The Problem of the Liturgical Reform: A Theological and Liturgical Study

Do you sometimes wonder what is the best book to give to your Novus Ordo friends and relatives? Do you wonder which book might be the best to explain why we don’t accept the New Mass? Well here’s your answer!

Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, sent a copy of this book to Pope John Paul II as part of the Society’s talks with the Roman authorities. In France, 17,000 copies of this new and vital study have been sent to Catholic priests… and it has created quite a stir! This clear and concise book lays out a mass of quotations from the fabricators of the New Mass themselves to show how coherent, but un-Catholic, are the principles behind the Novus Ordo Missae (the New Order of Mass).

The book is in three parts: it shows, firstly, that the New Mass breaks the liturgical tradition of the Church; secondly, that this break proceeds from a new theology of basics such as sin and Redemption; thirdly, that this new theology is condemned by Catholic doctrine.