Vatican II, Defense of the Novus Ordo Missae, Five Smooth Stones (1 Sam. 17

Selected for publication in this second volume of the works of Frits Albers are the following three written in the 1970s.

• Vatican II;
• In Defense of the Novus Ordo Missae of His Holiness Pope Paul VI;
• Five Smooth Stones

A principal reason for publishing anew these books written almost fifty years ago can be gathered from the author's own words taken from his Vatican II.

"It is from our era, and from the Church of our era, still so close to us, that we must wrestle to partly unlock the mystique contained in the very essence of Vatican II. For our own immediate benefit as well as for the benefit of the Catholics to whom Catholic Tradition must be handed over in its entirety. No doubt Vatican II has a clear message for the Church of the future, but this great Council happened in our time, and future generations of Catholics depend on us - on how well we understood that time. How well our Catholic children will comprehend the past which happens to be our present, depends entirely on us."

Many of the Catholic children of that era (and now their children also) hold positions of responsibility in society and in the Church. The younger generations of Catholics who were born after Vatican II and the promulgation of the Novus Ordo, if they take to heart the author's words quoted above, should derive no little profit from the works presented in this volume. May the three works included in this present volume bring instruction, guidance and hope to Catholics in their quest to advance in knowledge and love of holy Mother Church and its life giving Teaching and to dispel the dark clouds of confusion, error and subterfuge they have to deal with in modern day 'catholic' environments, and finally to give them sound practical guidance on how to overcome and defeat the real enemy.