the Rosary is from heaven, Mary gave it to St. Dominic. That tells us that that is perfect, from heaven. No on has the authority to add or delete. In this case , add. There was another time that something was to be added to the canon, the name of St. Joseph. NOw you might say, well, what is wrong with that. It is a foot in the door to change (like a trojan horse) that can not be touched. We are not dealing with man made, we are dealing with what Christ brought to us. No one has authority to change or delete what God has given. If you do, you are showing in actions, that it is not perfect. If anyone can add or delete, than we could go on forever. THe church is true, no changes! The Pope is supposed to up hold what we have and protect it, and define dogmas and such. Be sure to read what happened at Vatican I, then compare wit Vat. II and you will see the destruction.
There have been over 260 popes so far -- if each one of them had added OR
deleted just ONE WORD from the Mass, how much different could the Mass be
today?
Man has no right to *change the Mass,* any more than he has the right to change
the Bible. And as far as that goes, the same applies to the Rosary.
*See below*
Now some may contend that the Fatima prayer is not traditional, since it is
less than 100 years old. Well, the Message of Fatima is so intimately tied to
the prayer of the Rosary, and it is Our Lady herself who gave us this new
prayer, "O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell; lead
all souls to heaven, especially those most in need." In fact, if Our Lady can
come to three prophet-shepherd children and give them a short addition to
the Rosary, after she had originally given the Rosary to St. Dominic, one must
wonder if perhaps there is something about the Mass that Our Lady spoke of
in the Third Secret which has not been revealed??
Notice, I ended the Fatima prayer with "...those most in need." That is literally
the words Our Lady gave the prophet-children, which they accurately repeated
all their lives. It was the popular use of this prayer that spontaneously added
"...of Thy mercy." It has been pointed out by much more learned scholars than
I that these three words actually DETRACT from the Message of Fatima. This is
so, you can easily see, because "those in need of God's mercy" is really a
smaller group of people than "those in need."
In our age, sin has become so entrenched in society that probably a majority
of people alive today have no practical concept of what sin is. When someone
has so totally given himself over to sin that he has no desire or interest in
the mercy of God, what good would it do for God to give him mercy? He would
not care or have any awareness of it. He might even laugh at it. And if he were
to do so, he would be committing yet a far more serious sin, such that it would
be MORE merciful for God to NOT give him mercy!
Therefore, to pray for those who are most in need" is actually more beneficial
and efficacious, since we do not really know WHAT these needy souls are in
need of. It could be conversion, or suffering, or limb amputation, or abject
poverty, or terminal disease, or a miraculous healing, or a vision of the state
of their soul, or, which is the most likely case, they might be in most need of
the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
As applies to the souls in Purgatory, perhaps God's mercy is the thing they are
in most need of, but we probably don't really understand how Purgatory works
well enough to judge that sufficiently to be sure about it. Souls are released
from Purgatory according to God's justice, and it includes not only His mercy,
but penitential acts of the Church Militant, the prayers and fasting of the
faithful, and the prayers of the saints, especially those of the Blessed Virgin
Mary.
Speaking of Purgatory, there are no indulgences given for the Illuminati
Mysteries (thanks for that, Capt McQuigg), so no one would be getting out of
Purgatory because of those being prayed.
*Regarding changing the Mass - New Feast Days can be added, and new propers
and Scripture can be added for them, but the Canon has reached its fullest
development, most probably, and very little about the rest of the prayers are in
any way lacking due to the exigencies of our age that are different from previous
ages -- the prevalence of Modernism notwithstanding! That is,
if some special,
new prayer could be inserted into the CTLM to ask for God's grace to overcome
the rampant "synthesis of all heresies," Modernism, then that would seem to me
to be a good idea, since the past 2 centuries have been the battlefield for this
most destructive heresy, even to the point of nearly abolishing the Mass itself!
That would be the kind of thing that is described by the phrase "organic
development." It seems to me it's not outside the realm of possibility that the
Third Secret of Fatima contains words that ought to be added to the Mass, but
we would have no idea what those are until they are revealed, and they have
most obviously NOT been revealed. Certainly after they have been concealed
for 100 years (95 already) and we have seen the devastation worldwide that
has been the consequence, maybe it's time to add a bit of whatever it is to
the Canonized Traditional Latin Mass.
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