I was born (1952) into a Catholic family in the Chicago area. You are a beacon of light during these trying times. How you write (your books) and the way you speak is phenomenal. God bless you Father Mawdsley.

Jewish convert to Catholicism here. Everything Fr Mawdsley says here is true.

Thank you for this detailed teachings. I used to be a Messianic Jew. I need to listen to this again. I'm getting a little confused still. Yet thankful for all your time and effort. Now I can watch and rewatch so I can learn at my pace 😊❤🎉

Whenever I feel like not attending a daily Mass I ask myself what else is more important than Worshipping and Receiving Jesus in Holy Communion? Nothing equals Mass. I also ask myself what if today is my last day how will I answer God at my judgment to why I wanted to sleep in rather than attend Mass. Going to Mass is the most important thing we can ever do!! What an awesome God we have!!

Thank you for bringing to light the truth and beauty of the TLM. Our little family has been attending the TLM for 4 years. After attending the High Mass the first time my young daughters begged to return. And one of them said -I feel like I am at home when attending the TLM. (Out of the mouth of babes) Thank you Fr. Mawdsley for your teaching which helps us deepens our understanding of the TLM and in the process deepens our Faith.

I commend these videos because they prove the point that the Roman Liturgy is the best catechist. If we simply know why the Priest does what he does and says what he says at Mass, then we will know our faith fully. Of course, studying the Bible is a vital part of this, but again, the best pedagogy for Bible study is the Mass. So the Mass is always the starting point with the Bible as the means to deepen our understanding of the Mass, even while our the Mass itself is the key to unlocking the Bible. No wonder then that Satan attacked the Mass above all else.

Thank you Father. Happy Feast of the Most Holy Rosary.

Your teaching is immensely edifying Fr. Mawdsley. Imagine my joy when after 30 days of St Joseph Holy Cloak novena my wife said to me today, I'm ready to go mostly to the TLM now. It has been a year of prayer and agonizing for this movement of the heart.

Thank you so much Father James Mawdsley for explaining the real teachings of my beloved church ⛪❤🙏 God bless and keep you safe at all times. Greetings to you from The District Of Columbia aka Washington / Washington, DC 🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

Father Mawdsley, I cannot express how appreciative I am for your videos explaining the faith and Holy Mass. Please, I ask you pray for me. I am an organist for my Novus Ordo parish, but I try to attend Mass at an FSSP Parish whenever I am able. I am torn interiorly, because I am coming to understand how much of my salvation depends on my attending the TLM, and humble myself before and learn from Tradition.

I agree with you, that the highest point on the earth, past Present and future, is to glorify God through the true TLM mass. Nothing created by man (music, Science, litterature, etc) can come close to that. The Cross is our salvation. Our Savior has paid the price, nothing else will do except to confess, repent, pray, repair and glorify and love the Trinity.

I went to Mass this morning, and it was our lady of the rosary. And the immaculate heart of Mary. After the beautiful consecrations, I started to weep. I have encountered Christ more at the TLM Mass than the novus ordo.

Father this was very good, I will listen again.

Yes, what about the children and those who aren’t wise and learned? My parents grew up before the council, so their education(though already faulty) gave them a better foundation of understanding of the Faith. Fast forward to the 80’s and 90’s when I was growing up, and I had no idea Mass was a sacrifice or that Jesus was truly present(I had a Protestant understanding of Jesus being spiritually present only). My mom taught me what the Church teaches about the Eucharist, I was told the truth when I was being prepared for First Holy Communion, but telling a child vs showing a child means a world of difference. When I was told the Eucharist was Jesus, I took it as just another thing adults tell kids to make things special, like Santa and the Easter Bunny. As a thirty something, the disconnect between what I was told about Jesus vs how Jesus was treated and worshiped at the Novus Ordo just wasn’t matching up and I wondered what this was communicating to my own children. Thank God for my journey to apostolic Catholicism and finding a Latin Mass! Thank you for your videos, Father.

Praise God 🙏🎉❤in His Angels and in His saints. God bless you, Father.

I'm in my sixties now, and served Holy Mass as an alter boy in the 1960's. I recall Latin being spoken during Holy Mass (I assume according to the 1965 Missal), as well as the distribution of Communion at the alter rail (with me holding the platen beneath the communicant's chin to safely catch any hosts that may inadvertently fall). Then came 1969-70 when I transitioned from serving as an alter boy at Holy Mass to playing the guitar at "folk masses." It took some time for me to fully understand what was lost in that transition, and how it affected my family's Catholic faith. I thank the Lord (and our Lady's intercession) for allowing me time on this Earth to understand the Holy Mass and the Sacraments more fully, and to obtain the Sanctifying Grace that I will need when I stand before Him in judgment. And I thank you, Fr. Mawdsley, for the work you are doing in increasing the Catholic faithful's understanding of Holy Mass.

