Posted on 05/13/2003 2:08:06 PM PDT by Polycarp
The Return of the Latin Mass?
Exclusive: The Vatican is preparing to call, in the clearest way since the Second Vatican Council, for an end to liturgical abuses -- and for far wider use of the old Latin Mass
“The do-it-yourself Mass is ended. Go in peace.”
By Robert Moynihan
VATICAN CITY, May 13, 2003 – Forty years after the Second Vatican Council, after four decades of liturgical "experimentation" which has troubled many of the faithful, Rome is about to issue a major disciplinary document, ending years of a generally "laissez faire" attitude toward liturgical experimentation and “do-it-youself” Masses.
The document is now in draft form and is expected to be published between October and Christmas this year.
In a bombshell passage, the document will also encourage far wider use of the “old Mass”, the Tridentine rite Mass, in Latin, throughout the Roman Catholic Church.
The new, stricter guidelines for celebrating the liturgy, and the mandate to celebrate the old Latin Mass more widely, even on a weekly basis, in every parish in the world, will be contained in a document to be published by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, headed by Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze.
“We expect the document to be published before Christmas,” Arinze told "Inside the Vatican" in an exclusive interview. “We want to respond to the spiritual hunger and sorrow so many of the faithful have expressed to us because of liturgical celebrations that seemed irreverent and unworthy of true adoration of God. You might sum up our document with words that echo the final words of the Mass: ‘The do-it-yourself Mass is ended. Go in peace.’”
We will be reporting in more detail on this historic document in future issues of "Inside the Vatican."
That would be a priest.
There is no such thing as a lay "Eucharistic Minister," as you know. The proper term is "Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist." (emphasis mine)
Now THERE'S a "wide and generous" fellow.
But, of course, you mean an Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister.
Won't you have a surprise when the document forthcoming also eliminates that bunch from working at Sunday Masses???
What, people who kneel don't deserve to receive Communion from a priest?
But she's correct. That's in her favor, Sinkie
Nor are they needed at ordinary NO parish Masses. They are a convenience for the priest.
I would if it did, but it won't.
Extraordinary Ministers are a fact of life in large suburban parishes. Our parish, for instance, has three priests, but we serve two other parishes, so there is never more than one priest at the Church for a Sunday Mass. This, in a parish with over 7000 average Sunday Mass attendance.
I can't. But, they're gone, in some cases, or never built, in others.
I suspect they won't return any time soon.
Your flawed dichotomy would logically ALSO state that you go to Mass in a barn. Go ahead.
They ARE needed, like it or not.
You're being intentionally obtuse, ninenot.
Wave of the future, sinky. When will you conservatives learn? You can't block progress.
Well--we agree (finally) that Church Time is lengthy.
But a reminder--or a memento mori, whichever--
When Rembert Weakland arrived in Milwaukee in 1977, he predicted that "all the old people" who like the Old Rite would be dead before he left his appointment here, and that the Old Rite would be extinct.
Deo Gratias he was wrong on all three counts.
Really?
Growing up, I remember we had one "High Mass" on Sunday, in the Tridentine days, and everything else was dead silence, musically.
Today, only one of our Sunday Masses is without music, the early Sunday Mass.
We use approved hymnals, and much of the music is dreadful.
But, most Catholic music is, and has always been, dreadful.
Seven. And most receive the Eucharist.
Of course, if Maximillian were here, he would say that 90% of them should stay in the pews, since they're in the state of mortal sin.
In Maximillian's world, Extraordinary Ministers would never be necessary.
In his world, I'm not sure why it would be necessary for Jesus to die for our sins, since most of us are going to hell anyway.
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