While I might tweak the the Ordinary Form in the Vernacular according to the rubrics and order of the Divine Worship, The Missal Ordinariate Mass, I truly feel that if the Ordinary Form of the Mass looked like this immediately after Vatican II, there would not be the ongoing liturgical wars we are still experiencing.
And if the Ordinary Form allowed for the EF elements of the Introductory Rite, Offertory and other things to include its rubrics, there would be little distinction between it and the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, except the use of Latin in the EF.
This is St. Anne's Daily Mass from our historic "Martha and Mary" Chapel for the Feast of Saint Augustine and I lived streamed it all by myself on my iPhone! That it came out as well as it did, is no minor miracle!
And if the Ordinary Form allowed for the EF elements of the Introductory Rite, Offertory and other things to include its rubrics, there would be little distinction between it and the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, except the use of Latin in the EF.
This is St. Anne's Daily Mass from our historic "Martha and Mary" Chapel for the Feast of Saint Augustine and I lived streamed it all by myself on my iPhone! That it came out as well as it did, is no minor miracle!
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You may have created a new Mass form: POV
What stands out like a sore thumb is your replacement of the Roman Canon with the infamous 'Botte-Bouyer-pseudo-Hippolytan-Dewfall-trattoria-in-Trastevere-shall-we-order-another-bottle' prayer (to quote Fr Hunwicke).
Your argument appears to be 'let's change the Mass out of all recognition, but as long as it looks vaguely the same then the plebs won't complain.'
I had a wonderful time in a Trastevere Trattoria once upon a time
The more you study the Novus Ordo, the worse it looks. It is truly stunning that the vast majority of the bishops accepted it without a fight.
Pierre
In 1967 the Novus Ordo (then known as the Missa Normativa) was trialled in the Sistine chapel before an assembled synod of bishops. It was celebrated in Italian by Annibale Bugnini using the newly-composed EP III. It met with a mixed reception - the non placets and juxta modums outnumbered the placets - but Paul VI ploughed on regardless. He is credited with rescuing the Roman Canon, albeit in a mutilated form, and the Orate Fratres. The innovators were dismayed; it was like putting a gothic turret onto a Bauhaus building.
The bishop who confirmed me (Dr Edward Ellis, Bishop of Nottingham from 1944 to 1974) disliked the vernacular Mass but felt that he had to accept the 'mind of the Church' as expressed by the Pope and an Ecumenical Council in which he was a participant. Many others in the hierarchy (including Cardinal Heenan) thought the same. It makes Archbishop Lefebvre's stance seem all the more heroic.
Pierre is right on. When you think about it, the arrogance and just sheer ignorance coupled with the utter carelessness with which the r(de)eform was concocted and implemented cries to the Heavens for justice.
John Nolan,
Archbishop Lefebvre, a highly gifted man who commanded a missionary order, in normal times would have been given the red hat and applauded for his fine work. Meanwhile, the timeservers in the hierarchy were given red hats and then proceeded to condemn this prophetic individual.
What I find interesting about Bishop Ellis' statement that he had to accept the mind of the Church, the very words of SS state the "Latin Mass is to be preserved" so in my simple way, that means having the Mass in Latin continued to be a legitimate option.
Pierre,
Bishop Ellis was ordained a priest in 1922 and his whole life was conditioned by obedience to the Holy See. He kept his views to himself - I only learned of them twenty years after his death from a priest who knew him well.
Mass in Latin was and is always an option, and even the old rite never entirely disappeared in England and Wales thanks to indults granted to Cardinal Heenan.
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