To: B Knotts
Something can be valid (e.g., "legit"), yet inferior at the same time.
What makes the Novus Ordo Mass inferior?
If the Novus Ordo Mass is celebrated as explicitely prescribed in the rubrics and Sancrosanctum Concilium, and not watered-down or "secularized" by liturgists, there is nothing "inferior" about it.
9 posted on
10/14/2005 7:23:58 AM PDT by
mike182d
("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
To: mike182d
12 posted on
10/14/2005 7:34:28 AM PDT by
murphE
(These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
To: mike182d
Mike - Vatican II did not call for a new rite of mass to be created. Paul IV was a weak pope and allowed the bishops with their own agendas to push him into allowing a watered down protestant mass. I know this because I spent time as a lutheran and came back. The Lutheran service(ELCA) is very close to the Paul IV mass. Even the eucharistic prayers are close.
I now attend the indult in Norristown and go to the one in New JErsey from time to time. Believe me, the traditioanl latin mass is better in terms of reverence and theology.
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