Posted on 01/04/2010 10:05:58 AM PST by NYer
ROME — Top officials from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments will be principal celebrants at Tridentine liturgies during a conference in Rome this week. The Tridentine rite, in use before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, is also called the extraordinary form of the liturgy.
U.S. Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, secretary of the Vatican congregation, will celebrate solemn pontifical vespers and benediction in the extraordinary form at the Church of St. Stephen of the Abyssinians, located inside the Vatican walls, Jan. 6.
On Jan. 7, Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, prefect of the worship congregation, will celebrate a solemn pontifical Mass in the extraordinary form at the Basilica of St. John Lateran.
The conference is being co-sponsored by the U.S.-based Confraternity of Catholic Clergy and the Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy to mark the Year for Priests.
Archbishop Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signature, the church’s highest court, will be the main celebrant at the concluding liturgy of the conference Jan. 8. He will celebrate a solemn pontifical Mass in the ordinary — or new – form in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Archbishop Burke celebrated a Mass in the extraordinary form in St. Peter’s Basilica last October.
That is what the Novus Ordo is, legitimized abuse. It was promoted without regard to centuries of liturgical tradition, which has the force of law. It was falsely rumored that the tridentine form was formally abrogated, which it never was. It kind of reminds me of how the health care reform is being jammed down our throats. By its fruits it is known.
It is rare to find Novus Ordo parishes where attempts at orthodoxy are made. I applaud people who try to restore some sort of orthodoxy to the liturgy, but they really do not have to do it on their own. The form is already there, the resources for learning are already available, no use reinventing the wheel.
I attended a midnight mass with stunningly beautiful music at Old St. Mary’s in Cincinnati this year. Unfortunately it was a Nervous Ordeal form. The lectionary readings were the worst “translation” I have heard in a long time. But it could be upgraded quite easily with the tridentine form underneath all those beautiful selections from Handel, JS Bach, and Palestrina. With the 1962 missal comes English translations of the Sacred Scriptures that are very close to the Douay Rheims. The King’s English as it were.
This is good news! Let’s hope some of our more obstinate, leftward Bishops attend and are moved by the beauty of the liturgies (starting with my own...).
(and mine right after yours!)
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