Do we believe the Novus Ordo Mass is valid?
Of course we believe the Novus Ordo Mass is valid! But we prefer the tradition, beauty, and reverence of the Latin Mass. Do we understand that it is the same Eucharistic Sacrifice, regardless of rite? Of course we do. But we sincerely believe that the wrappings of the Sacrifice matter tremendously. If the wrappings (i.e., the gestures, wording of prayers, music) do not matter at all, then we should be satisfied with some sort of generic communion serviceif thats all that really matters! But, in fact, the wrappings do matter, because we should only want to give the best and the highest worship to God. As Dietrich von Hildebrand asks in his Case for the Latin Mass, For the question is whether we better meet Christ in the Mass by soaring up to Him, or by dragging Him down into our own pedestrian, workaday world. Sursum corda. Habemus ad Dominum . . . Dignum et justum est. We attend the Latin Mass because we believe that it more perfectly transmits our Faith. It more perfectly conveys a se
