Let’s say that a parish has a schola that sings as well as the Sistine Choir at this papal Mass and that choir sings for Pentecost all the Propers as is sung at this papal Mass, but the Mass is in the Vetus Ordo.
But, Vatican II allowed the Vetus Ordo to have some vernacular as Pope Leo uses in his papal Mass.
But, Vatican II allows the Vetus Ordo to have the Liturgy of the Word as is done in the Novus Ordo, as in this papal Mass.
Wouldn’t everything that Vatican II desired for the Mass be accomplished in the Vetus Ordo?
This is what an article at “Where Peter Is”, aka, “Where Pope Francis Was” says about Pope Leo’s first catechesis on Sacrosanctum Concilium. Everything that Pope Leo teaches here could early be applied to the Vetus Ordo as I describe it being celebrated above:
…Leo also stressed the bidirectional structure that Sacrosanctum Concilium assigned to participation. The faithful’s participation, he said, is “at once ‘internal’ and ‘external.’” It does not end when the dismissal is given. The liturgy “is called to unfold in a tangible way throughout daily life, in an ethical and spiritual dynamic, so that the liturgy celebrated is translated into life.” Here he touched on Romans 12:1, teaching that our lives through liturgy and practice become a “living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God” when we live out the truth of what we have received in the Mass and especially the Eucharist, the Source and Summit of Our Faith. The Council’s hard-won concept of participatio actuosa is ultimately about conformity of the human person’s entire existence to the paschal mystery...
…What this opening installment quietly accomplishes is significant. It removes the question of Sacrosanctum Concilium from the genre of liturgy-wars commentary and restores it to the genre of catechesis on the mystery of Christ. The pope did not adjudicate disputed questions about translation, posture, or the relationship of the two forms of the Roman Rite. He returned instead to the Constitution’s own first move, which is theological and Christological before it is rubrical. “Let us allow ourselves to be shaped inwardly by the rites, symbols, gestures and above all the living presence of Christ in the liturgy,” Leo concluded, perhaps opening a new chapter of reflection on the ongoing discussions surrounding the liturgy.
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