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To: BillyBoy
I am not going to get into an extended match of the dueling quotations. But here is one (regarding the Roman Rite):

"During the Middle Ages it developed into a vast number of derived rites, differing from the pure form only in unimportant details and in exuberant additions ".

56 posted on 08/29/2012 2:13:15 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: steve86
You switched topics from the "Tridentine Mass" to the "Roman rite"

It's certainly true that the Roman rite of the Catholic Church has existed for 1000+ years and you would not have been able to find any other type of Mass in most of the western world. Even many modern protestant churches base their liturgy on the Roman rite of the Catholic Church and use Latin for liturgical statements.

But "The Tridentine Mass" has no such grand history throughout 2000 years of Catholicism. It didn't exist until 1570, and it is one of dozens of types of liturgical services in the Catholic Church. It was the predominate mass of the Roman rite from roughly the early 1600s until the 1960s, true, but certainly not the exclusive Mass for the Catholic Church.

Both the Tridentine Mass and "a Woodstock Mass" would be fall under the category of "the Roman rite" and be found in the western world.

57 posted on 08/30/2012 1:48:43 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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