The main thing that is clear from Pope Francis’s Motu Proprio is this: he wants what we know as the traditional movement to be ended. He affirms that the Novus Ordo Mass is the only proper expression of the law of prayer. The traditional Mass no longer has legitimacy as an “extraordinary form” of the Mass. He commands that all who attend the traditional Mass affirm that the New Mass is both valid and legitimate, i.e. that it is good.◦ He commands that traditionalist groups that currently exist in dioceses not be allowed to have Masses in parish churches. Presumably, they are find catacombs somewhere to have Mass! Technically, FSSP and ICK parishes are no longer allowed. He commands that no new permissions be given to have the traditional Mass. No new personal parishes. As it stands, this means no new growth for the FSSP or the ICK. He commands that any new priests who want to celebrate the traditional Mass make a request to do so from their bishop, and that the bishop who wants to grant that permission get permission from Rome. He writes a letter to the bishops in which he explains the purpose for these measures: “Indications about how to proceed in your dioceses are chiefly dictated by two principles: on the one hand, to provide for the good of those who are rooted in the previous form of celebration and need to return in due time to the Roman Rite promulgated by Saints Paul VI and John Paul II, and, on the other hand, to discontinue the erection of new personal parishes tied more to the desire and wishes of individual priests than to the real need of the ‘holy People of God’.” In short, the Motu Proprio acts like a mandated vaccine that is meant to genetically modify the faith of traditionalists. They are to embrace Vatican II in its totality. They are to embrace the idea that non-Catholic religions lead to salvation. They are to embrace the idea that every human being has a natural right to worship God in the way that he pleases.They are to embrace the idea that the Catholic Church is a democracy and not a monarchy, that the power structure of the Church is bottom-up and not top-down. Above all, they are to embrace the embodiment of these new and false teachings, the new form of worship coming out of the Second Vatican Council, the New Mass, this Mass that places the people on the level of God, that desacralizes worship in order to sacralize man, that handles the Blessed Sacrament as some sort of common food, that turns what is supposed to be a sacrifice into a communal meal, and that turns the priesthood from a sacred work of mediating between God and man to a work of calling faith meetings and presiding over the communal meal. Only when they embrace all of these things will traditionalists be considered to be in unity with the Church. We must say that Vatican II conforms to the constant teaching of the Church, when it teaches things that are obviously contradictory to it. Recall that, for Pope Francis, saying that the death penalty is wrong is in conformity with the constant tradition of the Church saying that it is correct. We must say that the New Mass is a Catholic worship acceptable to God, when in fact it strips away the proper respect we owe to God and hides essential teachings of our faith. In short, we have to drink a full draught of the Vatican II Kontradiction Kool Aid, or we will be considered as rigid and divisive obstacles to Church unity. I want to leave you with the words of Abp. Lefebvre, expressed in the declaration of 1974 mentioned at the beginning of this sermon. They are a declaration of fidelity to God and the Church, in the face of a Modernist hierarchy. But they are also a guide for us today, 47 years later, on the firmness we must have in holding on to the Catholic faith and resisting anything that will undermine and destroy it.“No authority, not even the highest in the hierarchy, can force us to abandon or diminish our Catholic Faith, so clearly expressed and professed by the Church’s Magisterium for nineteen centuries. This Reformation, born of Liberalism and Modernism, is poisoned through and through; it derives from heresy and ends in heresy, even if all its acts are not formally heretical. It is therefore impossible for any conscientious and faithful Catholic to espouse this Reformation or to submit to it in any way whatsoever. The only attitude of faithfulness to the Church and Catholic doctrine, in view of our salvation, is a categorical refusal to accept this Reformation.That is why, without any spirit of rebellion, bitterness or resentment, we pursue our work of forming priests, with the timeless Magisterium as our guide. We are persuaded that we can render no greater service to the Holy Catholic Church, to the Sovereign Pontiff and to posterity.” Fr Robinson, Priest, Professor and Author of “The Realist Guide to Religion and Science” http://www.therealistguide.com.au