In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution on the Divine Liturgy of the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (Sacrosanctum Concilium), we post today the epilogue of the revised book on the Roman Rite by Don Pietro Leone Monselice, the pseudonym of a priest who celebrates the Traditional Mass exclusively in a diocese somewhere in Italy. If he were a priest defending the ordination of women, he would have no need to fear retaliations, but alas he is a priest who defends the obvious and clear superiority of the Traditional Roman Rite, and if he is punished it is not he who is going to suffer, but those faithful he currently serves who could be deprived of regular Masses. That sad and small aberration is just an example of the bizarre new world (wittingly or unwittingly) founded by the Fathers of Vatican II when they (wittingly or unwittingly) called upon Paul VI to "reform" the Roman Rite.
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Epilogue
Effects and Causes of the Destruction of the Roman Rite
In order better to understand the destruction of the ancient liturgy, we shall conclude this essay with a brief look at its effects and causes. First we shall expound its effects and then its causes. We shall proceed in this order because the former are more evident than the latter, and, once established, will help us to identify the latter. We shall first look at its effects on the New Rite and then on the Church Herself.
A. Effects on the Novus Ordo Missae
Cardinal Ratzinger himself, in his preface to Mgr. Gamber’s ‘Reform of the Roman Liturgy’, called the new rite a ‘fabrication’[1], and in the next sentence a ‘falsification’[2]. Mgr. Gamber called it a ‘tumor'[3]. Relying principally on the material that we have presented in this essay, we proceed to identify five main defects of the New Rite[4].
