OLD MASS: NEW DECREES: Prefaces (1)

Submitted by LocutusOP on Wed, 04/01/2020 - 21:01
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Ben of the Bayou 

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Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 21:00
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OLD MASS: NEW DECREES: Prefaces (1)

 

Ben of the Bayou said...

Father H,

You wrote, 'Furthermore, all the provisions now being made are optional.' Now, I know that you have not yet addressed yourself to the second decree, but the context of this comment is the 'decrees'. If you will permit, therefore, I have seen other commenters making this same assertion and, for the most part, it is so. Yet, do I read the second decree incorrectly when it gives a list of Saints whose III. class feasts can 'never' be impeded?

I hope that I am not being pedantic to point out that this would seem to be the one obligatory point in the new decrees.

 

27 March, 2020 

 

 

 

Own comment: 

For obvious reasons I am extremely distrustful of anything that comes out of Rome and especially when it touches The True Mass.

There is a list of new Mass prefaces which the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith has added, as options, Fr. Hunwicke writes and there is not much to worry about them as most of them are traditional and many of them even in use by the SSPX already as they were part of the Paris Missal of 1738 which they apparently have permission to use.

The commenter brings out a point about new saint feasts, and that ought to be a cause for concern immediately. However, I have not investigated the issue and shall have to do that bedore I conclude whether we should be worried.

One thing is certain, and that is that it is not traditional to have a Mass which is untouched for over 4 decades - Benedict XVI Good Friday prayer for the Jews coming well over 4 decades sinde the 1962 Missal - so if Rome could be trusted, we might have cause for joy at updates in the Missal. As it is, they cannot, so we have apprehension instead. These are NOChurch times indeed.