Saturday 11 April 2020

EASTER VIGIL: Mater Ecclesiae Chapel



You can watch the Easter Vigil of Holy Saturday according to the pre-1955 rites celebrated by Fr. Robert Pasley of Mater Ecclesiae, Diocese of Camden (Berlin, NJ). The pre 1955 Holy Week is incredibly important, as it has none of the modernist tendencies and surrenders that followed one upon another, beginning with the 1955 disastrous changes.  




The pre-1955 rites firmly proclaims Jesus Christ as King over all Nations and peoples, without exception. There is no surrender to Protestantism, to Judaism, to Freemasonry. The pre-1955 rites firmly proclaims that Jesus Christ is truly God. That is why these rites had to go. With their destruction, the virus of religious indifferentism penetrated most men's minds. 

Link for Easter Vigil: 
https://www.facebook.com/MaterEcclesiaeChurch/videos/235981440856446/

5 comments:

Irenaeus said...

After 1955, the Easter Vigil was celebrated at night. Prior to that, though, the Easter Vigil was celebrated in the daytime - most in often the morning.

The pre-55 Eater Vigil - indeed, the entire Triduum according to pre-55 rubrics - is beautiful. Yesterday's Exultet is so rich and detailed, and the Twelve Prophecies were a wonderful reminder of the intricacies of salvation history.

John Haggerty said...

Thanks for this snippet of fact about the Easter Vigil, Irenaeus.
Before leaving this world I hope I can hear the entire Triduum, pre-1955 rubrics; as well as the Exultet and Twelve Prophecies.

Maybe it will be these *intricacies of salvation history* that will bring back those lost Toronto teachers and modernist priests. It will only take two or three. The many will follow the few if the Holy Ghost pours out a blessing.


Irenaeus said...

You're welcome, John, and Happy Easter!

As to your point, I don't know. It is hard to get out of a pattern when you have spent much of your life in, or otherwise reject the traditional way of doing things. Toronto was settled by the Irish - Protestants, to be precise. Here, we had a long custom of Low Masses in the years before the Wars and long after. While the Mass is the Mass, there does exist a High Mass culture and a Low Mass culture. Unfortunately, Low Mass culture seems to allow for a passive faith, which is what the Irish brought with them when they emigrated over, and slowly passed on to others. Toronto and beyond. There were exceptions, of course, but that is what I have observed over here.

No wonder the Council was so successful over here.

Barona said...

John - Happy and Blessed Easter!

Mater Ecclesiae retains the entire pre-1955 ancient Rites, but with the difference of time for practical purposes on Saturday Morning. However, the liturgy is untouched and therefore retains the absolute purity of Catholic Doctrine, which cannot be said for the 1955 and onwards revisions.

Catholics interested in seeing the Saturday Liturgy in the morning can watch it at St. Gertrude the Great Parish. Bishop Daniel Dolan consistently delivers excellent sermons. Readers may wish to seek out his various other sermons online. I also watched Palm Sunday and Holy Thursday Liturgies from St. Gertrude's.

http://www.sgg.org/

Another excellent source for online Mass and teaching is Bishop Richard Williamson. The youtube channel "Maria Duce" carries many Masses and sermons from Masses celebrated by Bishop Williamson in London, as well at his headquarters in Broadstairs, Kent. Bishop Williamson's sermons are outstanding. This morning's sermon for Easter Sunday was most powerful. You do get bishops preaching the purity of the Faith like you do from Bishop Williamson.

I watched all liturgies available from Bishop Williamson.

Palm Sunday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0966vWCffE

Holy Thursday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoLfeCs_EIM



Good Friday (including Stations of the Cross).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSKzHl2t-P0


Sunday Morning Easter Mass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcnLjgP_f5I

John Haggerty said...

Thanks Irenaeus and Barona, for your blessings this Eastertide.

The Low Mass culture in Irish-settled Toronto is a new idea for me. It is a nugget of spiritual insight I might have expected in a Canadian novel, Hugh Maclennan's *Two Solitudes* or Morley Callaghan's *A Passion in Rome*.

The passive faith I understand because this was the situation in Irish-settled West of Scotland, at least postwar.

There were many holy Catholic teachers in my high school, but the absence of teaching on doctrine and Church history was apparent, so that we were unprepared for the assault on our faith when we left school. The Rosary was no longer said in Catholic homes in my generation. Belloc was not much read.

The other day I came across a blog titled *50 years after Vatican II, are you still Catholic?* by Susan Claire Potts. This woman points to the standard textbook *We Celebrate the Eucharist* by Christiane Brusselmans, who was taught by modernists like Schillebeeckx, Yves Congar, and Jean Danielou; big and revered names in my Vatican II youth.

Ms. Potts described how pre-Vatican II Catholic school libraries were dumped, along with the holy medals, the scapular, statues, and written lives of the saints. In Detroit there is still no Tridentine Mass, she writes, *but we had the Latin Mass, done so beautifully that few knew it was the Novus Ordo.*

Thank you for telling me about St. Gertrude the Great Parish, Bishop Dolan, and Bishop Williamson's YouTube channel Maria Duce. Good to follow up.

It was cold and grey-skied when I went out for my evening walk. The streets were nearly empty. But I thought of the poem by A.E. Housman set to music by George Butterworth:

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.