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To: BlackElk

Yet another reason to assist at the OLD MASS. The USCCB simply has no impact on the Latin Mass.


7 posted on 06/18/2009 2:22:30 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: vladimir998
Yet another reason to assist at the OLD MASS. The USCCB simply has no impact on the Latin Mass.

Funny you should make this comment; it is what I was thinking on my drive home tonight. They also have no impact on the liturgies celebrated in the Eastern Catholic Churches which, like the TLM, also follow a fixed liturgical calendar.

One of the best changes to come out of VCII, however, was the expanded readings spread out over the span of 3 years. This has truly opened Scripture to those Catholics who don't make the effort to read their Bibles. In the Maronite Church, we have only one reading at Mass, usually from the Letters of St. Paul, followed by the Gospel. The advantage of a fixed calendar is, ironically, its repetition. We are currently in 'ordinary' time. But come September, we will enter the Season of the Holy Cross. In the Latin Church, it's only one day and then, only if it falls on a Sunday; whereas for us, it lasts for several weeks. And then we move into the Sundays of the Church, followed by the Season of Announcement and Birth of our Lord. How I love to hear the Gospel on the Sunday that celebrates the Announcement to Zechariah! The Season of Great Lent, in like manner, takes us through the miracles of our Lord.

This repetition is like a rhythm of the Church that we follow from year to year. It keeps us rooted in the faith of our fathers.

14 posted on 06/18/2009 3:45:19 PM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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