Welcome aboard my friend! A*M*D*G!!!

No, you’re definitely not the only one!

You surely are not. Your story is encouraging. Thank you. 😊

Good for you and may God continue to guide you and your family in the right path 🙏❤

you are right ! after the neu’ordo ev’rything lapsed !

Jean: That is really scary. I went to the TLM and NO when I couldn't go anywhere else. I'm going to start going to the SSPX this Sunday. I didn't know the NO could actually damage your faith. My Rosaries are probably what's saved me. 🙏

@@sweetcaroline2060 Jeanne's confessor is absolutely right! As a Catholic you can't fulfill your Sunday obligation with a protestant-like service. The novus ordo church is afflicted with the V2 errors, means there are not Catholic! If you have no problem with the errors of Vat.2 just stay with the novus ordo or similiar groups. It's not just the TLM that makes you Catholic, but the FAITH. Novus ordo ppl do not believe what the SSPX(recognize&resist) believe or CMRI or SSPV. There are big differences! So one should learn the Catholic faith pre V2!!! e.g. Catechism "Trent", "Spirago", my playlist "Baltimore Catechism", L. Ott, "Fundamentals of Catholic dogma". Active participation in a heretical service(e.g. NOM) would be a mortal sin for Catholics! Another problem(novus ordo, FSSP,...) is that "priests" ordained by a (novus ordo)"bishop" consecrated in the new(invalid!) rite of ordination are no priests at all. So stay away! SSPV & CMRI and (almost all) SSPX have valid priests ordained in the old rite by a bishop consecrated in the old rite. They also spend their sacraments in the old(valid!) rite. So coming from the novus ordo pls consider that your sacraments(confessions, communion, confirmation) received in the n.o. are probably invalid.

@@sweetcaroline2060 so glad you are going to the TLM. The NO mass was partially invented by the Protestants and masons at Vatican II

@@sweetcaroline2060 i am so glad you pray the 📿 our Blessed Mother has been good to you

@@angelaa.4254 how do you know that the sacraments at a NO parish are invalid? Are you Jesus Christ? Far more learned people than you or I have stated that the NO mass is valid as are its sacraments. Don't make judgements when you don't know what you're talking about. That job belongs to Our Savior Jesus Christ.

Do you have parents? Ur parents are suppose to be ur first teachers of the faith not priests or religious.

There are many cathequesis and conferences about the crisis in Spanish. The FSSPX was founded in Switzerland by a French Archbishop, not in the United States. They've got priests all over the world, obviously in Spanish speaking countries too.

@@mariaorestes6583 Exacto.

Agree, the only one I know of is the one in El Paso Tx

This account is called English. There are others out there

​@@Espiritulibre1975Jesus and Mary chapel correct? I attended there for a few months

What a blessing ❤❤❤

I think that too!

Yes! You stated this perfectly! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

He is great. I like all of the priests of this crisis podcasts

You are correct

You may find this interesting, then! sspxpodcast.com/2020/03/interview-mother-mary-joseph-franciscan-sisters-of-christ-the-king/

Father, your hard line is inappropriate. The flaws you mention represent outlier circumstances. There so few Latin Mass opportunities in America vs the NO Masses. If those NO priests are validly ordained, the Eucharist is confected and no matter what the priest says in his homily, the communicant is receiving Our Lord.

@@jacquelinezurawski2230 The priest has to intend to consecrate. If they don’t believe in the Eucharist, they cannot intend. Also, going to mass isn’t about receiving the Eucharist, it’s about worshipping God. If the priest is giving out heresy, you could be poisoned unto death, and if you know that heresy will, happen you sin by putting yourself in an occasion of sin.

@@SSPX Are there convents associated with the SSPX (FSSPX) in Brazil?

@@SSPX Thank you. Will check out the link!

I doubt Matt Fradd would have him on, but it’s worth a try. I’d expect some sharp objections...

Who's Matt Fradd? Is he on KZfaq?

What do you mean by "the mass being Protestantized"?

@Blackwood when the novus ordo was fabricated in the mid 1960s, 7 or so protestant ministers were enlisted to help rid the Mass of anything that might offend their sensibilities. Among other things, references to the BVM were greatly reduced, a table replaced the altar, the priest faced the people instead of turning East, toward God, and perhaps most significantly, the focus on the Mass shifted from the great sacrifice at Calvary to a fraternal supper of sorts. In other words, it became man-centered or protestantized.

