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1. Cf. infra, p. 39-40. 2. CRC no 120, August 1977, p. 3-4, extracts. 3. Constitution on the liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, nos 50-58. 4. CRC no 82, July 1974, p. 11. 5. Regarding article 7 of the Institutio generalis Missalis romani, cf. infra, p. 77-79. 6. Litourgos, The surprise of the New Mass, extracts, quoted in CRC no 23, August 69, p. 9-10. 7. Cf. CRC no 22, July 1969, p. 13. 8. CRC no 25, Oct 1969, p. 13. 9. In the Italian text at this point we find the word disorientamento, the precise translation of which is: disorientation. 10. In publishing the translation of this letter, our Father here omitted the following words: "which is daily and sorrowfully echoed in the voice of our common Father". This phrase seemed to express an adulation for the Pope which was excessive to say the least, but which was, alas, only too frequent among the Roman prelates. 11. Quoted by Annibale Bugnini, La Riforma liturgica (1948-1975) CLV - Edizioni Liturgiche, Rome, 1983, p. 285. 12. Letter from Jean Madiran on 17 October 1969. 13. Letter from Jean Madiran on 24 October 1969. 14. "International committee for the defence of Christian civilisation". 15. CRC no 27, December 1969, p. 1. 16. CRC no 28, supplement, January 1970. 17. On the support of the bishops for the "new ordo", cf. infra, p. 60. 18. Letter from Jean Madiran to Mgr Lefebvre on 28 November 1969, extracts; quoted in Itineraires no 139, January 1970, p. 19-21. 19. CRC no 27, December 1969, p. 1. 20. Annibale Bugnini, op. cit., p. 285. 21. For the Church II, p. 352. 22. On this question of the suppression of the offertory prayers, cf. CRC no 101, January 1976, p. 11. 23. Doc. cath., 1970, p. 343. 24. CRC no 25, Oct 1969, p. 14-15. 25. To observe the evolution of our Father's thinking on the "intention of the priest required for a valid celebration of the Mass", refer to the following editions of the Catholic Counter-Reformation: no 25, Oct 1969, p. 15; no 37, Oct 1970, p. 3; no 38, Nov 1970, p. 12; no 58, Jul 1972, p. 12; no 82, Jul 1974, p. 10-11; no 84, Sep 1974, p. 13; no. 91, Apr 1975, p. 13-14. 26. To find out about our Father's definitive thinking on this subject, cf. infra, p. 91 or the CRC no 91, April 1975, p. 13-14. 27. CRC no 26, Nov 1969, p. 14-15. 28. Quoted in CRC no 30, March 1970, p. 9. 29. Hermandad sacerdotal S. Antonio Maria Claret y Beato Juan de Avila. 30. In the autumn of 1969, Mgr Lefebvre had informed those in charge of this Spanish fraternity of his desire "to unite all the priestly associations of Europe in a federation that would elect an international president" (letter of Father José Mariné to the Abbé de Nantes dated 13 December 1969). 31. Letter of Father José Mariné, secretary of the Hermandad sacerdotal, to the Abbé de Nantes, dated 13 December 1969 (personal correspondence). 32. Cf. CRC no 28, January 1970, p. 7. 33. CRC no 30, supplement, March 1970, p. 1-2, extracts. 34. CRC no 30, supplement, March 1970, p. 1-2. 35. For the Church, vol. II, p. 325. 36. Regarding the probable reason for this awkwardness, cf. infra, p. 380 ff. 37. CRC no 30, supplement, March 1970, p. 1-2. 38. Letter from G Volpe to the Abbé de Nantes on 9 March 1970. 39. CRC no 30, supplement, p. 1-2. 40. An old priest from Coimbra had written to the Abbé de Nantes telling him that, in his town, he was the only ecclesiastic to continue to celebrate the Mass according to the Roman rite of Saint Pius V. 41. Several months later the Abbé de Nantes will learn that there was a diocesan bishop who had not adopted the new ordo. He was a Brazilian. On 27 July 1970, a priest from the diocese of Campos, Father Jean-Marie Barcelonne, wrote to our Father to advise him that his bishop, Mgr Castro Mayer, and the majority of the priests in his diocese had signed a letter addressed to the Pope, asking him for permission to continue to say the Mass of St Pius V, which they continued to do while waiting for Paul VI to reply. 42. CRC no 30, supplement, March 1970, p. 1-2, extracts. 