Father João de Campos Júnior, SDB, celebrates a "Missa Axé" ("Axé Mass") in the Parish of Santo Agostinho, Diocese of São Miguel Paulista, in Itaquera (São Paulo, Brazil). This celebration took place in early 2009.
The word "axé" (x pronounced as sh), according to our source, stems from a Yoruba religious greeting used in African-Brazilian pagan religions and means "soul", "light", or "spirit".
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Source: Brazilian reader
55 comments:
I cannot even bring myself to click the "play" button.
Presumably, this "priest" has canonical status and faculties. What a terrible injustice remains prevalent on our church and still Rome delays. It's incredible!
I am brazilian and the Church, in my country, is sad... is dead. This "Axe Mass" is apostasy.
Perhaps he has apostatized from the Holy Catholic faith.
This in fact is called "Missa Afro" (Afro Mass, or would it be Mess?) here in Brazil. It is VERY COMMON in all dioceses that have been affected by the devilish "Liberation Theology" (that means 95% of the dioceses of the country) to have such ceremonies, and held in high esteem. And if you say anything against it, you are accused of racism (which is a crime without bail in Brazil with years warranted in jail).
I'm a Brazilian and that's right - the church here is dead.
The right word for this "liturgical rite" is "Afro-mass" (missa afro). This rite is very welcome here, almost all bishops loves it. The lay people has no options but "watch" it.
Is a ditature of liturgical relativism, and is powered by Brazilian bishops conference.
Traditional latin mass here is like the chinese panda - rare, almost extinct.
I subscribe the comment above and would like to add that Dioceses like Salvador are notorious for this kind of syncretism.
Another blessing from Vatican II.
And we wonder why the Protestant sects (which the Pope himself called "a virus" and "garbage" when discussing the Church in Africa, is growing.
And a Mass like this, albeit with the myriad abuses, is considered licit.
But
A beautiful liturgically correct Mass with an orthodox sermon by the FSSPX is considered illicit???!!!
I guess 2+2=5, all the time now.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE HIERARCHY?
Can someone,anyone , help me with this confusion?
Please.
The Brazilian catholic bloggers and traditional catholics can do nothing - the bishops are totally in love for this pagan liturgy and it is not a new thing. The Rorate shows this mass as something "new" and I think it must be new for you not-brazilian people, but to us it is very ordinary and you can find it easily. I think we have more afro masses than Africa itself!
And that mass-mess is very popular among the lay people, not because they love it... it is because they
were taught this is right.
The Brazilian catholics are faraway from the church, our church is a national church and every priest is a pope and every lay is a member of the Curia... A completely chaos!
I don't need to say that the tridentine rite is not welcome here. Bishops hate it.
Please help us! Publish this post in every english-american blog you can.
This mass is not licit. This is not the Novus Ordo. The Novus Ordo is the rite that Pope Benedict uses.
In the Afro-Brazilian syncretism, especially the yoruba religions (candomble and batuque) dancing around a center point is a way to "connect" with the gods, and enter in trance with them.
Drumming is essential. Head covering and collars are also part of it.
We are witnessing here the dead of any Catholic base, and the overgrowth of paganism within.
Catholicism here is almost unrecognizable.
I'll help you, Dan. The rebel Lefebvre disobeyed a direct order not to carry out the ordinations. He knew he was committing a schismatic act that carried excommunication as its penalty and he did it anyway. He thus hoisted the red flag of revolution and attacked the Church with his disobedience.
These Brazilians are obviously misled. But are they celebrating the Creator above the creatures? In their minds perhaps they are. They are not bishops who should know better. They are common people who have been told (whether rightly or wrongly) that they can incorporate the flavor of their cultural heritage into the celebration of God's greatness.
I'm from a northern European clan. When I see stuff like this, I have that "Sit down and shut up!" reaction. It just doesn't look that reverent to me. Maybe to them it seems reverent. I'll extent that benefit of the doubt in charity. Now, their cultural and historical circumstances aside, the Roman Rite is the Roman Rite and if they don't have a special dispensation to do this stuff then that should be addressed.
