TIS THE WAY IT IS WITH THOSE BROUGHT UP IN THE MODERN CATHOLIC CHURCH—BUT THE TLM THROWBACKS ARE THE PROBLEM!

This is an excerpt of an obituary from my hometown of Augusta, Georgia. The person who died, God rest her soul, was a classmate of mine in high school and attended the same parish church as I did, St. Joseph Catholic Church in Augusta.

I had lost contact with her long ago, but my memory goes back to the time she was an active Catholic and took her Catholic faith seriously as a young person.

Something happened! Was it her experience of the post-Vatican II Church and her modern Mass? God rest her soul!

Raised in the Catholic faith and later embracing Christianity, Evelyn was a woman of strong faith and resilience. She survived two terminal cancers—gallbladder and ovarian—including a 30-pound ovarian tumor. She often told how she prayed it would not be attached to any organs, and God answered her prayer.

Evelyn loved deeply, believed fiercely, and lived with grace. Her life was a testament to the healing power of God, the strength of a mother’s heart, and the joy found in everyday moments with loved ones—both two-legged and four.

A celebration of Evelyn’s life will be held on Monday, July 21, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. at The Sanctuary Church.

POPE FRANCIS’ CARDINAL THINKS THAT TRADITIONIS CUSTODES WAS WRONG HEADED AND SHOULD BE CHANGED TO ALLOW GREATER FREEDOM FOR THE TLM FOR TRUE PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE CHURCH…

 

This is a hopeful interview of Cardinal Francois Xavier Bustillo, OFM, Conv. That means he belongs to the same worldwide Franciscan Order as does my former bishop, now the Metropolitan Archbishop of Atlanta, Gregory Hartmayer, OFM. Conv. 

That means, too, that he is of the same religious order as Bishop Michael Martin, OFM, Conv. of the Diocese of Charlotte in my province. 

Under SP, Archbishop Hartmayer was very accommodating of those who wanted the TLM and allowed it for years to be at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah each Sunday at 1 pm. I was one of the priests on a rotating schedule to celebrate it there. 

He allowed priests to celebrate the TLM in parishes where there were those who wanted it. And he allowed the other sacraments in the ancient form as well as Requiem and Nuptial Masses.

Cardinal Bustillo was named a Cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023. He would be an excellent advisor to Pope Leo XIV as he discerns what he will do, if anything, with Traditionis Custodes.

He is bishop of a diocese in Corsica which is owned by France but off of Livorno, Italy where my mother is from. Her father, my grandfather, ancestry is Corsica. Just a disclaimer. 

This interview was published on June 30, 2025 in the French publication Tribune Chrétienne, but before the bombshell publication of secret documents that contradict the stated purpose and reason for Traditionis Custodes:

CARDINAL FRANÇOIS-XAVIER BUSTILLO, O.F.M. CONV.

the Bishop of Ajaccio, Corsica, since 2021, 

Tribune Chretienne: Speaking of differences, the faithful attached to the Tridentine rite expect a lot from this pope. So what can we tell them?

Cardinal Bustillo: I think there's room in the Church for everyone, and I repeat, there's room for everyone for those faithful attached to the Tridentine rite. In the Catholic Church, there are many rites, so there shouldn't be any problems at that level. Therefore, the Pope, in his mission, must first LISTEN, then DISCERN, and then DECIDE. This is the usual practice of a pope. If there are delicate situations, different sensitivities, etc., he must first listen and evaluate all the arguments, and then decide. And the Pope is following this path, saying to himself: for the moment, he understands all the realities, all the pain... and when he has all the elements, he will decide.

Tribune Chretienne: Are you personally in favor of this relaxation of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes?

Cardinal Bustillo: I am obviously for peace in the Church. And peace in the Church, before speaking through the rite, passes through the Spirit. The rite is a question of form; it is the expression of celebrating one's faith with God, so what is important is first to pacify minds so as not to fall into ideology. The rite in itself is not a problem. When we look at the Mozarabic, Ambrosian, Eastern rites, etc., that is not the problem. The question for us Catholics is to remain within an idealistic logic without falling into ideology.

So the Tridentine rite is not a problem in itself within the Church. I don't know how to celebrate it, but I realize that there must be no rigidity in the rites; that too is important: we must above all remain in communion.

