Sunday, January 15, 2023

Well over a million options available in the Lil' Licit Liturgy

The Lil' Licit Liturgy is a happy meal for women and children so let's count the possible options of the Novus Ordo OK?




Nope. This counting does not even approach the number of options the Presider and his circle of change agents on the liturgy committee can present to their friends at the ecumenical memorial meal.

How many options are there?

According to Daniel Graham, Lex Ordandi A Comparison of the Traditional and Novus Ordo Rites of the Seven Sacraments, the Lil' Licit Liturgy has over 1,327,104 options.


Y'all may be saying to your own selves, Well, that is quite a lot of options, maybe even too many for me  to tell you the truth. But, the ex Pope Benedict XVI said that the Lil' Licit Liturgy is the same as The Holy Holocaust/Holy Sacrifice of the Mass so who am I to see the obvious rupture existing between the two and to see the cataclysmic difference between the Holy Holocaust and The Lil' Licit Liturgy and say differently?


Summorum Pontificum

 In this regard, it must first be said that the Missal published by Paul VI and then republished in two subsequent editions by John Paul II, obviously is and continues to be the normal Form – the Forma ordinaria – of the Eucharistic Liturgy.  The last version of the Missale Romanum prior to the Council, which was published with the authority of Pope John XXIII in 1962 and used during the Council, will now be able to be used as a Forma extraordinaria of the liturgical celebration.  It is not appropriate to speak of these two versions of the Roman Missal as if they were “two Rites”.  Rather, it is a matter of a twofold use of one and the same rite...


. The celebration of the Mass according to the Missal of Paul VI will be able to demonstrate, more powerfully than has been the case hitherto, the sacrality which attracts many people to the former usage.  The most sure guarantee that the Missal of Paul VI can unite parish communities and be loved by them consists in its being celebrated with great reverence in harmony with the liturgical directives. This will bring out the spiritual richness and the theological depth of this Missal...


There is no contradiction between the two editions of the Roman Missal.  In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture.  What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.  It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place.  Needless to say, in order to experience full communion, the priests of the communities adhering to the former usage cannot, as a matter of principle, exclude celebrating according to the new books.  The total exclusion of the new rite would not in fact be consistent with the recognition of its value and holiness...


One could conceive that the memorial meal held at the local worship center is sort of like a  local restaurant in which the presider (Chef) and his liturgical committee will have a more and different menu available there than exists at other local worship centers.

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