The Ottaviani Intervention- Its Content, Significance, Origins, etc.

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“The Ottaviani Intervention”
Letter from Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci to His Holiness Pope Paul VI
September 25th, 1969

II—Definition Of The Mass

Let us begin with the definition of the Mass given in No. 7 of the “Institutio Generalis” at the beginning of the second chapter on the Novus Ordo: “De structure Missae”:

“The Lord’s Supper or Mass is a sacred meeting or assembly of the People of God, met together under the presidency of the priest, to celebrate the memorial of the Lord. Thus the promise of Christ, “where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”, is eminently true of the local community in the Church (Mt.XvIII,20)”.

The definition of the Mass is thus limited to that of the “supper”, and this term is found constantly repeated (nos. 8,48, 55d,56). This supper is further characterized as an assembly presided over by the priest and held as a memorial of the Lord, recalling what He did on the first Maundy Thursday. None of this in the very least implies either the Real Presence, or the reality of sacrifice, or the Sacramental function of the consecrating priest, or the intrinsic value of the Eucharistic Sacrifice independently of the people’s presence. It does not, in a word, imply any of the essential dogmatic values of the Mass which together provide its true definition. Here, the deliberate omission of these dogmatic values amounts to their having been superseded and therefore, at least in practice, to their denial.

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Genesis315 said:
A good friend of mine just finished her thesis on anti-Catholicism in New York in the 1770s-80s which I had the pleasure to read. One thing the anti-Catholics were notorious for were spreading salacious gossip and falsities about the Popes and curia. What jumped out at me immediately was how similar their falsified tabloids were to what certain traditionalists like to spread around nowadays (in content and tone)…I guess it comes from the fact that when the Holy Spirit is drawing someone in a direction they do not want to go, they have to throw up obstacles they can use to justify their resistence.
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It really amazes me how daring people are to use the Holy Spirit in this us-vs-them kind of context. It’s against the grain in which I have been taught catechism of the Catholic Church and I refuse to put up with it.
 
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“The Lord’s Supper or Mass is a sacred meeting or assembly of the People of God, met together under the presidency of the priest, to celebrate the memorial of the Lord.”
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This couldn’t possibly be the definition of the Mass which I attend. The Mass I attend needs no definition; its prayers are quite clear and to the point.
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Because the charity in this thread has been deteriorating, the thread is now closed. Thanks to all who participated in the discussion.
 
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