So, I am first and foremost in favor of a relaxation of consciences, because otherwise we fall into confrontation. As Cardinal Sarah said, "It is first and foremost important that there be spiritual maturity, otherwise we fall into the logic of confrontation, we say that we have a pope against us, etc." I have never celebrated the Tridentine rite; I don't know it very well, but I know and respect many faithful who are close to it and who prefer this rite. I respect their choices. As a pastor, we must think of the good of all. So, if someone loves this rite, I am for them to continue it. I am not saying: everyone must do the same!

We must respect a holy diversity that involves accepting diversity at the liturgical level. So, above all, seek the communion of the Church: communion, communion, communion!

When we look at society, when we see the wars between Israel and Iran... and we Catholics, what do we do?! If we Catholics are divided, we are stupid, we are few in number, and if we allow ourselves the luxury of being divided, then it really isn't great. The Church must have the maturity to accept differences and divergences.

VATICAN IN UNPREPARED DAMAGE CONTROL…

Holy See press office director Matteo Bruni at a July 3, 2025, Vatican press conference. Credit: Edgar Beltrán/Pillar Media.

Press title for Pillar’s article:

Vatican spokesman: ‘Traditionis custodes’ leak ‘very partial’

“It’s a contribution to a very partial and incomplete reconstruction of the decision-making process.”

Moneybyte:

At a July 3 Vatican press conference, Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, the secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, was asked to comment on a document published July 1, which was reported to be an excerpt from the Vatican’s 2021 assessment of a global survey of bishops on the use of preconciliar liturgical rubrics.

When the question was raised, Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See press office, intervened, objecting that the press conference was dedicated to the presentation of the new formulary of the Mass for the Care of Creation, which will be added to the Masses for Various Needs and Occasions in the Roman Missal.

Bruni said subsequently that he wasn’t “confirming the authenticity of the texts that have been published.”

But he immediately added that “it is presumably part of one of the documents on which the decision [to publish Traditionis custodes] was based, and it’s a contribution to a very partial and incomplete reconstruction of the decision-making process.”

A PROPOSAL FOR POPE LEO XIV: “TRADITIONIS CUSTODES REDUX” NEW AND IMPROVED!

 I most humbly submit to Pope Leo XIV this redo of “Traditionis Custodes” and call it “Traditionis Custodes Redux”. In my most humble opinion, free of all sinful pride, I think it is damn good! 😊 

APOSTOLIC LETTER

ISSUED "MOTU PROPRIO REDUX”
BY THE SUPREME PONTIFF

FOR LEO XIV CONSIDERATION

«TRADITIONIS CUSTODES REDUX»

On the Use of the Roman Liturgies
Prior to the Reform of 1970

 

Official translation
 

Guardians of the tradition, the bishops in communion with the Bishop of Rome constitute the visible principle and foundation of the unity of their particular Churches. [1] Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, through the proclamation of the Gospel and by means of the celebration of the Eucharist, they govern the particular Churches entrusted to them. [2]

In order to promote the concord and unity of the Church, with paternal solicitude towards those who in any region adhere to liturgical forms antecedent to the reform willed by the Vatican Council II, my Venerable Predecessors, Saint John Paul II and Benedict XVI, granted and regulated the faculty to use the Roman Missal edited by John XXIII in 1962. [3] In this way they intended “to facilitate the ecclesial communion of those Catholics who feel attached to some earlier liturgical forms” and not to others. [4]

In line with the initiative of my Venerable Predecessor Benedict XVI to invite the bishops to assess the application of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum three years after its publication, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith carried out a detailed consultation of the bishops in 2020. The results have been carefully considered in the light of experience that has matured during these years.

Having reread the information collected and having acknowledged the greater polarization of the Church’s unity by canceling the liberal expressions of older Roman Missals and having considered the wishes expressed by the episcopate and having heard the opinion of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, I now desire, with this Apostolic Letter, to press on ever more in the constant search for ecclesial communion. Therefore, I have considered it appropriate to establish the following:

Art. 1. The liturgical books promulgated by Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II along with the Roman Missals 1962 and 1965 are the unique expression of the lex orandi of the one Roman Rite although with a variety of expressions in both the antecedent rites and the Revised Rites after Vatican II.

Art. 2. It belongs to the diocesan bishop, as moderator, promoter, and guardian of the whole liturgical life of the particular Church entrusted to him, [5] to regulate the liturgical celebrations of his diocese. [6] Therefore, it is his exclusive competence to supervise all the liturgies celebrated in his diocese and to assure that the rubrics and general instructions of all the Roman Missals are properly celebrated and regulated, with the Modern Roman Missal and its many expressions seen as the normative Mass and all antecedent Roman Missals seen as extraordinary.

