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Sedevacantists and Una Cum Masses Dedicated to Patrick Henry Omlor The Grain of Incense: Sedevacantists and Una Cum Masses — Rev. Anthony Cekada — www.traditionalmass.org Should we assist at traditional Masses offered “together with Thy servant Benedict, our Pope”? articulate any theological reasons or arguments for “Do not allow your tongue to give utterance to what your heart knows is not true.… To say Amen is to what he does. subscribe to the truth.” He has read or heard the stories of countless early — St. Augustine, on the Canon martyrs who chose horrible deaths, rather than offer even one grain of incense in tribute to the false, ecu- “Our charity is untruthful because it is not severe; menical religion of the Roman emperor. So better to and it is unpersuasive, because it is not truthful… Where there is no hatred of heresy, there is no holi- avoid altogether the Masses of priests who, through ness.” the una cum, offer a grain of incense to the heresiarch — Father Faber, The Precious Blood Ratzinger and his false ecumenical religion… In many parts of the world, however, the only tra- IN OUR LIVES as traditional Catholics, we make many ditional Latin Mass available may be one offered by a judgments that must inevitably produce logical conse- priest (Motu, SSPX or independent) who puts the false quences in our actual religious practice. The earliest pope’s name in the Canon. Faced with choosing this or that I remember making occurred at about age 14. Gui- nothing, a sedevacantist is then sometimes tempted to tar songs at Mass, I concluded, were irreverent. There- assist at the Mass anyway. after, throughout eight years in the diocesan seminary, The temptation will be much greater now, since I never once opened my mouth to sing one. Ratzinger has permitted the Motu Mass. In some dio- For some questions, the practical course of action ceses, older priests who were validly ordained have that follows from a judgment is self-evident: If the Paul come out of retirement to offer Mass according to the VI rite for making priests and bishops is invalid, we ’62 Missal. Moreover, a substantial number of priests should avoid the Masses these priests and bishops of- who were validly ordained in SSPX have defected to fer. organizations like the Fraternity of St. Peter and will For other questions, how we must act may not be also offer the Motu Mass. Such Masses will be valid. so obvious — or it may be dictated by instinct, because Why not simply overlook Benedict’s name in the we cannot necessarily explain all the underlying prin- Canon, and “just go for the Mass”? It’s just one grain of ciples. incense, after all… For some sedevacantists, one issue in particular Although various arguments have been offered to falls into the latter category: a traditional Latin Mass justify the assistance of sedevacantists at una cum offered by a validly ordained priest who utters a Masses, none of them really seems to ring true. phrase in the Canon referring to Benedict, our Pope. This The priests who offer these Masses assert in the practice is followed by all priests who offer the re- Canon that Ratzinger is a true pope, while a sedevacan- cently instituted Motu Masses, as well as by priests of tist (by definition) affirms the opposite. By actively the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), its affiliated organiza- assisting at such a Mass, a sedevacantist condones the tions and the majority of “independent” traditionalist assertion that the celebrant publicly makes in the name priests. of all present — Benedict, OUR Pope — an assertion that These Masses are also sometimes referred to as the sedevacantist knows and believes to be false. “una cum Masses,” from the Latin phrase in the Canon The inconsistency — a complete disconnect be- into which the name of a reigning pope is inserted: una tween belief and worship — should be obvious after cum famulo tuo Papa nostro N. (together with Thy ser- about 10 seconds of reflection. The theoretical conclu- vant N., our Pope) sion (Ratzinger is not a true pope), we sense, should Now, since a sedevacantist is a traditionalist who dictate the practical conclusion (don’t assist at Masses has concluded that Benedict XVI is a heretic and not a where the prayers say the opposite). true pope, his first instinct is to seek out a traditional But what are the underlying principles that should Latin Mass offered by a sedevacantist priest, and to dictate our course of action here? Why is it wrong for a avoid traditional Masses where the priest refers to sedevacantist to assist actively at a traditional Latin Benedict XVI as a pope. To act otherwise seems con- Mass in which the priest employs the phrase Benedict tradictory or somehow “feels” wrong for the sedeva- our