No, Archbishop Lefebvre even celebrated the "new mass" since the beginning of April 1969 until December 24, 1970. There were many who were not happy about this, of course. For example, Fr. Guérard des Lauriers.
Fr. Guérard des Lauriers to Msgr. Lefèbvre:
http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/f045ht_Lauriers01.htm
To those who would slander Archbishop Lefebvre concerning saying the NOM, below is an email exchange between Msgr. Williamson and a friend (with permission to post, email and name removed for privacy).
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:51 AM, RNW wrote:
Dear ,
Just before the priestly ordinations of Econe of 1976, the first year of a numerous Econe ordination (I was one of them). a delegation of priests came from Rome to Flavigny (where the pre=ordination retreat was taking place) to persuade the Archbishop to say JUST ONE New Mass, and then "all would be at peace with Rome", ie no more problems for Econe. They even tried to push a new missal into his hands !
The Archbishop refused. Is it likely he would have refused if he had already said a few times the New Mass ? For a while he adopted the 1967 reforms of the Mass, but as he used to say, within a few months he went back to the 1964 missal, because he felt the 1967 reforms undermining his Faith. That is as close as he ever got to saying the New Mass, i.e. nowhere near, because the 1967 missal is still Tridentine basically.
Let whoever just read Bishop Tissier's biography of the Archbishop. What a slander to say he said the New Mass. Diabolical !
In Christo, +Richard Williamson.
On 23 February 2011 17:23, wrote:
Your Excellency,
http://www.traditioninaction.org/Questions/B409_Lefebvre.htmlI am in contact with the lady (Marian Horvat) who runs the above website as I just met her on my recent trip to Quito. Besides the fact that the Archbishop was instrumental in The Ottaviani Intervention, what else can I tell her to show the Archbishop would not have offered the New Mass as the above link accuses him of doing? Since you joined the SSPX in its beginning years, I thought I would ask you about this.
God bless,