Thursday, December 14, 2006
Why the Tridentine Mass?



Introibo ad altare Dei — “I will go unto the altar of God.” So begins the holy sacrifice of the Mass, as it has been celebrated in the Roman rite of the Church for well over a millennium. Contrary to the sincere wishes of the liturgical apparatus that has visited havoc upon orthodox Catholics for the past forty years, the traditional Latin liturgy still survives. Indeed, not only does it survive, but it is attracting new followers and exciting a profound piety in Catholics of all ages — many of whom, like myself, were born over a decade after the imposition of the new liturgy. With the recognition by many concerned Catholics that the lex orandi of the modern liturgy is not an adequate expression of the Church’s lex credendi, there has been concerted effort in recent years to address the poverty of Catholic liturgical life today. (The “reform of the reform” solution proposed by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Fr. Joseph Fessio immediately comes to mind.) While many orthodox Catholics are directing their attention to salvaging the Novus Ordo Missae introduced by Pope Paul VI in 1969, many others are directing their energies toward the restoration — or at least the revival — of the traditional Latin Mass.


Source: New Oxford Review (continue reading)

2 comment(s):

del_button December 15, 2006 at 12:10 AM
Anonymous said...

reform of the reform? a newer order of the mass? we dont need another fabrication, we need restoration.

del_button December 15, 2006 at 6:26 AM
Matthew said...

We do need restoration. Any step closer to allowing the use of the Tridentine Mass is a great step indeed.

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