The World Youth Day Catholic Church is the Disfigured Church of the Defeated

The new WYD liturgy, apotheosis of the Church of the defeated

The Parisian faithful to whom Mgr Aupetit, under the pretext of "the start-up of Bon Dieu", has suppressed traditional masses in the outskirts (Notre-Dame du Travail, Saint-Georges de la Villette etc. quote in their weekly bulletin the Breton poet Xavier Grall, in his work which acted as his testament l'Inconnu me dévore, where he addresses his daughters, on the subject of the new liturgy, that of the "Church of the defeated", of which the JMJ with their renewed disrespect against the Blessed Sacrament (exposed in crates, distributed in chip bowls) are the apotheosis.

"I was rereading L'inconnu me dévore (Equateurs, 2018), a book by Xavier Grall, a Breton poet, writer and Catholic journalist who used to write columns for Le Monde, La Vie catholique and Témoignage chrétien, an unclassifiable and hair-raising character. From this book, written before his death in 1981, in which he addressed his five daughters, I retain these passages, written at a time when liturgical reform was still fresh and joyful, by a man who was the very opposite of a fundamentalist: "My daughters, you will shun ugliness in everything, including liturgical matters. Do not enter those wretched sanctuaries where workerism presides over the rite, to the misfortune of the Church and of the proletarians themselves.

Every man can claim his bowl of splendor, as necessary as rice and bread. Ugliness in a church is the Devil in the font. Beauty is God's signature. Be careful not to confuse humility with bad taste, as so many clerics do today. Laughter is worth so much, faith is worth so much. The new clerics, the militants of the Holy Disfiguration, when will we chase them out of our crypts? You'd think a kind of masochism had taken hold of Christians. We hide the tabernacles, we dim the lights, we put the lamp under the bushel" (p. 50).

And for his brother's funeral: "Stand up, sit down, kneel down, stand up, the priests at this hour have empty rites. [...] That great Libera me that once released tears and with them our insignificant hope, no mouth intones it. Farewells in a shed could not have been sadder. Is a Church of the defeated more desirable than a glorious, triumphant community? And here everything is defeat" (p. 131).

"Still, Xavier Grall never knew what followed, the "buffet masses" in the dining rooms of EHPADs [between an oven and a piano, like Mgr de Belfort], the delirious "it's a festival" masses at confirmations and professions of faith, nor, above all, the infinite petty-bourgeois banality that succeeded in the common celebrations to the proletarianised participation he denounces.

[And let's not forget the Masses à GoGo and Western Masses in Canada, at the forefront of the Church's crisis, the Communion distributed at the Lisbon WYD in chip bowls, the Blessed Sacrament displayed in crates - again at the WYD, the crates for the Laudato Si Mass, and the parish priests who deliberately drop consecrated hosts on the ground...].

Xavier Grall, who sometimes managed to sound like a follower of  Bernanos (who wrote the novel, Diary of a Country Priest), could today be heard ranting against the grand spectacle of World Youth Day, invented with the best of intentions by John Paul II, but where the liturgy is organized around an actor-celebrant, a mega-star, in this case the Pope, presiding over huge events whose essence is the meeting of the world's youth far more than the bloodless renewal of Christ's sacrifice.

Xavier Grall pitied the misfortune of those workers who were served up "proletarianised participation". At the Estoril Mass presided over by Cardinal Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona, potato chip bowls were used as ciboria, surrounded by cling-film plastic to protect the hosts... At this WYD celebration, whose lanterns are being extinguished, we've reached the depths of desacralization. But is there a bottom?

Yes, the new liturgy as a triumph of "Holy Disfiguration", the cult of a "Church of the defeated". And we'd like to eradicate this Tridentine liturgy, whose sacred power and divine beauty alone justify its necessity in our robotized, secularized world, disfigured by ugliness. Let's have the suppressed masses back! That's what we're tirelessly calling for, in Paris, with our Wednesday Rosaries, at 5pm at Saint-Georges de La Villette and every working day, from Monday to Friday, in front of the diocesan administration offices, 10 rue du Cloître-Notre-Dame, from 1pm to 1:30pm.

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