WHEN A FOUULNESS INVADES THE WHOLE CHURCH....WE MUST RETURN TO THE PAST

As far back as 1861, Cardinal Manning saw clearly that the cessation of the Holy Mass was in the offing, having studied the Church Fathers on this subject from earliest times. This prescient Cardinal gave us these predictions, surely inspired by the grace of God:

"The Holy Fathers who have written upon the subject of Antichrist, and of the prophecies of Daniel, without a single exception, as far as I know - and they are the Fathers of both the East and the West, the Greek and the Latin Church - all of them unanimously - say that in the latter end of the world, during the reign of Antichrist, the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar will cease. In the work on the end of the the world, St. Hyppolytus, after a long description of the afflictions of the last days, we read as follows:

"The Churches shall lament with great lamentation, for there shall be offered no more oblation nor worship acceptable to God. The sacred buildings of the churches shall be as hovels; and the precious Body and Blood of Christ shall not be manifest in those days; the true Liturgy shall become extinct .... Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early centuries."

CRISIS OF THE HOLY SEE, 1861