Q: Why did the Catholic Church fabricate a New Mass after Vatican II?
When the two are compared, they are both very different. The official definitions of the two Masses are strikingly different.
Traditional Latin Mass
The Mass is the true and special sacrifice of the New Law. In it Jesus Christ, by the ministry of the priest, offers His Body and Blood to God the Father under the appearances of bread and wine, by a mystical immolation in an unbloody manner, for a renewal and memorial of the Sacrifice of the Cross.
Novus Ordo Mass
The Lord’s supper, or Mass, is the assembly, or gathering people, of the people of God with the priest presiding to celebrate the memorial of the Lord. For this reason the promise of Christ is particularly true of the local congregation of the Church: “Where two or three are gathered in My Name, there I am in the midst of them.”
A: Either Mass is equally appropriate, valid, powerful, and totally licit, and in reality, BOTH of your definitions are completely true.
The first is traditional, the second is more modern, and was designed to appeal to what was thought of at the time, as “ecumenical” sensibilities.
Any time Jesus Christ becomes present on the altar for us, the work of redemption is being accomplished, and Jesus, the propitiation for the sins of the whole world, is truly and substantially in our midst.
That’s what the Mass .. any Mass and every Mass (so long as it is celebrated according to an approved rite of the Church) … is all about.
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