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To: Hermann the Cherusker
How is the Proclaimation of the Assumption iconoclastic and vandalistic?
130 posted on 07/16/2003 5:59:37 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (+ Vive Jesus! (Live Jesus!) +)
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To: Pyro7480
How is the Proclaimation of the Assumption iconoclastic and vandalistic?

I said: "The method that the liturgy has been "updated" since 1950 and the Proclimation of the Assumption, together with its revised Office, has been quite iconoclastic and vandalistic ..." - or more simply: "The method that the liturgy has been "updated" since 1950 ... has been quite iconoclastic and vandalistic ..."

Is that clearer?

The "revision" of Holy Week was simply a vandalistic destruction of tradition. The Mass of the Palms on Sunday, with its Epistle and Gospel and Sanctus prior to the poper Mass was eliminated. The 12 Lessons on Holy Saturday were reduced to 4, leaving out much of th ebeauty of the Old Testament. The pedantic "Renewal of Baptismal vows" was added. The Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday, perhaps the oldest untouched formulary in the Roman Rite was thorughly changed. And of course Holy Thursday was revised as well.

All this based on the "excuse" of moving the time of celebration to the afternoon and evening. If that was really the case, all one needed to do was change the rubrics dictating the time of saying the Divine Office. I.e. Good Friday rubrics read "postquam dicem Nonam" - "After the recitation of None", or the ninth hour (3 pm), the Good Friday Mass was said. Since None was anticpated earlier in the day so that the Mass could occur well before 3pm, all one had to do was eliminate the anticipation of the hour.

A similar vandalistic attack was made on various feasts and octaves and vigils, with the Masses affected being supressed (such as St. Peter in Chains, or the Vigil of the Immaculate Conception). This also had the effect of reducing the fasting requirements, since there were fewer vigils. The Proclimation of the Assumption was the starting point of this, when the existing Office of the Assumption was thoroughly revised to no good purpose, thus tossing aside 1500 years of tradition for nothing.

From there it all began.

"It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed, which we have received from the fathers of old." St Thomas Aquinas, Summa I-II, Q 97, Art 2

131 posted on 07/16/2003 8:15:48 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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