Latin Mass Study - Fr Justin Nolan, FSSP

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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2013
  • A walk through what the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass means followed by a Q&A session. Given in 2011.

Комментарии • 168

  • @davidwm
    @davidwm 7 лет назад +66

    This is an excellent foundational lecture. Everyone needs to understand these truths. Thank God for the FSSP!!

  • @michel-renelandry2640
    @michel-renelandry2640 6 лет назад +53

    what a great channel that is Sensus Fidelium. I have learn so much aspecialy with Fr Ripperger and all of the other good preist!!!

    • @MrsJAZack
      @MrsJAZack 5 лет назад +2

      If there were ever a general election for Pope I would vote for Fr Ripperger for POPE!

  • @mattcavoto
    @mattcavoto 9 лет назад +37

    I was fortunate to have been in the audience at this talk. Fr. Nolan did a great job!

    • @notyou9743
      @notyou9743 7 месяцев назад

      Is he Fr Daniel Nolan’s brother?

    • @Leocomander
      @Leocomander 2 месяца назад

      @@notyou9743Yes.

  • @FranklinPUroda
    @FranklinPUroda 6 лет назад +61

    Pray the Rosary in Latin. Wonderful effects.

    • @lamamadeltopo84
      @lamamadeltopo84 5 лет назад +1

      Franklin P. Uroda i really really really wish i knew how to do that.

    • @baronvonfuppster4717
      @baronvonfuppster4717 5 лет назад +2

      I agree. For those that want to learn there are tutorials on RUclips

    • @jonclarkson5911
      @jonclarkson5911 4 года назад

      Rosary is boring. Do the Divine Mercy Chaplet.

    • @jonclarkson5911
      @jonclarkson5911 4 года назад

      @House of Bognadoff It is boring. A mason founded the Rosary. To turn people off to long boring repetitive prayers. Just like Jews at the wailing wall. Nonsense.

    • @blankblank8292
      @blankblank8292 4 года назад +1

      What effects did you experience?

  • @jlett25
    @jlett25 10 лет назад +19

    Truly one of the greatest theology lessons i have ever heard.

    • @lggardenia3929
      @lggardenia3929 6 лет назад +2

      Thank you for this video with Fr. Nolan! We are in Los Angeles and we greatly appreciate this awesome explanation and will share with all of my young cousins who are Catholic thank you again!! I am a member of FSSPLA!

  • @emiliotorres9303
    @emiliotorres9303 2 года назад +2

    Ahh, the exitus/ reditus diagram and exposition I throw into catechetical sessions with the 10-15yr olds and they absolutely love it. Praise be to God.

  • @peaveawwii1
    @peaveawwii1 3 года назад +3

    Excellent is an understatement for this video. Well done

  • @michel-renelandry2640
    @michel-renelandry2640 6 лет назад +7

    Verry good teaching!
    Crusade of the holy rosery!
    Deo gratias!

  • @luisitocabrera
    @luisitocabrera 4 года назад

    Thank you for this lecture. I truly found it to be valuable and enlightening and brings my understanding of my faith just a tad bit deeper. THANK YOU. God love you.

  • @balboahigh1999
    @balboahigh1999 10 лет назад +10

    love these priests.

  • @ninasamuels9482
    @ninasamuels9482 2 года назад +1

    Thank you father . I go to Daly Latin by Mass . Absolutely beautiful .
    The volume is great !

  • @jackieann5494
    @jackieann5494 2 года назад +6

    Thank you for the great information .
    I wonder what happened to the trend toward celebrating the Traditional form of the Mass.
    WHY is Pope Francis trying to eradicate it ??
    It's so beautiful a full of grace so
    W H Y ??

  • @martharodriguez4382
    @martharodriguez4382 7 лет назад +4

    Thank for sharing! I learned something new....

  • @fobbitguy
    @fobbitguy 2 года назад +1

    I loved the "the coffee maker is making some strange noises" comment heard at the beginning of the video. Seriously though, very informative video. Appreciated it.

  • @JasmineTheSaint
    @JasmineTheSaint 10 лет назад +11

    Thank you for this.

  • @takamine98
    @takamine98 9 лет назад +20

    very informative. more volume please.

