Every Catholic Mass Used to End With This Gospel — Until They Cut It in 1965

Every Catholic Mass used to end with the Last Gospel — John 1:1-14, "In principio erat Verbum" — read at the altar for nearly four centuries until the 1965 liturgical reforms quietly removed it. In this video, I walk you through the exact Latin text line by line, why the Church placed the Prologue of John at the close of the Tridentine Mass, the documented moment of the genuflection at "Et Verbum caro factum est," and what the 1964 instruction Inter Oecumenici set in motion. If you have never heard this passage close a Mass, you are not alone — but after today, you will understand what was lost. Subscribe so I can keep bringing you the original texts. #LastGospel #TraditionalLatinMass #VaticanII #TridentineMass #CatholicHistory #JohnPrologue #InterOecumenici