This idea of not mixing rites, is it law or just a pious opinion of whoever is saying this. I personally don’t believe the reformed rite is a different rite from which it came, it is the same rite, reformed. Thus I accept Pope Benedict’s more codified statement in SP that the older form and its reformed expression are two expressions of the same one Roman Rite.
If that is the case, then what is stopping any priest, apart from pious opinion of the pope or bishops or the CDW, from having a silent prayers at the foot of the altar in Latin as in the EF, while the Introit is chanted. What is stopping the use of the older offertory prayers prayed quietly? What is stopping the same genuflections and bows and kisses of the altar in the Roman Canon?
What is stopping the triple “Lord, I am not worthy…?” What is stopping the saying of the Last Gospel and in the vernacular for that matter? Inquiring minds want to know the canon law preventing this, not just something someone, no matter high up, has said.
As Fr. Fox reminds us, there are all kinds of changes, additions and free-lancing by more progressive priests when it comes to the Mass, they are indeed making a new rite and mixing the reformed expression of the one Roman Rite with their creativity in making another rite, even if individualistic, which goes with the culture of our day.
And don’t get me started on Protestant music as well as secular idioms dragged into the Mass, if that isn’t the mixing of alien rites with the Roman Rite, I don’t know what is!
And what about the Pachamama plant and bowl placed on St. Peter’s Papal altar at a papal Mass????????
So, this not mixing of the rites, canons please!
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The Pauline missal of 1970 may be deficient in a number of respects, but those using it should respect its integrity. There are enough options to allow celebration in a way that emphasizes continuity rather than rupture, and it should not be necessary to import chunks of the previous rite.
For example, it is part of the new rite that the celebrant no longer recites those parts of the Proper that are sung by the choir, which was the practice in the first millennium. That is why the Offertory chant is not in the missal but is in the Graduale. Already by 1960 the celebrant at a Solemn Mass no longer read the epistle and gospel since they were sung by the subdeacon and deacon respectively, and this principle was carried further in the new Mass. There are missal versions of the Introit and Communio which should only be used when they are not sung.
A previous correspondent pointed out the absurdity of cutting and pasting bits of the Syro-Malabar liturgy into a Western rite. He is correct, and this is why the principle of not mixing rites is well-established. The Novus Ordo has enough cutting, pasting and tweaking as it is.
Similarly, the integrity of the 1962 missal (including recent optional additions) should be respected. You might prefer the 1970 lectionary and the use of the vernacular, but neither are part of the rite.
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