First of all, beautiful video sir. But as the old saying goes, "You mileage may vary." I got the worst of both worlds: my parish was very eager to adopt the new way so I never was given a decent catechism or taught the faith in a systematic way. And "my nuns" did strike children with rulers - or occasionally their hand.

Outstanding. It your presentation should be written up.

The divorced and remarriage issue has been the Trojan Horse to destroy the dogma of Sanctifying Grace which is sufficient to enable us to resist sin. With the new dialogue and accompaniment, you do the best you can. There is no more sin since you could not help it. You do your best and everbody takes communion. Protestants, Muslims,, practicing homosexuals and anyone who wishes. This started long ago with giving communion to baby killers. Destroy the theology of the Eucharist and the global heretics have achieved their great apostasy.

Inspiring, Mr. Matt. Thank you for speaking the truth about the beauty of the faith and what we have been missing these many years. The V2 Church kicked us all out into the godless world by eliminating the Traditional Catholic life. I never knew what you experienced...I was subjected to the felt banners, B-rated dinner theater that was the Novus Ordo mass, and the shallow "Jesus loves me" non-existent catechism of the late 70's and 80's. Thankfully, Our Lord has shown me the lost treasure of Tradition and the life that I was denied. His justice will prevail. Videos like this will inspire others to discover the beauty and life of Tradition...thank you for helping them find it:+) God bless~

You should be on the evening news.

I'm a returning Catholic (in June 2009) after being gone for 42 years. I immediately started going to Confession and Daily Mass. I was in a Novus Ordo mainstream parish. I was so confused ALL the time. I didn't know anything about Vatican II. I labored so painfully because I could not make any type of connection between the Catholicism of my youth and the Catholicism of today. I just thought it was my own memory issue. I had been an Altar Boy, Catholic school, the whole works. I just could not make the mental connection between then and now. Then in Nov 2105 I stumbled into a Latin Mass parish. Finally I realized that it was not my own memory deficit, everything had literally changed and around me no one at the NO parish could help. Now I am a parishioner at TLM parish. From 2009 until 2015 I was truly a stranger in a strange land.

You are fortunate to have had a background that some of us did not have. I also have been gone from the Catholic church for over forty years and have not yet returned. Unlike you, I did not have your background of altar boy, Catholic school, and the like. I was raised in the 1940s and '50s in a morally conservative, moderately religious Protestant family and environment (yes, we even had prayers in the public schools in those days), but not Catholic.

I did not really learn much about the Catholic faith until I was a teenager in the early 1960s, but what I did find out captivated me. I entered the church in 1972 and later even entered a religious novitiate but was sorely disillusioned on both counts. Those experiences, together with developing (eventually serious) mental problems and whatever, led me out of the Catholic church (for Orthodoxy, in my case).

Unfortunately, perhaps, not all of us have had the opportunity to have "stumbled into a Latin Mass parish." For some of us, such an experience is not available in practice. It is the Novus Ordo parish or nothing, and what little experience I have had with the NO church in the last some years has been so disappointing that I am not particularly inclined to try to return. To be blunt, my personal spiritual experiences in the Orthodox church were so much deeper, so much more profound, that I myself am more likely to return to Orthodoxy than to Catholicism.

But God knows best. I do not.

Yes. That dissonance applied also to me who, born in 1969, grew up in the new, protestantised Catholic liturgy, then the Faith, and then the morals. I was always perturbed as a child by the perennial truths that made perfect sense clashing with unCatholic adulterated and subverted liturgies and preaching. I knew deep down that what I was being fed for the most part in parish, diocese and school, was not the true Catholic Faith one knew of passed down through the ages up to the 1960s. But I was met with a wall of denial and obstinance by the adults in the Church. I knew the One True Faith existed but it was hidden by those who'd taken over in liturgy, theology, morals, etc. I knew what I was getting growing up was bogus and not in conformity with the unchangeable Deposit of Faith of Revelation and Tradition. It was horribly disorienting. It was really only in my thirties that I became aware of Catholics holding to the whole of Tradition. Growing up in the worldly politicised Catholic Church, we were given to believe, for instance, that Archbishop Lefebvre was very evil and going against the Faith. This again always caused dissonance as reason told me he hadn't been but a faithful Son Of the Church (and that was before I really began to read unbiased information on the good Archbishop and the SSPX).