I know what are you talking about. When I started to go to the sspx, it was bit more than 3 hours for me to get there. Then I partly moved closer.

Get a missal, watch the livestream, pray the rosary daily.

We face the same problem, theclosest is 6 hours awat from us, Iam in the process of becoming Catholic and I cant afford financially to attend latin mass so what Am I suppose to do????🤔😭

@@emiliepoirier6093 there should be FSSP, CMRI, ICK, Anglican Ordinariate (Pope Benedict XVI welcomed them in 2010).

What do you mean when you say Modernism? What do you considered liturgical abuse?

@@blackwood3243 IE. That it doesn't mater whether you believe in Christ, Mahoma, Buda or nothing, just be good feel good, and you go to heaven type of crap against the faith.

Yeah anyone in the Roanoke/Blacksburg/Christiansburg area has no option but to drive 200 miles

@@lilyw.719 One has to be careful with diocesan Masses due to what is said from the pulpit. Most diocesan priests have been taught the Modernist heresy in seminary and thus teach it regularly. My family attended diocesan Masses until a couple of years ago and we were so shocked that we had accepted Modernist views without knowing it. It’s being taught everywhere. I imagine other traditional orders are probably safe in that way, but even many FSSP priests tell the faithful that attending SSPX Masses is a mortal sin. It’s really frustrating!

@@lilyw.719 They are a bit more nuanced than that. It really comes down to the formation that the priests receive. Some of these priests in diocesan masses are bumbling their way through the Latin since they were never taught the TLM, saying unorthodox things in the pulpit that are often more focused on conservative politics than the actual Catholic faith and will often promote the Novus Ordo along with their traditional mass. Once you accept that the Novus Ordo is a serious departure from the true faith should be and that it should be avoided, it really just comes naturally that being around priests who are mixing in this New Theology with the true faith or promoting the Novus Ordo is an occasion for scandal and sin. In regards to priests who believe the true faith, criticize the modernism of today and don't promote the Novus Ordo at all. Those priests aren't going to be diocesan priests for much longer outside of maybe a few dioceses. www.lifesitenews.com/news/priest-blogger-bishops-send-conservative-priests-to-psych-hospitals-for-dep But sometimes they do this and will be given a strange limbo status by their bishop or sent to the backwoods of the diocese, sometimes those poor priests become "independent chapel" priests which is a dangerous road. But in those circumstances, yes the priests that I have found do say it is fine to go to them. As for FSSP priests. I also wonder how many priests would remain in their position if they publically said "Our Bishop doing this ecumenical meeting is scandalous and wrong" or said, "Don't go to to the New Mass" or how about if they disobeyed their Bishop who refuses to give baptisms to Protestant converts who were invalidly baptized or disobeyed their bishop who demands that even the FSSP not give communion on the tongue (Yes that's happening in Canada). Once we start getting into the particulars the SSPX position becomes a little more clear. Don't take a mildly orthodox/conservative bishop for granted. Sooner or later he will retire and James Martin will come in, and then it will make sense why the SSPX say what they say.

I go to the SSPX Mass here in Australia. Thank God every day that you have to merely cross a nearby state line for your Diocesan TLM. The SSPX would advise you to “be weary” like the above person in the comments said; but they would most certainly tell you to drive, drive, drive there and support that local priest!

40 miles is nothing for going towards good doctrine.

Prayers. Well, consider St. Peter who denied Jesus Christ three times! And had to be corrected by St. Paul about including Gentiles! So yes, the hierarchy can definitely mess up, & be overly influenced by humanism. Please read Open Letter to Confused Catholics. Even Pooe Benedict Emeritus recently wrote that humanists tried to take over Vatican II & influenced the post Conciliar Documents. Pray the traditional rosary daily & Our Lady will help you.

I grew up Lutheran & converted. I treasure what was true about it & have wonderful memories. I leave the untrue things behind.

What is the worst thing happening at your NO? What Parish is it?

Maybe you can call to St Thomas More and Priory in Sanford, 407 872 1007. I hope they can help you.

If they don’t they’re dead

They'll probably try to work out a deal with the Vatican, but go through a consecration at the last minute like archbishop Lefevre tried to do.