Art. 3. The bishop of the diocese in which until now there exist one or more groups that celebrate according to the Modern Missal and the antecedent Roman Missals: 

§ 1. is to determine that these groups do not deny the validity and the legitimacy of the liturgical reform and also allow multiple Roman Missals prior to and after Vatican II as it has  developed over the course of four pontificates, Saints Paul VI and John Paul II and Popes Benedict and Francis and the Magisterium of the Supreme Pontiffs;

§ 2. is to allow pastors of parishes and directors of shrines and religious houses to celebrate the various Roman Missals after a synodal consultation with Pastoral Councils and the local ordinary. No one is to be denied, outright, the celebration of any Roman Missal for other sacraments of the Church to include Nuptial and Requiem Masses and pastors of parishes and bishops are to  find capable priests of celebrating the antecedent Masses when requested.

§ 3. to establish that in Latin celebrations of any Roman Missal, new or old, that the readings are proclaimed or chanted in the vernacular language, using translations of the Sacred Scripture approved for liturgical use by the respective Episcopal Conferences;

§ 4. All priests who celebrate the Modern Missal in languages not their vernacular, to include Latin, must be capable of the proper lingual ability in this regard. Priests should be suited for this responsibility, skilled in the use of the Missale Romanum antecedent to the reform of 1970 as well as afterward , possess a knowledge of the Latin or other languages sufficient for a thorough comprehension of the rubrics and liturgical texts, and be animated by a lively pastoral charity and by a sense of ecclesial communion. These priests should have at heart not only the correct celebration of the liturgy in any form or language , but also the pastoral and spiritual care of the faithful;

§ 5. to proceed suitably to verify that the parishes canonically erected for the exclusive use of the older Roman Missals are allowed to exist and flourish without interference from others who prefer only the Modern expressions of the post-Vatican II Missals. 

§ 6. to take care  to authorize the establishment of new groups.

Art. 4. Priests ordained after the publication of the present Motu Proprio, who wish to celebrate using the Missale Romanum of 1962 or 1965 should submit a formal request to the diocesan Bishop who shall judge the competence of the priest to celebrate any form of the Roman Missals, to include the proper and rubrical celebrations of the Modern Missal. 

Art. 5. Priests who already celebrate according to the Missale Romanum of 1962 or 1965 should automatically be granted permission from the diocesan Bishop, the authorization to continue to enjoy this faculty.

Art. 6. Institutes of consecrated life and Societies of apostolic life, erected by the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, fall under the competence of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies for Apostolic Life.

Art. 7. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, for matters of their particular competence, exercise the authority of the Holy See with respect to the observance of these provisions.

Art. 8. Previous norms, instructions, permissions, and customs that do not conform to the provisions of the present Motu Proprio are abrogated.

Everything that I have declared in this Apostolic Letter in the form of Motu Proprio, I order to be observed in all its parts, anything else to the contrary notwithstanding, even if worthy of particular mention, and I establish that it be promulgated by way of publication in “L’Osservatore Romano”, entering immediately in force and, subsequently, that it be published in the official Commentary of the Holy See, Acta Apostolicae Sedis.

WILL MANIPULATING OR PRESSURING POPE LEO XIV ABOUT CANCELING TRADITIONIS CUSTODES BACKFIRE? MAYBE, BUT I DON’T THINK POPE LEO BASES HIS DECISIONS ON FEELINGS, ANGER OR GETTING EVEN

I am somewhat concerned that if Pope Leo XIV feels pressured or manipulated into reversing Traditionis Custodes or even modifying it to allow a more of what Pope Benedict envisioned for the TLM rather than the stonewall that Pope Francis created, it may delay Pope Leo from making a decision more quickly. 

First, we must acknowledge that Pope Benedict XVI had every right to publish Summorum Pontificum.

Second, Pope Francis had every right to abolish Pope Benedict’s Summorum Pontificum and just because His Holiness wanted to do so because he didn’t like the pre-Vatican II Mass or those who wanted it, thinking both are crazy.

It is clear that Pope Benedict had cogent theological and historical reason for issuing Summorum Pontificum. He wanted a theology of renewal in continuity. Summorum Pontificum wasn’t based upon anger or marginalizing those who prefer the Modern Mass. He certainly didn’t want those who desire the TLM to be marginalized in Dioceses or parishes.