Thank you Father for the enlightenment, I thank God for your guidance !

Your words have profoundly impacted me. Things have definitely been made clearer for me. Thank you, Father.

Thank you Father. Ave Maria!

You have a great gift from our Lord, you can make all of what Catholic tradition holds very clear, and you say it in such a way that makes my heart burn with desire to please Him more and more. We’ve been given the fullness and it’s being given to the swine. So vivid these days. God is allowing clarity vs chaos. Peace is The Latin Mass. Let’s spread God’s Peace. ♥️🙏🏼☦️

Dear Father Mawdsley, You are a Good Shepherd, made for this time in our Church History. You teach us so much! I attend the Latin Mass and did not know most of the mysteries revealed and represented in it that you have explained. I deeply love the prayers but you have now taught me so much more as to how these prayers are even deeper, richer and fuller. A treasure indeed, revealed Mass by Traditional Mass... May God bless you and keep you.

Thank you Father, Most informative and uplifting! God bless

God bless you father thank you for enlightening us fellow Catholic. They have taken in my area, the traditional mass, and it makes me so sad that I cannot participate in such a beautiful, reverent mass. We need to voice as laypeople our protest, and also say the rosary for our Lord, and the Blessed mother, will hear us, and this will change. Amen.

Please pray 3 Hail Marys for Fr. Mawdsley!

Father your talks are so full of light ! Thankyou for educating us. God Bless you.

Born a Catholic, 1987, Caguas Puerto Rico. No matter what happens in my heart, I know im in true church.

Thank you for serving our Lord in this unique and special way. ❤

Thank you Father, for this amazing truth... May our Lord continually bless you... Amen

Thank you. I was blessed to assist at this Liturgy this 1st Saturday morning, and now I have a deeper understanding the importance of every word I heard. Who am I to receive such a treasure?

It's funny, I wondered recently about that line "work of human hands". Thanks for answering my question. That six directions bit you mentioned also caught my ear--six being the number of man.

Thank you Fr JM for explaining to us the importance of TLM the greatest worship to God. Also the difference between NO mass. I wish and pray that many will see this video . Almost 4 yrs. now we are attending the TLM. We ❤ it. Thank you also for all your inspiring books to read the OT in the Bible. Amazing stories. You bring us closer to God.

Obrigado, Padre Mawdsley pelos ricos ensinamentos.

Thank You Lord for Father J.M.bringing the catechism we received when we were young in School. Now adays most Catholic childrens miss all these teachings including my own . Sometimes it is hard to make them understand.😢😊.

Excellent, Cant get to Traditional mass ,But love Jesus, Thanks for This Teaching, ❤❤🙏🙏

Thank you Fr. Mawdsley and May God bless you ! I've been to TLM for seven years now, by FSSP ♥

Thank you Father! God Bless you!

Thank you very much 🙏❤️

Thank you Father! God bless you ❤

God bless you Father James!

Third time viewing this and in the interest of being concise...thank you so very much. NO came when I was 10y old and...after Confirmation....truly left the Church...not even realizing tradition remained. I was always mindful and believing...and then, I had my daughter and she was poorly catechised as well. I have great regret about that. Now that I've found the SSPX as well as your works...I've made clear to my daughter an adult now...how and what I feel I pray she will return to truth.🙏

Amen. Father your boldness is inspiring. Hopefully your FSSP brothers will soon follow your lead.

Amen Fr keep it coming us catholics need to stand together with and behind our great great priests who Jesus handpicked himself to protect and preserve our one true and only apostolic church that Jesus founded ❤❤

Thank you for explaining this Father!

Thank you Father, may God the Holy Ghost protect and Bless you. Truth can Never Change. Pray the Rosary every day and have Faith and Hope 🙏❤️

Thank you, Father. I read enthusiastically Fr Bouyer's book, Eucharist, where he expounded the NO offertory text. I have much respect for Bouyer as for Balthasar but now, thank God, i see how how so many in those heady days were misguided.

God Bless You, Father Mawdsley

Beautiful Father ❤

Thank you Fr.!

Thank you Father

Very beautiful. Thank you.

Thank you!

Such an exhasustive dive into the Mass, and so uniquely, is very needed. At Mass im either frantically keeping up in the Missal or singing in schola, so even the priest's actions are blurry to me. Gotta develop stamina for mental prayer, and this is a tremendous help.

Happy Feast day of our Lady of Rosary.

I only have access the first Saturday each month for TLM. Tomorrow is my lucky day. Im stuck in the pews with blank stares at the Novis ordo the rest of each month. My only alternative would be an hr and a half drive to an sspx chapel.

