Wasn't the point of "turning the priest around", so that he faced the people instead of the tabernacle and the crucifix, that the priest would say by this very gesture, "LOOK AT ME!"?
Most TLM’ers that I know actively participate... and are engaged via their missals.
my own observation is that words from the cardinal and rumblings from Rome are a set up for the suppression of the 1962 missal.
Yet, Francis might still want to insist the old missal be decommissioned, even if Summorum Pontificum-communities were assessed positively, for two possible reasons.
There is the question of whether the prior missal, even if some of its adherents today live commendable Catholic lives nourished by that form of Mass, is nonetheless no longer legitimate because it represents a preconciliar lex credendi incompatible with the doctrinal developments of Vatican II which informed the work of the Consilium and the postconciliar liturgical books.
But there is another reason he would in any case determine that those currently celebrating Mass with the 1962 Missal must stop. Regardless their form of Catholic life, however commendable, and regardless their attitudes toward the liturgical reform, whether accepting or resistant, their actions, their persistent celebrations with the preconciliar missal de facto reject that conciliar reform. Again, Francis’s principle is straightforward: the Church after the council will be faithful to the council and the papacy; we will use the ritual books revised at conciliar mandate and given papal approval.
Unless new evidence moves Francis to rethink his methods, this is where we ultimately return: adherence to only the postconciliar liturgical books. If so, and Francis proceeds to implement the second stage of his plan, hopefully he will in some fashion offer, as Pope Paul did in 1969, words of understanding and advice to those Catholics losing the form of the Mass they hold dear.
I cannot believe God will allow that to happen.
No game-playing or parliamentary maneuvers would be able to thwart it.
Serviam,
Wasn't the point of "turning the priest around", so that he faced the people instead of the tabernacle and the crucifix, that the priest would say by this very gesture, "LOOK AT ME!"?
Chris, I remember being told at the time of the Council that the sacrificial aspect of the mass was over emphasized to the point the table aspect of the altar had been lost. The mass is a meal for Christians.
When nearly everyone is doing it, abuse or not, it becomes not worth the fight to reform it.
A fellow musician even older than I
C'mon, maaaaan!! Really???
If you buy the argument that every liturgical rule is equal in importance. They likely are not. I think it better to work on changing the rules that are dated and no longer significant rather than wholesale disobeying them.
we know that 'turning your back on someone' is used by many as a deliberate means of causing offense in general body-language terms. Thus, this posture at Mass strikes me as not of little consequence.
This implies he was previously turned away from the people, so it specifies he is to face the people here.127. "The Priest, turned towards the people, extending and then joining his hands, adds" the peace of the Lord be with you always."
again, implies he may have previously been facing away from the people132. "The Priest genuflects, takes the host, and, holding it slightly raised above the paten or above the chalice, while faicng the people, says aloud: Behold the Lamb of God..."
This is perhaps the most damning; it clearly implies that facing the altar is different from facing the people, which is specified in the preceding rubrics. This is especially true when contextualized by the centuries of mass versus deum as the norm.133. "the Priest, facing the altar, says quietly: may the Body of Christ keep me safe for eternal life."
Again, this implies that he might otherwise be at the altar facing away from the people, so now he goes to stand there but faces the people instead, à la "ecce agnus dei" of old.(after communion)
139. "Then, standing at the altar or at the chair, and facing the people, with hands joined, the Priest says: let us pray"
A fellow musician even older than I
C'mon, maaaaan!! Really???
This is especially true when contextualized by the centuries of mass versus deum as the norm.
Charles, as would seem evident by what I've shown above, the norms, haven't changed, strictly speaking. Or perhaps I should say, the rubrics have not changed, even if people are choosing to ignore them. I will grant, however, that they are indeed poorly worded in the new missal. Such seems to be a theme with said missal, unfortunately. It is well-known that versus populum, tearing out reredos, communion in the hand, felt banners, and on and on and on, were all fads and abuses that were never properly curtailed by ecclesiastical authorities. This does not make them legitimate, however. It merely makes them long-standing abuses which still need correction.That's the issue. The norms have changed, like it or not.
The Gelasian Sacramentary, which contains the Roman Mass in fundamentally its received (i.e. "Tridentine") form was compiled under Pope Honorius, who reigned from 625-
638, so, yeah, 7th century, not 5th. I think that you are laboring under Uniate propaganda.
Charles, as would seem evident by what I've shown above, the norms, haven't changed, strictly speaking.
The conclusion I've come to is, "no". So if we are going to do novus ordo, let's do it right.
I will relate what an Orthodox bishop stated. There have been minor liturgical changes in Orthodoxy, but nothing like the wholesale upending and rewrite that occurred in the west. He has a point.
Patriarch of Moscow? Why him?
Though the accuracy of the translation has been questioned.GIRM 299: The altar should be built separate from the wall, in such a way that it is possible to walk around it easily and that Mass can be celebrated at it facing the people, which is desirable whenever possible. ...
No need for protestants, German catholics will do; our main difference from our protestant neighbors is the territory of birth.We can surely thank the Protestant periti for that gem.
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