  • @teresahuston6650
    @teresahuston6650 Год назад +1

    This was so helpful. I just found this 9 yrs later. Look where we are now with Frances?

  • @Tabatista281178
    @Tabatista281178 3 года назад +4

    Up until very recently I had no idea of what SSPX meant, and I can tell for a fact, very little parishes today teach this basic Catholic principles.

  • @wallrusmoose2111
    @wallrusmoose2111 6 лет назад +7

    Thank you Father for explaining very enlightening. With these videos and after meeting America needs Fatima I have grown my faith, their promotion of the Rosary and the Fatima message has opened my eyes. After seeing the miraculous image of Fatima I was touched very deeply. Could you explain a bit more about the foundation of our Catholic faith through Christ that separates us from the non-catholics. Thank you very much and God bless you. And a very blessed New Year to everyone 2017/2018

  • @takamine98
    @takamine98 9 лет назад +2

    thanks for posting.

  • @be013fc
    @be013fc Год назад

    More important today than ever!

  • @MarcoCuauhtemocMejia
    @MarcoCuauhtemocMejia 4 года назад +3

    This is excellent.

  • @almeggs3247
    @almeggs3247 6 лет назад +3

    To everyone
    Believe this configuration
    Somehow the geometry is tremendously important
    I have personal revelation to this fact
    I have been to different Catholic Churches
    And this geometric configuration is absolutely imperative!

  • @kimuyen4879
    @kimuyen4879 2 года назад

    Thank you Father,

  • @GabrielJKraus
    @GabrielJKraus 5 лет назад +2

    Does anyone know where the part about the role of the faithful and priest during mass is? Id love to see that video.

  • @lmtt123
    @lmtt123 4 года назад +5

    I was looking forward to LISTENING to this but alas... volume too low!

  • @MelanieLavoie-eh2tf
    @MelanieLavoie-eh2tf 6 месяцев назад +1

    God Bless FSSP

  • @st.jerome384
    @st.jerome384 9 лет назад +2

    Awesome!

  • @juliekozlowski4902
    @juliekozlowski4902 6 лет назад +57

    I pray Francis doesn't destroy the work Benedict did.

    • @CristianoUniversal
      @CristianoUniversal 5 лет назад +7

      Julie Kozlowski
      I'm sorry but this isn't a very Catholic way of thinking. Pope Francis is as determined as was Benedict to serve the Lord and his Church. His pontificate speaks by itself - if you know what to look for.
      Just as many people were scandalized at many of Jesus' words and deeds, the same thing happens with pretty much every reigning Pope - even if in different aspects.

    • @thepianoman6958
      @thepianoman6958 5 лет назад +7

      @@CristianoUniversal Tell that to his Pan-Amazonian conference.

    • @JT-ho6rp
      @JT-ho6rp 5 лет назад +2

      Francis isn't as bad everyone makes him out to be. He doesn't hate traditional liturgy. He's more puzzled by its spread and return than anything. In fact he's been just as pro active in helping the tridentine rite. He's been working on restoring the irregular sspx to full communion.

    • @thepianoman6958
      @thepianoman6958 5 лет назад +5

      @@JT-ho6rp Seen his recent document with the Pan-Amazonian synod and how he's thinking of abolishing the Latin Mass and adding married priests and women deacons? Plus, some of what he's said is contrary to the faith.

    • @nickowchar2001
      @nickowchar2001 4 года назад +4

      Francis is our pope. Period.

  • @CoxJoxSox
    @CoxJoxSox 6 лет назад +4

    There is actually an excellent how-to of the latin mass as said in 1940 on youtube

  • @kathynguyen866
    @kathynguyen866 4 года назад +3

    EXCELLENT Congratulations Thank you all GOD Bless you all

  • @maberpower43
    @maberpower43 10 лет назад +13

    The voice is too low!

  • @brendanryan1852
    @brendanryan1852 2 года назад +2

    Little did this holy priest know then What a future Pope would do.

  • @chuckcoleman8437
    @chuckcoleman8437 5 лет назад +1

    Please clear up an important question; As thurifer, at the concecration, three doubles or three triple in censures?

  • @cheryllakin3077
    @cheryllakin3077 3 года назад +1

    Whomever is working on the sound, the priest is difficult to hear, but the flushing toilet, I'm afraid, is not. Good info, with volume issues.