If there is Liberation Theology being taught there, I don't know it because it's not in the video. That's a separate, and serious, issue that should also be addressed. LT has been repudiated and in the first place Catholics are not supposed to be Communists. But the dance number we were shown has nothing necessarily to do with Marxism.
Now, if these people did disobey the Church directly and enter into schism through a prideful and arrogant disregard for the authority of the Holy Father, then they'd be like the SSPX. But from the video I can't tell if they're schismatics, liberals or heretics, or if they're just faithful Catholic parishoners who have been sold a bill of goods by misguided liturgical innovators.
I hope Rorate Caeli doesn't make a habit of posting pictures or videos of awful/sacrilegious liturgies.
I read this blog to be edified and acquire news of interest to traditionally-minded Catholics. I don't read this blog to be visibly reminded that liturgical freak shows occur & are tolerated in the Church. I can go to the parish down the street for that.
I have nothing against criticizing that which should be criticized. I welcome posts, for instance, calling the hierarchy to task. But I fail to see what good is served when videos like this are posted (without comment), especially considering the sympathies of the average Rorate Caeli reader. It is nothing more than reveling in the grotesque and stroking the spiritual egos of Traditionalist. While I certainly don't speak for all, I can assure you this Traditionalist doesn't need any assistance in those areas.
Dan Hunter: I think it's safe to assume the celebrant of the Mass in the video violated more than enough rubrics to render said Mass illicit.
--Crouchback
"And we wonder why the Protestant sects (which the Pope himself called "a virus" and "garbage" when discussing the Church in Africa, is growing."
The Latin American bishops have expressed concern over the encroachment of protestant sects into once Catholic lands, but they are so diabolically blind that they cannot see they themselves are the main problem. They are like sleeping dogs that let thieves enter the House of the Lord to rob and despoil. What will it take to wake them up?
Now, if these people did disobey the Church directly and enter into schism through a prideful and arrogant disregard for the authority of the Holy Father, then they'd be like the SSPX.
I am now going to proceed under the assumption that Adeodatus is more authoritative than His Eminence Darío Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, who has repeatedly affirmed that the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is not a case of formal schism on at least five separate occasions in public interviews, as recently as March 17 and over the past 2-1/2 years. Msgr. Camille Perl, former long-time secretary for the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei (PCED), has repeatedly affirmed in personal letters that such Catholics incur no penalty and no sin for merely fulfilling one's Sunday obligation at a church or chapel served by the SSPX.
Someone needs to inform Adeodatus, that the act of schism was not commited by his grace, Marcel Leferbve, but by those who distorted the outcome of the unfortunate Second Vatican Council.
The schism took place in the mid sixties, and has only continued to deepen. Papa Paul didn't help by introducing the novel mass in 1970--it, as this video demonstates, will continue to allow deviance. One of the great problems with the NO is that it will, as is, continue to allow such profane acts--there are too many options, too many loose ends. This experimental mass has consistanlt demonstrated failure. It, by its very nature is not the Latin-Rite Liturgy. There is some confusion, especially with inculturation theology, about what is the Latin Rite actually is.
Adeotatus:
Again, this abomination is not the peoples fault but rather the Brazilian hierarchy's fault.
The Brazilian bishops most definiitely know better, and this makes it an act of seperation from the authority of the Holy See.
Arcgbishop Lefebvre's illicit concecration in 1988 has nothing to do with the FSSPX Masses being deemed illicit.
That eminates from the seemingly unjust suppresion of the Society in 1976.
My request for "help" in understanding these monstrosities is of a rhetorical nature, since I realise that Satan has infiltrated the ranks of the hierarchy,
but thank you for the concern just the same.
God bless.
I think the Priest has A.D.D .
(A)dvanced (D)iabolical (D)isorientation.
