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Josh D's avatar

I'd be interested in a (theological? canonical?) analysis of the way that Pope Francis loops the Novus Ordo mass in all its particulars into the larger category of the Second Vatican Council.

It seems like there's a lot going on in phrases like "accept the liturgical reform born out of Sacrosanctum Concilium."

I'm not a theologian or liturgical expert, but it seems to me that one can distinguish between the following:

1) An outright rejection of one or more of the V2 documents

2) An outright rejection of the validity of the novus ordo mass

3) A belief that the post-V2 liturgical form was deficient in some way (aesthetically, didactically, theologically, perhaps even in its fidelity to Sacrosanctum Concilium), despite being well intentioned and in no way leading to sacramental invalidity

4) A preference for the traditional mass

5) A belief that the traditional mass still has any value at all

It seems to me that all those things are in danger of being conflated.

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Father Adam McMillan's avatar

It is sad that I have reached a point where an apostolic letter by the pope makes me feel only a foreboding sense of "What now?" If the letter merely says that we should neither be hypocritically functional nor falsely mystical, I am relieved. I expected that it would tell me what time signature the offertory hymn must have.

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