["If it ain't broke, let's break it!" or "1965 et seq. deja vu?"]
Revised Traditional Missal Planned for Next Summer in Rome?
Tancred
8/16/12
eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-missal-planned-for-next-summer.html
This is a translation from the usually well-informed German summorumpontificum.de, who says that their own well-informed source has some information about the new Missal, which was coupled with their announcement of the good news of the formal recognition of Papa Stronsay at the Diocese of Aberdeen in Scottland.
The less good news is that the work on “a new edition of the Old Missal” has so far progressed enough that it will be published next summer so that it can be used in 2013. The key points of alteration:
- Allowance of the usage of new prefaces for all feasts, which correspond to the Novus Ordo prefaces;
- General allowance of the Traditional Mass to be celebrated “versus populum”;
- Permission to say the Liturgy of the Word in the language of the people [which facilitates the use of the Cramner table];
The desire for “liturgical engineering” in the appropriate Vatican authorities therefore seems unchanged — at least in so far as it relates to a direction “away from Tradition”.
And so we all know where they stick that Missal . . . .
They must think that people are really stupid. No one I know will want anything to do with it. They still think that a liturgy can be constructed like a ship. Get ready for Titanic Two!!
A friend told me that a friend of his told him that another person told him….
Enough worries abound each day. Given that “versus populum” is not even the rubrics for the NO – and indeed, the NO rubrics seem to imply “ad orientem” – number two is false, right off the bat. (New prefaces for the saints, Padre Pio, Ven. Sheen at some point when he is Blessed Sheen, though, would be welcome.)
Still, today’s worries seem sufficient – must we go through this panic every month? When I take my children to see their grandmother, she isn’t as full of dire predictions about the colds they’ll catch, and what disasters the day will bring.
Can we at least wait until a crisis until we enter crisis mode?
“The less good news is that the work on “a new edition of the Old Missal” has so far progressed enough that it will be published next summer so that it can be used in 2013.”
A recent ecumenical council with six protestant advisors conducted the above “work” on the Old Missal.
It was actually the post-Conciliar Consilium supposedly acting according to the liturgical mandates of Vatican II. They scrapped the traditional Missal and created the Novus Ordo.
Sounds like a campaign of misinformation to me – served up to do nothing more than disturb traditionalists.