We should be greatful that it's not A.D.H.D.
(A)dvanced (D)iabolical (H)omosexual (D)isorientation.
In Brazil there are many "masses":
Missa Afro (Afro mass)
Missa Sertaneja (Country Mass)
Missa Gaúcha/Crioula
(and more)
That is not the only problem. The translation of the new mass is also very bad. For example:
"O Senhor esteja convosco!" (The Lord be with you)
"Ele está no meio de nós!" (He is among us)
(and not "et cum spiritu tuo")
Our bishops hate tradition and the TLM. In a TV program, two bishops were talking about the old mass and then one said: "How could the priest say SURSUM CORDA towards a wall?"...
In the Novus Ordo mass, many abuses are law here.
That is state of necessity.
Dear Crouchback,
Whenever I find something that readers may find interesting and that has not been posted elsewhere in the English-language blogosphere, I consider posting it. I am sorry if this bothers you, but it is not a matter of "habit".
I highly doubt that this "Axe" or "Afro" mass is available at your nearby parish. And, as several Brazilian readers have mentioned here in this comment box, it is something so common in Brazil, yet unheard-of elsewhere... We are glad to help them spread awareness of this aberration.
NC
Adeodatus,
This vedeo is a shame, no matter what subjectively good intentions these faithful might have. To bring to this topic the SSPX is really unfair. Plus, your own Rome has said they are not in schism.
Stefan
An Orthodox Christian
Look everyone! It's another new, exciting and highly energetic Protestant praise and worship service! Let's all join in with a rousing rendition of Kumbayah.
Max.
New Catholic:
I apologize if my comment sounded overly critical. I just noticed two recent posts showing video clips of horrid liturgies with no obvious purpose other than to agitate the passions. I understand your argument--especially the point of spreading awareness of this particular form of liturgical abuse--even if I don't entirely agree with it.
Nevertheless, please don't take my comment as a critique of the blog as a whole. I love it! Rorate Caeli consistently belies the tired, mistaken belief that Traditionalists are simple-minded reactionaries who would rather keep to their clique and celebrate the implosion of the modern Church rather than provide a well-considered, positive corrective. My concern simply was that posting videos like this doesn't contribute to that mission.
My thanks to you and the other contributors for all the hard work.
--Crouchback
Is that woman at the altar wearing some kind of dalmatic?
I think you're translation is off.
This is a Black Mass.
As I said in another topic, unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg! Liturgical disobedience in Brazil is notorious and depressing.
I hope something is done!
Our Lady Aparecida intercede for the Church in Brazil!
This is nothing in a country where a Bishop says it will build a temple in honor of a terrorist!
http://praelio.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html
Que Nossa Senhora Aparecida intercedad pela Igreja no Brasil.
Jefferson Nóbrega
i grew up with the church in the eighties, and this video is 500 times less nostalgic.. too bad
Another Missa Afro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrxGMj0W1kc&feature=related
Missa Crioula (Gaúcha)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLXV_FVySnk
Missa sertaneja
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9blmqnEJtKY
And... well... enough!
The ordinary (in Portuguese) of a "missa crioula" or "missa gaúcha".
http://www.paginadogaucho.com.br/coti/missa-crioula-ctg-barbosa-lessa.pdf
Dear Sweet Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy!
What has this to do with the Roman Rite?
This, along with a lot of other liturgical aberrations and abuse in the the USA is NOT what Vatican II intended.
Examples like this (and others, far worse) have led me to conclude that defenders of the Novus Ordo are either evil or stupid. Mostly the latter, I'd like to think.
What is it with you, Adeodatus and Crouchback?
Did you not register the posts from people who are actually in Brazil and know from first-hand experience what is happening there? Can you not hear their
heart-breaking cries about this whole-sale destruction of the Catholic Faith in their midst?
