Daily Archives: August 26, 2024

Every Now and Then…

I like to review source documents to keep fresh in my mind the history of what they’ve done. I truly don’t mean this in a combative way but if anyone is interested, peruse these docs and perhaps you can gain a little more insight. Someone asked me the question recently, “Why did they change the Mass again?” The two documents in question might not answer that question directly but they should shed a little light on the question of “How?”

Bit by bit, they dismantled what had been codified over centuries and it seems very few noticed nor cared.

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/inter-oecumenici–instruction-on-implementing-the-constitution-on-sacred-liturgy-2182

Followed by this:

https://adoremus.org/2007/12/tres-abhinc-annos/

Which was followed by the Novus Ordo Mass of 1970.

Less than ten years, folks. That’s all it took to go from dogmatic beauty to felt banners.

St. Pius V, pray for us!