WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? OH! WHAT DOES IT MEAN? LET’S GET LITURGICAL!

 

Everyone is wondering about what is going to be discussed at the Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals with Pope Leo in early January.

Of course, no decisions will be made during the consistory, but will help guide Pope Leo in His Holiness decisions going forward.

Liturgically, this is what is being reported:

(The Cardinals will be) discussing the liturgy through an “‘in-depth theological, historical, and pastoral reflection ‘in order to retain sound tradition and yet remain open to legitimate progress.’”

These are my usual most humble, but extremely astute clairvoyant thoughts on what the highlighted in red above means:

1. The biggest liturgical scandal in the Church isn’t that there is a widespread desire for certain clergy and laity to celebrate the Ancient Forms of the liturgy prior to the post-Vatican II reforms, but rather that the post-Vatican II Mass with its reforms are so miserably celebrated in most parishes throughout the world, with benign and malignant liturgical abuse.

In some cases the liturgical abuse is so grave, that it renders the Mass not only illicit by invalid.

Pope Leo must issue a Traditionis Custodis type muto Proprio to crush liturgical abuses and make bishops take the right steps to correct the grave abuses in their dioceses. READ THE BLACK AND DO THE RED WITH THE MODERN MASS. BE ORGANIZED, REVERENT, RESTORE THE TRADITION OF KNEELING FOR HOLY COMMUNION AND MAKE CLEAR THAT THERE SHOULD BE CONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE PRE-VATICAN II SANCTUARY AND THE POST-VATICAN II DECREES ABOUT SANCTUARIES!

2. Rescind Traditionis Custodis, issue a corrective muto Proprio about the Ancient liturgies of the Church and that these are “extraordinary celebrations” of the two forms of the one Roman Rite. The normal, operative liturgy of the Church is the post-Vatican II Mass which needs to be brought into continuity with the ancient forms in form, spirituality, style and reverence.

3. In order to reform the poorly reformed post-Vatican II Liturgy, Pope Leo must revisit Sacrosanctum Concilium and what the Vatican II Fathers asked of the future, conservative, traditional reform of the Mass.

To facilitate the reform of the reform of the modern Missal, Pope Leo will issue immediately an appendix to the Post-Vatican II Missal allowing the Order of the Ancient Mass to be an option, along with the PATFOTA, pre-Vatican II rubrics, ancient Offertory Prayers, three-fold “Dominus non sum dignus and the adjusted requiem Agnus Dei, Last Gospel, kneeling for Holy Communion, ad orientem, but all with the modern missal, and the inclusion of Septuagesima, ember days, etc, celebrated in Latin or vernacular.

That’s simple, no?