Mr. Potato Head Concelebrates The Holy Mass?: Fratres Blog News 05.05.08
The closing Liturgy of the 2008 West Coast Call To Action Conference, held in San Jose, California, last week (see “highlights” below) demonstrates why faithful Catholics must move to convince U.S. Bishops that the time has come for the full dissolution of all false renewal (see: dissent) groups within the Church such as Call To Action.
Liturgical abuses at the conference included, but, perhaps were not limited to:
A syncretic Buddhist meditation opening the Mass… Liturgical dancers bodies gyrating with one another and toward the Word… Life-sized Mr. Potato Head Jesus Puppets (complete with stoles) appear concelebrating the Mass… Use of leavened instead unleavened bread…Denial of the spiritual reality of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit within prayer… Homily given by layperson, and other abuses I’ll leave for competent liturgical experts to define, explain and mourn.
Liturgical abuse notwithstanding, all this spawn of the Devil only amplifies the reality of the endangerment of souls, whom after having allowed themselves to be led into association with formal, organized, and long-standing ecclessial disobedience to the Church, now find themselves separated from the right ordering of their Catholic faith and its practice, as conference workshops and presentations confirm.
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Update on the West Coast Call To Action Website:
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Horrible.
Strange and grotesque.
The Mass as a nightmare sequence from a surrealist painting.
Oh my word. That was horrid to watch. I noticed very few young people in attendance, aside from the singers. Maybe that’s a sign that CTA is dying out.
I came to this blog via the Amy Wellborn site. Thank you for this disturbing, yet necessary glimpse into this side of Catholicism that I would never have known about otherwise. I guess I’m a bit cloistered.
Also, thank you for posting the website for the bishops’ contact info. Although in my case, it would do no good, as my bishop Niederhauer in all likelyhood could have been inside one of those puppets for all I know.
This kind of scandal is one very good reason why I refuse and will continue to refuse to describe the new Mass as the “ordinary” form. There are as many versions of it as there are priests - and now we have to add “potatoes”. If ever a Mass was “extraordinary” it is this one. God help us all. I’m going to link to this on our newsflash section asap. this is truly a blashemy.
At least they’re using incense.
But seriously, this is terrible. Patricia, it’s very unfair and simply either dishonest or ill-informed to characterize this as any reason to dislike the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite of the Holy Mass. The Ordinary Form has very specific rubrics which require very specific things. There are some options available in some places, but in almost all cases those options are very clearly defined. Masses like this one exist only because of dissident and disobedient clergy. I have no doubt that were it the only option, the Extraodrinary form would be subject to the same abuses, and worse, given how precisely every single movement is defined by the Missal.
Peace and God bless!
Was that a Nursing HOme resident convention?
Talk about liturgical abuse. I’ll pray for them.
This phrase keeps crossing my mind: “Orthodoxy, one funeral at a time.” Quamdiu Domine?
what the h#@ll was that?
What…you couldn’t see the beauty in that video?
I thought I’d share with CTA some additional words to their opening hymn which I penned some years ago with just such folks in mind:
Sing a New Church into being
‘Cause the one we’ve got is bad.
Its’s oppressive and repressive
And it really makes me mad.
We are free and we are happy
When we come to Liturgy
And the music is refreshing
‘Cause it’s just like MTV.
Men and women, brothers, sisters,
We are all one family,
Liberating heart and spirit.
It’s New Age insanity.
Let’s bring back the 1960’s.
“We are Church” our battlecry.
Screw our gender! No surrender!
For diversity we’ll die.
Let us worship in the Spirit–
“Sanctifier” be his name,
And Creator and Redeemer.
What the Hell, they’re all the same.
Singing Churches into being…
I don’t know if I agree.
It’s exciting, and creative,
But it sounds a lot like me.
If a liturgy was EVER about doing your own therapy, this one was it!!!
Sadly, the celebrant is Bishop Emeritus of Victoria, British Columbia in Canada, Remi de Roo!
Now more than ever do I realize the mistake in discontinuing the Holy Office of the Inquisition.