The work you do father is nothing short of world class! catholic education for adults the likes of which are painfully absent in the public realm. The depth of your analysis. I can only imagine that the afflictions you went through earlier on in your life were there to prepare you to become the fighter for Christ you now have become, to the benefit of generations to come...Do not despair if your work isn't understood Even during your lifetime. God knows what he's doing!

Super explanation!

Nice choice of background art!

Amen!

And make sure you go to a mass with a validly ordained priest

Appreciation and blessings from Sydney Australia .....perhaps appropriately named downunder ?

Exactly

Fr. Cekada's Work of Human Hands is a wonderful expose of the destruction of the theology of the Offertory prayers

It is well explained in "Work of Human Hands" by Fr. Anthony Cekada (R.I.P.) It is a good thing to explain this important fact outside of the "sedevacantist set of logic consecuences box".

Just picked up Bp Barron’s new book and he begins by saying at Mass that we are at a supper, at a table 😕

Does anyone know how to best get a TLM near where I live? My bishop may be open to it. I don't know where to start.

Greetings from Germany You was in Frankfurt atonement Heart Jesus Friday night in Germany Thanks god and blessed mother Mary very much for you! St.. bonifatio Ora pro nobis St. Lioba Ora pro nobis St. Willibroars Ora pro nobis

The phrase work of human hands always made me uneasy

Father, should we always be intellectually paying regard to these prayers of the Mass, following in a missal or is it OK to pray the Rosary, for example, the sorrowful mysteries?

Thank you Father for your very long reply, I will try and do what you suggested. I have another question about Sunday Mass. I live on an island and though we do have Novos Ordo Masses for the last 10 years or so I have only been going to the traditional Masses. Unfortunately the priests have to come to us by plane and so we only get a Mass once a month and that not always on a Sunday! I know the history of the Novos Ordo and for this reason cannot go to it any more. Am I in mortal sin because I cannot keep my Sunday obligation? Please write back if possible, many thanks, God bless you

Can't get a traditionla mass around here, but the in the cathedral, they are reintroducing Latin and its amazing! They still took out the true aktar and put in an altar in the round which is horrible and the Crcufix is off to the side! But the priests are pretty good. I go for Jesus. Do you offer any masses on youtube?

Father, what your advice to people that can't reach traditional latin mass? because sometimes is very rare in their country.

It is easy for those who have the TLM in their area or in close proximity. At least 1 or 2 hours away.

I was born into a snake pit in Tasmania in 1952 yet here I am……through the grace of God alone.

Thank you so much for such through explanation! How about being in union with Pope Francis?

So can i attend novus ordo if theres no latin mass available?

Father, do the Eastern liturgies, such as the Byzantine & Syriac, retain the sacrificial elements in their liturgies (Eg.the offertory prayers, gestures) like the traditional Latin liturgy?

Father, is there a way to order a full set of all your writings? I'd like to order several sets for gifts, as well as keeping a set for myself. I don't like supporting Amazon, so are there other venues where I can make these purchases? Thank you, Father!

Yes, and this novus ordo mass is daughter of the second Vatican council

So profound, thank you Father. I recommend to everyone to read Father’s “New/Old” series of books. Can I ask you Father: I pray the 1950 breviary ( all English); am i getting enough of Scripture in Matins, or do I need to read the Bible so that i get all of Scripture? ( ie, is what i get in Matins enough?) Myles Maloney, Edmonton, Canada

Dear Father I agree with every word you said but my only grievance is the fact that priest say the trad Mass so quickly, especially the part after the consecration that it is impossible to follow and sometimes one can only turn the page and they are already at the end of the next page! Please give some thought how I can reconcile with that, thank you soo much

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Father is it okay to go a sspx mass?

This red heifer business presently going on in Jerusalem brought me here. I'm shocked at what American Evangelicals 'believe.' The traditional Mass is the antidote to confusion.

Back in the 60's and 70's, how could those who were adults and who were brought up with TLM have tolerated all this? Did not they feel a great sense of grief?

The Tridentine Ordo is a Cadillac. The Novus Ordo is a Yugo.

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Thank you Father for this…I’ve been told they changed everything because not all knew Latin. If this is true why did they change the words ? 😢

it is unfortunate what has happened

No traditional Mass Churches local to me .

I’m sure you’ve read “work of human hands” Fr? I need to read it myself

I highly recommend EMJ’s new book, The Holocaust Narrative. Explains a lot of the appeasement of the Jews introduced into the NO

I love the Traditional Mass. However, during the consecration of the body and blood of Christ, they all say that they are in union with pope Francis ( the Antichrist, the modern day Judas of Iscariot) . Therefore, for the last year, I stop going to church for that reason. Besides, Francis has ran Our Mother out of the Church by eliminating Her Name- Our Lady of Co-Redemptrix. For now, I only pray at home, seek the Sacrament of Reconciliation and Eucharist spiritually. Can you give me any idea of what I should do. Thanks fr.

