Please note in the chart below the difference in the blessing of the ashes in the EF Mass compared to the OF Mass. In the OF Mass, there are two choices for the blessing of the ashes, or are there? In fact the first blessing doesn’t even bless the ashes, it blesses those who will receive them. Interesting, no?
The second blessing actually blesses the ashes.
Of course in the chart below the translation of the Latin uses archaic English. What is missing in the OF blessing of the people who receive the ashes or the ashes is a concluding prayer after the blessed or unblessed ashes are imposed is a concluding prayer which is included in the EF Mass.
Maybe there are too many prayers to bless the ashes in the EF Mass, but at least it doesn’t dumb down our Catholic faith as does the OF’s supposed noble simplicity which is in fact a decayed version of the Ash Wednesday blessing of the ashes. In fact the OF’s blessing is a pulverization of the EF’s richness and vitality.
3 comments:
You say, "Maybe there are too many prayers to bless the ashes in the EF Mass,"...
But then you say, "In fact the OF’s blessing is a pulverization of the EF’s richness and vitality."
So, which is it? To many prayers, or a pulverization?
(Also, it is not "In fact." What you wanted to say was "In my opinion.")
'Pulverization'! A brilliant pun, probably lost on those who have never heard the Latin formula for the imposition of ashes.
At Candlemas, the Roman Rite has five prayers for the blessing of candles. This was obviously de trop for those who fabricated the Novus Ordo (modern man having a short attention span). So why not cut them down to (say) two, and allow the priest to choose one of them?
Instead, they scrapped all five and composed a completely new one. This gives you an insight into their way of thinking.
Bee here:
Pulverization!!! LOVE.IT.
God bless,
Bee
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