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veryseldonOP•

My favorite part:

We who love the Tradition of the Catholic Church rejoiced in Benedict’s Motu Proprio—Summorum Pontificum that freed the Traditional Mass from the tyranny of the post-Vatican II liturgical establishment. But Benedict did this by inventing the fiction that there are two forms of the one Roman Rite: the Ordinary and the Extraordinary. What this means is, to say the least, not clear, perhaps not cogent. But he could not say explicitly that what Paul VI did in imposing the Novus Ordo on the Church was wrong—because Popes do not make serious mistakes.

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Romans10seventeen•

It makes no sense because the Novus Ordo really, if said according to the most traditional and reverent set of options and preferences (which the reform of the reform desires), then what we are left with is a reduced Low Mass.

Liturgists from before Vatican II were of the opinion that there was a hierarchy of masses. At the bottom was the Low Mass, then the High Mass, then the Pontifical High Mass. And they said that it was an injustice for a parish to go without a High Mass for an extended period of time without a good reason.

So it really makes no sense to argue that we should make a liturgy that is lower than the Low Mass in the hierarchy the norm, it's an injustice is what it is.

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veryseldonOP•

I agree 100%, and this needs to be said more!

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kaesekopf•

Well said.

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