Hahn didn’t buy it. So he did something few had bothered to do: he went back to the original Hebrew berit (covenant) and ancient Near Eastern treaty forms. Then he compared the structure of the Latin Mass, the Novus Ordo, and even the Last Supper narratives. What he found shocked him.
More provocatively, he argued that the Last Supper itself was not a “Mass” but a Passover meal transformed by Jesus into the new covenant sacrifice —meaning neither rite fully captures the original event. Both are legitimate, complementary expressions of the same reality. Author Scott Hahn
Here’s a brief, interesting text about author and theologian , focusing on a lesser-known but fascinating aspect of his journey: The Unlikely Detective: How Scott Hahn Cracked the “Mass of the Ages” Hahn didn’t buy it
This simple insight infuriated extremists on both sides. Traditionalists accused him of minimizing the old Mass. Progressives accused him of legitimizing the old Mass. Hahn just shrugged and kept teaching. It shows Hahn not as a polemicist (his public image), but as a structural theologian who uses ancient covenant patterns to resolve modern liturgical wars—peacefully, and with evidence. What he found shocked him