WITH ALL THE TINKERING THAT PRIESTS DO WITH THE BUGNINI MASS, LET ME ADD A NEW TINKER!

A priest commenter on my blog wrote a comment that no one really likes the Bugnini Mass as it is presented in the modern Roman Missal. Everyone makes changes, from blabbing people to death during the Introductory Rite before introducing the Penitential Act, to manipulating words and gestures to suit what the priest thinks is better.

That’s the Bugnini Mass for you, everyone, from the left, right and middle,  tries to improve it as no one seems to like a straightforward by the book Bugnini Mass. 

So let me play that game too as it concerns the “Gathering Rite”, uhm, the “Introductory Act”.

First, no blabbing prior to the Penitential Act! Please, no blabbing, no secular greetings after the religious one, no blabbing please, no secular greetings. Say exactly what is in the Roman Missal to “introduce” the Penitential Act, no matter the option that will be chosen for it.

This is what is in the modern missal, use it and no other words!:

Priest: Brethren (brothers and sisters), let us acknowledge our sins, that we may prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries. 

But with that said, let me improve the Bugnini Mass’s Introductory Rite by eliminating the “introduction” to the Penitential Act.

After the Entrance Chant is concluded, the one in the Roman Gradual, the priest continues the Mass with the “Sign of the Cross and greeting”:

Priest: In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

All: Amen

Priest: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your Spirit

(Then immediately and without any words what so ever, nor any blabbing, the Penitential Act begins by all):

All: I confess to Almighty God….

Priest: May almighty God have mercy…

All: Amen

Then follows the Kyrie, Gloria and Collect.

Or:

Priest: Have mercy on us, O Lord.

All: For we have sinner against you.

Priest: Show us, O Lord, your mercy.

All: And grant us your salvation.

Priest: May Almighty God..

All: Amen.

Then follows the Kyrie, Gloria and Collect

Or, If a trope Kyrie is chosen, the Kyrie is moved to after all three tropes:

Priest/Deacon: Lord Jesus, You are Mighty God and Prince of Peace.

All: Amen.

P/D: Lord Jesus, you are Son of God and Son of Mary.

All: Amen.

P/D: Lord Jesus, you are Word made Flesh and Splendor of the Father.

All: Amen.

Priest: May Almighty God….

Then the Kyrie follows and the Gloria and Collect

I, in my most humble opinion, think this is the best improvement to the Bugnini Penitential Act, a tinkering that outdoes every other tinkering especially Bugnini’s tinkering with the TLM’s Prayers at the Foot of the Altar, no?