43. During the 70's the Abbé de Nantes will often remind his readers that "the assistance of the Holy Spirit inviolably guarantees the preservation of the Seven Sacraments in the Church of Jesus Christ". CRC no 118, June 1977, p. 2-3. But let us point out that the allegiance of the whole episcopate to the Acts of Vatican II did not confer on them a guarantee of infallibility because this Council took no advantage of the positive assistance of the Holy Spirit in all or any of its decisions. Cf. ibid.; and For the Church, vol. II, p. 204-205; 214-215. 44. CRC no 82, July 1974, p. 12. 45. Extracts from the "Conversation with a friend from Rome", quoted in the Catholic Counter-Reformation no 37, Oct 1970, p. 2-3. 46. Letter from Jean Madiran to the Abbé de Nantes on 20 March 1970, extracts. 47. Letter from Jean Madiran to the Abbé de Nantes on 7 April 1970. 48. We know that the Abbé de Nantes has always celebrated Mass according to the Roman rite of Saint Pius V, right up to 1996, the year in which we write. However, he has never promised not to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice according to another rite one day. 49. CRC no 31, April 1970, p. 1-2, extracts. 50. Cf. CRC no 34, July 1970, p. 13. 51. Quoted in CRC no 32, May 1970, p. 12. 52. CRC no 32, May 1970, p. 12. 53. CRC no 34, July 1970, p. 13-14. 54. Cf. supra, p. 48. 55. CRC no 34, p. 13-14. 56. CRC no 34, July 1970, p. 13-14. 57. Ibid. 58. Quoted in CRC no 28, supplement. January 1970, p. 14. 59. CRC no 27, December 1969, p. 6. 60. Concerning Father de la Taille's theory, cf. CRC no 116, April 1977, p. 12. 61. Georges de Nantes, Liber accusationis in Paulum sextum, p. 60. 62. In the text of 25 May 1970, the italics indicate the passages added to the text of the original version. 63. CRC no 34, July 1970, p. 14. 64. CRC no 120, August 1977, p. 10. 65. CRC no 32, May 1970, p. 1. 66. CRC no 32, May 1970, p. 1-2, extracts. 67. The ban cast on the Holy Roman Mass, CRC no 33, June 1970, p. 3-4. 68. The reform of the Mass, fantasy or reality? CRC no 101, January 1976, p. 7-8. 69. Cf. CRC no 101, January 1976, p. 10. 70. S. Bianchi, Replies of a liturgist, Osservatore Romano, 20 March 1970. 71. Regarding Hippolytus of Rome, who had vainly attempted to substitute his own anaphora for the Roman canon already firmly established since circa 200AD, cf. infra, p. 456; CRC no 99, Nov 1975, p. 6-7; no 101, Jan 1976, p. 8. 72. Cf. CRC no 32, May 1970, p. 8. 73. CRC no 33, June 1970, p. 11-13, extracts. 74. Liber I, p. 61. 75. On the foundation of the Catholic Counter-Reformation circles, cf. infra, chapter 3. 76. CRC no 33, June 1970, p. 14, extracts. 77. Three-page unpublished text, Dec 1969, extracts. 78. Cf. CRC no 101, Jan 1976, p. 10; no 118, June 1977, p. 3. 79. Dom Oury, La messe de S. Pie V à Paul VI, Solesmes, 1975, p. 11. 80. CRC no 53, Feb 1972, p. 10. 81. Let us point out that after this study of 1975, the Abbé de Nantes returned to his statements concerning the prayers of the offertory of the Roman rite of Saint Pius V. He presented an explanation and a luminous commentary on these in his retreat "Mysterium fidei. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass". S 124, September 1994. Fourteenth conference: "The ultimate enigma, that of the offertory". 82. CRC no 82, July 1974, p. 12. 83. Tutiorism is a theological system of morals, which obliges one to choose the safer course when in doubt. Absolute tutiorism was condemned by Alexander VIII on 7 December 1690. 84. CRC no 82, July 1974, p. 12-13. 85. CRC no 82, July 1974, p. 13-14. 86. CRC no 60, September 1972, p. 2. 87. Cf. "Le Courrier de Rome", 30 Sept 1970, quoted in CRC no 38, Nov 1970, p. 4. 88. CRC no 38, p. 4. 89. CRC no 30, p. 9. 90. Pierre-Marie Gy, Mgr Bugnini et la réforme liturgique de Vatican II, revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, April 1985, p. 315. 91. Quoted by Yves Chiron, Paul VI. Le Pape écartelé, published by Perrin, 1993, p. 254. 92. CRC no 26, November 1969, p. 1. 93. "The Abbé de Nantes replies to our questions on the conditions for the validity of the Mass", the weekly Rivarol, 15 February 1973. 94. CRC no 82, July 1974, p. 16. 95. CRC no 91, April 1975, p. 14. |