The USCCB would much rather have this kind of liturgy than the TLM.
It’s one of those things that makes you go, “Hmmmm…”
What a terrible disgrace these priest who have turned the Sacred Mass into a show of misfits, who do not have any respect for our LORD!!
Fr. Martin — absolutely freaking hilarious - and spot-on.
You sir, have a gift.
You realize that they are possessed, don’t you? If an exorcism was given to each of them, I’m sure you’d hear screams and see bodies writhing on the floor.
Pray pray pray pray pray for them. It’s our job.
O Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy upon us!
I can’t believe what i just viewed, my heart aches for Jesus! That was truly diabolical and tragic to behold.
It will take an act of God to clean up this mess.
Come Lord Jesus, come through the Heart of Mary!
As a member of the youth, I assure you, Pope Benedict XVI is a call to action. The CTA is a call to Cardinal Arinze.
[...] people call this a Catholic liturgy??? UNbelievable. As Fr. Philip Neri warns, don’t watch this video while drinking liquids. It’s like a show! Lots of dance numbers, lots of celebrants, lots of [...]
“File not found” message now appears when I click on it. It seems that CTA has pulled it from their site. Did you by chance download the WAV file?
Hello Janet,
I just now discovered the same and have updated the post. I did not save the WAV file… I believe it was not CTA that closed the site, but the host company because of bandwidth use. If you hear of anyone who did save the Wav let me know, thanks.
Peace to you and yours
james mary evans
fratres
I have it on my PC and I uploaded an edited version on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbiL3XduvY
Good work! All the Cathobloggers helped shut down a CTA website by overloading it with hits and downloads!
Shane, I like you. I like you a lot. If you lived over here I’d be offering to buy you a huge plate of haggis and neeps. That is how much I like you.
But I entirely disagree with your affection for the novus ordo. The very fact that the priest is looking at us (and have u ever noticed how their eyes wander around the congregation? I read a terrible article by a feminist on this subject in one of their rags but I just won’t repeat it. Think about it. Think, think, think, and then think again. You’ll get there in the end).
It is entirely wrong to say that priests would be doing the same kind of shenanigans as the novus ordo priests do. That, with respect, is to completely misunderstand the supernatural element here. As one old priest said to me not long before he died, “The new Mass just does not sanctify the way the old Mass does”. And he is right. My 30 year old niece who was brought up in the newer, if fewer, Church suddenly said she wanted to join me on Sundays at the traditional Mass. When I asked her why, she said that the minute she discovered that the author of the new Mass was more likely than not to have been a Freemason and once she read his remarks - well documented - about making the Mass acceptable to Protestants, she knew it just could not be right. Over one year later, with regular weekly attendances at the Traditional Mass with her three children and (when he can manage) her non-Catholic husband, the difference in her is tangible. She acknowledges this. She has developed a truly Catholic mind and soul; she has the kind of Catholic “sense” that alerts us to spiritual danger. This is notably absent, I have to say with great respect, in those who regularly attend the Novus Ordo and I have many good friends whom I like a lot and respect, who attend the NO.
No, Shane. The supernatural character of the traditional Mass prevents the kind of showbiz priests we have to suffer in the NO. Deo Gratias!
Hope u are not mad at me for being so frank. I’m like that. Still, a plate of haggis and neeps awaits you here if ever you find yourself on Scottish soil (with or without a 19062 missal…
I saved the video (a .wmv file) if you’re interested.
The video has been posted on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbiL3XduvY
“Sing a new Church into being,” huh? Well, it looks like they’ve already done just that, because, whatever that was, it sure wasn’t Catholic!
WHAT A SHAME. Our Lord died on the Cross for our sins. Opened the gates of Heaven. And how do we repay Him? By making a joke of Holy Mass. The world is going to Hell in a hand basket….
Our Children’s future is in danger!!! O Blessed Mother watch over our children.
God help us all!
JMJ save us from our corrupt selves! St. Michael pray for us!
THAT WAS NO CATHOLIC LITURGY!!!