Mary and the Revolution
May 5, 2023
FROM “The Great Sacrilege,” by Fr. James F. Wathen:
[W]e should call attention to the mere token deference given in the ‘New Mass’ to Mary, the Most Blessed Mother of God. It must be recognized that the few begrudging mentions of her represent nothing more than vestiges of the loving attentions paid her in the True Mass. The few references made to her in the “Novus Ordo” were kept only in order to placate the faithful, you may be sure. There is no more place in the “New Religion” for Our Lady than there is for Christ Our Lord. This is a point which needs further comment.
First however, I cannot emphasize strongly enough that the ultimate purpose of all the sacrileges, the trickery, the lawlessness, the discord, and the scandal in religion, as well as of the overthrow of governments, the terrorism, the cruelties, the imprisonments, the murders, and the ruin of souls in the social realm, which are the stock and trade of the Revolution– the ultimate purpose of them all, I say, is the everlasting blasphemy of the sweet Name of Jesus, the God-Man. For the doctrine which inspires in Revolutionaries the most unmitigated hatred and provokes all their audacious perversities is that of His sacred divinity. Once you become aware of this fact, you will be able to comprehend the (poorly) disguised intentions of the “New Mass,” and, to be sure, of the whole drive for “renewal” in the Church.
Now, according to the logic of the Revolution, Mary must at every opportunity be slighted and ignored, and if possible, reviled. It goes without saying that the Revolutionaries cannot endure her presence—she being the Immaculate One and they being interiorly depraved. It would suit the purpose of the Revolution if we would do either one of two things: on the one hand, forget all about Mary–cease to pray to her or sing her praises; or, on the other, give her divine worship. Either error will deflect from the glory which she shares and the love she inspires for her divine Son and will serve well enough. It is a lamentable fact that many will tolerate greater insolence towards her Son than towards her. They will rise to her defense with admirable courage; whereas they will participate with docility, and in some cases with enthusiasm, in the unspeakable Insult to Her Son which is the “New Mass.” Nothing could displease her more. Her place at Mass has been usurped and her fervent votaries should have noticed it (not that she would ever attend the Spectacle). But if anyone has, through the centuries, always been thought to “preside” at the Eucharistic Sacrifice of Her Son, it is she, just as she did on Calvary.
