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To: Land of the Irish
Only the Tridentine requires an Indult.

Why?

The Novus Ordo is the normative Mass.

I think the Tridentine Mass should be enshrined in its own rite, so that those who wish to attend it could do so, unencumbered.

Would that be OK with you, or do you insist, like the SSPX, that the Novus Ordo be suppressed entirely?

That ain't gonna happen.

137 posted on 07/17/2003 6:31:29 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
Would that be OK with you, or do you insist, like the SSPX, that the Novus Ordo be suppressed entirely?

I'm not calling for the supression of the Novus Ordo and neither is the SSPX.

That is, I'm not calling for the same magic trick that Paul VI pulled in 1969: Turn out the lights and the "normative" Mass of 1500 years disappears. Turn the lights back on, and, presto Paul VI's Mass is the normative.

His normative Mass has metastasized faster than any cancer known to man, into what you now call "normative". Paul VI's normative Mass did not call for turning the altar around, Mass in the vernaculur, standing for Holy Communion, EEM's, Communion in the hand.

Finally, what's normative about a Mass that has four different Canons.

167 posted on 07/17/2003 7:53:31 PM PDT by Land of the Irish
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