“THE Revolution incessantly repeats the word ‘freedom.’ What it means by this word is that every man should free himself from the laws and self-preserving instincts of his own nature, that he should dispossess himself of all inner strength, restraint, and virtue, to say nothing of the inner dominance of Christ by His truth and grace. The purpose of corrupting a person is to put him at the disposal of his fallen nature; the purpose of destroying his faith and of dispossessing him of all certainty is that he will have to be controlled from without. The Revolution means to unshackle a man interiorly, that it may have the excuse of encircling him with the mindless mob (which the ‘Community’ is), of regimenting him, binding him, and putting him under guard. Despising virtue, which is man’s mastery of himself by the power of Christ, even being unable to comprehend it, the Revolution cannot conceive a community of truly free men, nor the idea of peace through the rule of the Spirit of God.

“The true Revolutionary cannot stand to be alone, to be in silence, to be inactive. In such a condition he would either go mad or find God. Because of his own spiritual vacuity and restlessness, and because of his conceited passion for ruling, for managing others, he cannot permit anyone to be alone.”

— Fr. James Wathen, “The New Mass of Baal,” The Great Sacrilege, p. 154

— Comments —

James writes:

Thanks for bringing this quote and remarkable man to my attention.  When I ran across this recent entry at 3:00 a.m. I was overwhelmed by his insight and wisdom – at once simple and fundamental and yet deeply profound.  I was raised in the pre-Vatican church in which this sort of insight was our daily fare.  Today, we must very purposefuly set out at the arduous task of reconstructing a well ordered moral universe against the backdrop of a deeply disturbed, distorted and confused moral environment cast thusly by the radicalism to which Father Wathen refers.

The biblical counsel to seek the truth is today very difficult.  The verities of the past have been cast asunder wantonly at best and, more likely, very purposefully.  I do believe that the truth finds safe harbor easier in some than others.  Some are simply more receptive to the truth.  Others purposefully reject the truth and embrace the “liberation” of the current corrupt environment not recognizing their own capitulation to the enslavement of sin. And still others, happy spectators in the destruction of all that is good true and beautiful unaware of their own mindless complicity.

I cannot wait to dig into Father Wathen’s sermons and other books.  He strikes me as one in whom the truth resonates loudly.

Laura writes:

Thank you.

Fr. Wathen was highly eloquent on the subject of the New Mass — and on many Catholic teachings.

Unfortunately, as far as I know, he did not come to all the right conclusions and helped the false Traditionalist movement along.

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