Usually on this blog, I refer to the usus antiquior as this is an expression used in Summorum Pontificum and I just don't want to waste time on arguments about it in the combox. But Old Mass, Traditional Latin Mass, and Mass of Ages are all OK.
My real favourite is "The Mass That Will Never Die."
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Got to love sacred semantics :)
The extraordinary/ordinary distinction was an ingenious solution to the problem of the two expressions of the Roman rite. How workable it has proved is another matter. One reason for which I generally (but by no means religiously) eschew "extraordinary" is that many liberals imagine or purport that this term denotes such Masses must be safe, legal, and rare.
I just call it, The Mass, as opposed to The Novus Ordo Mass, that 1969, Protestantised, contrived and misleading construct, which, nevertheless, is a valid Mass, albeit much in need of the Reform of the Reform.
Fr. Finegan said:
"My real favourite is "The Mass That Will Never Die."
"the world could exist more easily without the sun than without the Mass." (St. Padre Pio)
my favorite is the Mass that can NEVER die...
STARKENBURG
The Holy Mass, that cannot die
Was said amidst the oaks
While pin-oak leaves came floating down
Around the simple folks
Who knelt upon the acorn floor
All dotted nutty brown
The acorns cracked and old knees snapped
Yet still there was no sound...
But the tinkling of the golden bells
As the White Host Son rose high
On priestly limbs like mighty oaks
They branched up to the sky
And in that wood I laughed with joy
Amongst the souls bowed down
For the mighty oak was once a nut
That merely held it's ground.
So Christian souls like acorn nuts
Must burrow all around
And be the seed that sprouts new oaks
On consecrated ground...
Where the Holy Mass, that cannot die
Is said around the oaks
While pin-oak leaves come floating down
Amidst the mighty folks!
http://youtu.be/0VsX7_f3VcI
I personally prefer a term once used by one of the priests here: 'The Once and Future Rite'.
One of the Institute priests loved referring to it as "The Ordinary Form of Former Times!"
@JBaz Chicago
I think I am going to start using that one!
I have noted a difficulty among diocesan seminarians, who are interested in the older liturgy, to say "extraordinary form." Most call it the "old rite," "Latin Mass," or "Tridentine Mass" when a professor is not around.
I simply dont mess with all that jargon that gets you no where. All of that language is no more than 5 years old. Someone no more than 7 years ago would of not recognized it much less someone from before. The real and only name for the Sacrifice of Cavalry, is the True Mass. By true we mean all of those rites which are not only valid but legitimately Catholic. I.e. does not constitute as such because its purpose was not Catholic in its nature and outlook. It sought to please other outside of the fold who are not Catholic. Everyone knows this already, but it never ceases to amaze me. The True mass is what is still making the people keep the faith, while all the other things are merely just taking it away slowly but surely.
I like the term The Original Rite Mass. Extraordianry Form suggests oddness.
I prefer the usus superior, but I have to be careful using that one.
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