Adeodatus, all you can do is first engage in some legalistic
nit-picking and then, like Pilate, ask the equivalent of 'what is truth' in regard to the situation. Just remember what Jesus said about rescuing one's animal from the well on the Sabbath. Yes, it is about a state of emergency.
And you, Crouchback - another 'Pilate'. You, who are
well-provided, wash your hands of this tragic situation. *You* have your safe 'traditionalist' haven where you can easily turn away from 'grotesque' sights such as this. What do you care about the catholics in Brazil? Just remember this: they don't have a choice, you do.
Shame, shame - the both of you.
It is a supreme act of charity for Rorate Caeli to post this information, thereby giving voice to the disenfranchised. It is obvious that their voice has been stifled for a very long time.
It is as important for them to know that there are other catholics 'out there' who understand what is going on - and *care*, as it is for those who have been blessed by having ready access to the traditional liturgy to be aware that many others don't have such a 'luxury'.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us that we may hear and see!
Please go to this link http://www.latinmassmagazine.com/conservative.asp and read, "Conservative vs. Traditional Catholicism by Fr. Chad Ripperger, F.S.S.P.- Distinctions with Philosophical Differences"
It is very revealing as to why the innovators behave the way they do and as well as provides the philosophical underpinnings that crept in and have overtaken the Church.
It is a good read and I dare say that many of the bloggers here would benefit from reading it.
This looks like a joyous celebration, much more devotional and pleasing to God than the dour 16th century Latin Mass and its equally dour attendants.
This reminds me of the NO genre in a rural NW Zimbabwe parish in the early 1980s.
It is no use exonerating The Vatican - the very head of the hierarchy has just encouraged the church in Asia to employ Asian symbolism in its ecclesiastical endeavours. The NO liturgy will continue to provide ample scope for that, no doubt
Quote: "Presumably, this "priest" has canonical status and faculties. What a terrible injustice remains prevalent on our church and still Rome delays. It's incredible!"
And the SSPX "don't". HA!!.So much for the "Reform of the Reform"!. These liberals are just waiting for the Pope to die off.
I guess this is the Novus Paganus Mass?
Luiz: Missa Crioula (Gaúcha)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLXV_FVySnk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLXV_FVySnk
HAHAH - look at when the camera pans to the "excited" parishoners in the pew at 1:11 into the clip.
So much for "active participation".
Philippe said...
This looks like a joyous celebration, much more devotional and pleasing to God than the dour 16th century Latin Mass and its equally dour attendants.
View the video above and see just how "dour" things can get - and this at your Novus Hootenanny.
defenders of the Novus Ordo are either evil or stupid.
That would include Pope Benedict.
Philippe said: This looks like a joyous celebration, much more devotional and pleasing to God than the dour 16th century Latin Mass and its equally dour attendants.
Sure, it looks like a joyous celebration. It just doesn't look anything like a Mass, or like a Catholic manner of worshipping God. It's not apparent that God is being worshipped at all in that "joyous celebration."
"Joy" and "celebraton" don't have to mean throwing a party or engaging in revelry. In fact usually it doesn't mean that at all.
Anon,
That article by Father Ripperger F.S.S.P., about, "Conservative vs Traditional Catholicism" hits the nail squarely on the head.
Thank you so much.
God bless.
http://www.latinmassmagazine.com/conservative.asp
Sure, it looks like a joyous celebration. It just doesn't look anything like a Mass, or like a Catholic manner of worshipping God. It's not apparent that God is being worshipped at all in that "joyous celebration."
What do you mean it doesn't look like a Mass or Catholic? This is how Catholic Masses are celebrated all around the world today, even by popes, and it's how masses were celebrated in the early decades of the Church before the Middle Ages.
If you are being honest when you say you cannot see God being worshipped your spiritual life must be very dry. Anyone who knows God can see the jubilation in these peoples' faces as they praise our great God. It's very clear.
"Joy" and "celebraton" don't have to mean throwing a party or engaging in revelry. In fact usually it doesn't mean that at all.