Pope Leo, from what I can tell, is sober in his theology and respectful of what preceded the Second Vatican Council and what has transpired in the some 60 years since then.

God willing, Pope Leo will issue his own Motu Proprio or Apostolic Letter that will acknowledge the best of SP and TC and not marginalize Catholics who prefer one or the other usages of the Roman or Latin Rite.

Let us pray for Pope Leo that he will be fair and balanced not only to four previous popes but current day clergy and laity who want both forms of the Mass to exist without prejudice.

Felix Neumann writes this which I think is cogent:

Today it is clear: Traditionis custodes has failed, and not the pastorally clever solution of Summorum Pontificum - and in view of the feedback from back then, this could have been known beforehand. Fear of liturgical variants is unfounded. What divides is not diversity, but exclusion. In fact, the one Roman rite propagated by Francis already has many different forms: the old variants of the Milanese and Mozarabic rites stand alongside the new, inculturated forms of Mass in the Congo, Australia and Mexico. Liturgical diversity enriches the church. Old and new liturgy can mutually enrich each other. The leak could now be the impetus for Pope Leo XIV, who is open to tradition, to make a new attempt at liturgical peace. [source]

OUTRAGE IS GROWING AS IT BECOMES APPARENT THAT POPE FRANCIS DID NOT HEED IN A SYNODAL WAY, THE FACT THE BISHOPS AROUND THE WORLD, FOR THE MOST PART, WERE IN FAVOR OF MAINTAINING THE LITURGICAL GENIUS OF POPE BENEDICT’S SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM!

The less than honest reasons why Pope Francis canceled Pope Benedict’s liturgical magisterium is causing outrage that is growing by the hour. 

Will Pope Leo XIV repair the damage to the papacy caused by this outrage, by acknowledging what has happened under Pope Francis and reversing a mean-spirited attack on Pope Benedict XVI and his liturgical genius and those who heeded his permission about the Ancient Mass and its adjacent liturgies? Time will tell. But Catholic justice demands rectifying a scandalous and mean-spirited decision by a pope, any pope! 

 Why in the name of God and all that is holy did Pope Francis think he could fudge on the truth, cancel Pope Benedict’s liturgical genius and cancel Summorum Pontificum? Was he jealous of Pope Beneidct’s liturgical and intellectual superiority in so many things Catholic?

Even Associated Press has picked up on the lies and betrayal and even the Jesuit publication America has reprinted the AP story.

This is sad, but God’s truth and justice always prevails! Praised be Jesus Christ!

READ THE AP STORY BY NICOLE WINDFIELD PICKED UP BY THE JESUITICAL AMERICA MAGAZINE HERE.

SELECTIVE OUTRAGE CONCERNING CERTAIN ASPECTS OF CATHOLIC ELITISM AND SEPARATISM…

There are a couple of issues that Pope Francis had with Catholics, especially young Catholics, who prefer the ancient liturgies of the Church. First, outside of the authority of the pope, was that Pope Francis decried traditionalists as rigid hiding deep psychological problems, although he did not elaborate on what that would be. 

But the other was that he felt those who celebrate the TLM were elitists, denied the validity of the Second Vatican Council and wanted to prevent Pope Francis from fully establishing his progressive agenda of revamping Catholic morality to make all kinds of once disordered behaviors inclusive, acceptable and to be celebrated. 

While I personally know some who celebrate the TLM who are elitists and anti-Vatican II, I know too that most are not that way and would like to see the Modern Mass celebrated properly and with the same consistency in terms of style, rubrics and ethos as the Ancient Mass.

But why look at the speck in the eyes of certain traditionalists and not see the plank in ordinary rank and file Modern Mass goers?

1. How many modern Mass goers want the ideologies of the LGBTQ+++ approved by the Church and all kinds of sexual behaviors celebrated and loved?

2. How many want a complete overhaul of the anthropology of all the sacraments based upon the male/female marital union, Christ the Bride Groom and the Church’s souls the Bride of Christ? How many want same sex marriage, polygamy and all the ideological possibilities for marriage and Holy Orders that is a part of the LGBTQ+++ ideologies?

3. How many Modern Mass goers have left the Church for schismatic liberal Catholic expressions, or the Anglican Communion or non-denominational Christianity? The number of Catholics who are in schism by joining other communions or becoming nones is far, far, far more significant in numbers that the traditionalist movement’s so-called separatism. 

