Before the 1950s, there were several forms of the EF. (The following is a simplification, before anyone jumps into action.) (1) Low Mass — all
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Tag: Extraordinary Form
Unreliable Claims
Matthew Schmitz’s op-ed piece in the New York Times, entitled “The Latin Mass, Thriving in Southeastern Nigeria,” raises a number of questions.
Read moreSteps Toward Extraordinary Form-Ordinary Form Rapprochement?
Dwight Longenecker attempts to remedy the imbalance in Cardinal Sarah’s call for more cross-pollination.
Read moreBishop of Rockford Sets a Curb on Use of the Extraordinary Form
Is Bishop Malloy’s letter an abrogation of Summorum Pontificum? Or is it simply an exercise of pastoral governance in his diocese?
Read moreConfusing Beauty with Baroque
The strongest force driving skepticism of liturgical reform is the “lack of reverence” some experience at the Ordinary Form.
Read moreA unique sight, and intensely interesting: Abp Alexander Sample celebrates Mass
Archbishop Alexander Sample, of Portland Oregon, celebrated a pontifical Tridentine Mass, and preached about celebrating a pontifical Tridentine Mass.
Read moreThe Aims of the Pioneers of the Liturgical Movement
Over at NLM, Peter Kwasniewski has a thoughtful and thought-provoking post on the early liturgical movement and what its aims were. Though I am not entirely in agreement with what he says in his piece, it seems to me that he raises some points that are worthy of comment and discussion.
Read moreEcclesiological and Liturgical Disjunctures
We as a Church must constantly think through how even the smallest details of our liturgies project a specific ecclesiology. Then we must gauge whether the ecclesiology being articulated is congruous with the Church’s self-understanding. Those practices, no matter how small, which are incompatible with the Church’s broader self-understanding should cease.
Read moreFrancis on “triumphalism,” liturgical and otherwise
“They want to make theirs a more majestic resurrection than that of the real one… they have such an inferiority complex… with their triumphalist attitudes … in their pastoral theology, liturgy…”
Read moreDid the pre-Vatican II Mass really have more Scripture than now?
I thought it’d be interesting once to do the math. So I made a little chart with the 1962 Scripture readings (including the propers) on the left and the reformed lectionary readings (presuming no propers) on the right for the coming Sunday, July 7.
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