These are people happy and joy-filled thanks to our great God. Where does God say joy is not to be expressed outwardly but hidden under a bushel or strait-jacketed up? YOu must have a different bible to the rest of us.
What do you mean it doesn't look like a Mass or Catholic? This is how Catholic Masses are celebrated all around the world today, even by popes
Yes, it's all too obvious that the Church's liturgy is in horrible shape, and the Popes also are implicated in the rampant liturgical abuses.
and it's how masses were celebrated in the early decades of the Church before the Middle Ages.
Rubbish and rot. There's not a shred of historical evidence from that era supporting the kind of celebration depicted in the video of the Axe' Mass. No one in the Church ever worshipped that way (assuming it is worship of God at all) until just the past few decades. It's pure innovation, diametrically contrary to the Church's liturgical tradition and law.
If you are being honest when you say you cannot see God being worshipped your spiritual life must be very dry.
There's plenty of emotion and ecstatic activity and gestures. That may or may not be adoration.
As for my spiritual life, you tell us all about your spiritual life and I'll tell you about mine.
Anyone who knows God can see the jubilation in these peoples' faces as they praise our great God. It's very clear.
You don't need to know God to see the jubilation in their faces. Jubilation is not necessarily worship of God.
Please also note that suggesting that moderators and commenters here do not know God is not tolerated here.
These are people happy and joy-filled thanks to our great God. Where does God say joy is not to be expressed outwardly but hidden under a bushel or strait-jacketed up? YOu must have a different bible to the rest of us.
I didn't say or even suggest that joy is to be concealed. I rather observed that joy is not synonymous with reverly and exuberant, emotional expression. I also observed that what they are doing is not in conformity with the Catholic Church's liturgical tradition and law.
"this is how Catholic Masses are celebrated all around the world today, even by popes, and it's how masses were celebrated in the early decades of the Church before the Middle Ages."
Philippe,
That is absolute nonsense.Historically untrue.
Completely false.
"Anyone who knows God can see the jubilation in these peoples' faces as they praise our great God. It's very clear."
True Adoration of Almighty God is an act of the Intellect and Will, in any race of people.
Emotional manifestations of exuberance may or may not be of a Christocentric devotional nature.
Aw shoot - I watched the video all the way through, but it didn't show the Yoruba religious custom of slaughtering a chicken to avert bad fortune.
What a dour lot of attendants. Amateurs!
Still, although not authentically Yoruba, I suppose altar cloth laundry bills were probably reduced substantially.
Deus Miseratur
God Bless the Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox Churches. They know how to do the Liturgy right!. Unlike this Protestant group.
I think it's important to show these kinds of videos. Perhaps some cardinal see it and do something to change it. We can also know from these videos Church around the world. Knowing such things we can pray better for our Church, by seeing the problems.
The most terrible video I've seen is "dança do espetinho"(dance of the little spit). In this video people are dancing into the church a brazilian erothic rhythm. They say somethin' like "touch in the little spit/stick". If we say it fast, we can also think they are saying "touch in the little breast". It's dirty.
Please, check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThWKfCSHyQ
I hope Rorate Caeli doesn't make a habit of posting pictures or videos of awful/sacrilegious liturgies.
It is nothing more than reveling in the grotesque and stroking the spiritual egos of Traditionalist.
Crouchback, I second your comment. There are too many blogs which are doing the "look at the spectacle and thank the Lord we aren't like this"
I like the OF of the Mass when it is said according to the rubrics.
We are not asked to like the NO. The question is not whether we like it or not. It is a matter of faith.
Posting these videos show people reality!
As a Brazilian catholic lay, I intend to point that it would be rash to declare that Catholicism in Brazil is "dead". Although these abominations, only Our Lord Himself can recognize those who are Him. May the Blessed Lady of Aparecida protect us against the deviations and errors of the true Faith.
What am outrage against God. They look like they have St Anthony's fire (ergot poisoning).
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