. The Entrance and
Preparatory Prayers, which developed over time and went through a number of
different versions, were not responsorial prayers between the priest and the
people. The use of responsorial prayers developed much later, during the
dialogue Masses, which first came into use in the 1920s." (pp. 49-50)
MASS FACING PEOPLE NOT MANDATORY
"At this point we should know that the celebration of the Mass with the priest
facing the people was not made mandatory in the new liturgical rite, although
the Institutio generalis Missalis recommends it." (p. 53)
"FOR MANY"
"Truly problematic, in fact truly scandalous, is the translation of the phrase
pro multis as "for all," a translation inspired by modern theological thinking
but not to be found in any historical liturgical text." (footnote: "In the
exegesis of Heb. 9:28, St. John Chrysostom explains quite succinctly: 'He was
offered but once to bear the sins of many. Why does he [St. Paul] say, 'of
many,' and not 'for all'? Because not all had faith. Although He died for all,
as far as He is concerned, to save all, His death voiding the downfall of all
mankind, yet He did not take away the sins of all, because they themselves did
not want Him to do this." (pp. 55-56)
TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY NOT RECEIVED
"In spite of the careful advance work that had been done and the skilled
manipulation and management of the sessions themselves, the first general
assembly of the 1967 Synod of Bishops did not approve with the required two-
thirds majority vote the so-called Missa normativa, the forerunner of the
new Ordo Missae. Even so, the development of the new Ordo Missae
continued anyway." (footnote, p. 61)
"For example, the introductory rite used to a dialogue between the celebrant and the ministri (the altar boys or Mass servers) at the steps of the altar while the choir sang the Introitus. So too were the responses, Deo gratias and Laus tibi, Christe, to the scriptural readings--in the traditional Ordo given only by one of the ministri." (p. 66)
ROME'S RESPONSIBILITY
"Today's Church has no need for a new Order of the Mass. What she needs is a
flourishing spiritual life. This can overcome the crisis of faith, a crisis that
is also a crisis of authority. At least in part, the responsibility for the
crisis of authority must be squarely placed on Rome." (p. 68)
MASS FACING PEOPLE?
"... we can say and convincingly demonstrate that neither in the Eastern nor the
Western Church was there ever a celebration versus populum--rather, there
was only the practice of turning towards the East while praying." (p. 77)
FACING EAST
"What in the early Church and during the Middle Ages determined the position of
the altar was that it faced East. To quote St. Augustine: 'When we rise to pray,
we turn East, where heaven begins. And we do this not because God is there, as
if He had moved away from other directions on earth..., but rather to help us
remember to turn our mind towards a higher order, that is, to God." (p. 80)
MASS FACING THE PEOPLE
"Since there is no basis for it in liturgical history, nor theology, nor
sociologically, the celebration of the Mass versus populum should be
gradually phased out." (p. 92)
RUINS
"Today, we are standing before the ruins of almost 2,000 years of Church
tradition. We cannot help being apprehensive: the numerous reforms made have
damaged Church tradition to such an extent that it will be difficult to bring it
back again. Today, dare we even ask whether after such a deconstruction, a
reconstruction of the traditional Order would be possible? But one must not give
up hope." (p. 95)
CONSCIENCE IS BEING SORELY TESTED
"Today, those who out of a sense of personal belief hold firm to what until
recently had been strictly prescribed by the Roman Church are treated with
condescension by many of their own brothers. They face problems if they continue
to nurture the very rite in which they were brought up and to which they have
been consecrated. That theirs were decisions made as a matter of conscience and
that their conscience is being sorely tested is of little consequence to those
who oppose them." (pp.98-99)
WHAT POSSIBLE ADVANTAGE?
