The gradual destruction of the liturgy is a sad fact already well known. Within less than five years, the thousand year old structure of Divine worship which throughout the centuries has been known as the Opus Dei has been dismantled. The beginning was the abolition of Latin, perpetrated in a fraudulent manner. The Council had in fact clearly laid down that "The use of the Latin language is to be preserved," while permitting the use of the vernacular in certain places, in certain cases, and in certain parts of the rite. By contrast, and in defiance of the authority of the Council, Latin has been suppressed practically everywhere, at all times, and in all parts of the rite. The Church's language has been abandoned, even at international liturgical functions. The universality of the Church is today claimed to be stressed by the use, on such occasions, of as many different languages as possible. The result is that-----unless these are used simultaneously-----all those parts of the rite which are not in one's own language become incomprehensible. It is Pentecost in reverse: while at Jerusalem the people "ex omni natione, quae sub caelo est" ["from every nation under Heaven"] understood the words of the Apostles, who were speaking but one language, so today, when all the different languages are spoken, nobody can understand anything. Instead of Pentecost, we should rather speak of Babel. We have seen, during these past years, the abolition of those sublime gestures of devotion and piety, such as Signs of the Cross, kissing of the altar which symbolizes Christ, genuflections, etc., gestures which the secretary of the congregation responsible for liturgical reform, Father Annibale Bugnini, has dared publicly to describe as "anachronisms" and "wearisome externals." Instead, a puerile form of rite has been imposed, noisy, uncouth and extremely boring. And hypocritically, no notice has been taken of the disturbance and disgust of the faithful . . . Resounding success has been claimed for it because a proportion of the faithful has been trained to repeat mechanically a succession of phrases which through repetition have already lost their effect. We have witnessed with horror the introduction into our churches of hideous parodies of the sacred texts, of tunes and instruments more suited to the tavern. And the instigator and persistent advocate of these so-called "youth masses" is none other than Father Annibale Bugnini. It is here recalled that he insisted on continuing . . . the "yea, yea Masses" in Rome, and got his way despite the protest of Rome's Vicar General, Cardinal Dell'Acqua. During the pontificate of John XXIII, Bugnini had been expelled from the Lateran University where he was a teacher of liturgy precisely because he held such ideas-----only to become, later, secretary of the congregation dealing with liturgical reform.