4. How many modern Mass goers are pro-choice, promote abortion, artificial birth control divorce and every other abomination that is against Catholic morality teachings? How many?????

Maybe a future pope will ban the Modern Mass because so many of Modern Catholics and their clergy are not in full communion with all that the Catholic Church teaches, proclaims and believes to be revealed by God. 

That’s the same logic  of Pope Francis for taking the TLM away from traditionalists. 

A LITURGICAL BOMBSHELL? WE ALL KNEW THAT THERE WERE SHENANIGANS AND SKULLDUGGERY INVOLVED IN HUMILIATING POPE BENEDICT AND HIS SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM

 Summorum Pontificum at Saint Joseph Church, Macon, Georgia, and supported by Pope Benedict XVI, encouraged by His Holiness, and the local Bishop of Savannah at the time!

If this is true, and it appears to be so, this is the biggest liturgical scandal since the forced implementation of the reforms of the liturgies of the Church in the most pre-Vatican II authoritarian way beginning in 1965, lies the basis for Traditionis Custodes!

Recently, Pope Leo XIV meeting with representatives of the Eastern Orthodox Church, said that his desire is for full communion once again with the Churches of the East. He is willing to do what it takes to reestablish full communion and end the Great Schism in union with the College of Bishops of the Church.

But how in the Name of God and all that is Holy, could the Eastern Orthodox have any confidence or trust that Rome and any pope would not to do them what they did to the Roman Latin Rite after Vatican II? What one Pope, Pope Francis, did to another Pope, Pope Benedict and to those who embrace the TLM as a result of Pope Benedict's liturgical genius?

If Pope Leo can't bring the SSPX into regular union with the papacy, a semi-schismatic group, that has far more in full communion with the Catholic Church than all Eastern Orthodox Churches, how can His Holiness expect full communion with the Eastern Orthodox who will never, ever accept the Second Vatican Council as it has been implemented since 1965? 

The pope would have to say it isn't important for the Eastern Churches to accept any ecumenical council after the Great Schism, including the Second Vatican Council and thus full communion could be achieved with some of the orthodox national churches.  

But how can Rome be trusted, in particular the pope, when we see that Pope Francis relying on lies, perhaps given to him by Andrea Grillo, now disgraced modernist liturgist,  who crafted Traditionis Custodes to humiliate Pope Benedict when he was still living and overthrow his generous allowance of the TLM with the hope of developing a new unified Roman Missal in the future?

The overthrowing of Pope Benedict's liturgical magisterium was based on lies. 

This is a scandal!

Only Pope Leo XIV can overturn Traditionis Custodes which is invalid because of the lies therein, repent for the papacy's part in this scandalous, corrupt and sinful act, apologize to Pope Benedict and those who are now persecuted for embracing another pope's generosity called Summorum Pontificum! 

Rorate Caeli is reporting on what another Vaticanista, Diane Montagna, has uncovered and it is huge!

"Summorum Pontificum itself foresaw a report, in order to adjust any issues with implementation -- and the report now obtained was generally positive. As Diane Montagna reports:

The previously undisclosed text, which forms a crucial part of the official report by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on its 2020 consultation of bishops concerning Summorum Pontificum, reveals that “the majority of bishops who responded to the questionnaire stated that making legislative changes to Summorum Pontificum would cause more harm than good.”

The overall assessment directly contradicts, therefore, the stated rationale for imposing Traditionis Custodes and raises serious questions about its credibility.

The following links are provided by Montagna:

CDF Overall Assessment of 2020 Survey of Bishops on Implementation of Summorum Pontificum - English (PDF)

CDF Collection of Quotations Drawn from Responses Received from Dioceses - English (PDF)

2020 CDF Questionnaire on Implementation of Summorum Pontificum (PDF), which Rorate had published exclusively at the time as well."

CLASSIC AND MODERN VERSION OF MASS IN CONNEMARA CABIN…

 Classic version:

My modern version:

SOLEMNITY NOT SEEN IN ABOUT 12 YEARS…

Glorious Pontifical Mass for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. Another papal altar arrangement! This time the Episcopal Candle reappears after an absence of many years, but placed to the side opposite of the crucifix. That makes a total of 7 candles on the altar and the crucifix  which will make Charlotte’s bishop apoplectic. And they are the really tall ones.

