"It is true that prudence might suggest to this or that priest “not to refuse the new Ordo for fear of scandalizing the faithful” by their witnessing his apparent disobedience to the bishop.[40] Such a priest should, however, “keep the Roman Canon which is still permitted, and say the words of consecration in a low voice according to the old form, which is still allowed.”[41] When Archbishop Lefebvre was absent on a Sunday, the seminarians would go and assist at Mass together at the Bernadine convent of La Maigrauge where an old monk celebrated the New Mass in Latin.
Xavier, you may have already read the rebuttal/explanation for the above quote (and also the FULL quote) from Sean's thread a few weeks ago. Here is a summary of what and why +ABL said above:
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1) He was speaking of the time of 1980ish, when many of the novus ordo priests WERE UNQUESTIONABLY PRIESTS, having been ordained in the old rite.
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2) He was telling such valid, novus ordo priests to say mass using the TRADITIONAL canon and using the OLD FORM. The quote keeps going, wherein +ABL told such priests to also use the TRADITIONAL offertory prayers and the TRADITIONAL communion (i.e. not communion in the hand). In other words, +ABL was telling novus ordo priests to say a TLM mass.
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3) It follows then, according to the above qualifications, that
in the early 1980s, it was possibly allowed to attend such a mass, as it was said by a valid priest and was as close to traditional as possible, and was essentially a TLM.
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At the time, Archbishop Lefebvre’s position was not quite as categorical. He considered that the New Mass was not heretical,
When the new mass is said using the TRADITIONAL prayers of the offertory, canon and communion, yes, it's not heretical.
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as Cardinal Ottaviani had said, it represents serious dangers
This is a gross underestimation and falsification of what +Ottaviani said. He
condemned the new mass, in its purest/theoretical form.
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However, “it is an exaggeration to say that most of these Masses are invalid.”
At the time...in the early 1980s...when priests were valid and if using the TRADITIONAL prayers, then this is why +ABL said the above.
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“if one does not have the choice and if the priest celebrating Mass according to the Novus Ordo is faithful and worthy, one should not abstain from going to Mass.”
Faithful priest = one who says mass using the TRADITIONAL prayers (i.e. is faithful to Tradition/doctrine).
Worthy priest = one is unquestionably valid, having been ordained in the pre-V2 rite, by a pre-V2 bishop.
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These statements are incompatible with the view that the NOM never obtains any graces, or Communion there distributes no graces.
You are trying to apply early 1980s validity and traditional use of liturgical prayers to now, over 50 years later, when the % of valid priests who say the new mass are next to 0% and the use of the TRADITIONAL prayers in a novus ordo mass is also 0%.
Your comparisons of these 2 eras as similar is both dishonest and illogical.