In a nutshell, the Conference of Catholic Bishops in France more than likely won’t help Pope Leo, but rather confuse His Holiness given the grave ignorance that many of those bishops have about the 1962 Roman Missal.
You can read what the bishops discussed by pressing the Rorate Caeli title:
La Croix: Will France be the Papal Setting for the End of Restrictions to the Latin Mass?
Some of the French bishops want TC to remain in place and enforced in the most unpastoral, authoritarian way possible including the Orwellian requirement not to advertise these Masses in a parish bulletin—can’t make this stuff up and not an April Fools joke either.
Some want the 1962 Missal to adopt the Modern Mass’s three year lectionary. This shows their ignorance even more so, because there is a unity in the lectionary’s readings along with the Scriptural Introit, offertory and Communion antiphons as well as the changing orations. It would be like imposing the three year lectionary on Eastern Rite Divine Liturgies, or imposing the Tridentine lectionary on the Bugnini Mass!
One group of French bishops, though, are correct about requiring those in the Latin Rite to be required to celebrate the Bugnini Mass. Then they must seek permission to celebrate the older rites of the Church from their local bishop. Those that belong to religious orders which only celebrate the older rites would be given a seperate consideration, but diocesan priests must agree to celebrate the Bugnini Mass if they are given permission to celebrate the older forms of the liturgies of the Church.
And diocesan priests and any orders under a diocesan bishop must agree to concelebrate the Diocesan Chrism Mass. That is not too much to ask of diocesan priests who promise obedience to their bishop!
One way to completely preserved the 1962 liturgical patrimony would be to create a Tridentine Ordinariate with their own bishops. That would make them like the Anglican Ordinariate and also like the Eastern Rites which have their own bishops. What’s the big deal about doing that!
I lean more towards mandating the 1964 Tridentine Mass. It has modest reforms that were requested by Sacrosanctum Concilium. It is a post-Vatican II revised Tridentine Mass. It allows for some vernacular while maintaining Latin in a required way. Could two new cycles of Sunday readings be devised to fit the Tridentine Mass and maintain the unity of texts? Certainly but without erasing the older lectionary.
It’s interesting that some French bishops want to impose the three year modern lectionary on the Tridentine Mass Roman Missal. Yet they allow the Bugnini Roman Missal to be manipulated by priests and music directors or liturgy planners, to substitute banal hymns for Sacred Scripture as it concerns the Introit, Offertoy and Communion antiphons.
KEEP IN MIND THESE ARE SCRIPTURES BEING DUMPED BY THE CAPRICE DECISIONS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO THINK THEIR NON SCRIPTURE CHOICES ARE BETTER! IT WOULD BE LIKE DUMPING THE LITURGY OF THE WORD READINGS FOR POETRY OR OTHER RELIGIOUS NON-SCRIPTURAL READINGS, WHICH BTW, WAS DONE IN THE LATE 60’S AND EARLY 70’S!
The Bugnini Mass that I celebrated for Laetarae Sunday this year, the choir director chose the nice hymn, “Take Up Thy Cross” as a substitute for the official Introit. In no way does that hymn convey the theology of the Official Introit for Laetarae Sunday!
This is the Introit for Laetarae Sunday:
Lætare Jerusalem: et conventum facite omnes qui diligitis eam: gaudete cum lætitia, qui in tristitia fuistis: ut exsultetis, et satiemini ab uberibus consolationis vestræ.
Ps. Lætatus sum in his, quæ dicta sunt mihi: in domum Domini ibimus.
Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you that love her: rejoice with joy, you that have been in sorrow: that you may exult, and be filled from the breasts of your consolation.
Ps. I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.
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Only way out of this: Restore Summorum Pontificum and start all over again. Let time and prudence straighten things out. Veni, Creator Spiritus!
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