I recall reading at Fr. Z’s site that Pope Paul VI also asked why the red vestments were not laid out for the octave of Pentecost. The assistant said Father you eliminated it (with Vatican 2).
The elimination of the octaves began before Vatican 2. The more one goes into it, the more one realizes that the 20th century liturgical reforms were in the main misguided and disastrous. The one exception would be the rebalancing of the temporal and sanctoral cycles in 1913. So many saints' days displaced the Sunday Mass that 'green' Sundays were a rarity.
But this was because recent popes had overloaded the calendar.
You wonder what they were thinking or if they were thinking. The standard for change enunciated in Sacrosanctum Concilium was that it had to be for the good of souls (I am paraphrasing). Yet it really appears it was done for the clergy's convenience.
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My GOODNESS, Fr. McDonald, you hair was SO dark back then. That's amazing! It's truly amazing!
I recall reading at Fr. Z’s site that Pope Paul VI also asked why the red vestments were not laid out for the octave of Pentecost. The assistant said Father you eliminated it (with Vatican 2).
And Pope Paul allegedly wept.
The elimination of the octaves began before Vatican 2. The more one goes into it, the more one realizes that the 20th century liturgical reforms were in the main misguided and disastrous. The one exception would be the rebalancing of the temporal and sanctoral cycles in 1913. So many saints' days displaced the Sunday Mass that 'green' Sundays were a rarity.
But this was because recent popes had overloaded the calendar.
John Nolan,
You wonder what they were thinking or if they were thinking. The standard for change enunciated in Sacrosanctum Concilium was that it had to be for the good of souls (I am paraphrasing). Yet it really appears it was done for the clergy's convenience.
Is that Father Dawid in the first picture and is he wearing a maniple?
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