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To: mike182d
Even the Tridentine Mass was a radical "change" from the celebration of the first Christians.

If it had been imposed three years after the Ascension it would be, however it was merely the formalization of the liturgies that had evolved organically over time. The idea that primitive = pure is a modernist fallacy i.e. Rousseau's "noble savage".

The Tridentine liturgy was a mature form of worship and the Novus Ordo was a radical departure from it, imposed on Catholics over a very short period of time.

I'm sorry that you do not understand this.

42 posted on 10/14/2005 8:54:32 AM PDT by TradicalRC (Benedicamus Domino.)
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To: TradicalRC
The Tridentine liturgy was a mature form of worship and the Novus Ordo was a radical departure from it, imposed on Catholics over a very short period of time.

Explain to me how the Novus Ordo Mass is a "radical" departure? There is nothing contrary to 2000 years of Catholic teaching present in the Novus Ordo Mass. If you're supposing there is heresy, then you're saying that "the gates of the netherworld" have prevailed against the Church.

I'm sorry you don't understand that.
46 posted on 10/14/2005 8:59:25 AM PDT by mike182d ("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
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