?Father Mawdsley, have you or someone else written the text of the TLM in one column and the Scripture references that support or justify the prayers of the Holy Mass? And, it might even be necessary to quote Talmud to account for a given action or prayer; but the idea is to show that the Law prefigures what we have in the TLM. (Not that you have the time to do this.). It would be cool to see the Holy Mass and its true antecedents right next to each other. Just sayin’.

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This is the offertory in the Didache of The Apsotles, first century. Tell me what you notice: "Now concerning the Thanksgiving (Eucharist), thus give thanks. First, concerning the cup: We thank you, our Father, for the holy vine of David Your servant, which You made known to us through Jesus Your Servant; to You be the glory forever. And concerning the broken bread: We thank You, our Father, for the life and knowledge which You made known to us through Jesus Your Servant; to You be the glory forever. Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills, and was gathered together and became one, so let Your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Your kingdom; for Yours is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ forever. But let no one eat or drink of your Thanksgiving (Eucharist), but they who have been baptized into the name of the Lord; for concerning this also the Lord has said, Give not that which is holy to the dogs."

Hi Father, feeling like I’m hearing God’s voice and wrestling with Him re: religious vocation. Of course my objections aren’t all TLM related but that’s a large part. If ever possible, would love your take.

Cain also offered to God "fruit of the earth" gen-4:4

Suscipe Sancta Trinitas (from "Explanation of the Prayers and Ceremonies of Holy Mass") "The Priest having ended the Psalm, returns to the middle of the Altar, and there, with his hands joined and his head slightly inclined, he says: Suscipe Sancta Trinitas, hanc oblationem quam tibi offerimus ob memoriam Passionis, Resurrectionis et Ascensionis Jesu Christi Domini nostri ... Things of high import here stand before us. An Oblation is spoken of: Suscipe hanc oblationem: Receive this Oblation. The Priest says these words of the Bread and Wine just offered by him; nevertheless, he has really in view neither this Bread nor this Wine. These things are, indeed, sanctified and blessed, and hence they deserve to be treated with respect; but the Oblation here presented to the Divine Majesty, could never be confined to an order of Sacrifice purely material, as was that of the Jews; it is evident, therefore, that the Priest is here stretching forward in thought to a something far higher: he is presenting the Offering of the Great Sacrifice which is soon to be accomplished. - And, O holy Trinity, we offer this Oblation to Thee, in memory of the Passion, of the Resurrection, and of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, our Lord. So, we must here note these three things in Our Lord, without which He would not be complete. First of all, He suffered, but He could not be satisfied with suffering alone, so He died also, and these two coupled, constitute what we call His Passion; but this is not all, the Lord rose again. Death, the punishment of sin, is, as it were, the devil’s triumph over man, and therefore it would have been a true defeat suffered by Christ, had He died without afterwards Rising again. But further still, He hath gone up into Heaven, by His glorious and triumphant Ascension. Our Lord could not possibly have remained on earth; until He open Heaven, and Himself enter therein, in His Human Nature, Heaven must needs remain closed to man; on this very account, therefore, our salvation is not wholly effected, unless Our Lord ascend to Heaven, after having suffered for us, notwithstanding His being truly the Risen-One, being, as St. Paul expresses it, “the First-Born from amongst the dead!” So, then, let us well drink in this great Truth, namely, that Our Lord Suffered, that He Arose, but that man’s salvation is not wholly accomplished, if he still abide as an exile on our earth; to the Passion and Resurrection, must needs be added the Ascension. Such, then, should be our Faith, because such is the Economy of our Salvation, in which are contained these Three Things: the Passion, the Resurrection, the Ascension. So well does Holy Church understand that these Three are needed to complete Christ, and that therein is our whole Faith comprised, that she makes a point of insisting on our expressing the same in a marked manner, here at this moment of the Offering of the Sacrifice."...

What's wrong with a good Novus Ordo Mass?

When you don't have a TLM available, what do you do? Please try to have some compassion for those of us who do not live in the US or whatever country you're in that has it. I live in Israel. We're stuck. Should we not attend Mass at all? I don't think so. I am not sure the Byzantine rite is a suitable alternative although that is available where I live. I tried watching a Byzantine Mass on YT and it seemed confusing even tho I had a Byzantine wedding many years ago which was actually annulled. Not because of being Byzantine, other reasons but while we were married, we often attended a Byzantine Mass if it was available. I'd have the double challenge now of learning the language and the liturgy. I attend Arab Mass now but at least the liturgy is familiar.