Rubricarius has completed the Ordo for 2010. This is the Ordo with instructions for the Mass and Office each day according to the usus antiquior prior to the reforms that took place during the reign of Pope Pius XII.
Rubricarius has done a fine job with this Ordo over the years but it is a thankless task. The pedantic 62-ers will doubtless say that having the second confiteor or commemorations at sung Mass is little better than playing banjos or having the "clap clap" Gloria, while Rubricarius himself will have considerable sympathy with those of us who would raise questions over the reforms that took place under the saintly Pope Pius X. As the expert rubrician explained in his lecture at Blackfen, it is really impossible to "go back" to a particular year.
BTW - if you want the "strictly 62" Ordo, (and this too is a very worthy and helpful service) you can go to the Latin Mass Society website in due course (the 2010 Ordo is not yet ready but will presumably be posted soon.)
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I am sure Tolkien would agree with Rubricarius and your good self Father. He saw the reformers' search back for ''simplicity'' and ''directness'' as containing intelligible motives but as manifesting a Protestant attitude to Liturgy. Indeed, to fasten the liturgical life of the Church to one year, and not a very good year, threatens to dwarf the liturgical development of the Church and to set the Church into a state of permanent stasis, or even regress. The Tree little resembles the mustard seed, and to try and dig it up will only inevitably do violence to the Tree...
Dear father,
On a tangentially related note: the seminary of St. Willibrord, which caters to students of the dioceses of Haarlem-Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Groningen, and as of next year (breaking news) the Archdiocese of Utrecht, will offer their students a course in the Extraordinary Rite, given by Fr. Bunschoten, the (under-forty) liturgy teacher who studied the rite on his own initiative, or so it seems.
The announcement throws with terms like "lex orandi, lex credendi" and after introducing the Motu Proprio says the seminary will offer the course "dan ook", indicating it as the most natural course of post-MP action.
The course will be open to seminarians and priests alike and was announced at an "ongoing formation" meeting for young priests.
Given the general attitude to the EF in the Netherlands in general and my diocese in particular, I'm quite flabbergasted. I don't know whether Fr. Bunschoten will start to practice the EF in his own parish in addition to teaching it. We'll see, I guess :)
With my love,
Anna
This way madness lies. It is disingenuous to object to 1962 as contrary to liturgical development. It is a starting point or better, an agreed reconnection point.The truly Protestant situation would be everybody going off doing their own thing and picking and choosing the items and time in history according to their own priorities. As I remember it in 1962, the dialogue Mass was standard and that should be where we go in reconnecting with the tradition. The future is in the hands of the holy spirit.
TOM
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