No, Matt Fradd, The New Calendar Sucks

“Because along with the New Mass goes also a new catechism, a new morality, new prayers, new Code of Canon law, new calendar, — in a word, a NEW CHURCH, a complete revolution from the old.” – Tradition in Action

Let us reject all the awful new stuff. Some, however, disagree with me . . .

Matt Fradd, producer of Pints with Aquinas, should rename his program, Drunkards & Lollards, given his propensity for modernism, candy-coated with his annoying “Mr. Nice Guy” delivery. Recently, the popular host, who only “pushes back” against traditionalists, believes we should compromise with the modernist Antichurch and apply Vatican II’s new calendar to the Old Rite. In other words, if given his way, the Traditional Latin Mass, which uses the pre-Vatican II calendar, would conform to the monstrosity used during the woefully deficient Novus Ordo. 

He views this as a compromise that would draw Catholics together, bridging the chasm between those who attend the new rituals versus the TLM. As usual, his “clan uniting” nonsense ignores the obvious reality that we cannot unevenly yoke the authentic Catholic religion with the new Anti-Catholic Protestantism. Also, as usual, per the modernists, everything from Catholic tradition must compromise and undergo a never-ending Risorgimento.

I disagree with Fradd, who insists that all the compromise must come from the traditionalists, and never from the folks who’ve brought us clown masses and other terrible novelties.

Below are several obvious reasons we should pitch the new calendar into the dustbin of ecclesial history where it may decay next to other horrible ideas, like the papal nephew.

Why the New Calendar Sucks

We Never Needed a New Calendar

Nobody, aside from Church-wrecking modernists, Jews, and other Anti-Catholics, ever asked for this. At the time of this article (late June), the new Novus Ordo calendar has lapsed into its “Ordinary Time,” opposing the traditional “After Pentecost” season of the old system.

How uninspiring is ordinary time?

It’s not a wonder nobody attends the Novus Ordo in the summer. Who the Hell wants to waste time with ordinary anything when the world is on fire and about to endure World War III? If you want real substance, worship, and a vibrant calendar with many second and third-class feasts, then the traditional calendar does a far superior job (examples below).

The New Calendar Minimized or Eliminated Devotion to the Saints

Let us first begin with one of the most irritating changes: moving the Feast of Christ the King.

The feast originally occurred on every Last Sunday of October, right before the Triduum of the Dead (All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day). This gave a terrific prelude into that Triduum, establishing Christ as King of everything, including his Saints and every departed soul. There was a rich meaning behind this, which Paul VI and company relegated to the last Sunday of the liturgical year, placing Christ in the King . . . dead last.

Ah, but what of all those saints who we would commemorate during that great Triduum? Certainly, the liturgical reformers wouldn’t remove about 200 of them from their universal feast days? Alas, those reformers removed them, indeed.

The new calendar canceled so many saints for various reasons. These include, 1) the evil machinations of Annibale Bugnini, who wanted to wreck everything, and 2) the Church’s capitulation to the world (namely, secularists, Jews, and Soviet communists).

For those reasons, the new calendar torched several commemorations. This happened after Vatican II (in 1970), and applied to any saint of so-called “legendary” status to include holy figures like St. Christopher, St. Serena (Diocletian’s wife), and many others. This is as if to say the Church had previously honored a whole bunch of dubious, legendary pseudo-saints.

So much for an infallible canonization process . . . 

Of course, my parents named yours truly after one saint (Christopher) who no longer receives universal recognition, thanks to the Bogus Soda calendar. That’s because modernists believe we may only honor “historically verifiable” saints. St. Valentine got the ban hammer, too, even as folks still celebrate his feast day (yet, possessing no idea why).

For modernists, the only saints are those that can withstand the historical and archaeological confirmation of contemporary historians and scholars (who almost, to a man, hate the Church). This is yet another example of churchmen (albeit, fake, treacherous ones) capitulating to the secular establishment, which was all the rage at Vatican II.

It was that wretched false council, which offered this line of reasoning for omitting so many saints when they constructed a new calendar.

“Lest the feasts of the saints should take precedence over the feasts which commemorate the very mysteries of salvation, many of them should be left to be celebrated by a particular Church or nation or family of religious . . .”

That’s a quotation from the council’s Apostolic Constitution, Sacrosanctum Concilium, which I thoroughly destroyed in my e-book on the subject. Like everything else in the Church, Annibale Bugnini and company had to ruin the saints and liturgical calendar. Don’t forget these are the same folks who insist we move the Feast of the Ascension (one of the “very mysteries of salvation”) away from its traditional Thursday celebration.

The new calendar also eliminated many canonized martyrs, monarchs, and holy virgins. This is because the Freemasons who took over Rome, and implemented the Council chaos, HATE Catholic monarchy, virginity, and martyrdom.. They also hate all the Holy Pontiffs, opting to remove Pope Sts. Telesphorus, Peter Celestine, Urban I, Felix I, and others.

What else?

Do you enjoy that popular 1980s song: St. Elmo’s Fire? Well, if you’re like 99.9% of others who’ve heard the song, you probably have no idea who St. Elmo was (St. Erasmus of Formia). Sadly, he too received the Vatican II ban hammer, thus quickly extinguishing St. Elmo’s liturgical fire.

I could go on and on with examples, but the new calendar also deprives today’s Novus-ordo attendees of any universal commemoration of St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother. Then, the Vatican II villains caved to the Protestants and removed the Feast of the Holy Maccabean Martyrs. I suppose that was no surprise since the Maccabean books do not qualify as real scriptures, according to Jews and Protestants.

Second Maccabees isn’t historically correct enough for the Modernist, ecumenist, Anti-Catholic Church. Does this surprise you?

Not the First Time Folks Have Manipulated Calendars

Speaking of Freemason revolutionaries, like Bugnini and friends, . . .

Does anyone remember the last time a group of anti-Catholic rebels tried to destroy a calendar?

It was the same bunch of rotten scoundrels, the French Republicans (Freemasonic revolutionaries) who, for a time, replaced the conventional Gregorian calendar with a retarded replacement. This calendar was a mess of half days, full days, and absolutely no way to handle leap years, like the superior Gregorian (Catholic) version. Yet, they forced it on French society out of spite for anything emanating from God’s One Holy Catholic Church.

The French Republican calendar was widely panned, forcing the scoundrels to scrap it, eventually. Let us do the same with this current liturgical monstrosity, along with every other innovation, including the entire Novus Ordo.

Conclusion

“It sometimes feels like we’re part of different churches.” – Matt Fradd

Yes, indeed, because we are, Matt. You embrace the modernist, ecumenist church with its abundant errors, which contain no overlap with the authentic Catholic religion. 

In the meantime, my friends, I suggest you redouble your devotions to Sts. Christopher, Valentine, and all the forgotten heroes of Church history. Ask for their intercession while you pray 15 decades of the Rosary daily, begging the Blessed Virgin for Her Triumph, and an end to all the “new stuff.’