@@AmericansAlwaysFree Something needs to be done in the next 5-10 years or they will die away

Probably so. There can be no priests without bishops and the 3 bishops do not live forever. It would be nice if Rome approves the consecration this time but if they don't, it doesn't really matter, the situation we're living in is much worse than the situation when Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated 4 bishops. We are backed up by Canon law and the whole tradition of the Church.

Maria Orestes I want to start attending the SSPX Mass. been with the NO for a lot of years, but started learning the truth of it all and quit going. And with covid, hubby is 71 I’m 66 so we feel we’ll wait until we’re comfortable in crowds again to start attending SSPX. We’re blessed to have a chapel nearby. Thanks Fr. for this wonderful podcast.

You might consider livestream mass & sending your guardian angel there...make spiritual communion & go once a month to SSPX?

​@@elisehougesen6871 Advising a Catholic not to receive the real Body blood soul and divinity of are Lord, that is wicked advise.

@@elisehougesen6871are you actually telling him to miss mass? Missing the mass even if it’s the novus ordo is a mortal sin.

At 24:18 Fr. talks about attending NO Mass for social obligations but not actually participating (worshipping). That would be what you could do in your situation, unless your family is insistent you do every bit of the Mass to worship with them.

All things done by man are contrary to perfection.

I would suggest you watch livestream Traditional Masses on Sunday, still go to confession, and try to talk one of your priests into learning the Traditional Latin Mass.

It's true that they have no authority to dispense the Sunday obligation. And they don't dispense anyone. They did give advice based on Catholic principles. SSPX priests are serious folks, they are perfectly aware of what they are saying. They know perfectly well that one day they will have to answer to God all the advices they have given. Every answer they give has been carefully considered, and this one is not an exception.

The Sunday obligation is to keep Sunday holy. Spiritual Communion during a livestream Mass can be very powerful. NO mass has no immolation (kill for sacrifice). It only brings the past event into present consciousness. It is a memorial meal & not a Sacrifice. Luther won.

​@@elisehougesen6871 No Catholic that has an ounce of care or understanding about the Catholic faith thinks that the NO mass is a mere meal, so called "NO Catholics" are taught that it is a true sacrifice that takes place.

There are parts in pH which have TLM from SSPX, coming from NO I can only say pray for it and ask Our God Father, Lord Jesus Christ and Blessed Virgin Mary to guide you and give it to you...and he will lead you...it takes a sacrifice but if you're asking is for the good of your soul...I'm sure 😊 your prayers will be answered just don't give up... +++ Deo Gratias

I'm from North of Philippines... We have infrequent TLM masses here... One hour away... Praying for you to have TLM in your place... Praying for you and the whole Philippines that there will be more TLM masses and that there will be holy priests and bishops🙏

The NO does not immolate (kill for sacrifice); it brings present the past event of Calvary. There is a difference. Please get a copy of the 1829 facsimile of the Catechism of the Council of Trent.

Wow. The Opus Deists here in Brazil do not celebrate TLM at all.

That is more tricky question. It is certainly not as good as sspx. Although they serve in catholic way their teaching is based on the errors of second Vatican council. There are some exceptional priests but those are exceptions.

Yes, if they’re your only option, that’s fine. The SSPX would like/prefer you to support them specifically, but a proper Catholic worship is sufficient for you to save your soul, no matter the priestly order.

Good Question! This was the next episode we covered: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/os1zqZiD1M7ZYmg.html

I think when we say “licit” in the SSPX we are speaking about morality. For us to say offering Mass according to this defective rite is not licit, we are saying it is not morally good. We may seem to arrogate too much authority to ourselves in judging so, but in truth we are responsible for our our souls and those of our faithful, so we are bound to judge whether a course of action is allowable or not. A thing could be illicit by reason of the action itself, or circumstances or a bad intention. I don’t think licit is primarily a canonical term: if canon law provides for/permits of something, it is because that thing is morally permissible. So for an authority to just impose “liceity” on something bad sounds a lot like nominalism, voluntarism and abuse of authority to me. In principle yes, in ordinary times, you would be morally certain your bishop and the pope were correct in judging things licit or otherwise. Alas, these times are far from ordinary… In Christ, Fr Paul Franks

@@SSPX Thank you so much, Father, for taking the time to respond. This is exactly the clarification I was hoping for. I can say without reservation that I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment.

