Twenty Reasons To Avoid The Motu Proprio Mass

(And To Attend the Non-Indult Traditional Mass Instead)

1. By attending a motu proprio Mass, a person implicitly shows that he

accepts the new mass because the motu proprio Mass is allowed only
under this condition.1 Here is a hypothetical example to illustrate the
point: Suppose a rich man announced that he would distribute free food in
the town plaza, but he invited the participation of only those persons who
acknowledge that the devil is God. By his presence, while silently
participating in this food giveaway, a person implicitly indicates his
agreement that the devil is God.

2. The motu proprio Mass is offered by priests who commit the

sacrilege2 of offering the new mass.3 Would you attend the motu proprio
Mass offered by a priest who also offers a Black Mass? If not, then why
accept a priest who ever offers the sacrilegious new mass?

3. The motu proprio Mass is offered only by priests who refuse to

condemn the worst religious errors infecting the Church in our
times. If the Catholics of the Fourth Century were right to follow St.
Athanasius and avoid priests who refused to condemn Arianism (even though
they offered the very same Mass), then we should not attend motu proprio
Masses, which are offered only by priests who refuse to condemn the main
religious errors infecting the Church in our times!

1 For example, Pope Benedict XVI wrote in his July 7, 2007 letter: “Needless to say, in
order to experience full communion, also the priests of the communities adhering to the
former usage cannot, as a matter of principle, exclude celebrating according to the new
books. The total exclusion of the new rite would not in fact be consistent with the
recognition of its value and holiness.” And again: “[T]he new missal will certainly remain
the ordinary form of the Roman rite … on account of the juridical norms”.

Further: “The faithful who ask for the celebration of the forma extraordinaria must not in
any way support or belong to groups which show themselves to be against the validity or
legitimacy of the Holy Mass or the Sacraments celebrated in the forma ordinaria ….” Para.
19, May 13, 2011 Instruction “Universae Ecclesiae” on the implementation of the Motu
Proprio “Summorum Pontificum.”

2 A “sacrilege” is the “irreverent treatment of the sacred”. Summa, IIa IIae, Q.99, a.1.
This definition certainly fits the new mass because it is inherently harmful to souls and to
the Catholic Faith.

3 See, e.g., Pope Benedict XVI's July 7, 2007 apostolic letter, Summorum Pontificum,
Art. 2, requiring use of the new mass on some days.
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4. If a person attends a motu proprio Mass in a church that is also used
for the new mass, then he willingly uses for worship, a place which is
also set aside for the commission of sacrilege. A place used for sacrilege
is far more unfitting for Divine worship than a “neutral” place not set aside
for Divine worship.

5. By attending a Mass set up under the pope’s 7-7-07 motu proprio, a

person implicitly affirms the falsehood that the pope’s motu proprio
(or the 1984 or 1988 indults) is/was needed for the traditional Mass.

6. When the traditional Mass and the new mass are both offered in one
church, people entering that church for the traditional Mass will
give the impression that they also attend the new mass, because it is
reasonably foreseeable that they will be seen entering the church by persons
who will not take note of the time of entry. (This foreseeable scandal is
similar to that caused by persons attending an innocent bingo game in a
location shared with a business offering pornographic entertainment, even if
the bingo game occurs at a time when that porn entertainment is not offered.)

7. For hosts not consecrated at that particular motu proprio Mass, it

might be unknown if they are valid and whether their consecration
occurred in a sacrilegious new mass.

8. The priests offering the motu proprio Mass come from the conciliar
church. Their ordinations might be doubtful.

9. By attending a motu proprio Mass (the “extraordinary form”), a

person implicitly shows that he accepts the new mass (the “ordinary”
form) as good. The new mass cannot be the “ordinary” option (or even an
option at all), unless it is good.

10. Attending the motu proprio Mass cuts you off from the
uncompromising doctrine and sermons of heroic traditional priests
who offer the non-motu proprio Masses.

11. Attending the motu proprio Mass causes the gradual tendency to go
to the motu proprio priests for the new rite of confession and other
new sacraments (each of which has conciliar “taint” and other
serious problems).

12. Attending the motu proprio Mass makes other conciliar compromises
easier and more likely, e.g., recitation of the “Luminous” mysteries of
the rosary.

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13. Attending the motu proprio Mass makes you comfortable with other
aspects of the novus ordo milieu, e.g., conciliar church architecture,
with a detached tabernacle and a Protestant/conciliar table instead of an
altar, to emphasize the mass as a meal (as Luther and Cranmer did).

14. Attending the motu proprio Mass causes a gradual tendency to view
the motu proprio priests as a source of good advice. Thus, you will get
advice from priests who consider the new mass and Vatican II to be
good and consider uncompromising traditional Catholics to be in schism.

15. Donating money at a motu proprio Mass financially promotes

harmful conciliar causes. Even when your donations are stated to be for a
particular unobjectionable cause (such as paying for a new roof on the
church), such donations still indirectly promote harmful causes because your
donations free up other money to be used to promote those harmful causes.
(This indirect effect is similar to donating money to a Protestant organization
which both teaches classes in Protestantism and also teaches cooking classes.
If you donate money with the stipulation that your money be used only for
cooking classes, your donation merely frees up other money to be used to
teach Protestantism.)

16. When one attends the motu proprio Mass, he fails to give his moral
and financial support to non-motu proprio priests who are
courageously fighting for Catholic tradition. You advance the conciliar
goal of siphoning-off support from those uncompromising priests.

17. Priests offering the motu proprio Mass are often so far from a
Catholic mindset that they often prefer the new mass and offer the
motu proprio Mass only because they are assigned to do so.

18. Attending the motu proprio Mass will affect who you associate with
(and, if you are looking for a spouse, will affect who you marry). All
of us need the help of strong Catholic friends, to aid us in living the
traditional Catholic life more fully. If you attend the motu proprio Mass,
your friends (and future spouse) will have the motu proprio mindset, of
accepting the new mass as good, accepting the conciliar teachings as true,
and rejecting the uncompromising (non-motu proprio) traditional Mass,
traditional Faith and traditional Sacraments. The influences upon you will
be motu proprio friends at a conciliar parish.

19. Attending the motu proprio Mass is to knowingly walking into a trap
set by (and candidly disclosed by) the conciliar Catholic hierarchy.
The pope and cardinals have clearly said that they continue on the course of
post-conciliar errors and that these motu proprio Masses are designed to

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 integrate traditional Catholics into the conciliar church. See, e.g.,
http://www.zenit.org/article-32593?l=english &
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1101922.htm.

Thus, when traditional Catholics choose a motu proprio Mass, they

knowingly accept the conciliar hierarchy’s bait and assume they will be able
to discern and reject the accompanying conciliar poison. This is like a person
knowingly eating pieces of a poisoned apple pie because he assumes that he
will never fail to recognize (and avoid) the poison. By attending the motu
proprio Mass, one is wagering his eternal salvation that he can outsmart the
conciliar Catholic hierarchy, in his discernment.

20. Advice of two authorities:

Archbishop Lefebvre wisely warned that it is better to go to no Mass

than attend or support such an approved Latin Mass. See, Fr. Peter
Scott’s Angelus Magazine Q & A, ¶6, “What's Wrong With The Latin Masses
Approved By The Bishop?”

“The motu proprio Mass, like the indult Mass, is therefore not for
traditional Catholics.” See, Fr. Peter Scott Q & A “Can the faithful assist
at the traditional Masses celebrated in virtue of the Motu proprio of Pope
Benedict XVI of July 7, 2007?”