Reflections from the Fota IX International Liturgy Conference
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Novus Ordo Lectionary Reform
Did The Ancient Mass Really Have Three Readings?
“We are repeatedly assured that there was an Old Testament reading each Sunday morning, but that quite mysteriously these all vanished by the seventh century, and vanished leaving no memory that they had ever existed…” — Fr. John Parsons
When will there be a new Lectionary for Catholics in the United States?
“The sooner we get started, the sooner some of you will live to see it.” — Donald Cardinal Wuerl, talking in 2012 about the forthcoming Lectionary revisions.
When Is The Sequence Sung? Before The Alleluia?
In 2000, there was an effort made at restoring the Sequence to its proper place.
Bugnini Wanted To Eliminate Ash Wednesday!
They failed to realize that one cannot simply “sit down over tea and crumpets” and VOTE INTO BEING the Church calendar. It’s supposed to develop organically.
How “Catholic” Is Congregational Singing?
John Paul II asked your forgiveness in 1980 … did you forgive him?
More Thoughts On The 3-Year Lectionary …
“The Instruction pretends that we actually do have Propers for the Mass, whereas everyone knows that today the Mass Propers are sung perhaps at one Mass in ten thousand.” — Professor László Dobszay
What’s So Great About The Mass Propers?
“If the world is progressing intellectually, should not the existence of God have been defined in the 1st century and the nature of the Trinity in the 19th?” — Fulton J. Sheen
Definition Of Liturgical “Piccoluomini” ?
Human beings are “geared” toward annual events. Our minds, emotions, and memories simply aren’t programmed to work in 3-year cycles.
Does The Vatican II Lectionary Distort Scripture?
“I have noticed that when the present Lectionary occasionally proposes a ‘Shorter Form’ for one of the Gospel readings, the lines edited are something Our Lord said that comfortable people would rather He had not said.” — Fr. George W. Rutler