Below is a comment by Tm about his love of the Bugnini Mass but also his desire for it to be “refined/reformed” to recover the spiritual and reverential ethos of the TLM.
I applaud his recommendations. I would also add that in the Church, most things are not either/or, but rather, both/and.
It is for the health of the Church, her relationship with her Master, that we have both forms of the one Roman Rite and both celebrated well and in continuity with each other in Substance, style and the ethos of reverence. There is no need for a discontinuity in Catholic devotion and reverence when it comes to the two forms of the one Roman Rite.
God willing Pope Leo will recognize this, as did his great “doctor of the Church/doctor of the liturgy” predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI.
This is TM’s comment from another post:
I grew up with the “New Mass”. The Mass was in the midst of being changed/revised when I was born so I don’t know anything different. I’m comfortable with it, it comforts me, it fortifies me. I just wish that the communion rails would come back, I wish the Mass were celebrated as written and NOT how some priest thinks he can improve it. I wish beautiful vestments and incense would be used. I wish the sanctuaries were uncluttered. I wish the priest would celebrate with more reverence. And the Latin…I wish that certain parts would always be in Latin….Sanctus, Angus Dei, Gloria, and the Pater Noster when sung. And the altar servers need to actually know what they are doing. Liturgical abuse MUST be addressed and stopped. If these small things were done it would go a long way in ending the liturgy wars.
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I would add: only the Roman Canon and said in Latin.
Father McDonald, you will find this comment from Gregory DiPippo interesting in this regard:
"One of the best places to look for information on the health of a Catholic diocese is the website https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/ ...
Especially since Traditionis Custodes came out, I have made it a habit to check the stats of each diocese where a new decree of suppression comes out, or where the bishop initiates some obviously awful new pastoral initiative. The pattern is pretty consistent. Places that have or have had notably progressive bishops have seen a steep decline in vocations, bad among the secular clergy, very bad among religious clergy, catastrophic among women religious."
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