But it was worse than before, and the clear first step in the radical reforms.As an altar boy in 1964, I learned to serve the Latin mass. Pricing & History. Ottaviani (prefect CDF). As time passes, I am ever more persuaded of the wisdom of this ancient tradition.Richard, you echo my every thought down to the most detailed, most especially regarding the lectionary. Because just the opening paragraph or phrases that say that the Mass was going through changes starting in the 1940’s is news to me. These were the words.

Christ will hear. Meaning anything that was to develop in the Mass first needed the freedom to do so, second it was supposed to come from the ground up – in local situations and where pastorally needed, third it needed to stem from already established liturgical tradition.If one examines the history of the Last Gospel you will see how it took centuries to develop. [2] For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? Learning how she was “shoved aside” in so many parishes, and no longer having May Crownings, etc, was one of the most painful experiences and hardest things to understand, when She helped bring me back, with her Miraculous Medal. Does it contain prayers to say every day? Pope Paul VI was terrified into silence and powerlessness by the reaction to HV. Something else?What of those who reject the empty invocation of the council’s “spirit” while holding to what the council itself said, perhaps even including its dicta, and who are varying degrees of critical of the “postconciliar time,” which to their minds are a distinct question? Everything I’ve read seems to blame Annibale Bugnini – a Freemason (maybe), definitely Protestant-style thinking, a phony ecumenism that prefers to tear up doctrine, etc, etc. Hunwicke notes, that the Bishop of Rome has an authoritative locus as far as the Roman Rite is concerned.

I think a lot of other things would begin to fall in line thereafter.But changing the orientation of the Priest can be done immediately, as the rubrics in the Pauline Rite presuppose it. 22, 2, to decide whether, and to what extent, the vernacular language is to be used; their decrees are to be approved, that is, confirmed, by the Apostolic See. [3] Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.

Editions of the Vatican II Roman Missal. And we know who doesn’t want that. I am open to corrections in the article but my motives are not to mislead. ), she said “the demon will enter the Church…. (When we dig deeper we see that Bugnini is still the one behind the changes in 1965.) After 15 years of frustration, I converted and was appointed a lay chaplain in a Catholic high school and everything was going crazy there too. I’m happy with the Novus Ordo – excuse me, Ordinary Form – though I did like having the Priest “turning his back” on the people during the Eucharistic sacrifice. Our Mass is now nearly identical to the Lutheran service.Do any priests celebrate Mass this way? ?I haven’t heard the Confiteor at mass since many years now. At about 1.02 you can see a lady in a blue dress up at the altar, then in the next shot she has disappeared and then at 1.11 she reappears along with several other people. We find the OF Mass typically falls short in that regard – sometimes it is simply lacking, other times it seems it sinks into the red (eg, not only lacking in beauty, but actively ugly).If the OF Mass were consistent, solemn, beautiful, and its elements equally well suited to making us disposed to receive our Lord, we wouldn’t bother driving our families (and our weekly checks) 45 minutes past 2 dozen Catholic churches to get to Mass.It is one Mass that drives us away, and another Mass that attracts us.