Pope in the Canon? cantist, even though he may not necessarily be able to Because I have written much over the years about — 1 — sedevacantism, canon law and the sacred liturgy, I am writers have suggested additional readings and mean- now often asked this question. In this article I will an- ings. swer it at some length, because I consider the issue Lest my readers’ eyes immediately glaze over at crucial for the future of the traditionalist movement. the mere mention of Latin grammar, I will “translate” Moreover, there is a vast amount of material in the these grammatical differences into the meanings that writings of popes, dogmatic theologians, canonists, the una cum phrase conveys if the name Benedict (Jo- moral theologians, Vatican decrees and liturgical seph Ratzinger) is introduced into it: scholars that, taken together, provides us with a very clear answer to this question. (1) Adjective modifying Church = one with, or united Not everyone will have the patience to slog with: “The heretic/false pope Ratzinger is united to through a long article. I promise such readers that I the Catholic Church and vice versa.” will soon produce a brief summary of what follows, (2) Adverb modifying we offer = we offer together with: much as I offered a short résumé of my study on the “The heretic/false pope Ratzinger jointly offers the 1968 Rite of Episcopal Consecration. Holy Sacrifice of the Mass along with the priest and In either version, though, the structure of our in- the Church.” quiry will be fairly straightforward, and we will exam- (3) Appositional link with Church = for thy Church, ine the following points: which includes. “The heretic/false pope Ratzinger is (I) The meaning of the una cum phrase in the among the members of the Church for whom the Canon, both linguistically and theologically, and how priest and the Church intercede through the offering that meaning must be applied to Ratzinger. of the Mass.” (II) Whether the sedevacantist who actively par- ticipates in an una cum Mass likewise participates in (4) Coordinating conjunction with Church, bishop, all the prayer that contains that phrase. true believers = and for Thy servant, the pope: “The priest and the Church offer the Mass for the servant (III) Why a sedevacantist should not actively par- of God and heretic/false pope Ratzinger.” ticipate in such a Mass. In this, the long version of the article, we will also Some sedevacantists maintain that the fourth ex- present various arguments that have been made to jus- planation is the only possible meaning for the una cum tify assisting at Masses where Ratzinger is offered his phrase. The petition, they contend, is thus nothing grain of incense, and demonstrate how these need to more than a prayer of intercession offered for — and be taken with more than a grain of salt. We will con- they repeatedly emphasize the for — the welfare of clude with a summary. various members of the Church, rather than some sort of expression of union with a false pope. Thus the mere fact that a priest prays for Benedict by name in the I. The Meaning of the Prayer. Canon should not prevent a sedevacantist from assist- THE PHRASE under discussion (una cum famulo tuo Papa ing at his Mass. It’s a good thing to pray for people, nostro N.) appears in the opening prayer of the Canon after all… (the Te Igitur) that commends the Sacrifice to God. It is But this fourth meaning for una cum “translates” indicated below in bold: no better than the first three, because it still places Ratzinger (as its proponents admit) in a prayer offered “..which in the first place we offer up to Thee for for the members of the Church. And a sedevacantist must Thy holy Catholic Church, that it may please Thee reject this fourth proposition as well as the other three, to grant her peace, to protect, unite and govern her throughout the world, together with Thy servant because Ratzinger’s heresy removes him not simply N. our Pope, N. our Bishop, and all true believers from the papacy, but from the very Church itself. and professors of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith.” The canonists and theologians cited to support the key principle in the sedevacantist case state that it is What does the clause in bold actually mean? And the loss of membership in the Church that produces the more specifically, what meaning results when the loss of the pontificate. Thus the dogmatic theologian name of Benedict XVI is inserted into the phrase? Iragui says: To answer these questions, we will look first to the linguistic meaning of the phrase, and then to its “Theologians commonly concede that the Roman broader theological meaning in the context of the Canon Pontiff, if he should fall into manifest heresy, would of the Mass.
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