Those Catholics who celebrate the “exclusive” form of the Roman Rite, the modern one (please know I am being sarcastic in writing that) are completely clueless that three weeks from this Wednesday the Season of Quadragesima begins. They don’t even know what the Season of Quadragesima is. And like Cardinal McElroy, they don’t even know what and why the Church teaches what it does in Humane Vitae, Sacred Scripture and Tradition, as well as, the Deposit of Faith about human sexuality and its purposes. Even natural law teaches it, but they are clueless about that too! But I digress.
That sainted pope, Saint Pope Paul VI once compared Septuagesima, Lent, Holy Week and the Triduum to the ringing of bells an hour, half-hour, 15 and 5 minutes before Mass: a psychological, material and spiritual preparation of the faithful for the liturgy.
And then his committee on implementing Sacrosanctum Concilium, led by a mason, manufactured a liturgy that Sacrosanctum Concilium would not recognize as what it proposed, and Paul VI allowed his committee to reform the Roman Calendar, which Sacrosanctum Concilium did not ask or complain about, and they abolished Septuagesima! Abolished it, I say!
Thanks be to God that the leaven of the TLM communities around the world get to experience this pre-Lenten season once again in all its glory with the proper readings and proper propers.
The Ordinariate Missal, too, has recovered the more traditional Roman Calendar and the season of Septuagesima although the lectionary readings are not what should be read on these Sundays.
It is not going backwards (backwardism) but a form or forwardism (resourcement, as Vatican II calls it) to ask the Prefect for the Dicastery of Divine Worship to recover elements of the TLM Roman Missal, its lectionary and calendar for the Modern Roman Missal.
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Father McDonald,
Here is an article from NLM you might enjoy. It is by Dr. Kwasniewski who knows far more about Liturgy than most clerics, including the Pope (for a guy who knows so little, he meddles a great deal with the Liturgy). It lays to rest the notion that Latin was in the vulgar tongue when introduced into the Mass:
https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2023/02/was-liturgical-latin-introduced-as-and.html
There will no no cut and pastes to refute this
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