The Novus Ordo Was Decadent from the Beginning - Quotes
Abbé Grégoire Celier has published a study on the remodelling of churches and chapels after the abolition of the Holy Mass and the introduction of the Novus Ordo. It is an anthology of texts published between 1965 and 1985 by recognised "specialists". Excerpts.
- Paul VI claimed on 13 January 1965: "The new religious pedagogy which the present liturgical renewal [= degradation] seeks to establish is part of, and almost the driving force behind, the great movement enshrined in the constitutional principles of the Church of God and made easier and more imperative by the progress of human culture.
- "It would be nonsense to be interested in the liturgy without caring about the design of the places where it is celebrated." (E. Vauthier, "L'aménagement des églises", Esprit et Vie - L'Ami du clergé 27, 5 July 1984, p. 393).
- "It has often been pointed out that the image of Christ in the Eucharist is very different depending on whether the altar resembles a simple table or a monumental tomb …More