“Expediency” – that doth make cowards of us all – is yielding a weakness and shallowness of faith that bodes ill for our future, if we do not change. 28 But let a man prove himself; and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice. Change the Mass – change the meaning – change the religion. The Mass continues (actually, formally begins). of today swept through the world. Short of joining the Liturgy Committee and the Music Committee to work toward changing any so-called “abuses,” I do not know what to tell you. Through skimming and reading bits and pieces here and there, especially in the newspapers and materials left, thank goodness, in a lot of Catholic churches, I’d read different topics and views with regard to the “true” Mass and Vatican II, etc.. all the changes, how this had been upsetting to many people, etc… etc.. Of course, having been “born” in ’65 and only having known the Mass facing the people I was very lost in the “middle” of this topic. At the ripe old age of 11 I was a grumpy trad on behalf of a version of the mass that most people today are not even aware of. Spent six years in the seminary in the 1950’s. The Mass began with the prayers at the foot of the altar. But when the music started, wow, the volume was overpowering and the words readily available on the screen. Now once again, it is possible to attend this holy and sacred Mass in Omaha, NE, daily if you wish, at Immaculate Conception Church, with the priestly order of St. Peter priests. On all evidence it is one of the oldest parts of the Roman Rite. Change the language -“change the meaning – and the religion changes. It matters not one bit what form or rite of the Mass you attend if you are obnoxious and have nothing to offer except insults about others. Too sad, too true; but I honestly agree with Henry Edwards on that one. seem very knowledgeable. For the sake of simplicity, I am going to look mainly at the “low” Mass rather than trying to include all the norms for a solemn or pontifical Mass. It frightens me to think of all the abusces in the last fifty years that have taken place. It’s the first step in the radical reform that lead to a Missal that was “fabricated” and “made up on the spot,” certainly not an expression of organic development from the church’s liturgy, but rather a clean break and a rupture. I do think that the habitus of obedience explains a lot of what happened. The Church needs a single unified form of the Latin Rite. From the Old Testament only on Epiphany and its octave, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil, Pentecost Vigil, Ember Days, and Weekdays of Lent. I do not ask anyone to like the 1965 missal. — It’s like a stick of dynamite packaged to meet postal requirements: but it is dynamite. There are even some Novus Ordo parishes which offer the NO ad orientum and in Latin, both of which augur well for having to endure little or no abuses. side of the casket. Again, if it was sung, he was not to recite it privately but was encouraged to sing it with others. Paul VI and Sacred Scripture in the Mass It gave us then and still does an approachable Jesus. I’m coming to this discussion late in the game, but here were my reflections last March on why we should NOT move towards the 1965 Missal: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2014/03/just-say-no-to-65.html#.VMxp0dLF98E. Changes during Vatican II were dramatic in their rupture. but it does gives exceptions (nisi…) and then goes on to say (by my translation) “unless it seems better (aptius) to remain at the altar through the prayer.”. They were not many and not powerful, but in the 1960’s during the Ecumenical Council they saw a chance and took it. Born in 1962 I had no contact with the “old” Mass until I attended a Traditional Mass in the late 1980’s, out of curiosity, not nostalgia. For example, there was nothing in Vatican II mandating the clipping of the prayers at the foot of the altar. I know the OF well enough, I grew up with it, and occasionally find myself there (when I can’t avoid it). Parts of the Old Testament were read on only a few feasts, vigils, ember days, and within some liturgical octaves. United Nations baby, whish intended to create a new.ecumenical religion, a one world church, a united liturgy, and a social gospel centered on the material needs of the poor. Remember the great Arianism heresy in the 4th century… many, many, many in the priesthood were swept up into supporting the heresy. Low flying planes travel farther because they are under the radar. It was obvious then that “experts” had hijacked the Liturgy and were constantly changing it. Good luck to you. Had he been pope for five more years, no doubt he would have restored and reformed the rites for the other sacraments, in particular the Sacrament of the Sick, Baptism, and the Funeral Liturgy. Here is an online version of the 1965 missal, http://www.coreyzelinski.8m.com/1965_Mass/. I’m not saying the Novus Ordo is invalid. If the celebration of Mass at the local parish were up to its ontology of being the one Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, which Christ himself identified as his glorification and purpose of coming into the world, instead of a feel-good goof-fest obscuring a holy Sacrament, the SSPX would dry up very quickly. For example, there was nothing in Vatican II mandating the clipping of the prayers at the foot of the altar. The sacredness of the mass as worship was lost. I don’t think a person from the year 1900, or even 1700, walking into Mass in 1966 would have been all that shocked. Fruit of the earth and “work of human hands” (see Micah 5:13, “…thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands.”) and my personal favorite, “Fruit of the vine and work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink.” UGH! Far too many sites can be too extreme. Her description of that “interim” rite more or less matches my dim teenage memory of the time. Only the BISHOPS can obtain this. Fr. Of course, Gather Us In was the first number. The reforms were indeed radical. Christ will hear. I edited Fergus remark because i do not wish to engage in a toe to toe about rather arcane distinctions about forms of mass distinctions btw ambos and pupits churc design etc. I asked the Lord over and over why this was taken from us. Most weekday Masses did not have their own assigned readings (Propers). Do I praise you? Sometimes people say America created terrorists by all of the injustices it has perpetrated throughout the world. In many places there is a custom of reciting prayers for the dead after the Gospel of Sunday Mass. Your question is the subject of entire books trying to explain that! Not accusing you here, but asking about what our preoccupation with the word “rupture” may reveal about our faith in the Popes and the ever-present guidance of the Holy Spirit…. Very basically, the entrance antiphon is only for spoken Masses. A greater variety of readings is included in a three-year cycle for Sundays (A/B/C) and a two-year cycle (I/II) for weekdays. I agree with your point about pride – very much. To give just one example of his tone, Dr. Kwasniewski’s interpretation of the rationale behind the omission of 1 Corinthians verses 27-32 is as follows, “The methodical elimination of one of St. Paul’s gravest admonitions plays smoothly into the hands of those who wish to redefine morality from the ground up, and with it sacramental theology.”. Just not sure what or who you are talking about here. 2. You’re puzzled and troubled because you don’t know what we’re attracted to.
. The 1965 Missal barely saw the light of day before the liturgists were at it again, ending with all sorts of additional changes. I’m also glad that you bring up Benedict XVI’s vision that the OF and the EF are to mutually influence one another, rather than the only influence being that of EF over the OF. There ARE changes in the Liturgy. If one examines the history of the Last Gospel you will see how it took centuries to develop. Just a small congregation, worshiping the Lord in a simple way the way the earliest Christians did. The problem is this. Neither the 1965 nor the 1962 or prior Missals ever called this part of the Mass “the prayers at the foot of the altar,” but that was their traditional description. A return to an ordinary form Mass more like the one you describe from 1965 would be a welcomed step in the right direction. Returning to the Church, I was struck by “wow, we are a big family” when I sat at a Mass, with a young child reading the Epistles, a cantor leading us in the Psalm responses, and the priest turned towards us as he joyfully raised the consecrated host, and all the prayers were in English, so easily understood.

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