  • @zaphodtrillian
    @zaphodtrillian 9 лет назад +9

    VOLUME

  • @tobiasvonwettin3568
    @tobiasvonwettin3568 9 лет назад +2

    Is Pope Frances still allowing the Tridentine to be used ? I have not seen it in any of the churches in the diocese of Orlando since he became Pope and there were 3 in my area doing it the first sunday of the month

    • @Jared-cm2wv
      @Jared-cm2wv 9 лет назад

      Pope Francis has not changed the law in regard to the older rite, and Pope Benedict allowed any priest to pray the Mass in either form, so even the bishop of that diocese has no legal power to suppress the older form. Maybe someone from one of those parishes would know why they stopped?

    • @xander7ful
      @xander7ful 8 лет назад

      +Tobias “Toby” VonWettin I don't know about your area. I just know that now, under Pope Francis, they are trying to expand the Tridentine & put it in competition with the Novus Ordo. They're saying, "We'll see how they stand up against each other" which is really not a fair fight.

    • @Tiffany-vv1el
      @Tiffany-vv1el 5 лет назад

      Here is a directory so that you can find a Traditional Latin Mass near you: www.ecclesiadei.org/masses.cfm

  • @CristianoUniversal
    @CristianoUniversal 5 лет назад +1

    Very satisfactory, though brief, explanation of something God allowed to be brought about at Vatican II, towards the end of the talk.

  • @tomasleiva5587
    @tomasleiva5587 Год назад

    I just wish the volume was louder I can’t make out name of the ship and other words

  • @KoalaBear499
    @KoalaBear499 4 года назад

    Angels are finite? Didn’t know that.

  • @mariaholly4711
    @mariaholly4711 Год назад +1

    Father Mitch Pakwa also explained Father Justin's opening explanation this way:
    God is Love and is loving from all eternity. To share His Love, God created man (He created man in His own image and likeness). And as Father Justin explains: this man sinned against God creating a great chasm that separated man from God preventing man's return to Heaven.
    Father Pakwa then summaries what I heard Father Justin say in this way.
    But because God loved us (man) so much, God took on flesh to redeem us from our sins and reconcile us to Himself.
    Jesus is God made flesh - an infinite God Who died on the cross for love of us to redeem us from our sins, which have an infinite quality and offend the Majesty of God. This in essence is what makes Jesus the ONLY suitable and living Sacrafice of atonement for the offensive and infinite quality of sin.
    But in the hardness of his heart, man continues to sin. Thus we (man) have been given gifts of two Holy Sacrements: Baptism (1 Peter 3) and Reconciliation better know as Confession (John 20:22-23 and 1 John 1:9). In Baptism we are given the gift of the Holy Spirit and the stain of original sin is erased but the inclination to sin remains. Thus we have been the gift of forgiveness of sins through Confession. In the Confessional Jesus, Who is truly present, works through the Ordained Priest when the Priest raises his hand and administers Jesus' gift of Absolution. But these graces and ultimately all graces (Baptism, Confirmation, Penance, Holy Eucharist, Marriage, Holy Orders, and Extreme Unction) only come from Jesus' sacrifice of Love on the cross.
    This is my humble understanding of what has been taught. To verify its correctness, one can refer to the Chatechism of the Holy Catholic Church, the Holy Bible and an ordained Catholic Priest.

  • @janettedavis6627
    @janettedavis6627 3 года назад +2

    The Worship goes back to the Temple The Priest Zechariah was saying the sacrificial death prayers The Jewish Passover prayers. " I will go onto the altar of God to God to God Who gives joy to my youth" God the Son conversing with God the Father in eternity about His Passover in His Passover in time. They used yo offer lamb sacrifice Jesus is the real Lamb but the Word must remain . "We offer you this Host This spotless Host may it be without blemish, spot or wrinke and be pleasing in thy sight" at times an anthem is sung on entry Psalm2 Its God the Father conversing with God the Son "This day I have begotten You " The Passover death Prayers are perpetual until end of time and no one can change them. Novus Ordo is an apostate church and will be a burnt offering.

  • @chrisballo5718
    @chrisballo5718 7 лет назад

    Is there an age requirements?