No

The answer is relatively simple: if there's no traditional mass around, that means there's no Catholic mass around, and that means you're dispensed. Just as a Catholic living in Antarctica is automatically dispensed from his duty to attend mass on Sundays (because there's no Catholic masses in Antarctica), you are likewise dispensed. Now, that doesn't mean you should let Sundays elapse like ordinary days. You're still bound by the Third Commandment to sanctify Sundays. When you can't go to mass, you're advised to read the propers of the day, say an extra rosary, etc.

To see why it soo I would recommend you watching previous episodes.

Great question! I think you can identify this in a few ways. 1. By the ceremonies surrounding the Novus Ordo not promoting the actual sacrifice going on, for example, the offertory being merely a Jewish prayer before meals, practically all mentions of sacrifice being taken away, the mentions of sin, speaking in the vernacular, and distinguishing the sins of the priest and the layman are removed, etc. This can also be found in the real presence, seeing how the Novus Ordo actually says "He will come again" after the consecration is complete, and the removal of several genuflections. A good document to read is the Council of Trent's condemnation of errors on the mass. Here it "anathematizes" or condemns certain ideas. I would suggest reading this and asking yourself "Does the Novus Ordo have anything in it that would make you think any of these ideas are wrong?" In fact, the Novus Ordo actually does many of the things condemned here, which isn't heresy, but it suggests that those things are actually right. www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/newmass/trent.htm 2. The New Mass is not a "received" Rite from our fathers. This is a pretty simple one. How can we trust a rite that was constructed? The Church has no infallibility when it comes to things that weren't in the deposit of faith that Our Lord and the Apostles delivered to us. The Traditional mass has roots in the Apostles themselves, the rite that St. Peter celebrated was close to the Traditional Mass, it's developed over time, but fundamentally it's the same mass. The one that Pope Saint Gregory the Great over 1000 years ago would have been nearly identical. The Novus Ordo? Nearly identical to the Anglican Protestant Mass 1.bp.blogspot.com/-PK4hVqbmqv8/XgpsdLTnhtI/AAAAAAAABkg/xci3TC3ADFcSOefIBjjPaAFyI80u3Ua4QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/ComparisonOfTridentineCranmer%2Band%2BNovusOrdo.png 3. The fruits of the New Mass. How many extraordinary Saints have been made by the New Mass? All of even the modern ones that were truly extraordinary grew up with the Traditional Mass. Even if you want to count John Paul II and Mother Theresa as being extraordinary, they still grew up with the Traditional Mass. How many have been made by the Traditional Mass? Practically all of them. Now, how many people have left the faith because they weren't taught the reverence, love, and respect for the things in the Church by the mass? As Father mentioned, 2/3 of Catholics leave the Church. More than that don't even know what the real presence is. How can a truly good mass have such worthless fruits? Even when the Novus Ordo is celebrated "reverently" it has the same problems because it doesn't promote the sacrifice as it should and all the fruits come from when the priest imitates the Traditional Mass, instead of from the Novus Ordo itself. For more reading, I would suggest reading Michael Davies' book "Cranmer's Godly Order" angeluspress.org/products/cranmers-godly-order Cardinal Ottaviani's critical study of the New Mass www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/newmass/intervention.htm and this small little pamphlet www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/newmass/latinmass.htm Again we have to ask ourselves, "Is the Novus Ordo really providing us what the mass should provide us? Does it live up to the obligation that we owe to God to participate in his Holy Sacrifice?" I think we then will come to find that the answer is no. God bless you!

@@murrax7639 well. Your third point is really only a matter of time

Where are you located? I moved to a small-town rural area in Manitoba and the only TLMs are in Winnipeg and basically it's one 9am mass at a diocesean parish and the SSPX. It's around a 6-7 round-trip. Recently, I learned that the SSPX in Winnipeg will do masses in other parts of Manitoba and on the border of Saskatchewan. There would be one that I could attend that would be 2 hours away once a month during the summer. I too entered the church recently and attended NO mass for around 1.5 years. I don't think I can bring myself to attend and even my non-Catholic husband thinks it's strange how the church is only filled with old people and women and how their kids left the faith. I brought up some issues with the priest during RCIA with him how I desired orthodoxy but he didn't seem to grasp why young people were not attracted to the faith and that donations are falling every year. I think petitioning the SSPX to make more masses available to people especially to the rural areas (I moved here to be with my husband since we wanted to raise our kids away from the degeneracy that's in the cities and to have an honest living). I'm sorry about your situation and I sympathize.