"But what possible advantage can be gained for the pastoral care of the faithful
by changing the feast days of the saints in the Church calendar, changing the
way of counting Sundays during the liturgical year, or even changing the words
of Consecration? What possible advantage can be gained by introducing a new
Order of Readings and abolishing the old one, or by making minor and unimportant
adjustments to the traditional rite, and then finally, by publishing a new
Missal? "Was all this really done because of pastoral concern about the souls of
the faithful, or did it not rather represent a radical breach with the
traditional rite, to prevent the further use of traditional liturgical texts and
thus to make the celebration of the 'Tridentine Mass' impossible--because it no
longer reflected the new spirit moving through the Church?" (pp. 19-20)
LITURGY AND FAITH ARE INTERDEPENDENT
"Liturgy and faith are interdependent. This is why a new rite was created, a
rite that in many ways reflects the bias of the new (modernists) theology. The
traditional liturgy simply could not be allowed to exist in its established form
because it was permeated with the truths of the traditional faith and the
ancient forms of piety. For this reason alone, much was abolished and new rites,
prayers and hymns were introduced, as were the new readings from Scripture,
which conveniently left out those passages that did not square with the
teachings of modern theology--for example, references to a God who judges and
punishes." (p. 100)
HONEST ASSESSMENT
"The pastoral benefits that so many idealists had hoped the new liturgy would
bring did no materialize. Our churches emptied in spite of the new liturgy (or
because of it?), and the faithful continue to fall away from the Church in
droves." (p. 101)
NOT BREAD, BUT STONES
"In the end, we will all have to recognize that the new liturgical forms,
well-intentioned as they may have been at the beginning, did not provide the
people with bread, but with stones." (p. 109)
ROBBING
"Particularly pernicious in this respect is the incessant nature of the changes
to which we are subjected. This is diametrically opposed to the concept of
liturgy as our home. To constantly change a ritual and to abolish almost
completely time-honored customs and traditions is synonymous with robbing a
person of his religious home and thus shaking the foundations of his faith." (p.
110)
ALTAR FACING PEOPLE?
"How can anybody be against the altar facing the people, since its use has been
prescribed by the Council and it has been established everywhere?
"One would look in vain for a statement in the Constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council that said that Holy Mass is to be
celebrated facing the people. Back in 1947, Pope Pius XII, in his encyclical
Mediator Dei, pointed out that the person 'who wants to change the altar into
the old form of the Mensa (the table) is going down the wrong road.' The
celebration of the Mass versus populum was not allowed until the Second
Vatican Council, but many bishops quietly tolerated the practice, particularly
during Masses celebrated specifically for young people." (pp. 142-143)
"A FAIRY TALE"
"But we want to quote from Fr. Josef A. Jungmann, the author of the well- known
book, Missarum Sollemnia, published shortly after the conclusion of the
Second Vatican Council, in the magazine, The Pastor. The author writes, 'The
claim that the altar of the early Church was always designed to celebrate facing
the people, a claim made often and repeatedly, turns out to be nothing but a
fairy tale.'" (p. 151)
"REAL CHANGE"
"Real change in the contemporary perception of the purpose of the Mass and the
Eucharist will occur only when the table altars are removed and Mass is again
celebrated at the high altar; when the purpose of the Mass is again seen as an
act of adoration and glorification of God and of offering thanks for His
blessings, for our salvation and for the promise of the heavenly life to come,
and as the mystical reenactment of the Lord's sacrifice on the cross." (p. 175)
"AN ERROR"
"The focus must forever be on God, not man. This has always meant that everyone
turn towards Him in prayer, rather than that the priest face the people. From
this insight, we must draw the necessary conclusion and admit that the
celebration versus populum is, in fact, an error. In the final analysis,
celebration versus populum is a turning towards man, and away from God."
(p. 179)
Veronica - Jesus is not pleased with the manner in which His clergy are carrying out their vocations, and, also, the Mass. Jesus wishes that the Old Mass be returned to wipe out many of the errors that have crept in since the New Mass has started. - July 1, 1985
"Pastors, those who have in their care Our sheep, you must stop now these changes that you seek in novelty, for they are destroying the young souls and scattering Our sheep.
"I repeat, My children, the great Council in Rome of Vatican II, the promises were great, but satan sat among you and he played you like the chessboard.
"You were given a foundation of Faith based on Tradition and knowledge of the prophets. You cannot start this new religion, for it will lead you to one religion that is not of My Son, that will not have His true foundation, and you will take My Son's Body and defame it, no longer giving the knowledge of His Divinity. What manner of foul escapades are you planning, O you of little faith? Whatever shall become of you? The Red Hats have fallen and the Purple Hats are being misled. Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth!" - Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1976
Our Lady of the
Roses Bayside messages:
These messages came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica
Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.