  • @jean-jacquesdeclercq516
    @jean-jacquesdeclercq516 3 года назад

    Deo gratias

  • @BellaFirenze
    @BellaFirenze 4 года назад

    Mamma mia.

  • @jonclarkson5911
    @jonclarkson5911 4 года назад +1

    Volume is to low.

  • @mcmlxix69
    @mcmlxix69 9 лет назад +1

    i can't hear anything.

    • @1JAMINben
      @1JAMINben 6 лет назад +1

      mcmlxix69 offer it up ;-)

  • @kimfleury
    @kimfleury 5 лет назад +11

    It's rather unfortunate that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI resigned after this talk was presented. I'm disheartened by the fumes Pope Francis is dispersing, calling reverence "rigidity" and so on. I attend a Novus Ordo parish, but was able to travel to participate in a TLM a few times after a local woman told me how beautifully reverent it is. She, herself, will not attend a Novus Ordo Mass unless she isn't able to make the drive to the TLM. I wanted to see what drew her adoration. I saw zero "rigidity." I've only attended the TLM 3 times, but I know a number of the people who choose that Mass time/location, and they are far from being "rigid medieval cos players," as I've heard them described by some Catholics, especially certain bishops and the pope. All the accusations of causing division in the Church, as far as I can see, comes from the Modernist side. Yes, there are outliers in the traditionalist movement, mostly vocal online in forums...but the Holy Father isn't providing them with pastoral care and concern. On the contrary, he's dismissing them with insults that are quite concerning. And he's stacking the deck with Modernist appointments to the hierarchy. It's as if they are afraid they are dying out. I pray and sacrifice for young traditional priests to persevere.

    • @Paulkazey1
      @Paulkazey1 4 года назад +2

      You are right. Thank you.

    • @cheryllakin3077
      @cheryllakin3077 3 года назад

      I think Benedict was FORCED to resign. I have disliked Francis from the get-go. I pray for my Church every day!!🙏🕍🙏

  • @ssoldie5490
    @ssoldie5490 9 лет назад +1

    Cannot hear it at all.

  • @chrisballo5718
    @chrisballo5718 7 лет назад +1

    Who was Cain and abel's kids?

  • @xander7ful
    @xander7ful 9 лет назад +1

    I love the first part, Justin's EXCELLENT teaching. Every Catholic should learn that. But I'm disappointed in the Q&A & his answers. I find it sad that the FSSP is holding on to hope that the Church will reform itself back to the TLM. Wish the audio had been stronger.

    • @marcusthompson9527
      @marcusthompson9527 8 лет назад +3

      +Aaron Siering, The TLM is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

    • @michaellancaster8221
      @michaellancaster8221 8 лет назад

      +Aaron Siering Traditional Latin Mass

    • @michaellancaster8221
      @michaellancaster8221 8 лет назад

      +Aaron Siering You asked what TLM means. That's what it means. It refers to the way Mass was celebrated before the changes implemented after 1962.

    • @quoththeraven5631
      @quoththeraven5631 5 лет назад

      @Leonardo's Truth Oh, do explain?

    • @lamamadeltopo84
      @lamamadeltopo84 5 лет назад +1

      Xander Taylor I think he was holding on the answer just to make sure it doesnt come across the wrong way. The goal is to bring people into the latin mass, not to scared them before they know what it is. It is just an opinion since i dont really know what is on his mind

  • @BRL1611
    @BRL1611 8 лет назад +2

    Are THEY going back to latin???

    • @supreme87878
      @supreme87878 7 лет назад +1

      Allan Wafkowski well. if you attend one in vatican, they dont really stop and there are still parts in latin.

    • @elizabethgordon2285
      @elizabethgordon2285 7 лет назад +1

      Allan Wafkowski z

  • @leonelson3237
    @leonelson3237 3 года назад

    A wonder Priest

  • @jrzzrj
    @jrzzrj 9 лет назад +4

    a deum qui latificat, juven tutem meam......remember this ???

    • @roku401
      @roku401 8 лет назад

      **Intoribo ad altare Dei, ad Deum qui laetificat iuventutem meam** gratias multus!!

    • @roku401
      @roku401 8 лет назад

      Emitte Lucem tuam et veritatem tuam, ipsa me decerunt ad addexterunt et in tabernacula tua.

