“WHILE the True Mass was being withdrawn from them, the people watched and endured it helplessly, uncomprehendingly, resignedly. And all the while it was being done, they were being ‘re-educated’: on the one hand, while the True Mass was being hidden from view, erased from their memory, every kind of irreverent, pseudo-liturgical, and specious criticism was being made against it by their clerical indoctrinators; on the other hand, as the parts of the Replacement were being eased in, various and sundry equally implausible rationalizations were being pumped into their bewildered brains. Those who showed mistrust and suspicion or who raised objections were subjected to withering scorn. Even now, most Catholics are unaware of the immeasurable dissimilarity between the True Mass and its perfidious Plagiarism. They really think that the main differences are a change in language and the turning around of the altar. Three other factors contributed to their subversion. For one thing, the language of the ‘New Mass’ sounds truly pious and prayerful. For another, everything about the ‘new religion’ is decidedly easier, pleasanter, friendlier, more casual—and, at times, simply great fun! And most insidious of all is the argument that the changes are good if you like them. ‘If you like them!’ This means you are praying better. If the new way makes you feel better, your worship is bound to be better. The one question never allowed was whether God approves of this ‘New Religion.’ Of course, it does not matter, for ‘The People is Baal.’

“We will observe how much of the True Mass was completely thrown aside. Indeed, only the spindliest skeleton of the Mass was kept and fragments of some few prayers. And even these were so rephrased and distorted that anyone should be able to recognize the fiendish malice of the ‘formulators.’ All was done with the deliberate intention of deceiving the faithful; of destroying their faith; of disposing them of all sense of reverence, all sense of ‘the Holy’ (desacralization is the ‘reformers’ word for it); and of slyly inculcating the tenets of the ‘New Religion’ at the same time. This is not to mention the rascals’ own need to vent their blasphemous attitude toward what they were secretly and cynically mocking and their satanic delight at seeing us take to it like drinkers after a bottle. So artificial is the ‘New Mass’ that, upon studying it, one would judge it was drafted by shady characters with scratch-pads huddled around a table. (The same can be said of the other ritualistic recipes with which we are being regaled almost monthly.)”

— Fr. James Wathen, The Great Sacrilege. pp. 80-81

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