Background of the Tridentine Form

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Last one, I swear. 😊 The communion (Ordo Romanus I):

Then the pontiff breaks one of the loaves on its right side, and leaves the fragment which he breaks off upon the altar: but the rest of his loaves he puts on the paten which the deacon is holding, and returns to his throne. Immediately the chancellor, the secretary, and the chief counsellor, with all the district-officials and notaries, go up to the altar, and stand in their order on the right and left. The invitationer and the treasurer, and the notary of the papal vicar, when the choir sing O Lamb of God, go up and stand facing the pontiff in order that he may sign to them to write down the names of those who are to be invited either to the pontiff’s table, by the invitationer, or to the papal vicar’s, by his notary: and when the list of names is completed, they go down and deliver the invitations.
The archdeacon now lifts up the chalice and gives it to the district-subdeacon, who holds it near the right corner of the altar. Then the subdeacons-attendant, with the collets, who carry little sacks, draw near to the right and left of the altar: the collets hold out their arms with the little sacks, and the subdeacons-attendant stand in front, in order to make ready the openings of the sacks for the archdeacon to put the loaves into them, first those on the right, and then those on the left. The collets then pass right and left among the bishops around the altar, and the rest * go down to the presbyters, in order that they may break the consecrated loaves. Two district-subdeacons, however, have proceeded to the throne, carrying the paten to the deacons, in order that they may perform the fraction. Meanwhile the latter keep their eyes on the pontiff so that he may sign to them when to begin: and when he has signed to them, after returning the pontiffs salutation, they make the fraction.
The archdeacon, after that the altar has been cleared of the loaves, except the fragment which the pontiff broke off his own loaf and left on the altar (which is done so that, while the solemnities of mass are being celebrated, the altar may never be without a sacrifice), looks at the choir, and signs to them to sing, O Lamb of God, and then goes to the paten with the rest. The fraction being finished, the second deacon takes the paten from the subdeacon and carries it to the throne to communicate the pontiff: who after partaking, puts a particle which he has bitten off the holy element into the chalice which the archdeacon is holding, making a cross with it thrice, and saying, May the commixture and consecration of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ be to us who receive it for life eternal, Amen. Peace be with thee. [And he answers] And with thy spirit. And then the pontiff is communicated with the chalice by the archdeacon.
  1. Then the archdeacon comes with the chalice to the corner of the altar, and announces the next station: and after he has poured a small quantity of the contents of the chalice into the bowl held by the collet, there approach to the throne, so that they may communicate from the pontiff’s hand, first the bishops in order, and then the presbyters in like manner, so that they may communicate after them. Then the chief hebdomadary bishop takes the chalice from the hands of the archdeacon, in order to administer the species of wine to the remaining ranks down to the chief counsellor. Then the archdeacon takes the chalice from him, and pours it into the bowl which we mentioned above: he then hands the empty chalice to the district-subdeacon, who gives him the reed wherewith he communicates the people with the species of wine. But the subdeacon-attendant takes the chalice and gives it to the collet, who replaces it in the sacristy. And when the archdeacon has administered the cup to those whom the pope communicated, the pontiff comes down from his throne, with the chancellor and the chief counsellor, who hold his hands, in order to communicate those who are in the places allotted to the magnates, after which the archdeacon communicates them with the cup.
    After this the bishops communicate the people, the chancellor signing to them to do so with his hand under his planet, at the pontiff’s formal request: and then the deacons administer the cup to them. Next they all pass over to the left side of the church, and do the same there. Moreover, the presbyters, at a sign from the chancellor, by command of the pontiff, communicate the people also, and afterwards administer the cup to them as well.
    Now as soon as the pontiff began to communicate the magnates, the choir immediately began to sing the communion-anthem by turns with the subdeacons; and they go on singing until, when all the people have communicated, the pontiff signs to them to sing Glory be to the Father, and then, after repeating the verse, they cease.
    The pontiff, directly after communicating those on the women’s side goes back to the throne and communicates the district officials in order, and those who stand in a group, and on festivals twelve of the choir as well. But on other days these communicate in the presbytery. After all these the invitationer, and the treasurer, the collet who holds the paten, he who holds the towel, and he who offers water at the lavatory, communicate at the throne; and after the pontiff has communicated them, the archdeacon administers the cup to them.
  2. Then a district-subdeacon stands before the pontiff in order that he may sign to him: but the pontiff first looks at the people to see if they have finished communicating, and then signs to him. Then he goes to the pontiff’s shoulder and looks towards the precentor, making a cross on his forehead as a sign to him to sing Glory be: and the precentor returns his salutation, and sings Glory be to the Father, etc., As it was in the beginning, etc., and the verse. At the end of the anthem the pontiff rises with the archdeacon and comes before the altar and says the post-communion collect, facing eastwards. For at this part of the service, when he says, The Lord be with you, he does not turn to the people. At the end of the collect, one of the deacons, appointed by the archdeacon, looks towards the pontiff for him to sign to him, and then says to the people, Go, [mass] is over! and they answer,* Thanks be to God.* *
 
patrick457 said:
If it’s ‘illusive’ how can I find it? It’s an illusion. 😃 Nah, just joking. No, I’m not familiar with it. Been trying to search it now, but no luck as of yet.
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You know, as I was writing that, I knew something was wrong, but I was drifting off to sleep and didn’t care. 😃
 
Rich_C said:
I disagree with your conclusion, Christiano. The Masses of the Roman rite still possessed enough unity before the Council of Trent codified the Roman Missal, that they all had the Roman Canon, something we no longer say about celebrations of the Ordinary Form even, with it’s options. Speculating about how people would react to it after centuries of greater uniformity doesn’t take away from the fact the various Masses of late antiquity and the Middle Ages are really part of the formation of the 1962 missal. It’s a great tradition that’s been handed down lovingly and carefully to us for about 15 centuries, or about 50 generations, not an invention of Bl. Pope John XXIII or even Pope Pius V.
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Actually, by the late Middle Ages most Western Rites used the Roman Canon: the different local Uses of the Roman Rite used it (obviously), the Ambrosian Rite in Milan (heavily Romanized by now) had adopted it with some slight textual variants, most of the liturgies of Gaul - which did not have a fixed canon but a loose set of variable prayers - had now become extinct (though the Gallican legacy lives on through their influence on Roman liturgy and chant). The only Western liturgy that did not adopt it was the Gallican Rites’ sole surviving relative, the Mozarabic Rite in Spain (which had retained much of its unique character despite undergoing a degree of Romanization via the Use of Toledo), although they were made to use the Roman Words of Institution (i.e. Accipite et manducate ex hoc omnes: hoc est enim corpus meum instead of Accipite et manducate: hoc est corpus meum, quod pro vobis tradetur).
 
BTW, DominicanFriars has videos of the Dominican Rite Low Mass. Here meanwhile is a Sung Mass said at Thomas Aquinas College on January 28. (No, I haven’t been able to find videos of a solemn Dominican Rite Mass. 😊) And here are videos of the Mass of Candlemas said according to the medieval Use of Sarum (Salisbury) in 1997. (The channel also has videos of the Papal Mass during Pope John XXIII’s coronation.)
 
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