Pray Rosary every day, and read Scrptures of Tlm on Sunday. I do so when I cant attend a sspx Mass. God bless you.

Bad doctrine causes bad morals. Then bad rites are promoted.

That has gotten us nowhere in the Boise diocese. They put an FSSP parish in northern Idaho to compete with the SSPX priory there, but refuse to have a diocesan Latin Mass more than once a month in the Boise area (7 hours away from the priory). Requests, having over 300 people attend monthly Latin Masses, and various meeting with the bishop have yielded nothing. The SSPX is our only alternative here, especially since the catechesis for children in all of the diocesan parishes here is nightmarish.

Is there an SSPX option in the Boise area?

these are ancient catholic rites. Their dignity is almost as high asTLM.

We certainly don’t require that you share our assessment of the New Rite in order to assist at Mass / receive sacraments. And you have the right to the traditional Mass and sacraments, in virtue of your baptism, so I would say you’re good to go. In Christ, Fr Franks

Thank you very much, Father!

One analogy is crowning a king with a baseball cap instead of a precious crown. Is he still the king? Sure. Is it appropriate to his dignity? No. Does it diminish your trust / respect in him? Yes. Therefore the baseball cap is an obviously bad choice.

@@SSPX how can the Church promulgate something which harmful for the souls of the faithful? Isn't that anathematized in Trent: -"If any one saith, that the ceremonies, vestments, and outward signs, which the Catholic Church makes use of in the celebration of masses, are incentives to impiety, rather than offices of piety; let him be anathema."? I'm asking in good faith, trying to understand the SSPX's position better

@@silvinho5860 An SSPX priest answered this question in the comment thread to this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9x5f9KW1Z7doWg.html. He said "we interpret this canon just as the other acts of the Magisterium that were discussed in the podcast. These pronouncements refer to the Church’s traditional rites and vestments; not necessarily to any novelty that is imposed on the Church. The infallibility of liturgical laws is, at least ordinarily, to be sought in their continuity with the past (by analogy with the OUM) rather than in the mere fact of their being promulgated for the universal Church. If the latter were sufficient to guarantee infallibility, this would raise all liturgical legislation to the level of the solemn or extraordinary magisterium, making each rubric into a kind of definition of faith-which is indeed a pious belief, but not necessarily well founded, and it does not hold up well under the light of evidence. St. Peter Canisius distinguishes dogmas of the faith, which must be believed under pain of heresy, from truths accepted by the faithful and sanctioned by the practice of the Church, which it would be “rash” to deny; and finally liturgical truths, or truths expressed by the public worship of the Church, “whose authority continues to increase as the teachers of the Church go corroborating them with more interest and as they go penetrating into the convictions of the faithful” (cf. Fr. Manuel Pinto, S.J.O’Valor Teologico da Liturgia [“The Theological Value of the Liturgy”], pp. 296-297, cited in Silveira’s study). It is clear from this statement that the mere inclusion of a certain teaching in the liturgy does not immediately and ipso facto raise it to the status of an infallible dogma, but rather, the authority of such teachings increases with time (a condition for them to belong to the OUM). Therefore, the “received and approved rites” referred to in Session 7 of the Council of Trent, and the ceremonies spoken of in Session 22, insofar as they involve the Church’s infallibility, are to be understood of rites peacefully developed by the Church in continuity with her liturgical past and in harmony with her traditional doctrine; not to novelties imposed for the sake of conciliating Protestants. In the time of Trent, all the “received and approved” rites were of this nature and thus belonged in some manner to the OUM. That is why the Council saw no need to distinguish explicitly between rites that are traditional and others that are imposed as novelties. At that time, all “Catholic” rites were traditional." "A fallacy is committed in arguing a pari, that is, from one case to another as if they were equal-from Trent’s condemnation of Protestants to the case of the SSPX. We do not reject the Novus Ordo in the manner in which the Protestants rejected the Roman Rite, i.e., in the face of all Tradition. Rather, in this case it is we who are on the side of Tradition! Our case is entirely different from that which was considered by the Council Fathers at Trent, and the canons cited against us can be interpreted as a condemnation of the SSPX only be removing them from their context and applying them in a way neither foreseen nor intended by the authors."