I HAVE TO SCRATCH MY HEAD ON THIS ONE, EVEN THOUGH I LOVE THAT FONTGOMBAULT USES THE 1965 MISSAL, KIND OF…

Below, Abbot Jean Pateau states that his monastery uses the 1965 revised Roman Missal, not the 1962 Missal.

My recollection might be wrong, but I seem to remember that either Pope Benedict or maybe Ecclesia Dei clarified that the Extraordinary Form that Pope Benedict desired to be used was the 1962 Roman Missal not the 1965. It may not have been a formal decree but a point of view put forward by word of mouth or by answering a question.

Somehow, though, I recall that Ecclesia Dei allowed for the 1955 Roman Missal for Holy Week. That’s only a vague memory though. We know, too, that Pope Benedict personally updated one of the 10 Intercessions for Good Friday in the 1962 Roman Missal to purify it of any anti-Semitic overtones. 

But what is more striking in what Abbot Pateau says in an interview is that his community, on its own initiative I would think, decided to use the Latest Modern Version of the Roman Missal for the Sanctorial, meaning the celebration of the saints and on the dates in the modern Roman Calendar along with the vernacular prayers for those saints, some of which revised from the older missal. However, they kept the old Temporal for Sundays, which keeps Septuagesima, the octave of Pentecost and Ember Days, but they have chosen to celebrate Christ the King on the last Sunday of the Year prior to First Advent. (That was an excellent reform, by the way!) But how can they do that? Did they seek approval from the correct ecclesiastical authorities in Rome????? I like what they did, but how could they change it on their own?

Why couldn’t a parish or monastery decide, on their own, to incorporate into the 2011 Roman Missal, the Order of the 1965 Roman Missal, with its rubrics for the Roman Canon? Why can’t they add to the modern Temporal, Septuagesima, the Octave of Pentecost and Ember Days? 

What the Abbot of Fontgombault did not mention is the lectionary for the Mass. Which one does he use, the 1965 lectionary which is in realty the 1962’s or the Modern Lectionary for the Sanctoral????

Abbot of Fontgombault on the Liturgy:

Dom Jean Pateau - The conventual mass at the abbey is not celebrated according to the 1962 missal, known as the Vetus Ordo or ancient rite, but according to the 1965 missal. While the latter missal is the fruit of the reform called for by the Council on December 4, 1963, it is still close to the 1962 missal, retaining the offertory and most of the gestures. We have also opted to use the current calendar for the sanctoral. We have kept the old temporal, which contains the Septuagesima, the octave of Pentecost and the Ember Days, but we celebrate Christ the King on the last Sunday of the year, along with the universal Church. All this contributes to a rapprochement with the current 1969 missal.

For those who do not know what the revisions are of the 1965 Roman Missal, here is an AI  Summary AI Overview

The 1965 Roman Missal, also known as the transitional missal,introduced several significant revisions to the Mass following the Second Vatican Council. These changes focused on increasing vernacular language, simplifying certain prayers, and altering the order of some elements. 

Here's a breakdown of the key revisions:

Vernacular Language:

• The 1965 Missal permitted the use of the vernacular language (local languages) in most parts of the Mass, including the readings and the Prayers of the Faithful. 
• While the Canon of the Mass (Eucharistic Prayer) remained in Latin, it was later permitted in the vernacular in 1967. 
• The 1965 Missal also included the option for congregational singing in the vernacular, such as processional, offertory, communion, and recessional hymns. 

Changes to the Order of Mass:

• The prayers at the foot of the altar were shortened and made optional. 
• The Last Gospel (John 1:1-14) was omitted at the end of Mass. 
• The traditional formula for distributing communion was simplified. 
• The option to celebrate Mass facing the people (versus populum) was introduced, in addition to the traditional orientation (ad orientem). 
• The Asperges (rite of aspersion at High Mass) was modified, with the cope suppressed and the chasuble worn in its stead. 
• An option for concelebration was introduced. 
• The option to have the Prayer of the Faithful after the Creed was added. 
• The Prayers of the Faithful were reintroduced. 

Other Notable Changes:

• The 1965 Missal also included provisions for the use of the vernacular in the dialogues between the priest and the laity.
• It allowed for the recitation of the Our Father by the entire congregation with the priest. 

In essence, the 1965 Missal represented a transitional phase in the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, allowing for a greater degree of vernacular usage and simplifying certain aspects of the Mass while still retaining much of the traditional structure and Latin elements.