tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post3764065349935277313..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: THIS ARTICLE POSTED ON RORATE CAELI IS CERTAINLY A VERY GOOD HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CHANGES IN THE MASSFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-59003602377205260332014-03-01T07:20:30.283-05:002014-03-01T07:20:30.283-05:00Fr, there is no shortage of photographs from the 1...Fr, there is no shortage of photographs from the 1960s and 1970s showing priests in lounge suits 'celebrating Mass' at coffee-tables. As I recall, most of them were Jesuits.John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-30778010360025896102014-02-28T06:06:08.947-05:002014-02-28T06:06:08.947-05:00What I appreciate about this article is that it pl...What I appreciate about this article is that it places in context for me and in an historical fashion what I experienced at the age of 12 in 1965 until the 1969/70 Missal became the norm. I<br /><br />I recall the initial changes that allowed for the Mass to be facing the people with the 1965 missal and its allowances all the way up to the 1970 Missal.<br /><br />I was a bit fuzzy on some of these historical details and certainly did not know completely the reasons for this piecemeal transition and the axiety it produced for many Catholics who began to wonder if the Church was actually becoming Protestant and if the Protestants were not right all along. Would we see the Mass celebrated eventually with the priest dressed in a three piece suit like a Baptist minister. All of this created a quite unnecessary destabilization of the Church which has had it zenith with the resignation of one pope, the election of a new and a 1970's agitation amongst emboldened elderly churchmen to recapture that destabilizing foment of the 1970's once again. I pray it is just a blip on the radar screen.Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-35414923719008399162014-02-28T05:26:29.836-05:002014-02-28T05:26:29.836-05:00The mutilated pages of the Roman Missal bear eloqu...The mutilated pages of the Roman Missal bear eloquent testimony to the destruction of the existing Roman Rite, a necessary preliminary to the imposition of a new one. Para. 4 of 'Inter Oecumenici' states that: 'The faithful will more readily respond to the overall reform of the liturgy if this proceeds step by step in stages'. And not just the faithful - the bishops needed 'softening up' as well.<br /><br />Cranmer's imposition of an English Prayer Book in 1549 (itself an intermediate version) caused an uprising in the West of England which was suppressed with ferocious savagery. The Consilium's fear was that their reform would provoke widespread non-compliance which would have compromised the authority of Paul VI and the credibility of Vatican II.<br /><br />The 1971 'Heenan Indult' (grudgingly conceded by Bugnini) authorized the use only of the mutilated Missal of 1967. However, the Cardinal had already secured a concession for the use of the 1962 Rite, and so 'Indult Masses' were celebrated in this form.<br /><br />John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-84422432010811126522014-02-27T15:30:03.460-05:002014-02-27T15:30:03.460-05:00In my diocese there is an intention to construct a...In my diocese there is an intention to construct a new cathedral. The difficulty is in knowing what a cathedral built for the reformed liturgy should look like. If the rites were revised less for the sake of intelligibility and more for the sake of minimalism, then perhaps it follows that reform era churches, especially new cathedrals, should reflect this goal of minimalism. <br /><br />On the other hand, the music of the reform era quickly drifted away from the simplicity of Gregorian chant towards the "pop" music genre. <br /><br />It's all just very confusing. However, surely the Vatican could produce an authoritative commentary treating each line of SC. This would prevent us from concluding that "...we are never going to establish to everyone's satisfaction what the clear meaning of the document is", especially if we acknowledge the workings of the Holy Ghost in the VCII constitutions. Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-84481598804430600702014-02-27T12:30:41.253-05:002014-02-27T12:30:41.253-05:00Have you seen, Fr. McDonald, the Vultus Christi po...Have you seen, Fr. McDonald, the Vultus Christi post by Dom Mark Kirby mentioning that there was published a 1965/66 Weekday Lectionary that satisfied the Sacrosanctum Concilium call for opening up the scriptures in the Mass?<br /><br />http://vultus.stblogs.org/index.php/2014/02/1965/<br /><br />From its introduction:<br /><br />"This series of Scripture readings for weekday Masses is designed to implement paragraph 51 of the Constitution “De Sacra Liturgia” which asks that the treasures of Sacred Scripture be more widely opened to the faithful in the Liturgy of the Word."<br /><br />"Heretofore people attending daily Mass heard the same extracts from Sacred Scripture read three or four times weekly, practically throughout the entire year. With the new use of this series they will hear almost the whole of each of the four gospels each year and, in alternate years, readings from the other books of the New Testament and from the books of the Old Testment which record the early beginnings of the history of salvation. The readings have been chosen with great care and with reference to the particular aspect of the paschal mystery which is being celebrated at each season of the liturgical year."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com