[american colleen]

Fortunately most Catholics probably don't even know the GIRM exists. Not that it is entirely bad, I don't mean that at all, but it is sometimes wordy and sometimes confusing and therefore, not necessary for salvation.

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

I teach CCD at my parish. Let us just say I am really happy that NO ONE sits in on my classes. The kids decided they didn't like the textbooks (we went thru 3, I wasn't a fan either), and as a result, CCD became a Q&A class, based on their questions about Catholicism and I use the Catechism and the Bible as the textbooks. Going thru the meaning of the Ten Commandments, Problems with today's society (my students make me so proud, when they already know abortion = murder). We have dealt with things that I can just envision my supervisors going nuts if they knew (End of the World, Islam (why it is false and bad), etc.)

[Maximilian]

Fortunately most Catholics probably don't even know the GIRM exists. Not that it is entirely bad, I don't mean that at all, but it is sometimes wordy and sometimes confusing and therefore, not necessary for salvation.

The GIRM is the book that tells all priests how to celebrate Mass. It has the rubrics and instructions and explanations. The introduction of a new GIRM in 2000 (still delayed in many parts of the US) was a major event in the Church.

The paragraph that I quoted in the previous post is no longer contained in the GIRM. But this was what was written by the consilium that wrote the Mass. This was their understanding of the Mass that they created. They created the New Mass to be a "celebration" of the community with a "presider" -- not to be a sacrifice like Calvary.