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Which is Novus Ordo, which is Protestant? - Stone - 07-15-2025
Which is Novus Ordo, which is Protestant?
![[Image: B148-Pr1.jpg]](https://traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/Images(B-101-200)/B148-Pr1.jpg)
TIA [slightly adapted] | July 13, 2025
The two photos above capture two liturgical ceremonies: one is a Novus Ordo Mass, another is a Protestant service. They look very similar, don't they?
This similarity proves the success of Paul VI's New Mass in making it as close as possible to the Protestant services. It was for this purpose that he invited a commission of six Protestant theologians to be present during its elaboration to point out any objections they had. [...] The reader has also in these two photos a proof of the enormous apostasy we are witnessing. Indeed, for four centuries, influenced by the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church molded herself as a Militant, Hierarchical and Sacral institution turned toward the glory of God. After Vatican II we have seem a "Copernican revolution," presenting her as Tolerant, Synodal – or democratic – and Vulgar turned to the glory of man. Is it not the Great Apostasy predicted by St. Paul? (2 Thes 2:2-12)
Top: St. Patrick Catholic Church, Chatham, New Jersey (44:43 mark on their August 22, 2021, Livestream on YouTube, here).
Bottom: First Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (49:30 mark on their July 6 2025, Livestream on Facebook, here).