What I'm trying to say is that even those of us born after the terrible revolution by Satan in the Church, would have known in our hearts and minds that what we were being given was not in accordance with the Faith of Revelation and Tradition, and against natural reason. It caused great disturbance in mind and spirit and those unable or unwilling to persevere and keep true to the Faith, fell away or conformed for social reasons or to enable guilt-free immoral lives. Lord, send us your Holy Ghost.

Novus Ordo Catholics have and do the same all over the world. Under Eastern European Communism they did. They do so today in China, the Middle East and many parts of Africa. Travel outside your American bubble and you will find many, many examples of Novus Ordo Catholics suffering for the faith. I get your point but give your head a shake and look at how most Catholics live and suffer and you wouldn't ask such glib rhetorical questions. Honestly, 1962 missal Catholics aren't the only real Catholics out there. Many of the inconveniences we face are nothing compared to what Catholics face in many parts of the world!

The majority of true Catholics have not had direct access to the Traditional Holy Mass and liturgy, nor even the true unadulterated doctrine of the Faith, from local priests and bishops, throughout their lives. It is a terrible trial.

In Mr. Matt's opening he asked if modern Roman Catholics would show the same courage as the Copts and Cristeros. My answer is yes they do! I also think that his rhetorical question shows a lack of understanding regarding what most Catholics (who are Novus Ordo) go through in many parts of the world. Roman Catholics face brutal persecution in many parts of the world and stand bravely for Christ in the face of trials that spoiled first world Catholics can only imagine. I would argue they do have the Faith and in ways far deeper than we can imagine.. They've got it and give witness to it every day with their very lives in the midst of great suffering and poverty. Can you say the same? They put us all to shame,

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Did it occur to you that you could make your point just fine without accusing the editor of a lack of understanding of what Catholics suffer (The Remnant chronicles this every day)? Don't make a monster out of the question, it applies to us; the spoiled first-world Catholics. My haunch is that you two agree, if you'll let that happen.

Thank you Michael for this wonderful video and your great talk! Is there anyway we can all get in the Delorean and go Back to the Future, before Vatican II? I watched with teary eyes this video and your talk. Even though I was too young to remember going to the Traditional Latin Mass, I do remember a couple of nuns in their black habits without wielding rulers! I was born 2 years before Vatican II opened, so I was raised in the Norvus Ordo. Thank the Lord, He made me aware of Vatican II and the Traditional Latin Mass. After educating myself and my family on Vatican II and going to the TLM, there was no turning back for us! I guess we're now considered RadTrads too! I do remember growing up in the seventies and being able to stay out all evening with our neighborhood kids, and not having to worry about those same things you mentioned in your talk. It brought back special memories for me and I thank you for that! I only wish I could have raised my two daughters without fear of letting then out of my site.

Why are so many people unwilling to listen to all the truths of what happened during Vatican II? Are they afraid they might have to change their way of living or leave the New Church of accompaniment? It certainly would be easier to stay in this New Church. You would no longer feel the need to admonish the sinner, thus you would not offend anyone out of human respect, but you would likely not be persecuted for Christ's sake. Do they even teach in this New Church that it's a joy to be persecuted for Christ's sake? Also, you wouldn't feel the need to tell anyone that Christ started One,Holy,Catholic and Apostolic Church with which one can only be saved. You could lead everyone to believe that every church is just as good as the other, thus committing the sin of indiffertentism. Oh, I forgot that wouldn't bother someone who didn't feel the need to do this, because the New Church doesn't talk about venial or mortal sins anymore. They'd rather everyone go to Hell rather than preach the truth.
Call me crazy or whatever, but I'd rather obey Christ's teachings and Holy Mother Church's teachings that aren't heretical, and follow Holy Tradition, than have to stand before Christ one day and tell Him I just wanted to be in the New Church of accompaniment because it was much easier than changing my way of living. God bless us all and Our Lady of Fatima, Please pray for us.

Talking of what we have lost, I have just learnt from the Rorate blog the following:- "We should all know that Catholics are required to abstain from all meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all the Fridays of Lent. This is the minimum requirement and violation of this law is a mortal sin and, if you die without Confession and Contrition, for this sin your soul will be damned."
These are the 'laws of the church'. However, if in reality, 'the Church' has in practice ceased to promulgate these laws pastorally for the last 50 years (as is the case in my neck of the woods here in the UK) and, indeed, if the magisterium of 'the Church' from the very pinnacle down has been actively undermining these laws for the last 50 years, even to the extent of effectively seeking to recently 'abolish' the concept of mortal sin and its consequences, can they theologically be said to comprise laws the breach of which can be said to carry such a severe penalty?

