Reason 32

32. Because Holy Mother Church canonized numerous English martyrs who were killed because they refused to participate at a Mass such as the New Mass!


Bull.

Yes, there are many English martyrs following Henry VIII’s break with Rome (perhaps the most famous being St. Edmund Campion). But they were killed for refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to the King in all things religious or simple because they declared themselves to be Catholic (which is kind of the norm for a Jesuit priest). None of them were even given the opportunity to participate in the Anglican liturgy, much less killed because of their refusal.

The opposition to the English church was not one of liturgy, but one of authority. They refused to throw away the Holy Father so cavalierly. Many of these martyrs lived and died before the Council of Trent codified the Mass as we know it, and changes in the liturgy were in fact not uncommon (within reason). These Holy Martyrs underwent death almost exclusively because they refused to renounce the Pope (St. Campion was offered riches should he just reject the Catholic faith).

Finally, this reason assumes that the New Mass is similar to the Anglican Mass which I find simply to be a tenuous position, as noted above.

Let us not take the Holy Memory and Blessed Lives of these great martyrs for our own gain, nor twist them to preserve our ends. They died in a defiance to any who would dare separate themselves from Holy Peter and the One Church founded upon him, coming down to us from the Apostles and through the Heirs of the Apostles.