Monday 31 May 2021
To the Most Holy Trinity
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of mighty hosts! The heavens and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Bless'd is he who comes in the Lord's name. Hosanna in the highest.
This is the translation of the Preface of the Most Holy Trinity prepared by the Saint Bede Studio for the Order of Mass published by Ignatius Press.
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Saturday 29 May 2021
Whitsuntide
These very ample vestments are in that style we call Saint Martin. The vestments are made from a deeper red dupion silk and lined in a subtle shade of green taffeta. The simple ornament is formed from one of the Studio's unique braids, being in the form of knotwork and called Saxony.
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Wednesday 26 May 2021
A Prayer
We humbly beseech you, O Lord :
that of your unbounded mercy
you would grant to the holy Roman Church a Pontiff,
who by his tender care towards us may ever find favour in your sight, and,
studying to preserve your people in safety,
may ever be honoured by us to the glory of your Name :
Through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns
with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, throughout all ages. Amen.
Prayer for the Election of a Pope
from the Missal "Divine Worship" in accordance with the Roman Rite.
Tuesday 4 May 2021
Concerning Reform in the Roman Rite
When ambiguous or false teaching, bad example, insensitivity to religious sentiment and routine derision of those holding different (and Catholic) views comes from the See of Peter itself, it is not to be wondered at that there will be Reaction.
Not surprisingly, an acute understanding and perspective of such situations was given in July 2007 by Pope Benedict when he wrote to the Bishops of the World about his Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum :
Perhaps it is time again to study carefully the philosophy which underpins Pope Benedict's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. We can but touch upon it in this discussion. He refers again and again to the two forms or usages of the Roman Rite and expresses a desire that one may enrich the other. Some have interpreted this as being a one-way street : the New Mass must be reformed to conform more closely to the earlier liturgical Traditions. It could equally be argued that Pope Benedict wished to convince adherents of both distinct usages that there is no perfect form of the Roman Rite and that enrichment of both forms was desirable.
In recent years, a new direction in the movement of Catholic liturgical Tradition has been taken. At its most extreme, it demands that 20th century revisions of the Extraordinary Form be rejected as inconsonant with Tradition and tainted with modernism. [2] With such an approach, however, is there a danger that a particular Rite is venerated as an end in itself, rather than a means to end, namely a pure act of the worship of Almighty God?
Will the unhappy by-product of this new direction within the Traditional Mass movement be that, in the pursuit of "purified" Liturgical forms, common ground will be lost with the majority of Catholics who have little concept of or interest in Liturgical Tradition and common ground with those Catholics who do?
For the present, the reform of the Ordinary books of the Roman Rite seems more in the realm of notions, ideals and articles such as this one, rather than a particular program or movement. Or is it? Something may be waiting in the wings ...
To be continued.
END-NOTE
(1) Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Bishops on the occasion of the publication of the Apostolic Letter "motu proprio data" Summorum Pontificum on the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the reform of 1970, given at Saint Peter's 7th July 2007.
(2) We call to mind one movement under the glib and ill-informed banner : "Restore the '54."