For a grave matter to be a mortal sin, it requires full knowledge and full consent. You did not have any knowledge so in your case, the sin cannot be called mortal.

I only discovered a couple of years ago that Friday abstinence etc was still 'compulsory'. Thought it had gone out decades ago because I've never heard it mentioned in an extremely long time - like decades! I'm in UK as well. Mortal? Well, that's a new one on me as well. Oh well, that 's me gone then - no access to Sacraments. I sometimes find myself thinking Franciscan thoughts about rigidity...........

Friday abstinence referenced the consumption of meat. We were still encouraged (if that word can be used here) to abstain from something. Self denial was/is still the norm, but seldom genuinely encouraged (there's that word again).

Er...no....not even mentioned, let alone encouraged, genuinely or not!!!

Michael.Spot on about the destruction of Holy Mother Church by the Devil and his Modernist co-horts.There isn't anything which is better now than it was then.I am 64 yrs and live in England and i witnessed what you witnessed and wondered why so?We have Tradition back now-albeit on a small scale but Tradition it is.Holy Mother Church will be smaller and purer and better off.All the Modernists Devils can go to blazes for all i care.I am angry ,very angry at what has gone on-and still going on with Bergoglios Heretical apology of a Church.May The Lord remove Bergoglio before long!

Phillip, I am of the same generation as you here in the UK. In my case it was the Salesians who tried to dilute (pollute?) my faith from 1965-70 with their sanitized 'Companion of Youth' reflecting the then 'cutting edge' indifferentism of Vatican II. St John Bosco who compiled the Companion of Youth, would , I am sure, give his confreres a severe kicking but, unsurprisingly, as with the other teaching orders, there are scarcely any left in the UK.

One day we may be asked to pay a similier price for our love for Jesus. The question now isn't if we will wither under pressure, and in effect deny our Lord, or stand firm, that is the work of the Holy Spirit and we are wise if we rest in that. Our Lord promises never to leave us. Because of the current scope of Islamic persecution against believers, there is unavoidably a new interest in the prophetic. Who the false prophet might be concerns us. Prior to Obama's entry on the world stage, this current level of interest in Islam simply wasn't there. If there is such a thing as a False Prophet, Obama qualifies. In ushering in recognition for Islam, he clearly played the role of a false prophet, doing what false prophets do, leading people into deliberate deception. Much like the current Pope.

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Oh dear Catholic spring in china may get worst, catacomb Chinese Catholics new worry.

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Aren't the Coptics schismatic. Their current head is Pope Tawadros II.

Erica, this is a very difficult question to answer. Knowing the Copts well and experiencing their unapologetic fervour and enviable real love for Christ, I have always found it difficult to comprehend, that whereas they remained steadfast to the definition of the Nature of Christ that St Cyril of Alexanidria formulated, and when told they must change, they refused, were excommunicated, while Cyril was canonized. I think, if I remember rightly, it was Paul VI in 1976 who said to the Coptic' pope': 'Isn't it time we corrected this ridiculous situation?' The then 'pope' replied: 'We were never very good at semantics!'

Here's what SSPX has to say on this topic. Unfortunately, the article switch's gears in the last three paragraphs undermining the good stuff they initially explain by turning it into a typical defense of what seems to have become the "primary dogma" of Catholic teaching since VII, so-called "Invincible Ignorance." http://sspx.org/en/can-we-s...

It's an unfortunate tragedy that these Christians are being slaughtered and it should be a a sign to us all, but they are not Catholics of the One True Faith and thus cannot be considered true Martyrs. I hope both the SSPX and the Remnant explore this concept.

The reason they are not "true Martyrs" is because they are not "true Christians" to begin with. Maybe this quote from St. Cyprian will help clear things up: "Whosoever and whatsoever he might be, he who IS NOT in Christ's Church IS NO Christian!" ~ St. Cyprian or St. John Eudes "All TRUE Christians are members of the Church." ~ St. John Eudes

Yes they are, now they are facing genocide from terrorist groups in the Sinai peninsula. The west isn't reporting it, not surprised there.