​@@troubledguest7401 And why should one trust a Church which has a Magisterium that has Promulgated a Liturgy that is objectively harmful to their soul?

A bad father is still a father & can feed his children moldy bread that gradually makes them sick . A bad Pope is still a Pope & can feed his children an illusory spirituality.

that is definitely a bad thing to do, but perhaps not a sacrilege.

Spiritual Communion. Or call a missionary priest Just be sure he is honest.

We most certainly DO have an obligation to attend mass on sundays and holy days, that precept of the church doesn’t cease to exist because a renegade order outside of the Church says so. Please consider this, if the magisterium of the Church, (the Pope and all the Bishops in communion with him), lack the authority to tell us what rites are licit and valid. Please tell me where the sspx gets the authority to make such a call!

When I was new to the SSPX I was also a bit surprised about this stance. I even thought it was too extreme LOL. Not just Fr. Robinson, but every SSPX priest would tell you the same thing: "do not go to the NO Mass". Each of them actually made a decleration around their ordinations, in which they promise to never celebrate the NO and never advise anyone to go to the NO.

It is extreme. To reject the NO is schismatic. Read what the church teaches on this subject.

@@vincesigala9104 it's not schismatic. I do not agree with that position, but the reasoning is not a schismatic one.

He says it’s a sin to actively participate in a New Mass if one knows the dangers and problems inherent in the Novus Ordo.

@@TheDeanMachineTV how can the magisterium promulgate an intrinsically evil mass, that would proove the church to be defective. This argumentation can only make sense if the current magisterium and the pope are invalid. Why aren't you a sedevecantist?

@@Daniel_Abraham1099 or it is to say that the pope paul 6 never declared that he was using the authority as the successor of peter and the magisterium of the church regarding the council and the mass. The evil allowed now will be for the gentiles who have lost the faith to fight their way through their own self love and hope they see the Father's true love. God convert hearts.

@@Daniel_Abraham1099 In the history of the Church, laity who resisted heresy/error have NEVER been excommunicated for the misfortune of being under a heretical prelate. When Nestorius was excommunicated, the laity under him weren’t excommunicated, ESPECIALLY if they resisted him. There was, however, a warning for laity not to go around pronouncing non-canonical excommunications, even though they were proven right in that case. In short, there’s way too many canonical nuances and delicacies that need to be considered to simply cut myself off from Rome.

@@Daniel_Abraham1099 The Mass itself is not sinful, and thus not magisterially promulgated as such. The argumentation falls more along the line of: The Mass is valid, however in its ambiguity is susceptible to liturgical abuses and alterations which cause a devaluation of the authentic Catholic Faith as traditionally taught and practiced. Being aware of and recognizing these dangers, it would be sinful for you to continue to attend such a Mass with full knowledge of the existence of healthier alternatives.

As far as I know it applies only partly. The liturgy could be different between grecocatholic parishes, even in the same parish. Some priest are truly catholic some are modernists.

No, the Byzantine rite is largely traditional and unaffected by the council

One very obvious reason is look at the practice of Communion in the hand. That's a horrifying abuse of the Body of Christ.

E. G. By the priest welcoming everyone on the beginning instead of preparatory prayers (Introibo ad altare...)

It avoids at all cost expressing any Catholic teachings that Protestants don't accept. It refers to the mass as a meal, a supper, a meeting, a gathering of "people of God", a Eucharistic celebration, but it hardly ever calls the mass a sacrifice. And when it does call the mass a sacrifice, it only says "a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving", something Lutherans, Anglicans and many Prots accept. It never calls the mass a propitiatory sacrifice, or a sacrifice in atonement for sins.

If you do not know it is wrong you are not guilty. Take your time. Open Letter to Confused Catholics will help you. Tradition's highest law is that it must be for the good of souls.

This is actually nothing new, the Church has always taught that if there is no Catholic Mass available nearby, one is dispensed from his obligation to attend mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation. A man living in Antarctica has no obligation to go to mass, because there is no mass there! He still has the duty to sanctify the Lord's day in other ways, but he is definitely not committing any sin by not being able to attend the Catholic mass. The real question is: Is the new mass a Catholic mass? And this problem has been sufficiently answered in this series.