Leo XIII was granted a vision. He overheard a conversation between Our Lord and Satan with Satan claiming that he could destroy the Holy Church if given 100 years.
80 or so years later Vatican II happened with a couple of key, paramount, changes in the church's "ecclesiology".
Leo XIII wasn't granted this vision for his own entertainment or just so that he could have something interesting to say the next time he got together with a bunch of clerics for lunch. These visions are granted for a purpose.
In response to this vision, Pope Leo XIII wrote the Leonine prayers that were said at the end of Low Mass and were specifically targeted for removal by John XXIII.
If you are not familiar with the FULL VERSION of the Leonine prayers, and you
are impressed with the ABBREVIATED version (that is said after Low Mass - some
Trad priests even say them after High Mass!), the full version will blow you away.
It's probably on this CI forum somewhere, already. It's about 10 times longer.
Question: Why did John XXIII want to aid and abet Satan in his attempt to destroy the Church? Remember, it's sinful to put yourself in the direct line of temptation just to show off how strong your faith is. And it's also a bad idea to downgrade your level of devotion or downgrade the level of dignity bestowed on Our Lord and his devout ones.
If that question seems cruel of unfair, then lets rephrase it by asking why Pope John XXIII wants to remove prayers asking for assistance? Does John XXIII believe as Paul VI did that man's last hope is in the United Nations?
Did the communists ask John XXIII to remove the prayers?
Fr. Paul Trinchard explained to me how the Oath Against Modernism (
Sacrorum
Antistitum) was removed. Pope St. Pius X had instituted severe penalties
for anyone who would not take the Oath, but after Vatican II, rectors of
seminaries must have told liberal seminarians, the progressives, the 'movers
and shakers' of the schools, in private of course, that they would not have to
worry about any adverse consequences to not taking the Oath, for otherwise,
those progressive seminarians would have showed up for Oath-Taking-Day,
but they did not. About 1/3 of the class was missing that day, and the other
2/3 of the class stood there and recited the Oath, as required, in Latin, and
they presumed that the missing 1/3 of the seminarians would therefore not
be getting ordained. You know, like the several monks this past summer were
refused ordination by +Fellay because they were opposed to his 'deal' with
modernist Rome. That kind of thing, but the opposite motive.
So then came ordination day, and behold, all of the class was ordained! It was
a 'miracle'! ----NOT. Like the lifting of the 'excoms' and the 'freeing of the Mass'
were 'miracles' ------NOT.
Therefore, Said Fr. Paul Trinchard, the next year on Oath-Taking-Day, only a
handful of seminarians showed up, but the ones who did not show got ordained
anyway. The following year, no one showed up. The year after that, they did
not bother to have the Oath-Taking-Day.
That is how tradition is extinguished: in degrees, steps, phases, it takes time.
And the reason that the superiors could have passed down this decision to not
carry out the sanctions was, it was after Vat.II (1966) and everyone could see
that the old ways were crashing down all around.
The old ways were crashing down, and that's why the Leonine Prayers were
removed, too. It was just too much of the old ways. After the compromises of
the Missal of John XXIII (a.k.a. 1962) the next wave was to render various
prayers of the Mass in the vernacular (summer of 1964), and then more of them
(summer of 1965), and then no more Prayers at the Foot of the Altar (Psalm 42
or Protestants' Psalm 43), and so on - the 'transitional rite' that Padre Pio was
physically unable to say in 1966, when he had less than 2 years to live.
Why remove them at all? When I attended my first Traditional Latin Mass, I knew nothing of the Leonine prayers and I was unfamiliar with Pope Leo XIII (I was a novus ordite) and yet when Mass ended and the Leonine prayers started, my response was one of enthrallment and not "Come on, Mass is over, let's get out of here already." My level of knowledge was low and I thought they were praying the Angelus. I didn't know anything about the angelus except the word itself.
Does Pope Leo XIII represent, to the modernists, the ecclesiology of the Traditional Catholic Church and not the ecclesiology of the concilliar church? Could this explain it?
That is a beautiful post, Capitan. (that's pablo-speak for captain)
It seems this is true, that Leo XIII represents to the Modernists the
ecclesiology of Traditional Catholicism, which is opposed to the Conciliar
Church.
Modernists today, of whom Benedict XVI is the king of them all, think of
this Traditionalism as a
poison, actually. They think, or that is, they
'feel' that if this poison is allowed to grow and to 'work' it will kill their 'life' in
the Church. And what is their 'life' that they treasure so much? It is the
'living tradition of Vatican II' which is, basically,
Modernism, the sewer of
all heresies. To them, spiritual sewage is wonderful, literally.
They believe that it is a poison that must be neutralized. And how do you
neutralize poison? You do that with an antidote. How do they develop the
antidote? Well, that's what B16 was trying to do with the SSPX, and today,
Feb 22nd, +Fellay faces the Di Noia deadline for answering Card. Levada's
letter from last summer, or else Di Noia, the Annoyer, will forthwith drop all
the envelopes into the mailbox, envelopes he has prepared and stamped,
containing his meddlesome offers to the SSPX priests, which is the latest
version of the SSPX antidote that will neutralize the poison of Traditionalism
in the Society of St. Pius X.
Modernists and Neo-Modernists believe that sewage is wonderful, and that's
why we have not only Assisi I, but Assisi II, and we not only have Assisi I
and Assisi II but we also have Assisi III. The Seraphic Father who founded the
place is no doubt turning over in his grave. Actually, we could check on that,
because his grave was discovered, after many years of searching, and his
remains were exhumed. So we could look and see if he's turning over.