"It wasn't that long ago." It's hard to believe that our way of life has been completely turned upside down, so thoroughly in such a short time. It is demonic and of course that means the Church had to be the first to go, because it wouldn't be possible to destroy culture with a healthy Church intact. Things that everyone acknowledged as decent and right are now disdained and even persecuted. Every evil is lauded as progress. I no longer recognize the world I live in or the mentality I encounter in "clergy". I hate this world because it hates God Almighty. I wish we could go back, but I think the youngsters are so brain dead from "social media" and "globalization" that our relatively few young ones will not be able to do anything except survive with their faith intact. God be with them. I thank God that I grew up in a simpler time (born in 1953) which was exactly as Michael described. It was nice to be reminded of family-centered society. I think the destruction of this family-centered society is the same agenda as Communism: replace mom and dad AND God with "the State". Glad this earthly life does not last forever, and Our Lord will give us a new everlasting life amen. Wishing you all a spiritually profitable Lent!

The youngsters have been indoctrinated into secular humanism. Socialism is the new thing. We don't want to "offend" anyone by speaking the truth. If you truly love someone speaking the truth is to their benefit. Everyone and everything is "equal". Relativism, diversity, multi-culturalism are the cornerstones of the attack. Homosexual sex is "equal" to heterosexual sex. Islam and all other religions are "equal" even though their teachings are in direct conflict with one another, that's where relativism comes in, because according to them their is no objective truth. Everything the left and our public schools and Universities teach contradicts Judeo-Christian teachings. It seems the Vatican itself has embraced liberalism. If you speak the truth publicly you will be persecuted. To follow Christ is to end up being crucified. Today you won't do jail time or be murdered in the USA for your beliefs as a Christian but you will be labeled and ridiculed, the day will come when the persecution will be corporal. The Bible states they will kill you and think they are doing right. I don't think that day is as far off as I wish it to be. But as long as we keep our beliefs private the Democratic Party supports you.

amen to your statement

the OLD TRUE FAITH of these heroic 20 Coptic Christians who did not want to abandon Christianity or to kiss koran, powerfully converted one stranger (#21) on the spot - please see link in comments below
on the other hand - during almost 27 years we had the Polish pope John Paul II a total modernist (but called a conservative pope by the FAKE NEWS outlets) who KISSED KORAN in Vatican and now he is a saint by his own canon law from 23 April 1993 (the saints factory) - what a different spiritual fruit !!!!!!!

Obviously, I have publicly admitted that I left the Catholic church a long time ago. Nevertheless, I think I still have some significant awareness of Catholic teachings (even if I no longer accept all of them), so that I know what many of them are.

I am still baffled why Pope John Paul II has been canonized a saint. Was it not he who majorly altered the investigation into the lives of those considered for canonization? Did he not do away with the office of so-called "devil's advocate" which seriously investigated lives? And above all(!!!), was it not JP2 who kissed a copy of the Islamic Qur'an (which I myself have read numerous times and know something about) in a Catholic shrine?!?!? How is this man a saint? Even as a now outsider, I wonder what has become / is becoming of the Catholic church.

Consider these Coptic Christians who went to their deaths rather than deny Christ (whatever their understanding may have been). How many comfortable Christians in the west today would be willing to actually, literally die before denying their faith? And yes, I include myself as one who questions whether I would die for ultimately held beliefs. (Many long years after I left the Catholic church, I at least nominally professed myself a Muslim, and to most traditional Muslims the penalty for leaving Islam is literally death. I am not kidding. That is why I am almost hiding.)

father , do you think it can be possible , that these poor coptics could have been saved by baptism of blood ? The Coptic population is facing a holocaust in Egypt as we speak. They were once joined with us as brothers n sisters in the body of Christ. I find their grave situation to be very distressing, their souls father, their poor souls.

Where is your trust in God's infinite mercy and love? As someone on here told me, WE are bound by God's rules, God is not. He can send his angel to baptize at the point of death.

But how do you know for sure? N what about all these coptics being butchered right now as we speak? Do you understand what some of them have to do to survive over there? We are a despicable bunch, but mark my words, our turn is coming. White wash it any way you want, I'm done here.

How do I know anything 'for sure'? That God exists? What really happens between the soul and God at the point of death? How Coptic Christians are surviving, dying? When our turn's going to come?

This reply doesn't seem to fit with the post of yours which I replied to. Whitewash what? That we're a despicable bunch? I've no idea what you're on about and certainly not in relation to your previous post!!! Pax!

