Fr. Hesse: The Messed-Up Mass (Part 1) (Remastered Audio)

This is one of Canon Hesse’s best talks on the New Mass. This is Part 1 of 2 of his talk.

Notable topics and quotes from his talk:

The Pope cannot change liturgy.

The new liturgy is against Divine Law, was not decreed by Paul VI, but was merely PERMITTED by him. Reasons why we must reject the New Mass and the whole Novus Ordo structure.

The New Mass fails in the purposes of Mass. “Here there was an order of Mass published that does NOT mention anymore the first purpose of Mass: the greater glory of the Trinity; it does not mention anymore the propitiatory Sacrifice, […] and it NOWHERE MENTIONS THE REAL PRESENCE OF OUR LORD ON THE ALTAR.”

On the Protestants who helped write the New Mass.

About manifest intention.

“How can you fulfill – I mean this is absurd! – how can you fulfill Sunday obligation by participating in something that is against Divine Law!? It's ridiculous!”

“[The new missal] talks about man, man, man, & man. Oh, excuse me: man & woman, man & woman, man & woman, man & woman (we want to be politically correct). It talks about persons: the whole new liturgy is concerned with persons. Let's pray for this person that this person be personalized & personalize herself more personal.”

“The priest in Ancient Greece when he was sacrificing different types of animals to the Greek gods […] would not have DARED to face the people instead of facing the statue of Pallas Athena!”

[…] in no religion ever throughout history there was a sacrifice without an offertory […] Even in those HORRIBLE pagan rites. […] There was never a sacrifice in the history of religion without an offertory until Paul VI came up with the New Mass!”

“To call the New Mass a Protestant rite is an insult to the Anglican community because the New Mass goes far beyond that!”

“[In the Episcopalian church], there is no altar facing the people. […] There is no such thing as a procession of ridiculously dressed people who line up to say some totally insignificant prayers for some poor prisoners in Nicaragua.”

Fr. Gregory Hesse, S.T.D., J.C.D., S.T.L., J.C.L., Canon Lawyer, Doctor of Thomistic Theology, lifelong friend and personal secretary of Cardinal Stickler at the Vatican from 1986-1988 has provided us with many talks and conferences where he gives a no-nonsense, intelligent, learned, and witty exposition and explanation of relevant topics facing contemporary faithful Catholics. Fr. Hesse got to know approximately 45 cardinals while studying and working in Rome for 15 years and he has an uncanny and substantial knowledge of many things. You would be hard-pressed to find another theologian quite like him.

Canon Hesse was related to the Hapsburg royal bloodline. He was born in Vienna in 1952, ordained by Cardinal Marella in St. Peter's Basilica on November 21, 1981, and earned doctorates in Canon Law and Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He worked as a personal secretary of Cardinal Stickler at the Vatican from 1986 to 1988. He passed away on January 25, 2006. You would be hard-pressed to find another theologian quite like him. A breath of fresh air in today’s widespread climate of many weak, ignorant, and naive clerics and theologians, he was affectionately called by several of his friends during his life “the bull in the china shop.” His example, testimony, and insights no doubt played and will play an important role in Catholic thought and development. Listen to find out why.

You can download the free MP3 of all of Fr. Hesse’s talks to listen to on your computer or portable audio devices at: https://archive.org/details/FatherHesse
That link includes 33 talks totaling 38 hours, 50 minutes of audio.
You can also download them here: https://mega.nz/folder/7h52AYBY#6bmPr3KwWvgvsB2yBV7fkg

This video and all the remastered audio files at the above link have been professionally touched up to remove as much background noise, pops, crackles, and other audio imperfections as possible. Because the original recordings were done on cassette tapes with less-than-ideal audio equipment, there are a certain amount of audio artifacts and tape hiss that were not possible to entirely remove. However, the remastered audio files are significantly better than the originals.