The New Mass Explained in Dialogues by the Red Priest: Communist Liturgy - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Fifty-years later the Fr. Jean Boulier Society has re-publishing it in English because it believes the book is still relevant and helps to advance the society's aim to popularize the priest's works. Fr. Boulier (1895-1980) was a diocesan priest, political activist and scholar in Paris, where he was known as the "Red Priest". This was because he took the communist side in the Cold War. He believed Church reform was needed and he was active in contributing to Vatican II. As the "Red Priest" he appreciated the proletariat's participation. in the vernacular Mass and this was the purpose of his writing The New Mass . Members of the hierarchy protected him.

The Mass was always the same, but it also had to continuously adapt to carry out its world-redeeming purpose. Conservatives complained about the changes, but for Fr. Boulier the scandal was for a thousand years the imperial Mass had, in effect, excommunicated the working people They were subjected to the doctrine of unworthiness since the 30s AD by slave-holders who gained control of the Church leadership and collaborated with imperialism and used the liturgy to humiliate and control the worshippers.

Everything that had any relation to the person of the emperor was called "sacred". Bright red colors, silk and precious stones were insignia of the emperor and the court. At the court there was bowing and the kissing of hands and feet. Emperors were praised in solemn hymns. Eulogies were pronounced in honor of complete subservience. Subjects fell to their knees, covered their faces and uttered praise.

Fr. Boulier maintained that the loss of the peoples' participation in the mysteries and the vocabulary of awe, fear and unworthiness that was attached to them was a denial of what the Eucharist was all about. From his view the Eucharist was about the redemption of the working class – their dictatorship, not their enslavement, Ananias and Sapphira were struck dead for their bourgeoisie ways. (Acts 5:1-11). Jesus and the early Christians were communists and it was time to return the Mass to its revolutionary purpose. Leo XIII and Pius X took to reconnect with the proletariat. Vatican II and collaboration with the communist movement was another step.

Fr. Boulier liked to quote Thomas More's Utopia where the inhabitants were "natural Christians," like the Marxists, who had never heard of Christ. Similarly, Pope Francis, "It is the communists who think like Christians." and years, we are still the first Christians." In the face of all the contrary evidence, the world for Fr. Boulier was the arena where God's loving will be bringing it forward.

Among the improvements were having the priest face the people. It helped both priest and people to understand that they were all participants in and not mere observers of the Eucharist. The elimination of the mandatory Penitential Act (the Confiteor prayer) at the beginning of Mass was positive. The Confiteor reflected the negative politics of awe and fear, broke the logical sequence of the Mass. The Mass was a joyful event. Also good, in a three-year cycle, the faithful have heard the four Gospels read almost in their entirety, as well as the most important Epistles.

To sum up: each Mass is our continuation and participation with Christ in the very same Death, Resurrection and Redemption of humanity in Heaven and on earth that was accomplished on Cavalry. Through the eyes of faith, the Devil was defeated on Cavalry. The early Church identified the Devil with Roman imperialism. Fr. Boulier identified NATO and anti-communism with the Devil.

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