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To: SeekAndFind

It was done away with in Vatican II.

When people are more Catholic than the Pope, watch out.


33 posted on 03/18/2013 8:15:50 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

RE: It was done away with in Vatican II.

Not sure what “done away” means.
Pope Benedict XVI issued a motu proprio called Summorum Pontificum on 7 July 2007, together with an accompanying letter to the world’s Bishops.

Benedict declared that “the Roman Missal promulgated by Paul VI is the ordinary expression of the lex orandi (law of prayer) of the Catholic Church of the Latin rite.

Nevertheless, the Roman Missal promulgated by St. Pius V and reissued by Pope John XXIII is to be considered as an extraordinary expression of that same ‘Lex orandi’”.

He further stated that “the 1962 Missal ... was never juridically abrogated”.

He replaced with new rules those of Quattuor Abhinc Annos on use of the older form: essentially, authorization for using the 1962 form for parish Masses and those celebrated on public occasions such as a wedding is devolved from the local bishop to the priest in charge of a church, and any priest of the Latin Rite may use the 1962 Roman Missal in “Masses celebrated without the people”, a term that does not exclude attendance by other worshippers, lay or clergy.

See here:

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/letters/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20070707_lettera-vescovi_en.html


35 posted on 03/18/2013 8:27:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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