SATAN WAS PRESENT
"You will not destroy My Son's House, Church, by consorting with the enemies of
My Son! You will not convert the enemy by lowering the standards. Your example
must be one of a steadfast faith.
"Change! What need is change when the foundation has stood through the test
of time? It is a dissatisfied man, a greedy and lustful man who seeks change.
Does he change to bring man to God? No! He changes to take man from God and give
him to Lucifer!
"Satan was present, he listened with careful ears at the great Council. He
awaited every move, and he placed his agents among you! Recognize and
reconstruct your path. You have been deluded. You are on the wrong road. Turn
about now, or you will sow the seeds for your own destruction!
"How many warnings will you receive before the hand of your Father will
descend upon you? No date do I give unto all mankind, but only to few. All those
who accept the grace given freely for the asking will not be caught unawares.
They will prepare themselves. All mankind upon earth should prepare for his
death.
"We look upon a world where mankind goes about defaming himself and the
Father, wallowing in all manners of lust and pleasure, abomination—even in the
House of God! He lives as though he never will die. No human flesh will be
eternal, but the soul is eternal and will live on forever." - Our Lady,
August 14, 1974
FOR GOOD
"Pastors, you shall be called and shall you stand before, in judgment, the
Eternal Father and say that your teaching has been pure in His sight? Better
that you fear your God than man! Obedience? Obedience is commanded by the
Eternal Father for good, not for evil!" - Our Lady, May 26, 1976
TO THE SLAUGHTER
"You will not be led into false obedience, for in this way you will be led
as sheep to the slaughter." - Our Lady, September 7, 1971
ONE MAJESTY
"Obedience, My child, obedience--how sad that the true meaning has met with
distortion. Satan has used the rule of obedience to bring about the destruction
of souls. There is, My child, only one majesty Who commands your obedience. This
is the Father--the Father, the most high God in Heaven, the Kingdom of light.
You must not honor man before your God. You must not sell your soul to man! For
you, therefore, are selling your soul to the devil." - Our Lady, December 6,
1974
TO YOUR ELDERS
"We ask obedience, My child, to your elders but not when it is misleading.
You must search out the sheep and the goats. We do not expect you to join the
goats. Remember, My child, all will be judged with a firm hand." - Our Lady,
October 2, 1974
CLOUDED
"The Eternal City of Rome shall pass through a great conflagration.
Discipline must be restored. Obedience, yes--but true obedience to their God and
not the mores of man. Much evil is being condoned, disguised under the guise of
obedience. Let us, My children, call this a false obedience, clouded by errors
and satanism." - Jesus, August 21, 1976
NO EXCUSE
"My pastors, you shall not give as your excuse for your false teachings, a
rule of obedience! And who are you being obedient to but satan? Shall you stand
before Me and say that your teaching has been pure in My sight? I say unto you,
I shall spit you out as vipers into the flames!" - Jesus, September 28, 1976
BISHOPS
"Bishops, awaken from your slumber! I repeat, My children, My bishops, shall
you be obedient to sin? Shall you unite and destroy your Faith? Shall you
compromise your Faith with the ultimate destruction of souls?" - Our Lady,
December 24, 1975
ONLY ONE MASTER
"Obedience, My child, places many restrictions. You will understand that
many pastors, many men of God, face restrictions. It may not be of their
decision. However, a guide to clergy and the lay people, My child, is truth. You
will not sacrifice in any way your soul for the things of your earthly world.