    • @roku401
      @roku401 8 лет назад

      Confitebor illi in cathara Deus, Deus Deus quare tristis es anima mea et quare conturbas me?

    • @roku401
      @roku401 8 лет назад

      +Thomas Bohrman Gloria Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancto

    • @henrykai777
      @henrykai777 7 лет назад +6

      I am now learning how to serve at the Latin Mass :)

  • @kcc879
    @kcc879 3 года назад +3

    What I think is that who cares what the lay people think?! Those generation before me had no respect and no understanding of the Latin Mass and got rid of it! How dare they think I didn't want to inherit my faith's history and traditions?! And instead they are satisfied with the rubbish of today? Yeah! Jesus loves you woohoo everyone is happy! And guess what? My parents generation are not coming to the mass, they are no participating in church life and unless they tell you, you do not know if they are Catholic. I remember one priest giving a proper homily on sin and guess what my mother said? He shouldn't speak like that no one will come! She wasn't even there to hear the homily. Pray for our priests, they need support and some back bone, get back to the TLM, please!

  • @sinfall5280
    @sinfall5280 Год назад

    In his first diagram you can see sin as the spear that pierced GOD's sacred heart which yearns for our return back to him.
    Where creation once was, Christ now stands as the only path upward for us to reach our heavenly Father. He took OUR sins and died so that we may ascend with him through his sacrifice.

  • @aldoalfaro4637
    @aldoalfaro4637 7 лет назад

    "Representation"??????? Or actualization of the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross?

    • @Tiffany-vv1el
      @Tiffany-vv1el 5 лет назад +7

      The true Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, on Calvary, made present: "Re-presented" as in made truly present again, not "represented" as in symbolized

  • @monoman4083
    @monoman4083 3 года назад

    can't hear

  • @badlucy4
    @badlucy4 7 лет назад +1

    the audio is not that good.

  • @gareth3566
    @gareth3566 3 года назад

    In Star Trek what Jesus did would be called an away mission

  • @user-vn5ur8kw9j
    @user-vn5ur8kw9j 7 месяцев назад

    this didn't age well did it? whit francis the destroyer at the helm of the v2 church, the novus ordo its jumping off the cliff into the abyss

  • @im3369
    @im3369 Год назад +1

    Non Catholics will think we worship the sun

  • @larrygraysmith8411
    @larrygraysmith8411 2 года назад

    I really like how are false trads in Vatican sect screaming about Traditionis custodes.
    What did you expect?

  • @markjensen3513
    @markjensen3513 6 месяцев назад

    Well that was extremely elementary. It probably could've been shortened if he didn't repeat the basic truths we all already know (e.g., Christ on the Cross, etc.).

  • @janettedavis6627
    @janettedavis6627 3 года назад

    It seems to me that most of the laity and Priests didnt and still dont understand the Mass. It was the night of Jewish Passover The Jews Worshipped the death of the Messiah in advance True Worship He is God the Son its His Own worship the Apostles passed it over to us. No one can change the Perpetual Passover Jewish Prayers. The creed can be changed , the confiteor c asn be changed but not the Passover Prayers.

  • @kimuyen4879
    @kimuyen4879 2 года назад

    Am thanh nho

  • @corilv13honey9
    @corilv13honey9 17 дней назад

    He's drinking the kool-aid on V2 docs.

  • @davidholmes9874
    @davidholmes9874 4 года назад +1

    Cannot hear you. Shut it off

  • @pattiissa9035
    @pattiissa9035 2 года назад

    Can hardly hear what is being said.🙄

  • @johnjay7255
    @johnjay7255 2 года назад

    13:45 he calls Christ a created being ...what a heretic

    • @Salutaris13074
      @Salutaris13074 Год назад

      25:56 he states - Christ is both God AND man. So I think you have probably misunderstood him.

  • @BRL1611
    @BRL1611 8 лет назад +1

    34:33-34:49
    Christ died ONCE for our sins!
    For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

    • @sdboyd
      @sdboyd 7 лет назад +1

      I Peter 4:16 And your point is what?

    • @rin_etoware_2989
      @rin_etoware_2989 7 лет назад +1

      And then what?

