Yet, most of the Catholic Church has been reeling ever since the introduction of the New Mass, and it seems to me that the waves from the rocks thrown into the water are settling down, and the things worth having are floating back to the surface. In addition to the OF Masses offered, we have a well-attended Low EF Mass every Sunday as well. We have simply held onto the beauty of the practices passed down to us while accepting the liturgical changes made. At our parish we have not sought to “reverse” the liturgical reforms and neither do we have to since we had never cast aside the traditions. He promoted traditional liturgical music in which we worship God with a deep inner prayer. He kept the altar rail, the physical place where the people can make internal offerings of their lives while they wait to receive communion, intact and in use. He followed the rubrics of the OF, which imply that the priest is celebrating Mass ad orientem not versus populum. Agnes, were the pastor at the time, Monsignor Richard Schuler read the documents and implemented the Novus Ordo in line with the liturgical practices that had been handed down through the Church for centuries. Yet, there are some places that these traditions never ceased such as at my parish in St. It was merely those with louder voices that cast these traditions aside in most parishes. Paul in 1 Corinthians 11) saw that the Vatican II document did not do away with these. Those who loved the due reverence shown by ad orientem Masses with all the people and the priest facing the central tabernacle, communion on the tongue at the people’s table of the altar rail, Gregorian chant (with the document specifically promoted), and even the practice of women covering their heads at Mass (as directed by St. Sure, there were some Council Fathers that hoped for these changes, but not all agreed with them. In the enthusiasm for liturgical reform new practices were quickly introduced across the world that the document Sacrosanctum Concilium made no mention of. The new English translation of the Third Edition of the New Roman Missal from 2002 that rocked the American Church in 2011, is one example of the changes of liturgical practice. ![]() Ever since then small reforms have been made to the liturgy. Small reforms were made again and again in the centuries following, and then as a result of the Vatican II document on the liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Traditional Latin Mass was stripped to its barest bones-much of the beauty was taken out, and we were given what is now known as the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite or the Novus Ordo. ![]() Then the Holy Spirit moved the Church again. That is what the Church needed-clear direction in response to the various Christian sects that were breaking from the Roman Church. It developed all the way up to the Council Trent in the 1500s, when in response to the Protestant Reformation, the Church sought to stabilize our liturgy for a time. ![]() The liturgy we have is different than it was in AD 100. Liturgy is vibrant, living worship of God-it has always been changing and always will until the end of the ages. The reforms of the council have become part of the very life and heartbeat of the Church. "After this magisterium, after this long journey, we can affirm with certainty and magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is irreversible.” (from the Catholic News Service)īut those who have come to love the EF (Traditional Latin Mass) after being raised going to the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite ( Novus Ordo) know that we cannot-we have come too far. He seemed to be addressing Traditionalist Catholics who would like to reverse the changes that occurred to the liturgies of the Roman Rite after Vatican II in a speech in Italy this week to participants in their National Liturgical Week. As one raised going to the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite who now attends the Extraordinary Form every Sunday, I wanted to respond to Pope Francis’s recent statement about the liturgical reform that happened after Vatican II.
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