[bornacatholic]

In the following essay Michael Davies makes clear why the 1962 Missal must be regarded as a rock of stability within the disintegrating Church of Western society, and why it must be defended at all costs against attempts to replace it by the Missal of 1965, or to destroy its sacred ethos by introducing the 1970 Lectionary or the practice of Communion in the hand. He sets what is taking place today within its historical perspective, in particular with the manner in which Thomas Cranmer conditioned the people of England to accept his 1552 Communion Service.

* Try again :)

BTW< I have several old missals. I like both liturgies. I just prefer the litugy be in the vernacular. I think the changes made sense. I think the liturgy needed updating. We don''t live in the 16th century anymore.

[Blessed Charlemagne]

"I just prefer the liturgy be in the vernacular. I think the changes made sense. I think the liturgy needed updating. We don''t live in the 16th century anymore."

Would you care to elaborate? How exactly has man changed that would necessitate "dumbing down" the liturgy? I'm not simply referring to the issue of language, but of the very prayers themselves.

[AskStPhilomena]

"We don''t live in the 16th century anymore."

We don't live in the 1960s anymore either.
Peace and vegetable rights, dude.