    • @rin_etoware_2989
      @rin_etoware_2989 7 лет назад +4

      Did he not say, "Do this in memory of me."?

    • @sdboyd
      @sdboyd 7 лет назад +14

      What is your point? Yes, he said "in memory of me". The Catholic Church has never said that Christ is re-crucified. The Mass takes us back to Calvary. The Saviour on the cross is re-presented. It is the same belief that has been held by the Church since it was formed 2,000 years ago. Go back through the writings of the Church Fathers since the time of the Apostles and you'll see that nobody denied that the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ was in the Eucharist.

    • @kimfleury
      @kimfleury 5 лет назад +1

      The priest offered animal sacrifices daily. You don't have to take an animal to the priest to atone for your sins any more because the priest anointed in the Apostolic Succession offers Christ's holy Sacrifice daily. Even though His death occurred once in time, the priest offers that same, single sacrificial death. We still have to offer sacrifice, it's just that we're offering Christ, not animals.

  • @belleame9060
    @belleame9060 3 года назад +2

    Commercials? They profit from teaching us about God and Jesus Christ? Interesting. Shameful, really.

  • @thomasericson5318
    @thomasericson5318 5 лет назад +3

    Why do they call the Mass “the old Mass”? And the new”mass” the Novus Ordo? The “Old Mass” is the mass of all time. End of story. Remember that little part in Quo Primum where Pius V uses the term QUIS CUMPERE, which means “whosoever” ( that includes the Pope) when stating that whosoever changes the mass in ANY way will “incur the wrath of Almighty God and of his saints, Peter and Paul.” The Novus Ordo is a prayer of a schismatic sect. The Novus Ordo is horrible even if said in Latin. And I think Father’s talk is lackluster at best. If you want the truth of the Novu Ordo joke, sorry, I meant mass,
    listen to Fr. Gregor Hesse. Quite easy to find him on RUclips. He was a canon lawyer and a Doctor of Thomastic Theology. Good luck in your search for the truth brothers and sisters.

    • @shaneprzybylinski7818
      @shaneprzybylinski7818 4 года назад +2

      Why aren't the subsequent revisions also condemned, for example, three signs of the cross-non-pontifical, at the final blessing, changed to only one, just before the Last Gospel, in the early 1600, not to mention the numerous feast days added!

  • @ronj8000
    @ronj8000 4 года назад

    Don't give me this Thomas Aquinas bullshit

  • @ronj8000
    @ronj8000 4 года назад +1

    So the prefect God isn't perfect!? God had to kill himself to satisfy himself that his own imperfect creation could be fixed....the infinite all powerful God had no other method!? God couldn't just have a nice fatherly conversation with each of his creations? Does the all powerful infinite god have to full a schedule?

    • @jonclarkson5911
      @jonclarkson5911 4 года назад

      Humans are evil. Sataniel knew so too. I hate humans too.

    • @Salutaris13074
      @Salutaris13074 Год назад +1

      The only one who could satisfy the justice needed for the reparation of all the sins of mankind, past and future, was God Himself, who has never sinned.

    • @ronj8000
      @ronj8000 Год назад

      @@Salutaris13074 my point exactly so go back and see my post above

    • @user-pc8ee8sx7v
      @user-pc8ee8sx7v Год назад

      @@Salutaris13074 don't bother answering this John J character. His posts are all throughout the chat. He's a nasty player looking to get a rise out of people to feed his own degraded ego. He came here with poor intentions. There always has to be a few in every chat. Poor thing has no real life.

    • @Aikicyoaz
      @Aikicyoaz Год назад

      Free will. God cannot be Love if he forces us to love Him. That would be a tyrannical dictatorship or something. Which is not true and absolute love. So we have freewill. That is why all this had to happen.

  • @ronj8000
    @ronj8000 4 года назад

    All grace comes from Christ on the cross? Why? The infinite god couldn't do something that didn't involve first century execution? Really? No other possiblity? Infinite god?!

  • @ronj8000
    @ronj8000 4 года назад

    East is the direction of the rising sun and the direction his bone points at the gay night club

  • @ronj8000
    @ronj8000 4 года назад

    So we are all agreed Harry Potter is as valid as the Latin Mass