Here in Australia I share identical memories and tears as it appears the desecration and destruction in this era of abuse continues.God bless you Michael,the light will not be extinguished.

Even as your friendly local apostate, I am old enough to remember as a Protestant teenager first coming into contact with the Catholic church just before the hurricane of V2 struck. I grew up in the 1940s and '50s in middle America and recall many of the social situations Mr. Matt relates, even if we were not Catholic. (My family were regular church going Protestants with a staunch moral background.) As early as 1972, when I entered the Catholic church as a adult, the hurricane of V2 had already hit, and things were already being blown away, together with the degradation and decency in society at large. Yes, I recall, and I admit that I am distressed at how far things have degraded. I am almost glad that I have had no children to try to weather this moral storm.

I had the same experiences at about the same time. I tried to bring my kids up to be good Catholics but that was in the 80s, in the "new church", and it didn't take. God save us.

The Catholic Church hasn't taught Catholicism since the 50's. In their zeal to "convert" people they have converted more Catholics to lean toward Protestant beliefs. Artificial contraception is a primary example, follow that with the vast numbers of Catholics that support gay "marriage", abortion "rights", embryonic stem cell research, co-habitation,artificial fertilization, gender identity, surrogate mothers, euthanasia and everything else under the sun. As Mr. Charles Heston said in the Planet of the Apes," IT'S A MADHOUSE"!

Cardinal Cushing of Boston once boasted that he had never converted any one in his life. A magnificent non-entity. But he build many Catholic schools - soon to be closed or to teach heresy. The Inner is what matters. Take care of that and the outer will come too. Reverse it and you'll end up with nothing.

Not to mention, damnation if to die without repentance of all mortal sin. Most have been told the evil lie that they're is almost no such thing as matter which if engaged in intentionally, is mortal sin. Avoidance of conception in marriages of those apparently members of the Church is the rule, other than to permit conception at a time suited to them, of two, three or four children. They are told by most priests that avoidance of conception by avoidance of marital relations at fertile times is not only not mortally sinful, but not sinful at all. We are all suffering the consequences of sustained mortal sin supported by many of the bishops and priests over fifty years. Lord, have mercy.

My dear Michael, not only my friend but one of my dearest benefactors, Our Lady of La Salette's prophecy has been fulfilled before our very eyes and our beloved Holy Mother Church is eclipsed by this phony-baloney New Order irreligion. She shall triumph and crush that serpent's head once and for all. Prayers ascending on high for all...

Michael, the memories you have stirred up inside me are too overwhelming for me to add anything to your post but, tears. The loss was incalculable.

Eli Eli lama sabathani

Yes Mr. Matt....I am 80 years old and I agree with you..how I miss everything. I was personally hurt hurt when the church changed things..the only thing that kept me in the church was the Eucharist....When I was about 4 years old I had an infected finger. Mom wanted to bring me to a doctor. I had never been to a doctor before....and I told her Jesus would fix the finger....so I was taken the two blocks to the church...always open....went up to the altar and as I was told, wiggled the finger in front of the tabernacle. When I got home...the finger was healed. What would have happened if the doors were locked.

Very beautiful reflections. I am old enough to remember the Church of before the deluge and it occurred to me the other day that what young Catholics who flee to the woods to establish little pure Catholic "intentional communities" are looking for is really something as simple and unforced as Catholic life in a parish of 60-70 years ago. It was a whole culture, and all the people who lived and flourished in it were part of this simple community, which needed nothing special except the truths and practices of the Faith and the Church as its foundation.

R.R. Reno, I think it was, wrote a great article in First Things once entitled "Will the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano?" and he pointed out that the Church had been a sort of colony or nest of cultural practices, norms, acts of identity, all, of course, built on the solid moral and doctrinal framework of the Faith, and that Vatican II had destroyed this as surely as the nests of swallows on the walls are destroyed by being hosed off. His question was whether it would ever be possible to rebuild it and have the swallows - us - return. Reno is not a traditionalist, so he wasn't even arguing on the basis of what "mainline" Catholics might consider an extreme position, but seemed to understand the importance of Catholic culture in the world as a secure home for weary humans. Of course, he had no prescriptions for reviving it, clearly it cost him to admit that the destruction of this world was "possibly" the result of VII, and he didn't seem very positive that it could come back. But it was interesting that someone with his point of view would recognize this loss.