[ELS]

The ideal in the Code is that there should be only one Mass for each parish community on each Sunday or Holy Day.

Really?! Many parishes around here used to have several Masses on Sunday. What did the Code say to do when the parish church became too small to accomodate all of the parish community at one time?

[Tantumergo]

"What did the Code say to do when the parish church became too small to accomodate all of the parish community at one time?"

This is why the Code permits bishops to allow priests to say up to 3 Masses on the same day.

Unfortunately, the more liberal bishops are now using the Code to reduce the number of Masses and replace them with the likes of "Liturgies of the Word and Holy Communion".

They see this as their Trojan horse for "de-clericalising" the Church. They seem oblivious to the fact that they are encouraging lay people to become pseudo-clerics.