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Editorial Note
1:
this
article was linked to by the Q&A:
Isn't
the Latin Mass Anti-Semitic?
published
on July 22, 2007
Editorial Note
2:
this
question regards Q&A
Why
bring back the Old Mass? - - - Part 1
published
on Sept. 2, 2007
and
Why
bring back the Old Mass? - - - Part 2
published
on Sept. 9, 2007
and
Should
it be called the Tridentine Mass or Latin Mass or Old Mass?
which
was also published on Sept. 9, 2007
Tridentine
Mass
1962
edition of the Tridentine Ordo
click
here to see
the
1962
Edition
of
the
Tridentine
Mass
in
both
Latin
& English
Celebration of the Eucharist in the middle
ages seems to have varied rather greatly from city to city, region to region,
and from religious order to religious order. Within these variations a
number of distinct liturgical families can be discerned, both distinct
rites, such as the various Easter liturgies, or the Ambrosian rite of Milan,
and variations on the Roman pattern as in the English Sarum Missal . It
seems that among these the liturgy of the Church in Rome was both particularly
ancient and, owing the to position of the papacy, increasingly prestigious..
It was only with the Catholic response
to the Protestant Reformation, however, that a standard rite of mass was
imposed on the entire Latin Church at the order of the Council of Trent.
[No such imposition was made on the "eastern" churches affiliated with
Rome, and religious orders such as the monastic orders and the Dominicans
were allowed to retain distinct variations.] This liturgy, popularly known
as the "Tridentine Rite" was in effect a standardization of the liturgy
used in Rome, and was not particularly novel. In the centuries after the
Council of Trent, a number of modifications were made [for instance the
"restoration" of the Easter vigil by Pius XII.] Click
here to see the the Latin and English basic text for the Tridentine Mass
in its 1962 version.
After the Second Vatican Council, an extensive
and radical revision of the Latin rite was undertaken. The distinction
between High and Low mass was removed, as were many repetitions, ritual
gestures, and the requirement that the priest say as "his" prayers also
said by the people and choir. This Novus Ordo [still in Latin!] is the
current standard mass for the Roman Catholic Church [excepting the affiliated
eastern churches]. Celebration of mass in the vernacular was also allowed
as an option by Pope Paul VI, and, in effect, this has become usual practice
throughout the Catholic world. Reactions to this development have varied
intensely!
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