Man has one master only, the God who created him and his universe. Man will
answer to only his Master." - Our Lady, September 7, 1973
FALSE OBEDIENCE
"Many in My Son's Church have fallen away. Pray for your brothers and
sisters, My children. Pray for your bishops, your priests, who are under great
attack by reason of false obedience." - Our Lady, December 7, 1977
GOD NEVER CHANGES
"And God never changes. And neither must you change to please man. But you
must change always to please God. And obedience: there is a false obedience, if
you displease God, just to please man." - Our Lady, June 18, 1982
I HAVE CRIED
"I have wandered throughout the world crying to My children, and My tears
fall upon you, for as I have cried for obedience to your Eternal Father in
Heaven and, also, to Our Pope, Our poor Vicar, who suffers much on the hands of
the enemies of your God." - Our Lady, March 18, 1983
BLIND OBEDIENCE
"O My children, what more can I say to you? What more can the Eternal Father
do to awaken you--you who are apathetic, not caring until you are struck by
destruction; you who watch as the warnings go by, not caring until it enters
your home; and you who go by like ducks in the waters, not caring or wondering
or questioning why you proceed in that path; and you who, in your blindness; and
you who, in your blindness of blind obedience, have given yourselves to
destruction and destroying My Son's House in your obedience to man! No man shall
be obedient to satan." - Our Lady, November 20, 1976
COMPROMISE
"If you compromise by pleasing those who have set themselves to rule you,
and if you compromise without the love of God and accepting the will of God, and
replacing it for the will of man, in obedience that has been darkened by sin and
false obedience-blind obedience-no! You shall not cast aside your God to please
any man!" - Our Lady, September 13, 1975
ONLY PATH
"Man has set himself into the web of satan by straying from the path given
by the Father. Discipline, self-discipline and obedience to the rules of God are
the only path." - Our Lady, November 24, 1973
FIRST
"My child, there is much confusion in the world. We ask obedience-yes, We
ask, My child, obedience. But this story I must repeat to you. It is one of
truth. Your obedience is to the Father in Heaven. Abraham, directed to give his
son as sacrifice: it is the law of God, as written by Moses, that thou shalt not
kill; but when the Father had asked this sacrifice, he, Abraham, listened unto
God, and knew that the law of God first and above all is, 'Thou shalt honor the
Lord thy God with thy whole heart, with thy whole mind, and with thy whole
body.'" - Our Lady, April 13, 1974
D1 - The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass PDF
D63 - The Third Secret PDF
D77 - Obedience PDF
D85 - Tradition PDF
D125 - Ecumenism PDF
D127 - Vatican II PDF
D161 - The Great Apostasy PDF
D164 - Heresy PDF
D193 - Turn Back: You are on the Wrong Road PDF
Articles
Msgr. Klaus Gamber's insights are strikingly close to Our Lady of the Roses messages on the Mass and tradition
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“Kneel before your God in the Eucharist”
kneeling.htm
The post-conciliar spirit, by Dietrich von Hildebrand
PostConciliarSpirit.htm
Cardinal Stickler on the changes in the Mass
Stickler.htm
Latin: the universal language of the Catholic Church
Latin.htmVIDEO: Cardinal Arinze - What about altar girls?
Video-CardinalArinzeAltarGirls.htm
Pope Benedict XVI on the disintegration of the liturgy
http://www.tldm.org/news7/PopeBenedictXVIDisintegrationOfLiturgy.htmPope Benedict XVI: the Mass reduced to a show
http://www.tldm.org/News7/PopeBenedictXVIMassReducedToAShow.htmThe case for the Latin Mass
http://www.tldm.org/news5/latinmass.htmRestore the main altar
http://www.tldm.org/news5/main%5Faltar.htmReturn the use of patens
http://www.tldm.org/news4/patens.htmNew Vatican document on the use of Latin
http://www.tldm.org/news6/Latin2.htmPope speaks out against laity distributing Holy Communion
http://www.tldm.org/news5/distributing.htmShould women cover their heads in Church?
http://www.tldm.org/news6/veils.htmOur Lady of the Roses message to Pope Paul VI
http://www.tldm.org/news6/PaulVI.htmVatican II, part 1: Infiltration of the Church
VaticanII-1.htm
Vatican II, part 2: Dark clouds forming before Vatican II
VaticanII-2.htm
Vatican II, part 3: The satanic revolution gains momentum at the Council
VaticanII-3.htm
Statistical decline of the Catholic Church since Vatican II
http://www.tldm.org/News6/statistics.htm
Pope John Paul II
recommends praying the St. Michael Exorcism
http://www.tldm.org/news6/exorcism.htm
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